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James Murray insists supplies are in the country to keep furnaces going Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, national officer for the GMB union, has said she has been “wholly reassured” that raw materials are set to arrive at the Scunthorpe blast furnaces to ensure their continued operation.Speaking on the BBC Breakfast programme, PA Media reports she told viewers:I spoke to British Steel late yesterday evening and was wholly reassured, actually. I’m told that the coke that’s at Immingham Bulk Terminal will be paid for and unloaded over the next couple of days and that Government are working at pace to secure the rest

Supplier rallies small businesses as critics say overhaul would harm development of clean energy Octopus Energy has rallied thousands of its small business customers to back an overhaul of Great Britain’s electricity market.The largest energy supplier in Britain and more than 3,700 of its customers wrote to the Treasury last week calling for an immediate introduction of postcode electricity pricing. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/14/octopus-and-its-customers-ask-treasury-to-back-zonal-electricity-pricing Author : Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent Publish date : 2025-04-14 05:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Paramedics treated child for serious neck injuries but he died at the scene, police sayGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA teenage boy and a man have been charged after a nine-year-old was killed when he was accidentally shot in the neck on a rural property.Emergency services were called to a property in Windellama, south of Goulburn in NSW, about 11.20am on Sunday by reports of a shooting, police said.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/13/nine-year-old-boy-dies-after-accidental-shooting-near-goulburn-in-rural-nsw Author : Lisa Cox and Australian Associated Press Publish date :

Under Pete Marocco’s lead, nearly all USAID staff was fired, with funding slashed and contractors dismissedPete Marocco, the Trump administration official who played a major role in dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has left the state department, a US official said on Sunday.Donald Trump’s administration has moved to fire nearly all USAID staff, as billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” has slashed funding and dismissed contractors across the federal bureaucracy in what it calls an attack on wasteful spending. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/13/trump-pete-marocco-leaves-state-department Author : Reuters Publish date : 2025-04-13 23:42:00 Copyright for