Inside the brilliantly creative Glastonbury Theatre & Circus fields June 28, 2022 It’s not all about Macca and Billie Eilish, don’t you know? Some of Glastonbury’s best areas involve no music at all. For instance, the Theatre & Circus fields are some of the festival’s oldest areas, where performers surprise punters with spontaneous shows as they pass by, and there are full-scale acrobatics pieces that you’d pay [...]
Fossil fuels spared emissions checks as UK scrambles for supplies ahead of winter June 28, 2022 Fossil fuel plants could be excluded from emissions checks, as the Government races to secure energy supplies ahead of winter.
Extending windfall tax to renewables will jeopardise investment warns RWE boss June 28, 2022 RWE boss has warned energy firms will reconsider investment plans in the North Sea if the UK expands its windfall tax to electricity generators.
Telecom giants agree new cost of living plan amid rocketing prices June 27, 2022 The UK’s biggest broadband and mobile operators have agreed to a raft of new commitments to further help customers with the rising cost of living following a government-led summit at No 10 Downing Street.
High Street footfall nosedives by staggering 25 per cent with London commuters and foreign travellers not returning June 27, 2022 High street footfall fell 25 per cent in May, from the previous month, according to RSM UK’s analysis of the latest data from Datscha, published this morning. London continues to be hit by hybrid working with less workers commuting into the city, and international and business travel is still not back at full capacity. Whereas [...]
Negotiation has failed: the defence Keir should have made for rail strikes June 27, 2022 The rail strikes have finished, for the moment, and we can return to normal after the disruption. But we are promised a “summer of discontent”, with teachers and barristers next up to withdraw their labour. Disruption in public-facing services seems to be emerging as 2022’s leitmotif. The government responded to the transport strike by simultaneously [...]
Johnson warns Macron that G7 must not give Putin ‘licence to manipulate’ June 26, 2022 Boris Johnson has cautioned French President Emmanuel Macron at today’s G7 meeting that political leaders must not give Vladimir Putin a “licence to manipulate” the West. The Prime Minister waved away suggestions that the conflict should be resolved now in a veiled swipe at Macron’s recent comments that Putin must not be “humiliated” and should [...]
World is staring down the barrel of new high inflation era, BIS warns June 26, 2022 The world risks being flung into a new era of persistently high inflation that will tip the global economy into a drawn out recession, one of the world’s top economic institutions has warned. Rampant price rises triggered by a series of economic shocks that have no “historical parallels” could become the norm, the Bank for [...]
Low-quality gas could be used to ease energy crisis June 25, 2022 Lower quality gas could be flowing through Britain's pipelines this winter, with the Government scrambling to secure energy supplies.
Root and branch failure: Government set to miss tree planting targets June 25, 2022 The government has 'zero chance' of reaching its tree planting targets, the UK's forestry trade body has warned.