An NHS hospital in the Midlands is planning to become the first in England to be fully powered by renewable energy. Proposals for a giant solar farm have been approved in Wolverhampton. The site will be cabled directly to New Cross Hospital. Hospital bosses believe the scheme will save the trust millions of pounds in
Month: September 2021
While audiences will perhaps recognise Melanie Laurent from her breakout Hollywood role in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds or more recently from Netflix’s big budget action movie Six Underground, she’s probably less well known as a director. Her film-making credits include the award-winning documentary Tomorrow and critically acclaimed coming of age drama Breathe, and now her
A major relaxing of travel rules for people coming in and out of England have been announced by the transport secretary. From 4 October, the current traffic light system of red, amber and green countries will be scrapped and replaced with one red list only. Travel traffic light system scrapped – follow live updates Anywhere
Google deleted a Russian tactical voting app from its online store after staff were threatened, sources at the tech giant have said. Both Apple and Google had come under significant pressure from Russian regulators to block the anti-government app, devised by allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny ahead of Friday’s election starting. The app
People in Wales will have to show a COVID-19 vaccine passport or a negative test to enter nightclubs and attend events from next month, the Welsh government has announced. From 11 October, anyone over 18 will have to show either an NHS COVID pass proving their vaccine status or a negative test result in order
As the UK starts rolling out booster jabs, health experts have raised concerns about diverting resources from developing countries with much lower vaccination rates. Sky News analysis has found two-thirds of countries have vaccinated less than 40% of their population – the target that the World Health Organisation (WHO) set for the end of 2021.
The biggest awards show in television is just around the corner, with networks and streaming services clamouring for their programmes to be crowned the best in their categories. British talent and productions are firmly in the running this year, with shows such as Netflix smash The Crown, Michaela Coel’s powerful drama I May Destroy You
A US judge has ruled that legal papers relating to a sexual assault lawsuit can be served to Prince Andrew via his LA-based lawyers. The Duke of York, 61, has been accused of “actively evading” formal efforts to serve him with a lawsuit on behalf of Virginia Giuffre, who launched legal proceedings against him last
Boris Johnson will gather his cabinet later for the first meeting of his top team since the prime minister’s reshuffle. It comes after the PM completed a shake-up of his cabinet that saw a number of high-profile casualties. Dominic Raab was replaced as foreign secretary by Liz Truss and moved to the roles of justice
Major changes to the rules for international travel are expected to be announced tomorrow, according to reports. The green and amber lists will be merged into one category of low-risk nations and the number of places on the red list will be reduced, some reports say. Live updates ahead of latest travel announcement Please use
Sir Clive Sinclair, who popularised the home computer and invented the pocket calculator, has died aged 81. His daughter Belinda Sinclair told The Guardian that her father died at his London home on Thursday morning. Ms Sinclair told the BBC that her father had cancer for more than a decade and was still working on
Around 3,000 health workers in France have been suspended, reportedly without pay, for failing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 ahead of a deadline this week to have at least one jab. It comes as care workers in England must get their first vaccine dose by today and be double jabbed by 11 November to keep
Piers Morgan has revealed his next presenting job will be for new television channel talkTV – which is being set up by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The company, which will launch its new service next year, said Morgan’s nightly show will be broadcast in the UK, the US and Australia. He left Good Morning Britain
Everybody’s talking about Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, as the film finally hits screens after a pandemic-enforced delay. The new all-singing and all-dancing Amazon Prime Video original movie about a teenager who wanted to live out his drag queen ambitions at his school prom, hails from humble beginnings. Starting life as a BBC Three documentary in
An American firm has revealed a halt to production at two UK factories because of the surge in the cost of gas, a scenario threatening a wider impact across the economy in the months to come. Fertiliser producer CF Industries said its manufacturing facilities at Billingham on Teesside and Ince in Cheshire would be shut
England’s 20 top-flight football club owners will be required to sign a nine-point plan designed to maintain the competition’s integrity in a bid to avert any future breakaway threat. Sky News has learnt that Premier League clubs were on Thursday sent a final draft of a new “Owners’ Charter” that their controlling shareholders will be
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