29 minutes ago About sharing By Simon Jack Business editor The UK’s electricity network needs almost a further £60bn of upgrades to hit government decarbonisation targets by 2035, according to a new plan. About 4,000 miles of undersea cables and 1,000 miles of onshore power lines are needed, said the National Grid’s Electricity Systems Operator…
The UK government will establish an independent football regulator when the Football Governance Bill is introduced in Parliament on Tuesday. The legislation will grant powers to a standalone body – independent of both government and football authorities – to oversee the UK’s national sport. The government announced plans to appoint a regulator in February 2023,…
21 minutes ago About sharing Violence has engulfed the streets of Port-au-Prince By Will Grant, Central America correspondent BBC News “Port-au-Prince is in panic mode,” a friend in the Haitian capital texted me. Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of of the city, are shaken after their most violent day so far in the country’s…
15 minutes ago About sharing By Vicky Wong BBC News Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has hailed the “return” of Crimea to Russia at a concert marking the 10th anniversary of the illegal annexation of the territory from Ukraine. He said Crimea had “returned to its home harbour” and that it would move forwards with Russia…
22 minutes ago About sharing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on a trip to Dover to promote his Stop the Boats policy By Jennifer McKiernan BBC political reporter MPs have rejected the House of Lords’ changes to the Rwanda Bill, which aims to deported asylum seekers to the east African country. All 10 amendments were rejected,…
5 hours ago About sharing Russia has bombarded Ukraine’s north-eastern border region of Sumy 3,000 times this year, say officials, and that is likely to go on By Sarah Rainsford Eastern Europe correspondent, Kyiv When Ukrainians write about Russia’s presidential “election” they put the word in quote marks. The vote was entirely engineered, so people…
1 hour ago About sharing By Vicky Wong BBC News The number of couples in China choosing to marry has gone up for the first time in nine years. In 2023 there were 7.68 million newlyweds in the country, 12.4% more than in the previous year, data shows. The Ministry of Civil Affairs said there…
The former US president arrives in London for an unannounced visit to see the UK PM.
The Environment Agency says the “fluorescent dye” was used to trace the pathway of drains.
Steel unions say they have known of concerns about the condition of the coke ovens for some time.