LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Britain launched its second-ever carbon capture licensing round on Tuesday for 14 locations that could potentially store up to 2 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the North Sea Transition Authority regulator said. Carbon capture technology can help to decarbonise industrial sites such as gas-fired power plants by filtering emissions before they …
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LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Two teenage Afghan asylum seekers, who had both arrived in Britain alone in the last year, were given long detention sentences on Monday for raping a 15-year-old girl in central England. The boys, Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both aged 17, carried out the attack in a park in Leamington …
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LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – British employers can allow trans women to use female changing rooms despite a landmark ruling on the definition of a woman under equality laws, but alternative solutions may be necessary where complaints are raised, a tribunal said on Monday. Transgender rights have become highly politicised in Britain and elsewhere as …
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LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Camilla visited the set of hit television drama “Rivals” on Monday, surveying the shoulder pads, scandals and social climbing that echo a world she once knew well. Camilla, wife of King Charles, led the tributes to the novelist behind “Rivals”, Jilly Cooper, when she died in October aged …
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LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Camilla visited the set of hit television drama “Rivals” on Monday, surveying the shoulder pads, scandals and social climbing that echo a world she once knew well. Camilla, wife of King Charles, led the tributes to the novelist behind “Rivals”, Jilly Cooper, when she died in October aged …
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LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – British rapper Ghetts on Monday pleaded guilty to causing the death of a Nepali student in a hit-and-run while driving dangerously. The award-winning artist, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, appeared at London’s Old Bailey court by videolink from Pentonville prison and admitted causing the death of 20-year-old Yubin Tamang …
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LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Former British soccer player and coach Joey Barton was given a suspended jail sentence on Monday for sending offensive social media posts to two ex-players and a broadcaster. Barton, 43, was convicted last month over X posts sent to former England international Eni Aluko, former player-turned-pundit Lucy Ward and BBC …
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LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Former BBC Radio DJ Tim Westwood on Monday pleaded not guilty to 15 sexual offences, including four counts of rape, allegedly committed over a period of more than 30 years. Westwood, a prominent figure in British hip-hop, is accused of sexual offences against seven women between 1983 and 2016. The …
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By Alan Baldwin ABU DHABI, Dec 7 (Reuters) – McLaren’s Lando Norris sobbed tears of joy and relief as he won the Formula One championship for the first time and ended Max Verstappen’s four-year reign with a nervy third place at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday. Red Bull’s Verstappen, whose eighth triumph of …
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By Alan Baldwin ABU DHABI, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Mentally fragile, too cocky, a privileged Gen Z kid bankrolled by a wealthy father, rapid but lacking the killer instinct that separates champions from the rest — Lando Norris has faced plenty of criticism on his road to the top in Formula One. He has been …
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