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BP and Tesco ration fuel at some petrol stations, as inflation rise is predicted
Now the Bank of England has predicted that rising domestic energy bills will push inflation above 4 per cent.
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‘Real challenges’ around Christmas, says business expert
We were joined from West Sussex by Hannah Essex, co-executive director of the British Chambers of Commerce.
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Sabina Nessa: Police investigate if she was killed by a stranger
Detectives are investigating whether primary school teacher Sabina Nessa was killed by a stranger who is still at large.
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Boris Johnson says humanity needs to grow up and take action on climate change
Prime Minister Boris Johnson used his prime time at the podium at the UN General Assembly to warn the world, and I quote, that “the adolescence of humanity must come to an end”.
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Government ‘actions need to follow’ words on climate, Sir David King says
We were joined by Sir David King, chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, which provides analysis of global warming by independent scientists from across the globe.
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German elections: Will floods and climate crisis decide country’s poll?
Today the Greens poll around 17 per cent of the vote. It had been higher this summer and many thought the devastating floods, widely blamed on climate change, would make all the difference. But did they?
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German Green Party will be ‘strongest ever’ after election, says German MEP
German Green Party MEP Reinhard Bütikofer claims the party will be the “strongest ever” after the country’s elections, adding the group is ready to stand up for human rights and foreign policy.
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Former MP Keith Vaz subjected aide to ‘sustained and unpleasant bullying’, panel finds
At Westminster, the former Labour Minister Keith Vaz has been found by an independent panel to have subjected a female parliamentary staff member to “sustained and unpleasant bullying”.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband marks her 2,000 days in detention
It is exactly 2,000 days since British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was first detained in Tehran on trumped up charges of trying to overthrow the Iranian regime.
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‘Trump story not over’, says veteran journalist Bob Woodward
The violent and chaotic scenes in Washington this January, when the Capitol was stormed by Trump supporters seeking to overthrow the Presidential election results, shocked America.
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FactCheck: Raab says workers better off by £4,000 a year under Conservatives
The figure doesn’t account for inflation.
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La Palma volcano: Hundreds more evacuated as eruption continues
Hundreds more people have been evacuated from a village in La Palma, as a volcano on the Canary Island continues to erupt.
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Infected Blood Inquiry: Lord Norman Fowler challenged on HIV/AIDS campaign
An inquiry into how and why people were given blood products, infected with HIV and hepatitis, today heard from the health secretary in charge at the time.
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MPs launch attack on Google and Facebook for failing to tackle online fraud
MPs have launched a blistering attack on the social media giant Google for failing to tackle online fraud.
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Freshers week: How students and universities are coping after Covid disruption
We were joined by Professor Peter Slee, the vice chancellor of Leeds Beckett University, and by Stephanie Macaulay, a third year student in the business school at Leeds Beckett.
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Universities reopen their doors after Covid causes worst disruption since WW2
Over the next two weeks in Leeds, more than 70,000 students will arrive at the city’s five separate universities.
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Pregnant women should only be in prison as an ‘absolute necessity’, says Tory MP
We spoke to Sir Bob Neil, the chair of the Commons Justice committee, about a report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman which highlighted a series of failures in the care of the teenager who gave birth at HMP Bronzefield in September 2019.
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‘Vast gulf’ between what PM is saying and doing on climate change, says Green MP Caroline Lucas
We spoke to Green MP Caroline Lucas about China’s announcement to stop building coal plants in other countries.
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China pledges to stop building more coal plants in other countries
With the upcoming COP26 climate summit there was some good news from China, which announced that it will no longer be involved in new coal power projects overseas.
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Boris Johnson talks up ‘solid steps’ on US – UK trade deal
Boris Johnson will wrap up his trip to the United States with a speech to the United Nations in New York later tonight.
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No proper plan to meet carbon objectives left UK ‘more vulnerable’ to international gas market, says Labour’s Ed Miliband
We spoke to the Shadow Business Secretary Ed Miliband and began by asking him whether it was disingenuous for Labour to suggest they could do anything differently as global gas prices continue to surge.
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Energy firms cease trading – nearly one million need new supplier
Another two energy firms have collapsed and a third is on the brink. Avro Energy and Green Supplier Limited have ceased trading and the future of Igloo is reported to be hanging in the balance.
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Teenager whose baby died in prison was failed, report says
Multiple failings led to an 18-year-old woman giving birth alone in her cell to a baby which died in Europe’s largest women’s prison, a report has found.
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COP26: our last, best hope to save the planet?
This autumn is the United Nations Climate Change conference, when the countries of the world will gather to negotiate a way forward.
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From shipwrecks to Iron Age forts – how climate change threatens our heritage
It might not be the first thing you think about when climate change is mentioned.
