14 h. ago Ed Miliband 'abandons zonal electricity pricing' plan that would have charged people in southern England more for power than Scots

It would have meant people living near wind farms or other clean power projects - most common in upland rural areas - paying less for electricity than those living in other parts of Britain.

Politics

2 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says US, Europe deals will increase drone production

Married couple die in Russian strike against Kostyantynivka; Ukraine on agenda as Macron makes state visit to UK. What we know on day 1,230Russia and Ukraine struck each other with hundreds of drones on Sunday, throwing Russian air travel into disarray, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Ukrainian deals with western partners allowing Kyiv to scale up production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Six Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow, said its mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, while another two were reported outside Russia’s second largest city, St Petersburg. Rosaviatsiya, Russia’s civil aviation authority, reported temporary airport closures in the two cities and other regional centres and said dozens of flights had been delayed.In Ukraine on Sunday, Russian drones injured three civilians in Kyiv and at least two in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, located in the north-east, officials said. A Russian attack involving Shahed drones also targeted port infrastructure in Mykolaiv in central...

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5 d. ago Deliveroo and Uber Eats riders are being 'targeted' for vehicle theft, Met Police say

It comes amid a surge in vehicle thefts in London’s east end

Events

7 d. ago Heathrow fire caused by 'catastrophic' substation failure, report reveals

The fire that caused the chaotic shutdown of Heathrow airport in March was likely caused by the “catastrophic” failure of a component at an electricity substation, Britain's National Energy System Operator said in a report on the incident on Wednesday.

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2 w. ago Tories could scrap Britain's electric vehicle targets as part of Net Zero rethink saying they want 'consumer choice not diktats'

Andrew Griffith, the shadow business secretary, will warn against the danger of 'state intervention' in the automotive sector in a speech to an industry conference today.

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2 w. ago ‘You’d never make Slumdog today’: Danny Boyle on risks, regrets and returning to the undead

In 28 Years Later, zombies maraud over a Britain broken by more than Brexit. Its director discusses cultural baggage, catastrophising – and why his kids’ generation is an ‘upgrade’The UK is a wasteland in Danny Boyle’s new film. Towns lie in ruins, trains rot on the rails and the EU has severed all ties with the place. Some residents are stuck in the past and congregate under the tattered flag of St George. The others flail shirtless through the open countryside, raging about nothing, occasionally stopping to eat worms. You wouldn’t want to live in the land that Boyle and the writer Alex Garland show us. Teasingly, on some level, the film suggests that we do.Boyle and Garland first prowled zombie Britain with their 2002 hit 28 Days Later. It was an electrifying piece of speculative fiction, a guerilla-style thriller about an unimaginable world. Since then we’ve had Brexit and Covid, and the looming threat of martial law in the US The story’s extravagant flights of fancy don’t feel s...

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4 w. ago Britain is a nation of dodgy DIYers 'risking their lives' doing electric and gas work

A lot of us have illegally done gas and electric jobs rather than getting qualified tradesman in and some require certification from a registered installer

Society

4 w. ago The underwater bomb robot fighting Putin's saboteurs: British defence experts develop sub to blast Russian targets threatening undersea cables and energy pipelines

Video footage shows the robot, which has been adapted by British defence experts from a commercially available remotely operated vehicle (ROV), approaching and blasting a simulated target.

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