UK Revives Industrial Policy with Twin Support and Procurement Push
- Direct funding: £470 million package targets chemicals (£350M fund) and ceramics (£120M) for resilience, jobs and decarbonisation
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Labour's dual moves mark a clear pivot in UK energy policy.
The UK government has announced its final ILR plans, extending settlement from 5 to 10 years under a new Earned Settlement system with stricter...
A newly declassified Department of Defense video shows a fighter jet shooting down what appears to be a UFO, part of unresolved unidentified anomalous phenomena cases with no evidence of alien technology.
President Trump has attacked critics of his potential Iran deal as "losers" and "fools," insisting any agreement must be "great and meaningful" or there will be none. He tied the deal to broader regional peace involving Israel normalization.
Prime Minister Starmer told leaders from police, universities, arts and business that "every part of society" shares responsibility for confronting...
Bereaved parents including Ellen Roome are meeting PM Keir Starmer today to demand social media restrictions for under-16s as the 'Growing Up in an...
Pope Leo warns that artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed, freed from logics of domination and exclusion, and placed like nuclear energy at the service of the common good with decisions never separated from conscience.
Oil prices have plunged on hopes of a US-Iran peace deal, with global benchmark Brent crude dropping below $100 a barrel for the first time since...
Kate White, an MSF nurse departing for DRC's Ebola epicenter, highlights the stark divide: she can do her job and return home, but locals lack that...
Baroness Casey told BBC Newscast at Hay Festival that the judge was "wrong" to spare three teenage boys jail after their rape convictions, instead...
London reached 33.5C today, obliterating the previous May record of 32.8C set in 1944 and marking the hottest Bank Holiday Monday ever recorded in the...
Reform UK's Robert Jenrick argued that denying welfare to non-British citizens would help fund a £5bn 'hard work bonus' by scrapping overtime taxes...
The UK has launched the North Star platform, committing $300 million to renewable projects in India as its first move under the new British Climate Partners initiative, blending public finance with private capital to drive decarbonisation.
The government has raised the chargepoint grant by 40%, letting renters, flat owners, homeowners without driveways and businesses save up to £500 and...
A rape victim described the judge's decision to spare her attackers from jail as hitting "like a rock to my face," questioning the point of enduring a painful trial when the boys' actions were deemed acceptable in law due to their age.
Danny Kruger MP proposes scrapping the Cabinet Office to centralise power under a new Office of the Prime Minister led by a political Chief of Staff....
US President Donald Trump described negotiations with Iran as constructive, stressing both sides must take time to get a deal right while making clear...