Outdoors expert David Carnduff takes us for a walk in the Inverclyde glen which he reckons could almost pass for a tropical ...

DID you know there are rainforests in Britain? Nope – me neither. But you may well have visited one without realising if you’ve holidayed in Cornwall, Wales or along the Atlantic Coastline.

Researchers have yielded surprising results from the longest experiment ever done, in the Amazon rainforest, after 24 years.