Thames Water is edging closer to a multibillion pound rescue deal with its lenders that would keep the ailing utility out of temporary public ownership. Sky News has learnt that a group of creditors holding £13bn of Thames Water’s total debt mountain of £20bn is aiming to sign an in-principle agreement with Ofwat and the […]
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The drinks industry is warning it will “have no choice but to increase prices” as a new rise in alcohol duty rise takes effect. Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed in November’s autumn budget that alcohol duty would rise in line with Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation. As a result this tax charged on alcoholic drinks will
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Northern Ireland should hold a referendum on whether it should become part of a united Ireland by 2030, the country’s first minister has said. Speaking to the Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips show, Michelle O’Neill said it was an opportunity for the people of Northern Ireland to “take control of our own fortunes”. Ms O’Neill
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More than 200 people have been reported dead after a landslide hit coltan mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Many bodies are still buried under the mud following the tragedy near Rubaya, in the east of the country, earlier this week. More than 15% of the world’s supply of tantalum, a rare metal extracted
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At least 30 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday, according to hospitals in Gaza. The casualties included two women and six children from two different families, officials at the hospitals which received the bodies say. It marks one of the deadliest days in Gaza since a ceasefire was agreed in October. Shifa
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Two explosions have been reported in Iran as the regime denied a military leader was targeted, amid heightened tension in the region. One blast happened at Iran’s southern port of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, local media reported. One person, a four-year-old girl, was killed and a further 14 were injured. A second blast, more than
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The moment you make your first AI music track can feel quite magical, especially if you are as profoundly unmusical as me. I cannot hold a note or even reliably maintain a beat, yet in 30 seconds I can now make an entire pop song, lyrics and all. Or a soul song. Or a metal
NASA is poised to send astronauts around the moon and back for the first time in more than 50 years. The space agency’s Artemis II mission will take the crew further than humans have ever ventured in space before. The mission is planned for as soon as 6 February, but take-off depends on some pretty
This is the kind of detail Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson never wanted us to see. It’s embarrassing and exposing. We’ve known for some time about the closeness between the Yorks and Jeffrey Epstein but if genuine these emails give us a new level of insight, about their interactions with the convicted paedophile, what they
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More than three million pages related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are being released, the US Department of Justice has announced. Email exchanges, as well as more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, are included in the latest release. Deputy attorney general Todd Blanche said there have been “extensive redactions” to the documents,
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