deserts

In comments prior to the speech, McDonnell expressed dismay at retailers closing stores in low-income areas, exacerbating food deserts.

During those 24 hours they observe 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets over their silent blue planet, spinning past continents and cycling past seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting described Norfolk and Waveney, in Suffolk as "the Sahara of dental deserts".

Six Scottish council areas are “dental deserts” with no practices able to take on new adult NHS patients within three months, BBC News research has found.

“It would be far, far easier and cheaper to ‘terraform’ the deserts on our own planet than to terraform Mars.