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Huge UK Government SAF Spend Focuses on 5 Key Projects
Energy Intelligence
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August 8, 2025
The UK government has just handed out another £63 million ($85 million) to 17 potential advanced sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects, taking its total spend on domestic low-carbon aviation fuel to just over £215 million since 2021. “We’re not...
UK Lags in Digital Sovereignty Race: Urgent Push for Homegrown AI
WebProNews
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August 7, 2025
In the escalating global contest for technological dominance, the United Kingdom finds itself at a crossroads, grappling with the imperatives of digital sovereignty amid fierce competition from powerhouses like the United States and China. Digital...
Three arrested as 107 litres of laughing gas found in shop raid
Birmingham Live
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August 8, 2025
A shop raid saw more than 100 one litre canisters of laughing gas seized following concerns raised by members of the public. The nitrous oxide was found alongside a quantity of illegal vapes and paraphernalia including balloons and bags, police...
UK's first hot air balloon pub could help the 3 in 10 Brits who feel 'held back'
Express & Star
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August 7, 2025
Turns out, Britain is stuck in a long weekend slump. Research from Beavertown reveals that more than two thirds (67%) of the UK feel they do the same thing every Bank Holiday weekend, and almost half (46%) wish they were more spontaneous with...
Wales & West Utilities announce plans for hydrogen pipeline
Global Hydrogen Review
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August 7, 2025
Wales & West Utilities has announced its plans for a hydrogen pipeline in North Wales, UK, to support cleaner energy ambitions for business and industry across the region. The proposed pipeline, HyLine Gogledd, would help bring hydrogen to the...
Fall In Love With Historic England At These ‘My Oxford Year’ Filming Locations
Travel Noire
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August 7, 2025
On Aug. 1, Netflix dropped “My Oxford Year“, a romantic drama that follows bright-eyed American scholar Anna De La Vega, who heads to England on a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. At first, Anna is laser-focused on her long-term...
Mapped: Where will temperatures soar in UK during fourth heatwave of the year?
The Independent
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August 8, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
CCEP sees solid UK growth in H1 2025 on strong AFH demand and better weather
Asian Trader Magazine
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August 8, 2025
Highlights UK revenue rose 6.5% to €1.697bn in H1 2025, driven by stronger away-from-home sales, better weather, and innovation-led volume growth in brands like Monster, Dr. Pepper, and Diet Coke. Revenue per unit case increased, supported by...
SMALL-CAP MOVERS: How Bitcoin is transforming oil, gas and gold...
Proactive UK
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August 8, 2025
Oil, gold and Bitcoin rarely appear in the same sentence. Yet this week, London’s small-cap companies have made them unlikely bedfellows. Union Jack Oil PLC (AIM:UJO, OTCQB:UJOGF) is eyeing early monetisation at its West Newton gas field by...
UK firm to start aviation production in Morocco
Zawya
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British aviation company, Vertical Aerospace, has announced that Morocco will participate in the production of the VX4 electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft through a Spanish company’s industrial operations in Casablanca. In...
Pasta recipe on British website causes diplomatic row in Italy
BGNES
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August 8, 2025
Italians reacted with anger after the popular British website Good Food published a recipe for a traditional Roman dish that did not contain the correct original ingredients and seemed to belittle it as "fast food." Pasta cacio e pepe is a...
England: Six-year directorship ban for construction boss
Scottish Construction Now
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A Staffordshire businessman who sold seven historic cars, including two Jaguars and three Rolls-Royces, for just £1 to another company he also controlled has been banned as a director. Kulbarg Singh, 62, was the director of Aldridge Construction...
1 gas station in cities throughout Bucks County had the cheapest midgrade gas in week ending Aug. 2
Lower Bucks Today - Pennsylvania
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August 8, 2025
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Mark C. Christie | www.ferc.govFederal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Mark C. Christie | www.ferc.gov There was a single gas station in cities across Bucks County selling...
British police are unprepared for violent disorder
Unherd
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August 7, 2025
Driving home from holiday on a French motorway last week, we were passed by a convoy of gendarmes. Nine or 10 large blue vans, lights flashing, hurried past at high speed. I never did find out where they were going or what they were doing, but I...
Brit shares worrying trend on Spanish island that all holidaymakers should be wary of
The Mirror
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August 7, 2025
A British man in Ibiza has highlighted a worrying trend on the Spanish island and issued advice to all those planning holidays in the region. Alex MacGugan took to TikTok to share a video in which he claimed the problem is occurring "every single...
Cheapest dates to buy tickets for Oasis UK tour before it ends
Liverpool Echo
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August 8, 2025
Oasis tour dates: The band are currently on their mammoth Oasis Live '25 tour, which concludes in September 2025 Oasis is drawing their colossal reunion tour across the UK to a close. The band, famously comprising Noel Gallagher and Liam...
The Trump Premium: Protectionism and Energy Prices
Energy Intelligence
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August 8, 2025
The world’s crude oil and natural gas buyers may soon be paying a Trump premium for energy. This is the additional amount consumers might end up spending on oil, petroleum products or natural gas exported from the US as governments seek to avoid...
UK rats breed through council cuts, utility failures and climate change
Environment Journal
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August 7, 2025
A 22-inch rodent nesting in a Teesside home is the tip of the iceberg, with a perfect storm of ageing wastewater and sanitation infrastructure, poor housing stock and rising temperatures encouraging infestations. On Monday 4th August shocking...
Bank of England cuts main interest rate to 4%
The Gleaner
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August 8, 2025
The Bank of England cut its main interest rate on Thursday by a quarter percentage point to 4.0 per cent, as policymakers seek to bolster the sluggish United Kingdom economy. Thursday’s decision was widely anticipated in financial markets as the...
Prices of EUROPE GAS trade at a sideways level as the market waits for clarity on sanctions
World Energy News - Connecticut
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The wholesale gas prices in the Netherlands and Britain were not much different on Friday morning, as the market awaited news about whether the U.S. would impose new sanctions against Russia. LSEG data shows that the benchmark Dutch front-month...