The latest job statistics show 819,000 fewer people in payrolled employment since the start of the coronavirus crisis in the UK. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the estimated figure, using PAYE (pay as you earn) data from HM Revenue & Customs, covered November as England entered its second national lockdown amid tougher COVID-19
“Even if I die, even if I am beheaded, or killed by bullets – I will not back down. Our community will never leave the battlefield and run away.” “We will take our rights back, these laws have to go,” Gurjit Singh, an ex-military man and now a farmer, tells Sky News. He is among
Former Neighbours actor Craig McLachlan has been cleared of allegations that he assaulted four women during a stage show. The 55-year-old star was found not guilty of all 13 charges during a hearing at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. The seven indecent assault charges and six common assault charges dated back to 2014 when McLachlan
Pedestrians cross a street decorated with Christmas lights in Orchard road shopping district in Singapore on December 8, 2020. Roslan Rahman | AFP via Getty Images SINGAPORE — The last three months of the year are typically synonymous with malls and stores teeming with customers who stand in long, snaking queues to pay for their
The Lion Electric Company, a Quebec-based manufacturer of electric school buses, has successfully completed a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) pilot deployment of five school buses in White Plains, New York. New York’s V2G school buses The project began in 2018 among partners Lion, V2G technology company Nuvve, White Plains School District, and British multinational public transport company
An aerial photograph of Keele University’s campus, taken in July 2017. David Goddard | Getty Images News | Getty Images A university campus in the U.K. will be home to two wind turbines and 15,000 solar panels as part of a plan to make it carbon neutral by the end of the decade, yet another
Democrat Joe Biden has attacked Mr Trump’s refusal to concede defeat, calling attacks on the election and election officials “simply unconscionable” and attempts to overturn the result an “abuse of power”. The comments come as Mr Biden won the state-by-state Electoral College vote that formally determines who is the next US president. The victory has
December 14th, 2020 by The Beam Originally published in The Beam. Cassetex produces a solar-powered battery swapping service for electric 3-wheelers in Bangladesh. Out of 68 teams and 3,000 entrepreneurs pitching in total, the startup won the first prize in the ClimateLaunchpad annually organized by EIT Climate-KIC. As part of the competition, they went through
Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Stephen Lam | Reuters Google is delaying employees’ return to offices to September 1, and will expect employees to report to work in-person for at least three days a week thereafter, according to an
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has suggested the government will not stop households from meeting up over Christmas despite rising COVID-19 infection rates in some parts of the country. Speaking after he announced London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire are to be placed into the toughest coronavirus measures, Mr Hancock said the government did not
British eating habits have transformed in the 47 years since the UK joined the common market. There was a time when olive oil was only available in chemists and rationing constrained the national palate to a narrow spectrum. Fast-forward half a century and Britain is a country that sloshes the extra-virgin around like cheap aftershave,
The partner of a British hiker missing in the Pyrenees has hit out at “deeply upsetting” claims she disappeared on purpose in search of a new life. Esther Dingley, 37, vanished from Port de la Glere in late November while on a solo trek along the French-Spanish border. She had been travelling across Europe in
Jesy Nelson is leaving Little Mix after nine years in the band. Nelson, 29, announced she was leaving the band after nine years on Instagram on Monday. “The truth is being in the band has really taken a toll on my mental health. I find the constant pressure of being in a girl group and
December 14th, 2020 by Guest Contributor Chart courtesy Lazard By Paul Martin, Chemical process development expert There’s been a lot of talk recently about hydrogen as a replacement for natural gas. The scheme is to gradually add H2 to the natural gas grid, with the H2 being made from water using “excess” renewable electricity when
A New York intensive care nurse has become the first person in the US to be vaccinated against coronavirus. Sandra Lindsay was given her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by Dr Michelle Chester at the Long Island Jewish Medical Centre in Queens on Monday. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo watched via videolink as the
London will move into the highest level of coronavirus restrictions imminently, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told MPs from the capital. The move will see thousands of bars, pubs, cafes and restaurants close in the capital, except for takeaway, delivery and click and collect services. Under Tier 3 measures, people must not meet socially indoors,