7 h. ago Is Net Zero to blame for Spain blackout chaos? Why green power may have exacerbated anarchy as 30,000 officers are deployed to the streets and panic

The country declared a state of emergency last night and said it was deploying 30,000 police officers as part of security measures to deal with the mayhem caused by the calamitous outage.

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9 h. ago Spain in state of emergency with 15,000 guards deployed over outage chaos as shops emptied

Following a massive power outage across several countries in Iberian Peninsula, Spain has declared an official state of emergency and have deployed 15,000 guards

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13 h. ago Metal detectorist jailed for trying to sell Anglo Saxon coins to an undercover police officer is ordered to repay £103,000

Roger Pilling, 77, was convicted with conspirator Craig Best, 48, after their attempts to sell to sell the criminal property worth £766,000 led them into the hands of an undercover police officer.

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15 h. ago What caused Spain and Portugal power outages as experts suggest weather to blame

Millions of people across Spain and Portugal have been left without electricity today as a massive power outage has hit the Iberian peninsula.

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18 h. ago Could renewable energy be to blame for huge Spain blackout? How outage struck days after country's grid ran entirely on green power for the first time

The shocking blackouts have impacted millions of people with almost all of Spain and Portugal affected, along with parts of France and Belgium, according to the most recent reports

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19 h. ago Jet2 issue statement for UK tourists after huge power cuts in Spain and Portugal

The widespread blackout has caused traffic chaos in Madrid

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4 d. ago Donald Trump pardons Republican politician who splurged fraud money on plastic surgery

Michele Fiore defrauded donors during her time on the Las Vegas City Council and then spent some of the $70,000 (£52,000) - meant for a statue of a police officer - for personal costs

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4 d. ago The UK says at an energy summit that green power will boost security, as the US differs

Britain has announced a major investment in wind power as it hosts an international summit on energy security

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4 d. ago UK’s clean power push ‘route to energy security’, says Ed Miliband

The Energy Secretary also shared a message from King Charles which said green energy would make countries’ power systems ‘more resilient and secure’.

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5 d. ago South of Scotland Enterprise officials claim agency has created and supported 10,000 jobs

The enterprise agency was officially launched in April 2020, with grants of more than £50million provided to businesses in that time.

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5 d. ago Police smash shoplifting gang using DNA to trace 5,000 stolen items: Officers raid corner shops selling £150K worth of goods swiped on order from major supermarkets

Metropolitan Police detectives tagged 5,000 commonly stolen items such as alcohol and chocolate with SelectaDNA, a fluid only visible under ultraviolet (UV) light.

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7 d. ago Recruitment worker wins £25,000 after her bosses moved office without telling her while she was on maternity leave

Anna Munkevics told a tribunal that after taking a year off to care for her newborn, she returned to her Hereford workplace only to find the building had been 'cleared out'.

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8 d. ago The violent thugs who thought they could get away with attacking police officers

Assaults on police officers in Wales are on the increase with over 3,000 assaults committed on emergency workers between July 2023 and June 2024

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1 week ago Foreign students sue Trump officials over revoked visas as 1,000 affected

Actions by state department to terminate students’ legal status place them at risk of deportation and detentionUS politics live – latest updatesSeveral international students who have had their visas revoked in recent weeks have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, arguing the government denied them due process when it suddenly took away their permission to be in the US.The actions by the federal government to terminate students’ legal status have left hundreds of scholars at risk of detention and deportation. Their schools range from private universities such as Harvard and Stanford to large public institutions such as the University of Maryland and Ohio State University, to some small liberal arts colleges. Continue reading...

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1 week ago American arrested for smuggling 23kg cannabis into Sri Lanka

Customs officials estimate street value of seized narcotics at about £582,000

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2 w. ago The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town

On a summer morning in 1990, the body of a young woman appeared in a small town close to the frontier. For those who saw her, finding her identity became an obsession that would last 30 yearsNobody can recall who first phoned the police on the morning of 4 September 1990, but everyone remembers the girl. Her body, hanging from a pine tree on a steep slope above the Spanish frontier town of Portbou, was visible to anyone looking up from the beach or across from the opposite hillside. She was barefoot, with grey-blue eyes and thick chestnut-brown hair. She wore blue dungarees over a turquoise green shirt.Portbou, squeezed into a cauldron-like Mediterranean cove, had only 2,000 inhabitants but plenty of police officers. In these years before the Schengen agreement, guards were stationed on the French border but these officers were experts in immigration and smuggling, not violent deaths. Instead, Enrique Gómez, a 35-year-old investigator from the Guardia Civil police force was called i...

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2 w. ago City giant's bid to lure 110,000 workers back to the office with free lunch Fridays

Employees working at WPP headquarters in the capital had previously only been required to go into the office three days a week.

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2 w. ago HMRC makes £3,000 change to tax rules as households hit with £600 bill

The tax office will tweak the rules to allow you to earn £3,000 before you need to register to pay tax through the self-assessment system - but it doesn't mean you owe any less

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2 w. ago Home Office spends nearly £1,000 sending staff on 'Swedish dog massage' course

Nearly £1,000 was spent on the unusual lessons last September to ensure that sniffer dogs are 'well looked after'.

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer promises an extra 3,000 neighbourhood officers on Britain's streets by next year

The Prime Minister, speaking on a visit to a police headquarters in Cambridgeshire, said the recruits would be 'on the beat... not stuck behind a desk'.

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