AFP/Getty At his 1,200-person cleaning business in Maryland, chief executive Victor Moran carefully screens new recruits to make sure they are authorised to work in the US. Even so, President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants is starting to chip away at his workforce. About 15 people have left his company, Total Quality, since Trump won...
Charlotte Cox BBC South West Wildwood Trust The antics of Mish and Lucy prompted an outpouring of support A pair of bears who escaped and raided their keepers’ food store in Devon are in the honey once more thanks to generous community donations. European brown bears Mish and Lucy sparked a “code red” on Tuesday,...
Let this serve as a lesson to all: Don’t post on social media while intoxicated. The inevitable climbdown is, well … embarrassing. Yesterday, as David covered, former Russian president and now Deputy Chair of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev tweeted out an astonishing admission that Russia knew full well that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons....
British Steel has secured a five-year contract worth £500m to supply train tracks for Network Rail, in a move which could help safeguard the short-term future of the Scunthorpe steelworks. The company will forge more than 337,000 tonnes of track, securing thousands of jobs, two months after the government used emergency powers to prevent the...
A school in Devon has been forced to close due to a burst water main which has cut off its water supply. Some people in Totnes have reported having little or no water and South West Water said it hoped to restore the supply in the next three to four hours. Stoke Gabriel Community Primary...
The company building the HS2 rail line between London and Birmingham has reported one of its subcontractors to the tax authorities over possible fraud. Whistleblowers made allegations over the way pay was handled for some construction staff on the high-speed line. HS2 Ltd said last month it was conducting its own investigation, looking into two...
The NHS has warned that it continues to face a “challenging” blood shortage as it calls for 200,000 new donors to come forward. Concern over blood stocks prompted the health service to issue an “amber alert” last year, meaning supplies were running low enough to have an impact on patient treatment. Supplies have remained low...
Two major new reservoir projects have been fast-tracked in a bid to shore up England’s water supplies, the government has announced. The projects in East Anglia and south Lincolnshire have been declared “nationally significant”, allowing them to speed through the planning process. But overriding local objections can be unpopular and the reservoirs could still be...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Just one year ago, JD Vance was a leading advocate of the Great Lakes and the efforts to restore the largest system of freshwater on...
Tom Espiner and Simon Browning BBC business reporters PA Media Heathrow Airport was warned about the “resilience” of its power supply in the days before a fire which shut down the airport for more than a day last month. The boss of a group representing airlines told a group of MPs on Wednesday that he...