UK’s energy crisis response could include winter power cuts
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Businesses and even consumers could face blackouts this winter under government crisis plans as concerns grow over power supplies, it has emerged. Under the government’s latest “reasonable worst case scenario”, offici...
Penny Mordaunt denies Liz Truss is ruling out more help for poor this winter
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A senior ally of Liz Truss has played down suggestions she ruled out more emergency support payments to help people struggling through the worsening cost of living crisis this winter. Penny Mordaunt, who is backing th...
Energy bills in Great Britain ‘could hit £3,600 a year this winter’
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Energy bills in Great Britain could reach more than £3,600 a year this winter, experts have warned, with soaring wholesale prices expected to continue to push up household costs until at least 2024. The research firm ...
Celebrities and tourists are flooding into Greece. But a harsh winter isn’t far off
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Earlier this month, Elon Musk flew to Mykonos, reputedly coughing up €7,000 to enjoy the pleasures of a gold-coloured speedboat for a couple of hours. On nearby Paros, Roger Federer lapped up the rays with his family ...
How does the EU plan to cut gas usage by 15% this winter?
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The EU has agreed to cut its gas consumption by 15% in an attempt to stave off a winter crisis triggered by a sharp reduction or total shutdown of Russian gas supplies to the bloc. From next month until the end of Mar...
Farewell, Ramsay Street: 10 ways Neighbours changed British culture
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After almost four decades of unlikely melodrama, the final credits are to roll for UK viewers on 29 July on the TV soap opera that really did make a group of smalltown Australian families seem like “neighbours who bec...
‘Stuff your 5%!’ Is the UK facing a summer of discontent – and what can we learn from the winter of 1979?
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The winter of discontent of 1978-79 happened so long ago. In some ways, Britain was very different then: in its familiarity with trade unions, its politics and work habits, its distribution of power and wealth. Some o...
New Zealand Covid chief’s farewell party ruined … by Covid
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New Zealand’s Covid chief has had his farewell party scuppered by a rising wave of Omicron cases. “We’ve canceled karaoke,” the director general of health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, said when questioned about his plans fo...