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Some households face ‘very difficult winter’ as fuel bills rise and benefits fall, says Kwarteng
After crisis talks, the government has reached a deal with an American company to supply CO2 gas to food and drink companies.
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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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Boris Johnson: Maintaining universal credit uplift would mean tax hike
The energy crisis has cast a shadow over Boris Johnson’s trip to the United States.
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Sabina Nessa: Woman found dead in London park may have been targeted by a stranger
A primary school teacher whose body was discovered in a park in southeast London may have been murdered by a stranger.
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Third Russian GRU agent accused of involvement in Salisbury Novichok poisoning
A third Russian man has been accused of involvement in the poisoning of the former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in 2018.
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Novichok poisoning: Putin ‘more Keystone Cops than KGB’, says Tugendhat
We spoke to Tom Tugendhat, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and asked him if he was surprised to hear a third person is believed to be involved in the poisoning of the Skripals.
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Starmer faces row over plans to change Labour leadership voting rules
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer looks set to reignite a major row in the Labour Party after proposing to give MPs and unions more power, and members less, in electing a future leader.
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Mothers and babies at risk of dying because of poor maternity care, says watchdog
Mothers and babies are still at risk of dying because of poor maternity care, the NHS watchdog has warned.
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President Biden pledges ‘relentless diplomacy’ rather than war
In his first speech to the United Nations US president Joe Biden has laid out his country’s plans for “a new era of relentless diplomacy”.
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Prince Andrew served sexual assault lawsuit in United States
Prince Andrew has been served with legal papers in the United States. Virginia Giuffre alleges the Duke of York sexually assaulted her when she was 17 and is seeking damages through a civil case in New York.
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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.
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How the pandemic has affected grass-roots sport
After the misery of all the lockdowns, it’s been a frankly joyous summer for British sport, from the Euros to the Olympics and Paralympic Games, and Emma Raducanu in the US Open.
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Arsenal ‘should stop taking money’ from Rwandan government, says Paul Rusesabagina’s daughter
Paul Rusesabagina’s daughter Carine Kanimba has been campaigning for her father’s release, and we asked her first what she feared would happen to him now.
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Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina found guilty of terror charges
The man whose experiences inspired the film Hotel Rwanda has been sentenced to 25 years in jail, after he was found guilty of terror offences.
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Russia elections: Putin’s party wins majority
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Russia’s ruling pro-Kremlin party looks poised to keep its supermajority in parliament, after elections marred by allegations of vote rigging and fraud.
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Man arrested after three children and a woman found dead at Derbyshire house
The father of two children who were found dead in a Derbyshire house at the weekend has said he is heartbroken, laying flowers outside the address as all four victims were named by police.
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Boris Johnson calls for action on climate at UN General Assembly
Boris Johnson has told the leaders of the world’s major economies that history will judge them on whether they have the courage to “step up” and make commitments at the COP 26 climate change summit in Glasgow next month.
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European energy prices highest for years
Price rises across Europe have also soared to their highest for years – a combination of unseasonably cold weather in the spring pushing up demand, and pandemic-hit economies struggling to build up new supplies.
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UK has only 5-15 days left of CO2 for meat production in worst case scenario, says British Meat Processors Association
How serious are the warnings of imminent shortages? Nick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Producers Association spoke to us.
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‘Government has let energy companies use the market like a casino,’ founder of green energy firm says
We were joined by the founder of the green energy firm Ecotricity, Dale Vince.
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High wholesale gas prices ‘will feed through ultimately to customers’ bills’, Ofgem CEO says
We spoke to Jonathan Brearley, chief executive of Ofgem, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, and we asked if the energy market had allowed in too many unsustainable businesses which didn’t know what they were doing.
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Systemic problems in UK energy market
The crisis that is cutting down many gas suppliers has raised questions about how vulnerable the energy market in this country has become to global shocks.
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Energy price spike: ‘Lights will not go out’, says government
Alarmist, unhelpful and completely misguided – the Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has dismissed fears about the impending energy crisis, as he insisted the UK was “highly resilient”.
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Mandate wars: Biden’s big bet to fight the Delta variant
With vaccinations hitting a wall and some governors refusing to impose new restrictions, President Biden introduced a vaccine mandate.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX completes first all-civilian space flight
The first space tourists to orbit the earth have splashed down safely off the coast of Florida in the Atlantic.
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Lib Dem ‘policies will appeal to disgruntled Tory voters’, says Ed Davey
Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has given his keynote speech at the party’s annual conference today, pledging to smash down the Tory’s blue wall.
