Householders buying brand new homes in the next four years are likely to find an unpleasant surprise awaiting them in the future: homes built today…
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Legal bid to stop UK building Europe’s biggest gas power plant fails
A legal challenge to the UK government’s approval of a new gas-fired power plant has failed in the court of appeal. The challenge was brought…
View More Legal bid to stop UK building Europe’s biggest gas power plant failsTop scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’ and climate disruption
The planet is facing a “ghastly future of mass extinction, declining health and climate-disruption upheavals” that threaten human survival because of ignorance and inaction, according…
View More Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’ and climate disruptionCongresswoman tests positive after sheltering with GOP anti-maskers
This is a story about grotesque irresponsibility. On Monday, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman announced she tested positive for COVID-19. The 75-year-old Democrat believes she was…
View More Congresswoman tests positive after sheltering with GOP anti-maskersUK TV streaming subscribers can no longer access live sport when in EU
UK customers of TV streaming services can no longer watch live sport, including Premier League football, when visiting the rest of Europe, following the end…
View More UK TV streaming subscribers can no longer access live sport when in EUHMRC to waive fines for taxpayers who file late returns due to Covid
People who file their tax returns late won’t face a fine this year, as long as they can show that the delay was due to…
View More HMRC to waive fines for taxpayers who file late returns due to CovidUK will miss 2025 target for full-fibre broadband rollout, MPs warn
Boris Johnson’s promise to deliver nationwide “turbocharged” broadband by 2025 will be missed because of a catalogue of government failures, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded.…
View More UK will miss 2025 target for full-fibre broadband rollout, MPs warnUK urged to put Alok Sharma in full-time charge of Cop26 talks
Ministers are facing calls to make the business secretary, Alok Sharma, the full-time president of the Cop26 UN climate talks to be hosted in Glasgow…
View More UK urged to put Alok Sharma in full-time charge of Cop26 talksBrexit: what are consumers’ rights on holidays, banking and more?
Holidays Will my Ehic card still work? Yes and no. Under the agreement if you have a European health insurance card (Ehic), which entitles visitors…
View More Brexit: what are consumers’ rights on holidays, banking and more?Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine rollout plan changed following approval
Millions of people across the UK at risk from Covid will be offered a single first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with a booster jab…
View More Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine rollout plan changed following approval