Serious pollution incidents by water companies were up 60% last year, according to the latest data from the government. These are events considered by the Environment Agency to have a “serious or persistent” impact on the environment, and which result in the loss of aquatic life and risks to human health. Earlier on Friday, the […]
Barcelona reportedly in talks with DR Congo over football sponsorship deal with war-hit central African country. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has agreed to pay more than $46.37m in a sponsorship deal with Spanish football club Barcelona that would see a logo promoting tourism appear on some team apparel, according to a […]
Danny Fullbrook BBC News, Essex Getty Images The centre is expected to open fully in 2038 A new science centre is being built which aims to help protect the UK from future pandemics. The government has pledged a “multi-billion-pound” investment to make the National Biosecurity Centre (NBC) in Harlow, Essex, the largest of its kind […]
Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories The Senate approved legislation early this morning to rescind $9 billion in federal funding for Newsportu, PBS, their member stations and foreign […]
US president blasts long-delayed project to link Los Angeles and San Francisco as a ‘boondoggle’ and a ‘train to nowhere’. United States President Donald Trump has pulled the plug on $4bn in funding for a long-delayed high-speed rail line in California, blasting the project as a “boondoggle” and a “train to nowhere”. Trump said in […]
Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent PA Media Prince Harry is in Angola supporting the mine clearing charity the Halo Trust The Duke of Sussex has followed in the footsteps of his mother, Princess Diana, as he visited a charity clearing landmines in Angola. “Children should never have to live in fear of playing outside or walking […]
Eight babies have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people to prevent devastating and often fatal conditions, doctors say. The method, pioneered by UK scientists, combines the egg and sperm from a mum and dad with a second egg from a donor woman. The technique has been legal here for a […]
Getty Images A young child has died at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Hospital after contracting measles, raising concerns about the spread of the disease. Cases have been rising in the UK and around the world, with more than 500 reported since January in England alone. The increase is being blamed on the poor uptake of the […]
The Trump administration’s new searchable citizenship data system is designed to be used by state and local election officials to give them an easier way to ensure only citizens are voting. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images Three Democratic U.S. senators are raising concerns about a searchable […]
Sophie Parker BBC News, Wiltshire Designscape Architects The plans involve placing greenhouses for growing food on top of the landfill Plans have been revealed to grow fruit and vegetables using “cleaned” carbon dioxide in greenhouses above a landfill in what it is claimed will be a “world first”. The landfill in Wiltshire is run by […]