12:03 PM BST Bethan Clargo For the first two months of her new job, Lisa Neumann had a 200-mile commute. She didn’t mind the four-hour drive down the M6 from Manchester to the National Centre of Excellence in Cardiff. It was a journey she had made hundreds of times in the past few years to
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is preparing to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees into his home – along with their pet dog. The cabinet minister has said he wanted to “make a meaningful difference” by taking in the household, forced to flee the country’s war-torn capital Kyiv, following the invasion by Russia. The family includes
P&O chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite has denied the company broke criminal law when sacking 800 workers and told remaining staff they should not fear the same fate as their former colleagues. In a message sent to all remaining staff this morning seen by Sky News, Mr Hebblethwaite sought to reassure employees their jobs are not
A 14-year-old boy has died after falling from a 430ft high theme park ride in Florida. Police are investigating the death of the boy, who is understood to have fallen from a “drop ride” at Orlando’s ICON Park around 11pm local time on Thursday. The teenager was taken to a nearby hospital but was pronounced
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In this article 8002.T-JP BP.-GB An offshore wind turbine photographed in waters off the coast of Japan on October 4, 2013. Yoshikazu Tsuno | AFP | Getty Images BP has agreed to establish a strategic partnership with Japanese conglomerate Marubeni that will focus on offshore wind development and potentially look at “other decarbonisation projects, including
A 28-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years after he was found guilty of murdering his partner’s two-year-old son Kyrell Matthews. Kyrell was found in cardiac arrest at his home in London in October 2019, with 41 rib fractures from being “crushed or broken by blows” and a
Researchers have detected a mysterious set of waves coming out of the Sun that, inexplicably, appears to travel three times faster than earlier predicted. The researchers think these waves could help them understand the interiors of the Sun, which is usually not observed even by space-based telescopes. Described as a “true mystery”, these waves were
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said the boss of P&O Ferries should quit for his “brazen, breathtaking arrogance” in admitting “breaking the law” in sacking staff. The cabinet minister also said he would change the law to force a U-turn and prevent the ferry operator paying below minimum wage to its crews. It comes after
NASA plans to use multiple private spacecraft to land astronauts on the Moon under its ambitious Artemis project. Initially, it had picked only the Elon Musk-owned SpaceX but it seems the US space agency has been rethinking its strategy. The agency, this week, announced that it wanted to support the development of a second privately
An image of a semiconductor wafer. I-Hwa Cheng | Bloomberg | Getty Images Russia’s war in Ukraine could see the production of neon, a critical gas in advanced semiconductor manufacturing, fall to worryingly low levels at a time when the world is already grappling with a chip shortage. Neon is required for the lasers that
President Joe Biden visits Poland later today – home to more than two million Ukrainian refugees – after earlier warning that NATO would respond “in kind” if Russia uses chemical weapons. The refugee crisis will be one of the key issues as he meets Poland’s president, while he will also visit US troops stationed in
The capital, Kyiv, has yet to be taken by Russian forces, but continues to be hit by a barage of attacks. Late on Sunday, Russian forces hit a shopping centre near the centre of the city killing at least 8 people, destroying the mall and shattering the windows of every neighbouring high rise building. The
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Electric vehicle owners will have access to 300,000 public charge points by the end of the decade, the government has said. Some £500m will be invested to hit the target, according to the Department for Transport, which represents a 10-fold increase on the current 30,000 public charge points across the UK. The 2030 deadline is
EV freight technology company Einride has announced a new partnership with Maersk to provide its Freight Mobility platform to the latter’s fleet. The transition will include 300 Einride electric trucks in what the companies are calling the largest operational contract for electric heavy-duty road freight to date. Einride describes itself as a Swedish freight technology
David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images High gas prices have put a strain on many Americans’ budgets. Now some Democratic lawmakers are proposing a possible solution: direct rebate payments to Americans. Three congressional leaders have proposed $100 energy rebate payments that would be sent to Americans during any month where the national average
It is an unremarkable spot, a large car park in front of a Ukrainian supermarket called Epicentre. Yet it means a lot to the people of Mariupol. In fact, it’s a beacon of light in the spring sunshine, marking the end of a horrific ordeal for tens of thousands of people. “Not just a parking
1:18 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Ashleigh Barty had just won the 2019 French Open and was standing on the court waiting for her team to join her. It was her first major title, and the realization of every young tennis player’s dream. Her longtime coach Craig Tyzzer rushed to be by her side, preparing an
12:42 PM ET The PGA Tour takes a break from its normal routine this week at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. In this event, a bad hole doesn’t mean as much — because all it is now is one hole. Instead of the usual stroke play that takes place nearly every week on tour, when