6 h. ago SNP minister claims her £19,000 pay rise won't cost the taxpayer a single penny

SNP ministers have faced a backlash after they were handed whopping pay rises.

Economics

27 h. ago Gene Hackman property showed rodent infestation after hantavirus check

New Mexico public health department’s report found evidence of nests and droppings in the property’s outbuildings, but not at the main residenceAn environmental assessment of Gene Hackman’s home after the deaths of the actor and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, revealed rodent infestation in outbuildings and garages, it has been revealed.Records obtained by CNN show that the New Mexico department of public health conducted a “homesite environmental assessment” on 5 March, a week after Hackman and Arakawa’s bodies were found at their home in Santa Fe, and that rodent faeces, a live rodent, a dead rodent and a rodent nest were found. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Union officials ‘hopeful’ of Scunthorpe steel materials delivery within 48 hours

British Steel staff and civil servants are expected to spend Monday trying to prevent the permanent shutdown of Britain’s last steel-making plant.

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64 h. ago British Steel staff and civil servants race to keep Scunthorpe blast furnaces on

Officials from the Department for Business and Trade are already on site in Scunthorpe after the Government took over the running of British Steel.

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5 d. ago Civil servants at Department for Environment blew more than £700,000 of taxpayers' cash on business and premium economy flights last year

Figures obtained by the Daily Mail reveal that Defra spent £721,189.25 on plush aircraft seats for civil servants in the financial year from 2023 to 2024.

Economics

5 d. ago Hundreds of barbershops targeted by police in crackdown on money laundering and modern slavery

Ten shops were shut down, and further closures are expected after police forces across the country visited 265 cash-focused businesses

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5 d. ago Hundreds of barbershops targeted by police operation against money laundering

The operation targeted barbershops in an effort to prevent criminal gangs from using cash-intensive businesses for money laundering, the NCA said.,

Economics

6 d. ago Cabinet Office to cut a third of jobs as Labour seeks to shrink Civil Service

Around 1,200 people will lose their jobs under plans announced to civil servants today, with another 900 being transferred to other departments

Society

6 d. ago Trump takes aim at city and state climate laws in executive order – US politics live

President instructs Department of Justice to ‘stop the enforcement’ of state climate laws, calling out New York and Vermont’s ‘climate superfund’ lawsDonald Trump is taking aim and city- and state-led fossil fuel accountability efforts, which have been hailed as a last source of hope for the climate amid the president’s ferociously anti-environment agenda.In a Tuesday executive order, Trump instructed the Department of Justice to “stop the enforcement” of state climate laws, which his administration has suggested are unconstitutional or otherwise unenforceable. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump takes aim at city and state climate laws in executive order

President orders justice department to stop enforcement of critical policies holding fossil fuel companies accountableUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump is taking aim and city- and state-led fossil fuel accountability efforts, which have been hailed as a last source of hope for the climate amid the president’s ferociously anti-environment agenda.In a Tuesday executive order, Trump instructed the Department of Justice to “stop the enforcement” of state climate laws, which his administration has suggested are unconstitutional or otherwise unenforceable. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Homeland Security waiver allows feds to bypass environmental rules to build border wall

A waiver issued by the Department of Homeland Security allows the federal government to bypass environmental regulations and begin construction immediately on stretches of the border wall in Southern California

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9 d. ago A single London constituency pays more income tax than the WHOLE of Northern Ireland... so how much does your local area give to HMRC?

The research showed how 67,000 taxpayers in Kensington & Bayswater paid £4.2billion in income tax in 2022-23.

Economics

9 d. ago Home Office memo reveals Johnson and Sunak may have to give evidence at Manston migrant centre inquiry

Former prime ministers, home secretaries and senior civil servants listed as potential witnesses to inquiry into chaos at Manston migrant processing centre in autumn 2022

Politics

9 d. ago Son of Scots postmaster sued over £78,000 mystery shortfalls says stress of ordeal 'killed him'

Greenock sub-postmaster Arthur Still died in 2009 without having learned what happened to the missing cash which cost him his business and pension.

Economics

1 week ago Minister plans to curb ‘away days’ for civil servants and branded merchandise

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden said he wants to cut costs.

Politics

1 week ago Fears of local government financial collapse ‘pessimistic’, says top civil servant

The Local Government Association said councils in England were facing a funding gap of more than £8 billion by 2028/29.

Politics

1 week ago Federal judge questions whether EPA move to rapidly cancel 'green bank' grants was legal

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday questioned a Department of Justice attorney over whether the Environmental Protection Agency violated the law when it terminated $20 billion in green bank grants allegedly without following the proper process

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2 w. ago Musk’s Doge to fire all local workers and US diplomats from USAID, sources say

Unofficial Trump adviser’s cost-cutting team to finalize shuttering the foreign aid agency on which millions dependUS politics live – latest updatesElon Musk’s cost-cutting team is finalizing the dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers and US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas, two former top USAID officials and a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.On Friday, Congress was notified that almost all of USAID’s own employees were being fired by September, all of its overseas offices shut, and some functions absorbed into the state department. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘They don’t want them to know anything’: Gaza civilians held in Israel not told families had been killed

A nurse, a civil servant and a teacher, among thousands of Palestinians detained without charges, were not informed their relatives had died in Israeli attacks• ‘He insisted we take him to the graves’: the Palestinian hostages coming home to catastropheFor six months after it became impossible, Ahmed Wael Dababish still dreamed of a simple reunion: the day he could once again hug his wife, Asma, his two daughters and his young son.A nurse from Gaza, Dababish last saw his family in the early hours of one night in December 2023, when Israeli troops attacked a school where they had sought shelter. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Sex attacker seeking asylum in the UK is flown 5,000 miles by private jet flight for emergency medical treatment at the taxpayers' expense

The clandestine operation to save the Sri Lankan came after he made an apparent suicide attempt on the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.

Economics