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Campaigners say most sites cannot cope with amount of wastewater, raising risk of raw discharges into riversInvestment into expanding sewage treatment works by Thames Water falls far short of what is needed to stop raw sewage discharges into rivers, ac…
Supermarket on track for profits at top end of forecasts after shoppers go ‘all out for big Christmas dinner’Shoppers going “all out for a big Christmas dinner” and returning to Argos stores amid the rail and postal strikes have helped put Sainsbury’s …
Minister urges 999 calls for life-threatening incidents only, as workers across England and Wales hold actionUK politics live – latest news updatesThe health secretary has said people should use their “common sense” on what activities they do on Wednes…
This live blog has now closed, you can read more of our UK political coverage hereLynch says in areas where the Department for Transport has not had the final say, the RMT has beeen able to negotiate acceptable pay deals.He claims the DfT is following …
23-year-old tells story of how she joined Islamic State and life in a refugee camp in BBC podcast seriesShamima Begum, who left Britain to join Islamic State as a schoolgirl in 2015, has said she understands public anger towards her but insists she is …
Newspaper group reports slump in print advertising and digital ads in traditionally strong fourth quarterThe publisher of the Mirror and Express is to cut 200 roles in a £30m cost-cutting drive, after advertisers failed to spend heavily through the Wor…
Housebuilder also cuts land purchases, with it forced to scrap proposals for 3,293 plotsBusiness live updates: ‘Marked slowdown’ in UK housing marketBritain’s largest housebuilder, Barratt Developments, has introduced a hiring freeze and is “significan…
Discovery of stuffed animals from central Africa and recordings from ‘human zoo’ inspires exhibitionIt was when part of a Scarborough museum was being redeveloped more than a decade ago that builders found a blocked-up door. Behind it they discovered b…
Survey of 1,000 factories for campaign group claims many cut rates in pandemic and have not increased them sinceLidl, Zara’s owner Inditex, H&M and Next have been accused of paying garment suppliers in Bangladesh during the pandemic less than the c…
George Eustice says adapted kerosene boilers can run on ‘hydro-treated vegetable oil’ and cut emissions by 88%A proposal to incentivise households in rural areas to run their heating systems on vegetable oil is to be put to parliament.The former enviro…