By Mick O’Reilly, Special to Weekend Review

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In search of an old soldier

Old soldiers never die, they just fade into the mists of time. At the centenary of the end of the First World War, Mick O’Reilly goes in search of one veteran, once an elderly relative

Imperial War Museum

Why fracking has divided the UK

Environmental protesters are up in arms over plans to extract gas from under Britain

Dr Jem Bennell addresses an anti-fracking protest at the main gates of a fracking operation outside Blackpool, northwest England.

Norway’s electric car business powered up

The Nordic nation is leading the world when it comes to renewable energy and the future

Norwegians have fallen in love with electric vehicles, with nearly 40 per cent of new car sales in 2018 being plug-in models. They even take them high into their mountains during ski season, here at Hemsedal, Norway

The shifting sands of Morecambe Bay

There are plans afoot to transform the English coastal resort with a mega million project

The town of Morecambe is home to 35,000 resident and sits in the northwest corner of Lancashire.

The world’s tallest treehouse

A small town in Norway boasts of the world’s tallest skyscraper build from wood

The developer of the Mjostarnet Hotel built it in Brumunddal partly to offset the town’s negative image among Norwegians

The oil rush in the tropics

Palm oil farming wreaking environmental havoc on rainforests in Malaysia and Indonesia

Workers unload oil palm fruits in a state-owned crude palm oil processing unit in North Sumatra.

Battersea powers London’s revival

One of the biggest European projects, Battersea Power Station is giving London a makeover

When completed, the Battersea Power Station project will cover 42 acres in south central London and inject £20 billion into the wide UK economy

The cold-blooded hitman with blue eyes

Imre Arakas is a ruthless contract criminal prepared to kill for €100,000

Hitman Imre Arakas was trailed by Irish police for two days, and was arrested with an encrypted burner smartphone that gave details of his contract killing in an ongoing gangland feud that has claimed 18 lives so far.

For General Motors, end of the line in Oshawa

The closure of the assembly line is a blow for the community in the gritty Canadian city

A worker checks the paint on a Camaro at the GM factory in Oshawa, Ontario, in June 2011.

‘Set-jetters’, the reel-life tourists

Fans of popular series and movies travel to locations made famous on the silver screen

Wildlings! These tourists get a first-hand look at the actual location of the Wildling camp from Game of Thrones. It’s actually Tollymore Forest in Northern Ireland

Thailand’s junta cleans up

The military has cracked down on corruption and cleared the streets of vendors

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The dangers of a global pandemic

More people died from the Spanish flu of 1918 than were killed during the First World War. Though the outbreak was a century ago, it has lessons for today

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