Marc Ashdown Business correspondent Getty Images Areas like Newport in Wales, home to the UK’s biggest semiconductor manufacturing facility, will be allowed to decide how investment is targeted in their communities. An £86bn package for the science and technology sector will help fund research into drug treatments and longer-lasting batteries, the government has said ahead...
Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak BBC The next few days are vital – “one of the last moments to weave it all together – to look politically credible to the people Labour has lost”, one senior figure reckons. There have been huge fights inside government about the looming Spending Review. As I write,...
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is to set up a commission to examine whether the UK should withdraw from a series of international legal agreements and overturn some domestic legislation which she fears may be binding the hands of British governments. Among the agreements being looked into is the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Badenoch...
Louise Fewster & Sabbiyah Pervez BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Investigations Bereaved mother says domestic abuse review was ‘torturous’ Just 1% of reviews into domestic abuse-related deaths are being completed in the recommended time, BBC research suggests. Home Office guidance says these reviews, which make recommendations to help prevent people being killed by partners or family...
The water sector in England and Wales is failing and needs stronger regulation to better protect billpayers and the environment, according to the interim findings of a landmark review. The independent Water Commission, led by former Bank of England deputy governor Sir Jon Cunliffe, said on Tuesday that public trust had been shaken by “pollution,...
The British defence review was asked to make its recommendations within the budgetary constraints of spending 2.5% of GDP on defence. But it is already clear that to meet its goals of transforming Britain’s armed forces, to make them ready for war, there’ll have to be more money. The review welcomes the government’s “ambition” to...
Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak NurPhoto/ Getty Images Down a discreet road, on the fringes of a quiet home counties commuter town, is a set of grey buildings worth many hundreds of millions of pounds. In one, behind a secure fence, a handful of workers are on shift this weekend, making Storm Shadow...
MIT has announced that it will shutting down its main DEI office after a lengthy review that began in January 2024. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced it will shut down its DEI office, joining a raft of universities scrambling to scale back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs amid President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity...
George Thorpe BBC News, Devon PA Media NHS Devon said an updated proposal would be presented in July A proposal to trial changes to heart attack services in part of Devon has been withdrawn to allow time to consider feedback on the plan. NHS Devon’s Integrated Care Board (ICB) was due to discuss a “test...
Everton: 13th McNulty’s pre-season prediction: 11th A season that was one of despair until Sean Dyche’s sacking in January ended full of hope. The Friedkin Group, ambitious new American owners, took charge, and David Moyes returned to inspire a superb revival. Three successive league wins at the end, including victories at Fulham and Newcastle United,...
BOOMITY Answers and accountability are coming. After three months of the Department of Defense engaging in a review of what Hegseth rightly calls ‘this catastrophic event in our military’s history,‘ he has ordered Sean Parnell, Assistant to SecDef for Public Affairs and Senior Advisor, to convene a Special Review Panel for a comprehensive review. U.S....
“This is absolutely unprecedented, what they’re trying to do here,” one law professor said of the bill. Texas’s State Senate has passed an anti-abortion bill that seeks to punish anyone who distributes abortion medication with huge fines — and it includes a provision forbidding any state court from reviewing its constitutionality. Senate Bill 2880 allows...
Something tells me that the foreign-student agitator issue won’t trouble Columbia University for long. They may not get the chance to be troubled by foreign students at all after yesterday’s disgraceful paroxysm of anti-Semitic intimidation and violence. As both John and David have already recounted, pro-Hamas demonstrators seized control of yet another building on the...
We discuss Neil Critchley’s exit from Hearts and a big set of matches over the weekend. Read full article at source...
