One moment I’m pedalling across a wide sweep of dusty-pink heath, with gentle sand dunes rising on the far horizon; the next, I’m gliding into a sweet-smelling Scots pine forest. Sunlight slips between the red-barked trunks, scattering shifting white patterns across the path in front of me. I’m in Hoge Veluwe National Park, a 5,400-hectare nature reserve in Gelderland, roughly 90 minutes from Amsterdam. Around 40km of cycle routes run through its landscapes, while some 2,000 distinctive white

A leading African health official has warned that the unusually wide spread of the Ebola outbreak could eventually put the UK and other countries at risk. With the outbreak now surpassing 10,000 reported cases and nearing 5,000 deaths, Dr Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said the situation carried echoes of the Covid-19 pandemic. That crisis began in China before rapidly spreading worldwide, causing millions of deaths and placing enormous