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The Swedish city fined for missing an environmental target

MaryLou Costa Business reporter Happy Visuals Goteborg Gothenburg’s local authority is seeking to highlight its green credentials Gothenburg, Sweden’s second city, is highlighting its environmental credentials by continuing to put its money on the line. Back in 2022, the City of Gothenburg, became what is believed to be the first local government in the world […]

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Estimates Imply That Tariffs Could Fall Heavily on Consumers

President Trump has said that his aim in imposing tariffs is to force companies to move production back to the United States. If manufacturers make their goods in America, he argues, they won’t have to pay the tariffs. But the latest revenue projections proffered by his administration call into question what Mr. Trump wants to […]

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Plan to raise deposit protection limit to £110,000

A proposed change to banking rules will increase significantly the amount of savers’ money that is protected when a bank or building society goes under. The planned increase takes into account inflation since the limit was last set in 2017, the body which supervises UK banks, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) said. If a financial […]

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Trump’s Tariff Agenda Bets on Americans Giving Up Cheap Goods

President Trump’s sweeping tariffs are expected to raise the cost of cars, electronics, metals, lumber, pharmaceuticals and other products that American consumers and businesses buy from overseas. But Mr. Trump and his advisers are betting that it can sell an inflation-weary public on a provocative idea: Cheap stuff is not the American dream. “I couldn’t […]

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UK expects to be affected by Trump tariffs, No 10 says

The UK expects to be affected by US tariffs and is not ruling out retaliating, Downing Street has said. The prime minister’s official spokesman said talks on an economic deal between the two countries had been “constructive” but were likely to last beyond Wednesday, when President Donald Trump has said new 25% tariffs – or […]

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Can the Army Make Food Its Soldiers Want to Eat?

Army food has been vexing and perplexing the soldiers who have to eat it for about as long as there’s been an Army. An age-old marching song describes a biscuit that “rolled off the table and killed a friend of mine.” Troops in World War II immortalized a much-reviled beef dish with the nickname S.O.S., […]

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Edible soap aims to highlight hygiene poverty

Gray Gathergood-Dains BBC News BBC Mandy Powell said she originally thought the product would be like a breakfast bar A beans on toast flavoured edible soap has been launched to raise awareness of the choice some families face between buying food and hygiene products. The Goodwash Company, from Barry, and The Hygiene Bank charity have […]

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Benefit and Pip changes could be ‘life or death’

BBC Shannon Doulis said her life changed dramatically after she contracted long Covid Planned cuts to the benefit system could be a matter of life or death for some people, a claimant has said. The government plans to tighten the eligibility criteria for the Personal Independent Payment (Pip), which is paid to about 3.6m people […]

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