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Sep 14, 2022
- lire EU expects to raise €140bn from windfall tax on energy firms Cap on outsize revenues will bring solidarity from businesses towards struggling customers, says officialThe EU executive plans to raise about €140bn (£121bn) by imposing windfall taxes on energy companies’ “abnormally high profits” and redirecting proceeds to households and businesses struggling with soaring bills.Announcing long-awaited emergency measures to tackle the rising price of electricity, the EU official in charge of the green transition, Frans Timmermans, said the plans were a necess
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Sep 14, 2022
- lire Lyra McKee: man jailed for possessing gun used to kill journalist Niall Sheerin from Derry sentenced to seven years in prison, but not in connection with murder itselfA man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing the gun used to murder the journalist Lyra McKee.Niall Sheerin, 29, from Derry, admitted possessing the pistol between September 2018 and June 2020. Continue reading...
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Sep 14, 2022
- lire UK’s plans to scrap anti-obesity measures ‘national scandal’, say campaigners Some have warned plans to abandon policies are ‘dangerous’, while others welcome reversal amid rising costsAbandoning policies to tackle obesity will be “dangerous for the public’s health” and lead to people eating even more unhealthy food, a senior doctor and leading campaigner has warned.“Assuming that the reports are correct, then I think that it’s a national scandal that they are going to let the food industry let more people become obese. Continue reading...
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Sep 14, 2022
- lire Turf wars: the artists who want to mow down the menace of lawns Every suburban garden must have its greensward – but artists are creating plantations of their own to question the colonialism, sterility and capitalist logic behind the lawnThis summer, the grass was not greener on the other side of the fence. In fact, there was no green grass so far as the eye could see, as heatwaves and drought turned our lush lawns into barren wastelands.A quintessential feature in western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is at the centre of controversy. Its formal homogene
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Sep 14, 2022
- lire Queen’s coffin leaves Buckingham Palace for Westminster Hall Coffin carried on horse-drawn gun carriage to lie in state for four days as thousands queue to pay their last respectsDeath of the Queen and King Charles’s accession - latest updatesThe Queen’s coffin has left Buckingham Palace on a horse-drawn gun carriage to lie in state for four full days at Westminster Hall as thousands queued to file past to pay their last respects.As Big Ben tolled every minute, King Charles and his siblings, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex, wal
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Sep 14, 2022
- lire Should Nottingham Forest have been more loyal to players after promotion? Replacing players who helped them return to the Premier League looks harsh but there were reasons behind the churnBy Richard Foster for The Football MineIn the summer before the inaugural Premier League season, in 1992, Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough only spent money on two new players. They paid £800,000 to bring Neil Webb back from Manchester United and gave Coventry City about half that for Robert Rosario, bringing their total spend to £1.2m. Thirty years on and Forest have broken the
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Sep 14, 2022
- lire ‘The audience want to connect with her’: portraying the Queen after her death The Kiln theatre’s Handbagged, about the monarch’s meetings with Margaret Thatcher, has opened in a week of mourning. Its stars reflect on the play’s humour and their tears in rehearsalThey all wondered, says actor Marion Bailey, “can we do this play now?” Handbagged was due to begin previews at London’s Kiln theatre last Friday, then news broke of the Queen’s death. That performance was cancelled but the cast took to the stage on Saturday with some trepidation. How would audiences react to a pl
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Sep 14, 2022
- lire Ukrainians are joyful as the Russian occupiers flee, but we must be wary of an ambush | Nataliya Gumenyuk In some places the enemy has abandoned positions, guns and even roubles. Elsewhere, resistance is fiercerIt’s a liberation – something Ukrainians have been awaiting for half a year now. According to President Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian army has taken more than 6,000 sq km from the Russian occupation – including a few towns in the Donbas, which took months for the Russian army to capture.Any image appearing from a newly liberated town is watched with fascination. I was glued to a short video showin
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Sep 14, 2022
- lire ‘All sorts of risk’: the expert unit keeping the royals safe before Queen’s funeral An elite team is working to ensure royal family’s increased exposure does not endanger themDeath of the Queen and King Charles’s accession - latest updatesAt about 7am on 9 July 1982, Michael Fagan, a painter and decorator from London, broke into Buckingham Palace and startled Queen Elizabeth as she lay in her bedroom.Exactly what unfolded within those private walls has since become clouded by myth and legend . Continue reading...
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Sep 14, 2022
- lire Southern Water alters pollution alert tool to curb automatic red alerts Map used to flag red all raw sewage releases into bathing waters – but firm now says it factors in ‘impact’ A water company has changed its pollution alert map for the public to stop issuing automatic red alerts after a discharge.Southern Water attracted public criticism this summer for releasing raw sewage via storm overflows after heavy rain along coastal Kent. Campaigners used social media to widely share the company’s Beachbuoy map, which marks beaches at risk of pollution from raw sewage di