The government has agreed a new funding arrangement with the controversial wood-burning Drax power station that it says will cut subsidies in half. The power station, a converted coal plant in north Yorkshire, generates about 5% of the UK’s electricity and has received billions of pounds from the government and bill-payers because wood pellets are […]
Lidl has become the latest supermarket to announce a pay rise for thousands of workers ahead of the increase to the minimum wage in April. The German-owned discount chain says the pay rises, which include upping its entry-level hourly wage from £12.40 to £12.75, will affect about 28,000 employees. The increase will take Lidl’s pay […]
NEW ORLEANS — When asked how much he was taken aback by the extent of his team’s Super Bowl LIX loss, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins provided a fairly harmless response: “A loss is a loss. It’s a ‘W’ or an ‘L’ at the end of the day.” Then, Hopkins branched off within […]
A unionization wave sweeping across Off Broadway is poised to reshape the economics of theater-making in New York — for workers as well as producers. Striking stage crews have idled the nonprofit Atlantic Theater Company — the birthplace of the musicals “Spring Awakening,” “The Band’s Visit” and “Kimberly Akimbo,” which all transferred to Broadway and […]
Savinho has said Manchester City will have no fear when they line up against Real Madrid and revealed there was “calm” in the dressing room when they found out they were facing a blockbuster tie against the Spanish giants. The Champions League playoff, which kicks-off at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday, will be the fifth […]
Companies that just one year ago celebrated Black History Month and stocked Pride products on their shelves are in a new phase — what some lawyers refer to as “rainbow-hushing,” meaning dropping or quietly rebranding their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. They are retreating, or clamming up, as they brace for lawsuits encouraged by President […]
When Dr. C. Michael Gibson, a cardiologist at Harvard Medical School, goes to heart disease meetings, he can’t help noticing a change. “We will sit around at dinner and halfway through the meal, we will simultaneously push our plates away,” Dr. Gibson said. “We look at each other and laugh and say, ‘You, too?’” They […]
Mark Daly and Jax Sinclair BBC Scotland Disclosure Child psychiatric care ‘was more like abuse’ Former patients at Scotland’s biggest children’s psychiatric hospital have spoken out about a culture of cruelty among nursing staff. Patients who were teenagers when they were admitted to Skye House, a specialist NHS unit in Glasgow, told BBC Disclosure some […]
In some cases, these health problems arose as byproducts of inbreeding. Because breeds are genetically closed populations, a disease-causing mutation that just happens to pop up in one dog can quickly become common in future generations. “Especially if the animal with that mutation is otherwise a prize specimen,” Dr. Serpell said. “Because everyone will want […]
The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been told to stop minting one-cent coins, or pennies as they are widely called, by US President Donald Trump in an announcement on his Truth Social media account. “Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,” Trump’s post […]