4 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Tube hit by three suspensions as commuters face fresh disruption

Passengers are facing delays on the several lines after technical faults forced part of the service to shut down while engineers carry out urgent repairs

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4 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Tube hit by three suspensions as Northern line commuters face fresh disruption

Passengers are facing delays on the Northern line after a technical fault forced part of the service to shut down while engineers carry out urgent repairs

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4 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Commuters face delays as Northern line partially suspended over equipment issue

Passengers are facing delays on the Northern line after a technical fault forced part of the service to shut down while engineers carry out urgent repairs.

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1 week ago Leading conservationists just decided that genetically engineering wild animals is OK – sometimes. They’re right | Helen Pilcher

Humans have been selectively breeding animals for millennia. If we can help species survive by tweaking their DNA in a lab, I say bring it onDo you think we should genetically modify wildlife? What if we could make seabirds resistant to the flu that has been exterminating them en masse, just by tweaking their DNA a smidgen? Or make fish that can shrug off pollution, or coral that can survive warming waters? Engineer in the sorts of change that could occur naturally, given enough time, if only the wildlife would stop dying already.Thanks to newly emerging methods, such as Crispr, these feats are within reach. Recently, conservationists met at the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) 2025 World Conservation Congress where they debated GM wildlife and voted on a proposed moratorium that would stymie their release into the wild. Ahead of the meeting, a group of more than 90 NGOs issued a press release urging the IUCN to “say no to engineered wild species.” But humans ...

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3 w. ago Vodafone broadband down LIVE: Full statement and fix time as thousands suffer internet outage

Thousands of Brits have been left without internet or mobile data as Vodafone says a 'major issue' is affecting broadband, 4G and 5G services - with engineers working urgently to fix the problem

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3 w. ago Engineers urged to sign up to heat pump ‘giveaway’ for their homes

Experts said heat pumps were more efficient than gas boilers

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4 w. ago Heating engineers urged to sign up to heat pump ‘giveaway’ for their own homes

The ‘start at home’ initiative aims to boost roll out of the clean technology that will be key to phasing out fossil fuel home heating.

Society