12 h. ago Bill overhauling Alabama's largest water utility heads to governor's desk despite local outcry

A bill that would strip the state’s largest city of power over its local water board and give more control to the governor and surrounding suburbs is heading to the governor's desk

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22 h. ago Solar farm planned on school land in Merthyr would power local schools and hospital

There are plans for a 1.4MW solar farm at Pen y Dre High

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25 h. ago Man arrested in Japan after allegedly driving car into schoolchildren, say reports

Seven children returning from school injured in suspected deliberate attack in Osaka, according to local mediaA man has been arrested in the Japanese city of Osaka after allegedly driving his car into seven schoolchildren in a suspected deliberate attack, local media said.The children, who were on their way home from school, were injured and taken to hospital but all seven remained conscious, according to the public broadcaster NHK and other outlets. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago Witnesses in shock as cyclist airlifted to hospital after bus crash outside primary school

The cyclist sustained serious injuries not believed to be life-threatening

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3 d. ago ‘I felt caught between cultures’: Mongolian musician Enji on her beguiling, border

She started singing in her family’s yurt before a Goethe-Institut residency led her to jazz and life in Munich. The distance from home is ‘bittersweet’ – but both styles, she says, are about trusting your instinctGrowing up in the icy Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, singing was as natural as speech for Enkhjargal Erkhembayar. “Every day after my parents came home from working in the local power factory, they would gather with a group of friends in our yurt to unwind and someone would always begin to sing,” she says. “Soon, we would all join in, singing old folk songs to keep warm and to express ourselves long into the night.”As Enji, 33-year-old Erkhembayar is now taking this music into international concert halls, having forged a beguiling hybrid of Mongolian folk music with acoustic jazz improvisation. She anchors her performances in the circular-breathing vocal style of Mongolian long song – a folk tradition where syllables are elongated through freeform vocalisations – her del...

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3 d. ago I was 19 and on the trip of a lifetime – then I drank a cocktail laced with methanol

In a bar in Bali, Ashley King was given a lethal drink. A day later, she realised she was going blind. She thought all her dreams were over – but the reality proved very differentThe last night of Ashley King’s holiday shouldn’t have been especially memorable. It was 30 August 2011, and she and her best friend, Krista, went out barhopping in the tourist town of Kuta in southern Bali, as they had done many times before. King and Krista are from Calgary in Canada, and had decided to spend a year travelling after their high school graduation. They planned to explore the island of Bali, but King’s credit cards were stolen and Krista ran out of money, so they were stuck in Kuta, a party district.In one of the swankier bars on the strip, King was given a fruity vodka cocktail in a reusable plastic bottle, so she could dance without spilling it. She was drunk, she says, but not notably so. After nursing their hangovers the next day, she and Krista went to the airport at midnight: King was ...

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3 d. ago Four dead and six injured after car ploughs through school building

The driver was seen being taken into custody by officers and is being evaluated in hospital after the incident at the YNOT after-school daycare

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3 d. ago Police hunting for Peugeot driver after schoolboy cyclist is rushed to hospital with head injuries following 'hit

The schoolboy was riding an electric pedal-bike when he was hit by a silver Peugeot 5008 car in Blakelaw, Newcastle.

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer set for clash with unions as no extra cash for higher pay rises

Schools and hospitals could be forced to make cuts if higher pay awards for teachers and NHS staff need to be drawn from already stretched public sector budgets

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3 d. ago Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth skips Holyrood questions on school violence for party event

Jenny Gilruth was set to face questions last week after a girl ended up in hospital following an alleged knife attack at a school in Aberdeen.

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4 d. ago Plans revealed for massive 300 acre solar farm to be built across three Welsh counties

123.3 hectares of farmland across three local authorities in south Wales could become a solar farm

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6 d. ago Parents 'furious' with school's plan to ban skirts for girls

One mum said she would never have chosen the school for her daughter if she'd have known about the trousers-only policy

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7 d. ago Major plan to switch off kids' social media while they're at school being looked at

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle told The Mirror he is looking 'very carefully' at ways to stop children wasting hours scrolling on their phones after youngsters begged for help

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7 d. ago Schoolgirl, 12, taken to hospital after 'stabbing' at Aberdeen school

Police were called to Hazlehead Academy in Aberdeen at around 10.30am on Thursday.

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7 d. ago Furious Scots slam giant countryside solar farm plans for South Lanarkshire

The controversial proposal could see 114,296 solar panels installed in arrays covering greenfield land the size of 164 football pitches in East Kilbride and Hamilton.

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8 d. ago New Jersey wildfire forces evacuations and reaches closed nuclear power plant

Stretch of major highway shut as 3,000 people moved to safety and homes left without powerA fast-moving wildfire burning in New Jersey has forced thousands of people to evacuate, closed a stretch of a main highway and reached a shuttered nuclear power plant.Flames from the Jones Road wildfire in Ocean County had reached buildings on the campus of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, according to the local Lakewood Scoop newspaper. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Schoolboy, 13, killed and two other people rushed to hospital after three

Officers were called to reports of the collision on the A25 in Bletchingley, near Redhill, at around 8.10pm on Easter Monday, Surrey Police said.

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9 d. ago Massive solar farm the size of 164 football pitches planned in Larnarkshire as community mounts fight

The controversial proposal could see 114,296 solar panels between East Kilbride and Hamilton installed, covering the equivalent of 164 football pitches.

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9 d. ago Fury as massive solar farm the size of 164 football pitches planned for Lanarkshire

The controversial proposal could see 114,296 solar panels between East Kilbride and Hamilton installed, covering the equivalent of 164 football pitches.

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1 week ago Grassroots activists who took on corruption and corporate power share 2025 Goldman prize

Seven winners of environmental prize include Amazonian river campaigner and Tunisian who fought against organised waste traffickingIndigenous river campaigner from Peru honouredGrassroots activists who helped jail corrupt officials and obtain personhood rights for a sacred Amazonian river are among this year’s winners of the world’s most prestigious environmental prize.The community campaigns led by the seven 2025 Goldman prize winners underscore the courage and tenacity of local activists willing to confront the toxic mix of corporate power, regulatory failures and political corruption that is fuelling biodiversity collapse, water shortages, deadly air pollution and the climate emergency. Continue reading...

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