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Endurance swimmer Joan Fennelly is undaunted by frigid water and long distances, swimming year-round in the wild. But she takes extra precautions in her own backyard. The River Thames is one of Britain's many waterways contaminated with sewage and agricultural pollution. “If it looks right, if its smells right, I’ll go in," Fennelly said. Britain has become notorious as a place where a casual swim could lead to an extended visit to the toilet, if not the hospital. A torrent of news on dirty water has spilled into next month's election to determine which party controls government for the next f...
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UK retail sales rose sharply in May, boosted by an improvement in the weather after April's heavy showers kept shoppers indoors. Sales volumes hit 2.9% in May, up from a revised 1.8% fall in April, according to the Office for National Statistics. That was higher than expectations; a Reuters poll of economists had forecast sales volumes of 1.5%. Compared with the same time last year, May's sales volumes were 1.3% higher, following a revised 2.3% fall in April. The ONS pointed out the sales growth might also have been affected by an extra public holiday last May, for King Charles III's coronatio...
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With just two weeks to go until a snap general election, Britain’s ruling Conservative Party looks set to face what could be its biggest defeat in more than a century. While the Labour Party is expected to win a landslide victory, much of the credit for the Conservatives’ downfall will be due to an insurgent party to their right. According to the polls, the anti-immigration, anti-”woke” and culturally traditionalist party Reform UK, led by leading Brexit activist and former MEP Nigel Farage, is set to take as much as 15% or more of the national vote. One poll that showed it leading the Tories ...
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UK police have arrested two people today after environmental activists sprayed an orange substance on Stonehenge, the renowned prehistoric UNESCO World Heritage Site in southwest England. The Just Stop Oil protest group said a pair of its activists, named by the group as Niamh Lynch, 21, and Rajan Naidu, 73, had "decorated Stonehenge in orange powder paint" to demand that the UK's next government legally commit to phasing out fossil fuels by 2030. The footage was posted on social media, with the group sayng that they has used "orange cornflour" so that it "will soon wash away with the rain". W...
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After one of its warmest and wettest winters on record, a general election has been called in the UK for 4 July. Climate has been on the back burner when it comes to campaigning so far. There has been a greater focus on the cost of living, healthcare and security from most politicians. Pledges, policies and plans to tackle the climate crisis haven’t been easy to find. Though the consensus is generally that emissions need to be cut, renewables need to grow and pollution must be reduced, approaches from each of the different parties vary. We’ve taken a look at six of the most pressing climate is...
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There’s a new, artificial face in the UK’s general election: AI Steve. Steve Endacott, the man behind the artificial intelligence (AI), is an entrepreneur from the south of England who wants his avatar to be present in the House of Commons as the MP for the Brighton Pavillion constituency. "I am setting up my own party after growing disillusioned with how much the others are out of contact with the UK population," Endacott said in a LinkedIn Post. "I will try to use technology to connect directly with the views of my constituents". I became friends with an AI avatar on the Replika app. This is...
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The decision by Carlos Slim to buy a £400m (€473m) stake comes weeks after the company unveiled a major shake-up. Share in BT jumped by 10% last month after BT's newly appointed CEO Alison Kirby outlined plans to double cash flow over the next five years and implement an aggressive strategy to cut £3 billion in costs. Carlos Slim who made his fortune in telecoms in Latin American also has interests in energy, banking and construction. He joins the French telecoms billionaire, Patrick Drahi and the former Germany monopoly Deutsche Telekom as major BT shareholders. A spokesman for Mr Slim's Grup...
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