More than three million low-income households cannot afford to heat their homes during the current spell of cold weather – putting their health at risk, according to new research. It comes as the Met Office warns that an Arctic blast is hitting the UK, which could cause overnight temperatures as low as -10C by the
Month: December 2022
Vladimir Putin has said “we haven’t gone mad” when asked about concerns he could use nuclear weapons in Ukraine – but didn’t rule out a possible first-strike if threatened. The Russian president described the weapons as a deterrent, but reiterated his country would use “all the means at our disposal” to defend its interests if
Labour MP Conor McGinn has had the whip suspended after a formal complaint was made against him. It is understood Mr McGinn, who represents St Helens North, has also been administratively suspended from the membership of the Labour Party pending an investigation. No details of the complaint or what it relates to have been confirmed.
A self-proclaimed “prophet” had more than 20 wives, including many who were underage, according to the FBI. Samuel Rappylee Bateman allegedly told his wives that it was “Heavenly Father’s will” that they participate in sex acts with him and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet. The 46-year-old was a former member
The chances are you haven’t heard of the BBL pipeline. It’s a 235km steel tube which runs under the North Sea between Balgzand in the northern tip of the Netherlands and Bacton in Great Britain. It’s one of those bits of innocuous infrastructure which, most of the time, no-one except energy analysts pay all that
Elon Musk has questioned the mayor of San Francisco’s “priorities” as he alleged the city is more concerned about Twitter staff sleeping in the office than about children suffering accidental overdoses. The Twitter owner’s outburst followed controversy about bedrooms appearing at the social media site’s office in the northwest California city. “Sad little conference-room sleeping
Border Force workers across UK airports and ports will take strike action on key dates in December as their union calls for the government to come back to the negotiating table. Strikes will take place between 23rd and 26th December, and from 28th to 31st December, impacting Birmingham, Cardiff, Gatwick, Glasgow, Heathrow and Manchester airports,
From £25m per episode on the latest season of Stranger Things, to north of £380m for The Rings Of Power’s debut run, it’s been a year of eye-watering budgets as streaming services battle for our attention. But while there has never been so much blockbuster content to watch, the cost of living crisis means for
Former Girls Aloud star Cheryl is set to make her West End debut when she joins the new cast for supernatural thriller 2:22 A Ghost Story. The singer called the career move “a totally new and exciting experience” ahead of the production which begins a 14-week run in January. Cheryl, 39, will be playing the
The discovery of the world’s oldest DNA, dating back two million years, could reveal how to counteract global warming, scientists have said. Opening what has been hailed as a “game-changing” new chapter in the history of evolution, microscopic fragments were found buried deep in sediment that had built up over 20,000 years in northern Greenland.
Motorists should not expect to see a return of supermarkets using cheap fuel to lure in shoppers, an industry source has told Sky News. They spoke out after weeks of criticism from motoring groups and fuel price campaigners that supermarket petrol stations are failing to reflect plunging wholesale fuel prices. Data supplied by the AA
Which giant of British film and television do you call when you want to launch a brand-new streaming service in the UK? Why Emmy and Golden Globe winner Damian Lewis, of course, who leads the cast of the new thriller A Spy Among Friends, which has debuted on ITVX this week. The show, written by
OpenAI has recently unveiled a new language model called ChatGPT, which has the potential to revolutionise the way we interact with machines. So much so, that it wrote the introduction to this article by itself. Because in a daring move that I feared would leave me questioning my usefulness as a real-life human journalist, I
Around 3,000 police officers have carried out raids across Germany to stop an alleged plot by a far-right terrorist group to overthrow the government. Federal prosecutors said 25 suspected members and supporters of the Reichsburger group – the so-called Reich Citizens movement – were detained during the raids in 11 of the country’s 16 states
Democrat Raphael Warnock has been re-elected to the US Senate in a crucial win for President Joe Biden, NBC News has projected. His expected victory gives Democrats an outright majority in the Senate after two years under a 50-50 divide, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting tie-breaking votes. Mr Warnock defeated Republican rival Herschel Walker
Killer robots will not be rolled out in San Francisco after all – with police performing a U-turn just days after the controversial policy was announced. The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) had mooted the deployment of robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspects” when lives were
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