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IN A NUTSHELL 💡 The UK is building its largest pumped-storage hydroelectric power station in the Scottish Highlands. 🌊 The facility will utilize water power to deliver 1.8 GW of energy, powering 1.4 million homes for up to 22 hours. 🏗️ The ambitious project, led by Gilkes Energy, will create around 500 jobs and take…
Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform Party, speaking in Dover, Kent. © Sean Aidan Calderbank / Shutterstock.com. A new team of auditors, led by a UK ‘tech entrepreneur’, will be tasked with reviewing the finances of Reform UK-controlled councils, party chair Zia Yusuf has announced. The team – inspired by the US Government’s Department of…
Services will run between London Euston and Stirling from the middle of 2026 in the hope it will provide more competition for the likes of LNER and Avanti West Coast Stirling will benefit from the new service Six Scottish train stations are set to be linked with London in a major new rail service. The…
Representative Image (AI-generated) LONDON: A Turkish-born man who burned a Quran in London was on Monday found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence, in a case taken up by free-speech campaigners.Hamit Coskun, 50, shouted “Islam is religion of terrorism” and “Quran is burning” as he set the book alight outside the Turkish consulate…
Government vows to spend what’s needed to deliver defence review The government “will spend what is needed to deliver this review”, defence secretary John Healey has said. Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith told the Commons: “When he said on Saturday there is ‘no doubt’ the UK defence spending will rise by 3…
Myrtle Avenue outside Heathrow Airport sees planes land around every 45 seconds (Picture: NurPhoto/Getty Images) Your plane journey could soon be that little bit quicker. The UK aviation industry is set for its biggest shake-up in decades after the government announced a redesign of flight paths – a first such change since they were formed…
The UK is with India in its efforts to combat terrorism, Indo-Pacific Minister Catherine West told the all-party delegation led by BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad at a meeting at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in London on Monday. The delegation highlighted India’s resolve against terrorism, which it stressed must be eradicated in…
The global tour follows her latest album of the same name and will see the ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ singer perform several shows at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Beyoncé previously brought her Formation tour to the stadium for five sold-out nights in 2023. Now, the singer is returning to North London, and if you were able to…
As part of her tour, the megastar will be heading to London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for six sold-out nights. The Cowboy Carter Tour has already been making its way around the USA, seeing social media flooded with videos and pictures of Beyoncé on tour. But many have been wondering what the exact setlist will be and…
The Telegraph has created a list of the seven most boring towns in the UK and Surbiton takes second place. The paper says it thinks of “a boring town as somewhere with nothing to see or do”. To help find the UK’s most boring towns, historian Nikolaus Pevsner, obsessed with heritage, found dozens of urban…