20 h. ago The shady BMW driving 'Mr Fixit' who sets up mini marts across Britain for asylum seekers to rake in £150k a year selling illegal cigarettes

While his true identity is unknown, he operates under the names Shaxawan Jamal and Kardos Mateen. To others he is simply referred to as 'the accountant'.

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66 h. ago The Guardian view on 10 Downing Street: not up to the job | Editorial

The Labour leadership briefing furore highlights failures at the centre of government. Keir Starmer needs to raise his gameSir Keir Starmer went to north Wales on Thursday to announce the building of a new nuclear power station. This is a significant policy event, with local and national implications. However, the prime minister did not spend much time in Wales promoting solutions to UK energy needs. Instead, he spent it trying to draw a line under the Labour leadership briefing row, telling reporters that No 10 had not, in fact, briefed against the health secretary’s ambitions earlier this week.As such, Sir Keir’s day was a microcosm of what his prime ministership has now become more generally. On the one hand, he wants his government to be doing, and to be seen to be doing, important things. On the other hand, he is unable to achieve this because of the way he – and to an extent the country more generally – now does politics and government.Do you have an opinion on the issues...

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68 h. ago Britain's first mini nuclear power station gets the green light: 'Small modular reactors' will be built by Rolls

The government has announced that three 'small modular reactors' (SMRs) will be built at a new power station in Wylfa, on the coast of Anglesey in North Wales.

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69 h. ago Keir Starmer says 'probably the biggest announcement for a generation' has just happened in Wales

Sir Keir Starmer has made a visit to Coleg Menai in Anglesey after the announcement that Britain's first small modular reactor (SMR) will be built at Wylfa on the island

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3 d. ago Live updates as Keir Starmer visits Anglesey after major nuclear announcement

The UK's first small modular nuclear reactor will be built at Wylfa, creating thousands of jobs

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3 d. ago Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers resign amid $100m corruption scandal

Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers have stepped down in relation to a major scandal involving the state nuclear power company

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3 d. ago Ed Miliband dismisses US rebuke over nuclear power plant snub

Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband said he made 'no apologies' for choosing a UK firm to build the country's first small reactor on the site instead.

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3 d. ago Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers submit resignations amid $100m corruption scandal

Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers submitted their resignations over major embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving the state nuclear power company

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3 d. ago The people of Anglesey have been let down on Wylfa before, but this time it is different

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer writes for WalesOnline on the day it is announced a small modular reactor (SMR) will be built at Wylfa on Anglesey

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3 d. ago Britain's first mini nuclear station site finally been announced after mega £2.5bn deal

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said plant at Wylfa would support up to 3,000 jobs in the local economy at the height of construction

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3 d. ago Top Ukrainian ministers submit their resignations as the country is rocked by a corruption scandal

Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers submitted their resignations amid a major embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving the state nuclear power company

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1 week ago Sizewell C ‘on budget and on schedule’ as financing completes

The planned nuclear power plant in Suffolk reached financial close on Tuesday.

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks on substations are ‘nuclear terrorism’, says Ukraine

Ukrainian foreign ministry says deliberate strikes on civilian energy facilities violate international law as fears of a winter crisis grow. What we know on day 1,347Ukraine’s foreign ministry has denounced what it described as Russian attacks on substations critical to supplying external power for Ukraine’s nuclear power stations. Russia has carried out “targeted strikes on such substations”, a ministry statement issued late on Friday said. “Deliberate strikes on civilian energy facilities that directly affect the safe operation of nuclear installations bear the hallmarks of nuclear terrorism and constitute a grave violation of international humanitarian law,” it added.The foreign ministry referred to a statement issued on Thursday by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, reporting military activity “that has led to damage to substations critical to nuclear safety and security in Ukraine”. The IAEA statement reported incidents near two nuclear plants – So...

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2 w. ago Police investigate racial abuse of Green deputy leader at London station

Mothin Ali says thug threatened to ‘smash his head in’ during row on Wednesday

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2 w. ago How Russia is risking nuclear catastrophe with attempts to syphon power from Ukraine’s biggest plant

The exiled mayor of Enerhodar, close to Ukraine’s biggest nuclear power station fears tells Sam Kiley in Zaporizhzhia he is afraid of an ecological catastrophe

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2 w. ago Chernobyl nuclear power plant's radioactive ruins turns dogs mysterious bright blue colour

Almost 40 years on the world's worst-ever nuclear accident, animals still roam the exclusion zone that remains off limits to humans - but some of the 700 dogs now have blue fur

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2 w. ago From Steel City to Cottonopolis: a new walking trail through a post

The nostalgic Steel Cotton Rail Trail between Sheffield and Manchester has 14 day-length sections, with walks for urban explorers and summit-bagging hikers alikeThe Pride of Cumbria train carried me out of Piccadilly station and, eventually, beyond built-up Manchester. After Marple, everything turned green as the valleys narrowed. It was a classic northern autumn day: the clouds were low, the mizzle and mist were closing in and the world was grey-filtered but for the glow of dead leaves all around.South-east of Manchester is a bit of an unknown for me. Between the city and the Derbyshire borough of High Peak, you don’t quite enter national park territory, but it’s nonetheless a charming and eye-calming landscape. The Mancunian Kinder Scout trespassers of 1932 probably came this way, as do Pennine Way-farers bound for Edale. But the region is also post-industrial and close to conurbations. The Steel Cotton Rail Trail, which officially launched earlier this month after several years o...

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3 w. ago South Carolina's state utility says private firm set to restart abandoned $9 billion nuclear project

South Carolina's state-owned utility is negotiating with Brookfield Asset Management to revive a nuclear power project abandoned eight years ago

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3 w. ago Ukraine foiled plans to reconnect Zaporizhzhia power plant in time for Putin’s birthday

The power plant in Russian-occupied Ukraine was without external power for a month before repairs were made

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3 w. ago Waste particle found at Dounreay measures highest level in radioactive category

Dounreay's former nuclear power complex is being demolished and cleaned up

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