4 h. ago Call to support historic Falkirk bandstand restoration as project seeks funding

Funding is vital to raise the cash for the project and local groups can show their support

Culture

59 h. ago Powering change: UK battery firms aim to unlock the way to net zero

Companies using different technologies for long-duration storage seek funding as country shifts to renewables and requires greater energy securityThink of battery manufacturing and it may evoke images of Elon Musk and Tesla’s sprawling “gigafactories” around the globe, or China’s vast, hi-tech clean rooms churning out cells to go in anything from electric toothbrushes to mobile phones and cars. But at Invinity Energy Systems’s small factory in Bathgate, near Edinburgh, workers slotting parts together are hoping that Britain can also play a part in the battery revolution.These batteries, which rely on vanadium ions, are put in 6-metre (20ft), 25-tonne shipping containers. They will not go into cars, but the manufacturer hopes the technology can win a place in a global rush into storage to usher in the shift to net zero carbon grids. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago Philadelphia mass transit agency gets OK to use project money to avoid bus, trolley and rail cuts

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration is approving the use of hundreds of millions of dollars in capital project funding for Philadelphia’s public transit agency to help it restore bus, trolley and rail services that it had eliminated to shore up its deficit-riddled finances

Politics

7 d. ago Carlyle raises $20bn to scoop up ageing private equity stakes

Secondaries market has boomed in recent years as pension funds and endowments seek to exit investments

Economics

7 d. ago Big Ben’s Elizabeth Tower restoration shortlisted for RIBA architecture award

The project rectified previous restoration mistakes and repaired newly uncovered damage from the Second World War

Events

7 d. ago Restoration of Big Ben’s Elizabeth Tower shortlisted for architecture award

The project rectified previous restoration mistakes and repaired newly uncovered damage from the Second World War.

Events

2 w. ago Tennessee man with same name as Babe Ruth accused of using historic baseball trivia in scam, prosecutors say

The Tennessee man conducted an ‘elaborate, nationwide scheme’ using old baseball players’ names to seek class action funds, prosecutors say

Events

3 w. ago Trump’s move to sanitize US history gets little support with national park visitors

Exclusive: Public comments show that a crackdown on signs ‘disparaging’ Americans is not popularAs part of his administration’s war on “woke”, Donald Trump has asked the American public to report anything “negative” about Americans in US national parks. But the public has largely refused to support a world view without inconvenient historical facts, comments submitted from national parks and seen by the Guardian show.Notices have been erected at every National Park Service (NPS) site, which spans 433 national parks, monuments and battlefields, following an order from May entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, issued by Trump’s department of the interior (DOI). The president had demanded a crackdown on any material that “inappropriately disparages Americans”. Continue reading...

Politics

4 w. ago 'I live in a £3m party pad on an island you can only reach by boat or helicopter'

Eight years ago tech entrepreneur Mike Conner bought a dilapidated fort on a remote Welsh island and began an epic restoration project to turn it into a unique home that's now for up for sale.

Society

4 w. ago Free football tickets, university courses, driving lessons and even hair extensions! ROSS CLARK reveals the astonishing list of perks taxpayers are funding for asylum seekers

Banned from working or claiming the benefits for which United Kingdom citizens can apply, it is commonly said they are surviving on as little as £8 a week.

Economics

last month ‘I’m on the right side of history’: The church minister risking prison time to support Palestine Action

More than 500 people were arrested at the biggest demonstration since the group was proscribed a terrorist organisation

Events

last month ‘I’m on the right side of history’: The east London minister risking prison time to support Palestine Action

More than 500 people were arrested at the biggest demonstration since the group was proscribed a terrorist organisation

Events