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Image copyright Getty Images A Liberal Democrat government would spend £100bn tackling the effects of climate change and protecting the environment, the party’s finance spokesman is set to announce. In a speech on Friday, Sir Ed Davey will say the five-year investment would “jump-start” efforts to combat the “climate emergency”. The pledge would be funded …

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionGreens co-leader Sian Berry said “some things are even bigger than Brexit” at the party’s campaign launch The Green Party have launched their general election campaign with a call for £100bn a year to be spent on tackling the climate “emergency”. Co-leader Sian Berry said: “Some things …

“After two decades online, I’m perplexed,” American astronomer Clifford Stoll admitted in an article penned for Newsweek back in 1995. “It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet,” he explained, adding that he’d “met great people and even caught a hacker or two”. “But,” he conceded, “I’m uneasy …