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Amid energy security and price crisis, key winter outlook report takes on particular significance
The National Grid’s electricity system operator and gas system operator will release one of their regular winter outlook reports later.They are designed to set out supply and demand scenarios as the weather gets colder and energy consumption tends to peak. Amid an energy security and price crisis, this year’s outlook report has taken on particular …
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Hospice Trekkers Return from ‘Home of the Giants’
A group of fourteen triumphant trekkers from Greater Manchester completed an arduous five day trek through the mountains and fjords of Norway to raise money for Francis House Children’s Hospice. Revd David Ireland, a minister in Oldham and chief executive officer of Francis House, his wife Judith and Doctor Andrew Taylor of the Oldham Mountain …
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Moorland managers say “it’s not if, but when” for catastrophic wildfires following reduction in controlled burning in English uplands
For an accompanying video, visit youtube.com/watch?v=Dtc-3chFUc8 As the heather burning season begins in the English uplands, habitat managers are increasingly worried about the massive rise in combustible vegetation or ‘fuel load’ caused by a change in management practice making uncontrollable wildfires more likely. From 1 October to 15 April, carefully controlled burning of the surface …
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Oil prices to rise as two million fewer barrels to be produced each day
Two million fewer barrels of oil are to be produced each day, equivalent to 2% of global supply, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and Russia have agreed. The move is an effort to increase prices in countries feeling the heat from high energy costs. Group members Saudi Arabia and Russia have led …
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Average mortgage rate rises above 6% – highest since 2008
The average mortgage interest rate has risen to above 6% meaning households are paying the greatest portion of their income on mortgage payments since 1989.Mortgage holders are now paying average interest rates of 6.07%, according to data from Moneyfacts, the financial information company. Interest rate repayments on two-year fixed mortgages have surged from 2.25% a …
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Kwarteng to meet high street bank chiefs amid mortgage market freeze
Executives from Britain’s biggest high street banks have been summoned for talks with Kwasi Kwarteng amid concerns about the impact of recent financial turmoil on the mortgage market.Sky News has learnt that the Treasury has convened a meeting on Thursday at which the chancellor is expected to quiz lenders on their plans. City sources said …
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Leaders behind nuclear fusion plant bid on England-Wales border say it’s ‘not end of road’
Leaders hoping their bid to build the world’s first nuclear fusion plant on the border between England and Wales have said it is “not the end of the road” for the site after the government selected Nottinghamshire for the plant instead. Earlier this week, the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) picked a …
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Appeal against decision to reject £200m ‘Ryder Cup’ golf course to tee off
Bolton’s Holiday Inn will host an appeal into the local council’s rejection of a £200m plan to build a golf course fit to host a future edition of the Ryder Cup. Landowner Peel L&P will make its case to the Planning Inspectorate on Thursday, October 6, and Friday, October 7, after Bolton Council refused the …
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Evening Standard
Ferry company calls for ‘refocused’ attention on pay and conditions
A leading ferry company is urging the Government to “refocus” attention on improving pay and working conditions on the English Channel.Brittany Ferries said ministers should drive forward a Seafarers Remuneration Bill.The ferry company said it fears the state of the economy has pushed legislation off the Government’s priorities list.As a business we want a level …
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Evening Standard
Falling gas prices stoke hopes for a brighter inflation outlook
Hopes that a sustained fall in gas prices would ease the cost-of-living crisis and help tame inflation spread today, as the wholesale market in the main fuel for the UK’s boilers continued to cool.Any sustained decline would remove the main driver of the cost-of-living crisis and cut the cost of the government’s unprecedented move to …
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Evening Standard
Lastminute.com founder Martha Lane Fox set to pocket over $2 million as Musk U-turns on buying Twitter
Lastminute.com founder Martha Lane Fox is set to pocket more than $2 million from the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.Lane Fox, who sits as a crossbench peer in the House of Lords, holds 34,000 Twitter shares and 4500 restricted stock units, according to the firm’s most recent proxy statement. She stands to make $2.1 …
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Service sector breaks from 18 months of growth, survey suggests
The UK’s service sector has interrupted 18 months of consecutive growth to stagnate for the first time since lockdowns as customers across the country tightened their belts.Under-pressure household budgets could not stretch as far and as often to buying from the country’s service companies.The services PMI score – collated by S&P Global and CIPS – …

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