Black grouse population recovers -  Environment | MSN News - MSN UK

Rare black grouse are fighting back this year after numbers tumbled to an all-time low in 2010, the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has said.

Numbers of male black grouse in northern England had climbed to 1,200 in 2007, but cold and rainy summers in 2007 and 2008, followed by the extremely harsh winter in 2009/10, saw the population decline to just 500 last year.

Eyewitness News: Heavy rains to hit parts of Johannesburg

The SA Weather Service has warned of unseasonal heavy rains in parts of Gauteng this week as well as bitter cold temperatures.

Johannesburg Emergency Services Nana Radebe said it is also concerned that the bitter cold may cause fires.

Wayne Swan says income will grow after carbon tax | Herald Sun

"As Treasurer, I refuse to let this country become an old-world, high-polluting technological backwater," Mr Swan said.