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In government reset, UK’s Johnson looks to Queen’s speech to win back voters
LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is hoping to reset his government on Tuesday by setting out plans aimed at winning back traditional supporters in southern England who abandoned his governing Conservatives at local elections. Queen Elizabeth on Monday pulled out of the ceremony that marks a new parliament, and instead …
Covid-19: Inside the UK’s top-secret military lab
Their work is normally highly classified, but military scientists at Porton Down in Wiltshire are now fighting coronavirus. Some of the same scientists who identified Novichok, the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning, have been helping to analyse Covid-19 and finding ways to protect NHS staff. The BBC’s Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale has been …
UK’s Drax signs deal with Mitsubishi for negative-emissions capture technology
A woman walks a dog past Drax power station during the sunset in Drax, North Yorkshire, Britain, November 27, 2020. REUTERS/Lee Smith Drax Group (DRX.L) has signed a long-term deal for carbon capture technology with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) (7011.T), paving the way for negative emissions from its UK plant by 2030, the firms …
UK’s GCHQ spy chief says China could win control of the world’s ‘operating system’
GCHQ Director Jeremy Fleming delivers a speech as he meets with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth during her visit at the Watergate House to mark the centenary of the GCHQ (Government Communications Head Quarters) in London, Britain, February 14, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool The West must urgently act to ensure that China does not dominate the key technologies …
US virus death toll hits 500,000 lives; UK’s plan to ease lockdown; Vaccine hopes for international travel; Government set to announce permanent increase to JobSeeker; Images of Mars revealed
Mr Andrews said the Victorian Government was working hard to have an Anzac Day that is “as close to normal as possible”. It comes as Victoria’s Anzac Day celebrations, including Melbourne’s iconic march, have been cancelled due to the latest COVID-19 outbreak. “We are working very closely with veteran groups,” he said. “It’s too early …
Cuomo: UK’s COVID-19 mutation ‘is on a plane to JFK’ without testing
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday called it “reprehensible” and “grossly negligent” to allow UK travelers to fly into JFK Airport without being tested despite a contagious new mutation of the coronavirus shutting down London. “Right now, this variant in the UK is getting on a plane and flying to JFK,” Cuomo said in a call to reporters Sunday …
Digital technology reveals secrets of UK’s earliest dinosaur | Science
Britain’s earliest dinosaur was a nimble omnivore that ran around on two legs, unlike its later relatives brontosaurus and diplodocus, research suggests. Standing at about the height of a 10-year-old child, and 1.5 metres in length with a long thin tail, Thecodontosaurus antiquus roamed the Earth during the Triassic period, more than 205m years ago, …
Brexit: UK’s plans would ‘break international law,’ minister admits
Brandon Lewis, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, made the comment Tuesday in response to a question concerning legislation to be published on Wednesday, which critics fear would alter the contents of the Brexit deal that Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreed with the European Union last autumn. The comment came one day after the …
Climate change ‘driving UK’s extreme weather’
Image copyright CUBG Image caption A record-breaking temperature of 38.7C (101.7F) was recorded at Cambridge University Botanic Garden in July 2019 Climate change driven by industrial society is having an increasing impact on the UK’s weather, the Met Office says. Its annual UK report confirms that 2019 was the 12th warmest year in a series …
UK’s Over 70s Value Technology in Improving Public Services
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