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Crown Estate’s Grants Rights to Develop the World’s Biggest Expansion of Wind Energy
The UK’s long term energy and climate security was strengthened substantially today as The Crown Estate, owner of the UK’s coastal seabeds, granted rights to energy companies to develop the biggest expansion of wind energy ever seen in the world. The...
Canada Gives Backing to Rwanda’s Bid to Join Commonwealth
Canada has said it supports Rwanda’s bid to join the 53-nation commonwealth with just a few days remaining before nations comprising mainly of former British colonies decide on the fate of the East African country. According to the Canadian media,...
New Legal Rights for Britain’s NHS Patients
Patients in Britain will have legal rights to maximum waiting times for elective procedures and urgent cancer referrals and to an NHS Health Check every five years for those aged 40-74, if proposals published today are taken forward. The proposals, set...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai Agrees to a Second Round of Elections
Election authorities have said that Afghan President Hamid Karzai gave in to international pressure on Tuesday and agreed to take part in a second round of elections on November 7. In agreeing to the November run-off against former Foreign Minister Abdullah...
State-of-the-art National Film Center to be Created on London’s South Bank
A new state-of-the-art national film center is to be created on London’s South Bank, thanks to a Government commitment of £45 million. It is one of a number of announcements of flagship cultural projects to help secure Britain’s future as a world...
Amnesty International’s Secretary General has Launched a Campaign to Reduce Maternal Deaths in Sierra Leone
On the eve of the world leaders meeting in New York to discuss increased funding for health care in developing countries, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan has launched a campaign to reduce maternal deaths in Sierra Leone. The accompanying...
Britons Outraged As U.S. Conservatives Berate British Health Care With Little Regard for the Facts
The British stiff upper lip is beginning to falter as outrage grows in response to comments among Conservatives in the United States attacking Britain’s national health care system as socialist, evil and Orwellian. Average Britons are usually quite...
Wall Street, Main Street, And China
We seem to have had another one of those curious coincidences in the morning news that is likely to either amuse or depress depending on the economic straits (and possibly location) of the reader. In the context of the global economy, all eyes seem...
