"When I asked the planning inspectorate for documents relating to cases involving Samuel Smith Old Brewery, they deemed my request impractical. Why? Because, they said, they held 13,000 such documents."
Today's @gdnlongread by @DrBlacklocktheguardian.com/news/2024/de…
Exclusive: New police figures show 77% of applications by sex offenders to be removed from the sex offenders register are successful - with some forces approving 100%. Now Laura Stewart, who was abused as a child, is campaigning for a change in the law. news.sky.com/story/frightene…
Quite like this. Rowan Atkinson writes a piece on electric vehicles. PLOT TWIST: he turns out to be very knowledgeable, piece is sensible and balanced theguardian.com/commentisfre…
How the @bankofengland and @hmtreasury came within a whisker of allowing Silicon Valley Bank's UK arm to implode.
My long read with the inside story of what insiders codenamed "Operation Cork" news.sky.com/story/hsbcs-svb…
After years of reading spy fiction and wondering where all the women were, I asked MI6 if I could speak to their top female spies about the realities of being a women in espionage. I met Kathy, Ada and Rebecca, and here is their story:
ft.com/content/741772c0-ee76…
🔌POWER GRIDS🔌
Arguably the most important & underdiscussed issue in the pursuit for net zero.
The grid is creaking.
It cld trigger blackouts & even prevent net zero.
It’s a v big deal!
But let’s begin our story with something else. A bit of history. The first power station…
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This is the report on the controversies around Qatar being host of the World Cup that just played on @BBCOne as @GaryLineker begins @BBCSport's coverage of the tournament.
Planes, trains, automobiles... and everything else.
There's a lot of people out there who want to convince you hydrogen is the fuel of the future.
But how much of this is realistic? And how much is just hype?
I tried to get to the bottom of it
news.sky.com/story/the-futur…
UPDATE: #M4 lorry fire video shows scale of inferno, as witness describes seeing a mile of 'small 'fires' because of hay bales which apparently fell off the lorry wiltshirelive.co.uk/news/wil…