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UK households urged to shut doors from 10am to 3pm from Tuesday
Daily Express
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August 11, 2025
Households across the UK are being urged to shut doors from 10am to 3pm this week as a weather warning has been issued. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has put amber and yellow heat health alerts in place across England from 9am on August 12...
An Unusual Way to End Up With a Whole Lot of Gold
The Atlantic
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August 9, 2025
Last month, a small company in San Francisco announced that it had a plan to manufacture gold—not merely a flake or a nugget, but tons of the stuff. According to a paper written by one of Marathon Fusion’s co-founders (and not yet peer reviewed),...
Rolls-Royce aims to become UK’s biggest company by market value
The Times
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Rolls-Royce, Britain’s engineering champion, is chasing a target of becoming the country’s largest company by market value. The company’s chief executive Tufan Erginbilgic said that that could be achieved by a take-off in demand for small modular...
Vinci UK swings back into profit after group restructure
Construction Enquirer
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August 13, 2025
Aaron Morby 9 hours ago Vinci’s combined UK construction operations bounced back into the black with a £64m pre-tax profit last year from a £6.4m loss in the previous year. Chief executive Scott Wardrop enters final year in three-year recovery...
Green Tips: Waste to energy
Park Record - Utah
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August 13, 2025
What is waste to energy, and is it practical and clean? This concept of using heat to burn waste and generate power has been around since 1874 in the United Kingdom, followed by the first U.S. plant in 1885 in New York. It originated as a way to...
Maglev’s ‘tunnel boom’ might be solved – but other issues mean it’s unlikely to come to UK
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
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The source? Testing of the new Shinkansen ‘bullet trains’, which caused the noises by compressing air as they sped through tunnels at 150-200mph (240-320km/h). The compressed air became shockwaves, which resulted in loud booms as they reached the...
Activ8 Energies powers up for UK expansion with Low Carbon Energy acquisition
Facilities Management Journal
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August 13, 2025
Activ8 Energies, a leading solar panel provider in Ireland, has acquired Burnley-based high-profile renewables business, Low Carbon Energy (LCE), as it reveals ambitious plans to expand across the UK renewables sector. The move comes as Activ8...
DeClassified UK: Revealed: Israel’s ambassador in Britain, Tzipi Hotovely’s diary
Brave New Europe
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August 13, 2025
When we launched The Polycrisis a year ago, we set out to examine the intersecting crises in the economy, energy system, commodities markets, geopolitics, and climate. Our aim was to break intellectual and political silos […]
OPEC data shows Iran’s oil output fell by 0.37% in July
Press TV
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Iran’s oil production fell slightly in July as output continued to suffer from the impacts of a war of aggression the country fought with the Israeli regime in June, and despite a general rise in production by members of the Organization of the...
Irish group Activ8 Energies buys solar panel installer Low Carbon Energy as it looks to expand across the UK
BusinessLive
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August 13, 2025
An energy firm whose clients include BMW and Boeing has been acquired by an SSE-backed Irish solar panel specialist looking to expand across the UK. County Monaghan-based Activ8 Energies has completed the deal for Burnley’s Low Carbon Energy...
Eggs for hair growth: How to use eggs to stop thinning of hair
The Times of India
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August 18, 2025
Thinning hair can be addressed with a simple kitchen remedy: eggs. Packed with protein, vitamins, and good fats, eggs strengthen roots, reduce hair fall, and add volume. Easy DIY masks using eggs with ingredients like olive oil, yogurt, honey, or...
Mad Dog Brits need to start treating heat as a hazard, says weather boffin
Daily Star
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August 13, 2025
Mad Dog Brits need to ditch BBQs and start treating heat as a hazard, according to a top weather boffin. Dr Mehri Khosravi said folk need to start heeding songwriter Noel Coward’s famous lyrics which suggest only ‘mad dogs and Englishmen go out in...
Real reason UK homes don't have air conditioning and how much it costs to run
The Mirror
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August 13, 2025
As the UK basks in its fourth heatwave of the summer, many Brits may be wishing they had air conditioning installed at home. With parts of the country set to sizzle in temperatures of up to 34C this week, and an amber heat alert in place in some...
£13M UK study will investigate sustainable nuclear graphite for next-generation reactors
New Civil Engineer
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August 13, 2025
The University of Manchester will lead a five-year research programme aimed at overhauling how Britain makes, uses and disposes of nuclear graphite, a material central to several next‑generation reactor designs. The Enlight programme (Enabling a...
Archaeologists Found 7th Century Britons With Surprising West African Roots
ZME Science
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August 13, 2025
Human skeletal remains in a double burial at the Worth Matravers cemetery, along with the anchor stone found underneath the older individual’s head. Credit: Lilian Ladle, modified by Ceiridwen J. Edwards In the mid-seventh century, two people were...
TN CM Stalin to embark on Germany, UK tour to scout for investment
The Statesman (India)
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August 13, 2025
In an attempt to scout for foreign investment, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Wednesday said he would embark on an official tour of the United Kingdom and Germany in the first week of September. “I am proceeding on a two-nation tour of...
France, Germany and UK call on Iran to resume nuclear discussions with US
The Irish Times
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France, Germany and the UK have told the UN they are prepared to trigger the reimposition of sanctions on Iran unless it resumes negotiations with the US over its nuclear programme. The foreign ministers of the three countries – known collectively...
UK’s largest concentration of wrecked warships given new legal protections
The Independent
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August 11, 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...
France, Germany and UK say they are ready to reimpose Iran sanctions
Al Jazeera
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August 13, 2025
The so-called E3 group says they are ready to trigger the ‘snapback’ mechanism in the 2015 nuclear deal. France, Germany and the United Kingdom have told the United Nations they are prepared to reinstate sanctions on Iran, according to a joint...
UK Volleyball’s Ava Sarafa ready to shine
Jessamine Journal - Kentucky State
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August 11, 2025
Published 12:06 pm Monday, August 11, 2025 For two years Ava Sarafa got to watch and learn from All-American setter Emma Grome, a four-year starter for Kentucky volleyball. Now Grome is gone and Sarafa has her opportunity to claim a starting job...