One of the UK’s longest, most beautiful and best loved rivers is “dying” as heavy pollution kills its wildlife, say experts who warn that the plight of the Wye is a worrying sign for the rest of the country. The river runs 155 miles from its source in the CambrianContinue Reading
The UK will build its first new coalmine for three decades at Whitehaven in Cumbria, despite objections locally, across the UK and from around the world. Michael Gove, the levelling up secretary, gave the green light for the project on Wednesday, paving the way for an estimated investment of £165mContinue Reading
LONDON, UK – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world’s digital infrastructure company, today confirmed its continuing commitment to growing its data centre capacity in the UK. It is expanding two of its International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) sites in London—LD7 and LD8—and has opened a new data centre—MA5—in Manchester, representing an investment ofContinue Reading
The UK’s new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has finished his first week in office. In the wake of Liz Truss’ “Attack on Nature” there has been much speculation about how environmental policy will evolve in the UK under this new premiership. Will Sunak reverse Truss’ measures or will he continueContinue Reading
Environmental campaigners have launched a last-ditch legal bid to prevent or delay the UK’s trade deal with Australia, owing to concerns over its impacts on the climate and the natural world. A group of seven environmental and farming organisations has filed a formal complaint alleging that the UK government breachedContinue Reading
160 lenders and investors are now signed up to a government-industry code helping women entrepreneurs access the finance they need to succeed code signatories have been backing women-led businesses, including significantly more venture capital deals in firms with female founders government encourages even more lenders and investors to sign upContinue Reading
In his Spring Statement and the “Tax Plan” published with it, the U.K. Chancellor Rishi Sunak focused on capital, people and ideas. Under the heading of “Ideas,” the plan promises to raise public investment in research and development (R&D) to 20 billion pounds ($26 billion) a year by 2024–25 andContinue Reading
I WONDER what sort of parallel universe Jane Lax (Letters, April 14) occupies. Amid the revelations of serial Downing Street lockdown parties and subsequent police fines for Prime Minister Johnson and his colleagues, Ms Lax tells us there is nothing to see here and we should consider instead the ScottishContinue Reading
Right now, the UK government is pushing ahead with its most comprehensive attempt to essentially close the country’s borders to those who can’t afford to pay their way in. An already horribly hostile environment is about to get that much more aggressive. Which makes it a bleakly relevant time forContinue Reading
More than 1,000 days after the UK Parliament was first presented with a draft Bill, the United Kingdom has finally passed its first ‘Environment Act’ in a generation, laying the framework for a significant shift in environmental standards and regulation within the UK, and within England in particular. The secretaryContinue Reading
