50 h. ago Ship banned from Tall Ships Race due to Russian sanctions turned away at Orkney

The Russian-born captain said he still intended to sail across the North Sea with the Tall Ships Races despite being banned from several ports on the route.

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56 h. ago Four arrested and one charged after quadruple stabbing in south east London

Four arrested and one charged after quadruple stabbing in south east London  News Shopper

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69 h. ago Reform tells energy firms it would scrap their clean power subsidies

Richard Tice has written to firms giving them ‘formal notice’ that Reform would tear up contracts designed to boost green energy investment.

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3 d. ago South Korea arrests teacher and parent accused of breaking into school to steal exam papers

The school has recommended the student for expulsion

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4 d. ago Donald Trump tells Starmer to 'bring back the oil' and banish windfarms ahead of Aberdeen meeting

Donald Trump is poised for Aberdeen talks with Keir Starmer and John Swinney later this month.

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6 d. ago ‘An enormous scar’: the battle over solar farms and pylons as Reform UK takes aim at net zero

In the fourth part of a series, we look at how climate orthodoxy is coming under fire in LincolnshireAn unjust transition?: Teeside divided over net zeroIt breaks my heart’: how a refinery closure is hitting jobs and politics‘They feel betrayed’: how Reform is targeting manufacturing heartlandsIn early summer the wide open fields of Lincolnshire seem to expand beneath even larger clear blue skies. Travel north through the breadbasket of Britain towards the North Sea, from Grantham to Grimsby, and farming gives way to factories, refineries and the Humber docks. Each sector tells a story of Britain’s industrial decline: the demise of heavy industry on the banks of the Humber, the closure of coal power plants, fishing fleets decimated by the cod wars of the 1970s and 80s.Lincolnshire is at the heart of the government’s plan for the greatest economic step-change since the Industrial Revolution: a green re-industrialisation to help galvanise the country’s net zero agenda, create jobs and...

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7 d. ago London police arrest over 40 supporters of banned group Palestine Action

London police arrest over 40 supporters of banned group Palestine Action  South China Morning Post

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8 d. ago Keir Starmer accepts invitation to visit Donald Trump in Scotland

US president is set to officially open a new golf course at his resort on the North Sea coast at MenieKeir Starmer has accepted an invitation to visit US president Donald Trump during his expected trip to Scotland this month, according to a report.The details of the visit, including the date, are still being finalised, Reuters reported. The White House has not commented on the report. Continue reading...

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1 week ago South Korea sends back North Koreans who drifted on wooden boats across border

North Koreans sent back across their sea border after ‘failed efforts to contact Pyongyang’

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1 week ago Arrest warrant issued for Taliban’s supreme leader over persecution of women and girls in Afghanistan

Taliban have imposed harsh measures that range from banning women from public places to girls from attending school beyond the sixth grade

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1 week ago South Korea sends back North Koreans who drifted on wooden boats across sea border

North Koreans sent back across their sea border after ‘failed efforts to contact Pyongyang’

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1 week ago Drug smuggler, 63, who brought 100kg of ketamine into the UK in a motorhome is jailed

Russell King, 63, stored four bin bags of the Class B drug in compartments within the motorhome before crossing the North Sea by ferry from Rotterdam to Hull.

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1 week ago Royal Navy vessels shadowed Russian ships in UK waters for a fifth time this month alone as Putin continues to probe British defences

Frigate HMS Iron Duke, patrol ship HMS Tyne and Wildcat aircraft were dispatched on three separate operations in the North Sea and English Channel between July 1 and today.

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1 week ago Arson arrest made after fire breaks out on south London’s Electric Avenue

70 firefighters were called to a Brixton fire as large plume of smoke seen billowing over busy shopping street

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1 week ago Scottish ministers accused of 'taking a wrecking ball' to North Sea oil and gas

Opposition parties say the Scottish Government has ‘squandered’ its just transition fund.

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1 week ago Fringe By The Sea 2025 Hot Tickets: 15 of the biggest names appearing in North Berwick

There’s a stellar lineup at the event this year.

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1 week ago The beaches near Greater Manchester named best in the UK for 2025

A 'fairytale beach' in North Wales, a campsite by the sea and a seaside village next to the Lake District have all been included in The Times' list of the UK's 50 best beaches

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1 week ago Diver 'died' 300ft underwater after losing oxygen but what happened next defied science

In a miracle survival story, North Sea oil rig diver Chris Lemons clung on to life after a freak accident left him cut off from his air supply 300 feet below the surface of the sea

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1 week ago Man arrested after Windrush exhibition vandalised in south London

Met Police officers were called to Windrush Square on Thursday following reports of damage to the display

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2 w. ago A woman lied to deputies right before her son killed one of them, South Carolina authorities say

Authorities in South Carolina have arrested the mother of a man who killed a deputy during a shootout

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