Britain is a developing country (www.sambowman.co)
Carla Foster: Mother jailed over lockdown abortion to be released (www.bbc.co.uk)
CityFibre Officially Launch 2.5Gbps FTTP Home Broadband Tier (www.ispreview.co.uk)
Eurostar: Facial verification system to reduce queues at St Pancras (www.bbc.co.uk)
Workers might have to ditch the 9-5 for 6-2 because of climate change, University of Oxford study says (fortune.com)
Virgin Media blocking Lemmy
Morning all. Unsure where to post this, so here I am…...
New wild swimming guidance met with concern - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Campaigners say the new guidance does not include a plan to monitor for all contaminants.
UK installations of heat pumps 10 times lower than in France, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
MPs and experts slam government for ongoing conversion therapy ban delay: ‘A moral failing’ (www.thepinknews.com)
Disposable vapes: Councils call for total ban by 2024 (www.bbc.co.uk)
Plan to crack down on 'rip-off' university degrees (www.bbc.co.uk)
“Under plans due to be announced later, universities in England will be forced to limit the number of students they recruit onto underperforming courses.”
Hunt saboteurs accuse Ben Wallace of taking cocaine and having affair with Liz Truss (archive.is)
Experts urge health regulators to approve 2 ‘turning point’ dementia drugs; donanemab & lecanemab. (www.theguardian.com)
Post Office scandal: 'I lost absolutely everything' (www.bbc.com)
“Words are no good now, we need actions. We need the Post Office to have accountability and the government.”...
Fuel retailers urged to back government price sharing scheme (www.bbc.com)
Do we think anyone will actually agree to publishing their fuel prices online to be compared with others’? I highly doubt it.
Does anyone know why BBC News sometimes omits the TOTH countdown timer? (www.youtube.com)
I have this on most of the day, I’ve seen this a few times....
Keir Starmer: ‘We can’t win power by spending. We need to reform and create wealth’ (www.theguardian.com)
There‘s no end to austerity with Starmer. He rather keeps cutting public spending than taxing the rich.
Co Cars and Co Bikes collapses into administration - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Note: old title was “Council-funded e-bike and car rental firm collapses”
Britpop: What prompted the end of the genre that gave us Blur and Pulp? (BBC News) (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: yiffit.net/post/456036...
BBC News - CPTPP trade deal will benefit UK if we use it, says Kemi Badenoch (www.bbc.co.uk)
New to London, weird encounter with homeless person - did I dodge a huge bullet?
Hi, I am an early twenties woman just moved to London almost a month ago and was walking home after having picked up a parcel from my local Tesco. I live in the Bethnal Green/Cambridge Heath area, so not the best but I don’t think it’s the worst either(?)....
D-day veteran, 98, put up in hostel after eviction from Dorset home (www.theguardian.com)
Stonehenge: Plans to build road tunnel near English Heritage site approved (news.sky.com)
Using agency workers to cover strikes found to be unlawful (www.bbc.co.uk)
Big win for the Unions, and for our collective rights to organise here.