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Mapped: Where families are going hungry in the UK as millions face food poverty
The Independent
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September 9, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
UK FinTech firm Revolut arrives in the UAE with regulator's approval
The National News
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London-based financial technology company Revolut is set to launch its services in the UAE after receiving initial approval from the country's Central Bank. The digital bank has in-principle approval for its stored value facilities and retail...
Calls grow for Drax boss to be sacked over claims UK's biggest renewable power station is as 'toxic as tobacco'
Daily Mail
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September 9, 2025
By EMILY HAWKINS Published: 18:10 EDT, 9 September 2025 | Updated: 18:28 EDT, 9 September 2025 Britain's biggest 'renewable' power station which is allegedly as 'toxic as working for tobacco' should sack its boss. That is the claim of billionaire...
Market town you'd never think to stop at is a top spot for proper pubs, autumn walks and best Welsh rarebit ever
Wales Online
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September 11, 2025
We love a proper good Welsh market town, especially ones that have a decent selection of pubs, independent shops and quirky cafes selling local produce and decent coffee. One of my favourite market towns is located at the crossroads in mid-Wales....
Grief encounters: A guide for climate neurotics
The Conservative Woman
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September 10, 2025
DO you suffer from solastalgia? It’s a word I’d never heard of until I saw it the other day in a Guardian article by writer Lucy Jones, who was busy spreading alarm and dubious statistics about this summer’s heatwaves. She told how during a trip...
Scotland faces growing nitazenes threat as it grapples with drugs deaths crisis
The Big Issue
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September 8, 2025
Read more: The threat in Scotland adds to mounting deaths across the UK. From June 2023 to January 2025, there have been at least 400 deaths in the UK involving nitazenes, with lives lost in every region. As Big Issue reported, ambulance crews’...
Private capital firms eye increasing investment in attractive UK market
City A.M.
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September 9, 2025
Wednesday 10 September 2025 12:00 am | Updated: Tuesday 09 September 2025 6:03 pm Share Facebook Share on Facebook X Share on Twitter LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn WhatsApp Share on WhatsApp Email Share on Email Private capital firms are eyeing up...
UK-wide birth cohort study to follow lives of new generation of babies
University of Cambridge News
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September 9, 2025
The £42.8 million Generation New Era birth cohort study will create a comprehensive picture of early childhood development in all four nations of the UK. Funded by the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this is the first new UK-wide...
England given Ben Stokes fitness boost as captain returns to training ahead of Ashes
The Independent
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September 9, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Urgent tomato health alert as 29 Brits struck down in salmonella outbreak
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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September 9, 2025
A health warning has been issued after 29 people in the UK were affected by a Salmonella outbreak. Investigations by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) traced the source of the infection to cherry tomatoes from Sicily, Italy. The outbreak...
UK Private Capital Markets Subjected to Macroeconomic Pressures and Shifting Investment Strategies : Research
Crowdfund Insider
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September 9, 2025
The UK’s private capital markets in 2025, as detailed in PitchBook’s recent UK Private Capital Breakdown, present a complex environment shaped by macroeconomic pressures, shifting investment strategies, and sectoral resilience. The report...
‘Scotland’s Chernobyl’ claims ugliest town title
The Times
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Port Glasgow can take an insult. This town on the Clyde has way too much pride in itself — in its storied past and its community — to be bothered by the views of others. For years the place was dismissed as the Dirty Wee Port. Then, in the digital...
UK retail sales volumes in July 2025 up 0.6%
Retail Insight Network
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September 8, 2025
UK retail sales volumes in July 2025 saw a 0.6% uptick, building on the previous month’s 0.3% growth, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The surge was particularly evident in non-store retail and clothing...
UK-Backed Lender Calls on Funds to Champion Defense Investment
Mint
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September 9, 2025
(Bloomberg) -- UK pension funds should be proud to declare investments in defense companies because the political climate has changed and reputational risks are diminishing, the chief executive of the state-owned British Business Bank said. Fund...
Heavy rain and wind forecast as unsettled weather returns to UK
BBC
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September 9, 2025
This year so far, the UK has experienced its sunniest spring and warmest summer on record. Both these seasons have also been very dry for many, especially for some regions of England and Wales, where hosepipe bans remain in force and drought has...
Britain's £240 Billion Green Superpower Plan Faces Crucial Test
Yahoo Finance
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Electricity pylons and solar panels at Cleve Hill Solar Park near Faversham, UK. (Bloomberg) -- It’s an ambitious project by any measure: 70 million solar panels, 6,000 wind turbines, and 4,500 kilometers of underwater electricity cables. Most...
‘Racism comes from poverty,’ says new Green Party leader, Zack Polanski
The i paper
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September 11, 2025
The new Green Party leader believes the 'super wealthy' are 'utilising working-class resentment and unhappiness with poverty to whip up hate against migrants' “Anonymity is gone,” says Zack Polanski, three days after becoming the new leader of the...
Kingston's Canadian Wollastonite to supply rock for climate project
The Kingston Whig-Standard
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September 9, 2025
KINGSTON — Canadian Wollastonite, a Seeley’s Bay-based mining company, has signed a three-year deal to provide 450,000 tonnes of its mineral-rich rock to a carbon sequestration company.Article content United Kingdom-based UNDO Carbon has agreed to...
Prince Harry returns to UK, no sign of King Charles, William reunion
Yahoo News
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(NewsNation) — Prince Harry returned to the UK on the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death to work with charities, amid an ongoing rift with Prince William and King Charles. The Duke of Sussex arrived at Children in Need on Tuesday, a charity...
Former New Zealand captain says ‘Bazball’ misconceptions are disrespectful to England players
Cricket Country
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September 9, 2025
England head coach Brendon McCullum says the "Bazball" tag is misunderstood and disrespectful, stressing it’s about freedom, not rigidity, as he defends his Test side’s fearless approach. Written by Press Trust of India Published: Sep 09, 2025,...