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Virgin Atlantic announces moves to help deaf and hard-of-hearing travellers
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Pennon announces £16m Devon contamination hit and rising sewage spills
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.South West Water owner Pennon has announced rising cases of sewage spills and a hit of about £16 million from the parasite …
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Energy and broadband customers lost £300m due to poor customer service – Which?
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.Energy and broadband customers lost an estimated £298 million and 27.3 million hours to poor customer service in a year, watchdog Which? …
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Elon Musk ‘not invited’ to International Investment Summit hosted by UK
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Train passengers receive Islamophobic messages after cyber attack
Train passengers at some of the country’s biggest rail stations have been hit by a “cyber security incident” which saw them exposed to Islamophobic messages.Manchester Piccadilly, Birmingham New Street and 11 stations in London were affected by the cyber attack on Wednesday. Passengers trying to log on to public wifi at the Network Railway-managed stations …
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Judi Dench and John Cena to voice Meta AI chatbot
Dame Judi Dench, John Cena and Awkwafina will all voice Meta AI – the artificial intelligence being rolled out by Instagram and Facebook owner Meta.As part of an update to its Llama model, people will now be able to interact with Meta AI – the company’s ChatGPT-like chatbot – by speaking and getting responses from …
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Devon parasite contamination cost water company £16m
The fallout from parasite-contaminated water in part of Devon cost South West Water £16m, the utility has revealed.It had to implement a boil water notice when people in the Brixham area became sick after diarrhoea-causing cryptosporidium was found in a reservoir in May. The notice remained in place for eight weeks with roughly 17,000 households …
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Britain’s last coal-fired power station set to close in landmark moment
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.The UK’s last remaining coal-fired power station is to shut at the end of September, drawing to a close Britain’s 142-year reliance …
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Farmers call on supermarkets to end ‘farmwashing’ and support local producers
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.Farmers have written to the bosses of the UK’s “big six” supermarkets, calling on them to end “farmwashing” and support local producers.The …
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Samsung adds Hive smart thermostat control to SmartThings home hub app
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Air fryers now third most-used appliance in British kitchens – survey
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Consumer confidence falls ‘significantly’ amid UK finances negativity
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