8th June 2012 : Gloucestershire Geology Trust recruits “Geowardens”
A geology charity in Gloucestershire (the Gloucestershire Geology Trust (GGT)) has been awarded £39,500 by the Heritage Lottery Fund grant to recruit "geowardens". The money will be used to train volunteers to manage the Huntley and Longhope Geology and Landscape Trail. The trail sites include fossilised coral reefs and an outcrop of volcaniclastic rocks centred around the village of Huntley. This village has a special role in the geological history of the county and of great importance. because you can see and touch the rocks that were part of the collision of continents some 460 million years ago, and where the Earth's crust was wrenched apart around 250 million years ago. The wardens will be trained in conservation and rural skills to help conserve the geodiversity around the villages of Huntley and Longhope.

8th June 2012: Mystery of the (Romers) evolution gap solved
A wide diversity of fossils from amphibians, plants, fish to invertebrates, was discovered in the Borders. This has unearthed a missing chapter of evolution, and has changed our understanding of the theory of evolution on earth. The fossils are dated from the “Romer’s Gap” time, a period between 345 and 360 million years ago, when it was concluded low levels of oxygen limited evolution on earth. The gap was named after the American palaeontologist Alfred Sherwood Romer who made the conclusion. However, the newly-unveiled fossils shed light on a period that previously had been almost blank.