Post Office Horizon IT scandal: Alan Bates rejects second offer (www.bbc.co.uk)
New weapon being developed to blast drones out of sky with radio waves, says MoD (www.shropshirestar.com)
A cutting-edge new weapon which uses radio waves to blast drones out of the sky is under development for the UK’s armed forces....
MP uses parliamentary privilege to ask why Lucy Letby story blocked in UK (www.theguardian.com)
Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say (news.sky.com)
No sex education in schools 'until children are nine' guidance to say (inews.co.uk)
UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways (www.theguardian.com)
Police officers in Britain could be armed with Ghostbusters-style devices that fire electromagnetic rays to shut down the engines of ebikes being used in a crime....
How faith drives bidder for Telegraph who wields growing influence on Tories (www.theguardian.com)
UK charges three with working for Hong Kong intelligence as cases against Chinese and Russian spies mount across Europe (www.aljazeera.com)
The British police have charged three men with assisting Hong Kong’s foreign intelligence service....
"Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping soon to be frowned upon (lemmy.ml)
England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming (www.theguardian.com)
UK 'set for rapid rise in cases' of fatal lung disease linked to kitchen revamps (inews.co.uk)
Lawyers and doctors assisting the first UK tradespeople diagnosed with a lung disease linked to a material used in kitchen revamps believe the cases could mark the “start of an epidemic”....
Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023 (www.theguardian.com)
British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float (www.thetimes.co.uk)
British computer business Raspberry Pi is finalising plans to float on the stock market this month in a transaction that could value it at up to £500 million....
Eurovision viewing parties in England cancelled over Israel’s participation (amp.theguardian.com)
Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight (news.sky.com)
The Northern Lights are set to be visible across large parts of the UK overnight as a huge solar storm is going to hit Earth....
Transport secretary considers ban on floating bus stops in UK cycle lanes (www.theguardian.com)
Does anyone else find that 4G+ on O2 is awful?
I’m not 5G enabled yet so theoretically 4G+ should be my fastest connection speed. However, on O2 I find that it’s effectively the same as having no connection at all, and often end up shifting down to 3G just to get some connection....
Smart meter data: the Government’s at it again (www.openrightsgroup.org)
England set to miss post-Brexit targets to clean up rivers by 2027 (inews.co.uk)
West Midlands air pollution causing up to 2300 early deaths each year (www.birmingham.ac.uk)
Migration has failed to drive economic growth, warns report (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Analysis of Home Office data showed the impact of the shift from EU to non-EU migrants. Migrants from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey aged 25-64 were almost twice as likely to be economically inactive as someone born in the UK....