The rise in gas prices over the past 48 hours is without precedent. Even in the chaotic opening weeks of the Ukraine war in 2022, the gas price never doubled. But that is precisely what has happened to wholesale methane prices in the UK. And since gas prices are arguably the single most important price […]
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Britain will deploy HMS Dragon and helicopters with anti-drone capabilities in Cyprus, Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed. The prime minister said on social media he had spoken with the president of Cyprus about deploying the Type 45 destroyer, which is the only type of equipment the Royal Navy has to shoot down ballistic missiles. It
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One person has died in a collision involving a car and a train at a level crossing in Cambridgeshire. The person was pronounced dead at the scene at the Dimmocks Cote level crossing in Ely, British Transport Police (BTP) said. Police were first called at 10.15am on Tuesday following reports of a collision at the
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China used a Border Force officer to carry out “shadow policing operations” in the UK including spying on dissidents and forcing entry to a suspected fraudster’s flat, a court has heard. Retired Hong Kong police superintendent Chung Biu (Bill) Yuen, 65, is alleged to have tasked Chi Leung (Peter) Wai, 38 – who worked for
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The after-effects of a debacle that has seen taxpayers pay hundreds of millions for a pair of ferries at nearly four times the original budget, are continuing with the harbour that was too small to fit the ships set to be taken into public ownership. The affair has been one of Scotland’s biggest political scandals
The economic impacts of the Iran war are already being felt in global markets, and could raise energy prices and wider consumer bills in the UK before long. The immediate impact of American and Israeli attacks on Iran, and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on numerous neighbours in the Middle East, has been to push up oil
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A gang that used drones to smuggle drugs, weapons and phones into prisons has been jailed by a judge who likened their operation to “Uber Eats or Deliveroo”. Harrow Crown Court heard that Shafaghatullah Mohseni, 29, had orchestrated dozens of “drops” to inmates across London and southeast England between 2 December 2024 and 26 February
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More than 1,000 British nationals have arrived back in the UK on commercial flights from the Middle East, Sir Keir Starmer has said. It comes as an estimated 300,000 Britons are believed to be in affected regions of the Middle East and the US-Israeli attacks on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes are into their fifth
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A man has been charged after a “disturbance” in Edinburgh, in which two people needed hospital treatment. Armed police locked down the Calder Gardens area of the Scottish capital following reports of a man with a bladed weapon at about 8.25am on Monday. A stand-off followed within the Cobbinshaw House tower block, which eventually came
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England players have raised concerns with their union about not wanting to be pressured into speaking out on political issues around the World Cup in the US, Sky News can reveal. There are 100 days to go until another politically-charged tournament, with concerns raised by rights groups about Donald Trump’s travel bans, immigration crackdowns, the
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