Wholesale natural gas prices have risen by more than 40% this month as a raft of pressures, described by one analyst as a “perfect storm”, threaten to raise energy bills ahead. Day-ahead prices for UK delivery were at a six-month high on Friday, a rise of more than 14% on the day, as contracts across […]
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A man has been jailed for 29-and-a-half years for murdering his wife after their child revealed they were coerced into a plot to help him kill her. Robert Rhodes refused to attend his sentencing – because he maintains his innocence. Addressing this directly Judge Mrs Justice Ellenbogen said the defendant had now added “cowardice” to
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The UK wants to learn from Ukraine’s war time experience to tackle the threat of drones carrying weapons and drugs into British prisons, the deputy prime minister has said on a trip to the country. David Lammy has been in Ukraine to see how anti-drone measures used against Russian forces can be applied to UK
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You almost had to see it to believe it. Kemi Badenoch’s team could have chosen anywhere in Scotland to hold their media event on Friday morning. On Thursday, they picked a whisky distillery to talk tough on the cameras in the wake of Robert Jenrick’s alleged scheming and plotting with Nigel Farage. Conservative Party leader
Britain’s first ever self-flying full-sized helicopter has taken to the skies. The autonomous chopper is designed for treacherous high-risk missions and will be used by the Royal Navy to track submarines across the Atlantic. It comes amid rising geopolitical tensions and will be crucial to defending Britain and its NATO allies, the Navy says. The
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Rachel Reeves’s plans to curb cash ISA limits with the aim of fuelling a wave of stock market investing “are doomed to fail”, the boss of one of Britain’s biggest retail investment platforms has warned. Sky News has learnt that Michael Summersgill, chief executive of AJ Bell, which has more than £100bn of client assets
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Proposed compensation for victims of “unethical testing” at a college, leaving them with HIV and hepatitis, has been branded “ridiculous” by a charity. Between the 1970s and early 1990s more than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis after being given contaminated blood and blood products in what was dubbed the
Anthony Joshua has returned to the gym for some “mental strength therapy” – weeks after a car crash which killed two of his close friends. The former world heavyweight champion, 36, was travelling in the back of a black SUV last month when it struck a stationary truck on a major road near Lagos in
Julio Iglesias has denied abusing two former domestic employees behind a criminal complaint against him, calling the accusations “completely false”. Prosecutors with Spain’s High Court have opened preliminary proceedings into the complaint lodged by women who used to work for him in the Caribbean. In a post written in Spanish containing his signature and published
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Water is finally being restored to some homes across Kent and Sussex – after almost a week of chaos. Some 6,500 homes will have their taps running again after a gruelling six days of disruption – which has prompted fury towards provider South East Water (SEW). The firm blames the outage – which has affected
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