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A weekend of widespread violence took place in the city after an initial peaceful protest on Saturday against rising living costs and poor public services turned nasty.

Tory shadow energy secretary Andrew Bowie despaired at how the UK was having to go 'cap in hand' to import energy when it could be 'much more self-sufficient'.

Tech giant walks away from flagship Essex project as power connection delays threaten to leave nation's AI ambitions waiting until the 2030s

Andy Burnham has been talking up his hopes for closer ties with the bloc ahead of a summit with commission chief Ursula von der Leyen next month.

She wrapped up her final performance in Paris on Saturday night, after returning with a comeback residency in the city after a six year hiatus from the spotlight.

More than a quarter of people say they would feel comfortable investing between £10,000 and £50,000 without speaking to a financial adviser.

Stylists have detailed Katie Zacharia's fashion missteps during her short tenure as White House Press Secretary.

Essex Police officer PC Benjamin Norfolk faces a misconduct hearing over alleged coercive and controlling behaviour, sexual comments and photos in uniform.

Essex Police officer PC Benjamin Norfolk faces a misconduct hearing over alleged coercive and controlling behaviour, sexual comments and photos in uniform.

It's got a lively mix of independent shops and waterside restaurants

Storm Adam claimed the life of a second woman in Spain as the army is mobilised to help Ibiza and Majorca get back on its feet following weekend devastation.

Alisha Samuels was found with stab wounds on Dorking Avenue in Manchester at about 2am last Thursday and was pronounced dead at the scene.

A This is Money reader wants to know if paying more into a pension might reduce the amount they have to pay now in student loan repayments.

The singer, 41, will return to Strictly Come Dancing this weekend after missing out on Saturday's live show due to a rib injury.

Leeds United manager Daniel Farke has explained why Dominic Calvert-Lewin chose not to take the knee ahead of Sunday's 1-1 draw with Manchester United.

America is "making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand," reports the Los Angeles Times, "Two of the plants have contracts with Big Tech companies that will pay a premium to get large amounts of carbon-free energy for data centers..." No commercial nuclear reactor is known to have resumed generating electricity after beginning the decommissioning process that takes one out of service, though some reactors have restarted after long outages. The Department of Energy is lending as much as $4.4 billion to restart the Palisades Power Plant in Michigan, the Crane Clean Energy Center on Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island and the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa to restore a combined 2.25 gigawatts of electricity, which can power roughly 2 million homes and businesses. All three of the plants closed before their licenses expired, largely because the electricity they produced was considered too expensive... Restarting a reactor is a fairly quick way to get a lot of electricity, and it's cheaper than building a new, large reactor, said nuclear engineering expert Todd Allen... Edwin Lyman, at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the taxpayer money being used should go toward addressing safety risks. For example, most U.S. plants were built between 1970 and 1990 and were designed to withstand natural disasters of that era, said Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at UCS. But climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe. "It's possible, if they set the right level of safety and spend the necessary funds to meet that, they could restore these plants to operable condition," he said. "That's not happening at this point...." NextEra Energy and Google are collaborating to restart Duane Arnold by early 2029... Microsoft has a contract with the Crane Clean Energy Center on Three Mile Island just outside Harrisburg. The plant was the site of the nation's worst commercial nuclear power accident in 1979. The accident destroyed one reactor, leaving the plant with one functioning. In 2019, Constellation Energy's then-parent company Exelon shut down the functioning reactor, saying it was losing money and that Pennsylvania lawmakers had refused to subsidize it. Constellation Energy announced in 2024 that it would spend $1.6 billion to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement with Microsoft. It hopes to bring the plant back online in 2027... Palisades is expected to be the first nuclear plant in the world to resume generating power after beginning the decommissioning process.

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On Sunday, the couple issued a joint statement shared on Instagram in which they detailed their devastation at the loss of their son. Presley died of a suspected overdose on September 20.

Chip giant knew about the flaw in 2018, researcher claims, but millions of devices may still be vulnerable

Two puzzle geeks from Southport had an idea to self-publish a murder mystery brain teaser. One year later, they have made enough money to quit their jobs

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