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Talks to take place with operators about the scheme, announced in 2020, which has failed to make any grantsMinisters are considering diverting money from a £950m scheme to install rapid chargers for electric cars on the UK’s motorways, announced five years ago, after it failed to make a single grant.Much of the cash allocated to the rapid charging fund (RCF) could be redirected to investments in other charging schemes, or to support the transition to electric vehicles more broadly, although decisions have yet to be made, according to a person close to discussions in government. Continue reading... Source link :

Disability Advocacy Network urges politicians not to treat scheme as a ‘football to be punted around at the expense of people with disability’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Coalition says it will ensure the country’s disability insurance scheme (NDIS) will remain “fit for purpose and sustainable for future generations” after Labor accused the opposition of looking to gut the growing $47bn program. The shadow public service minister, Jane Hume, said the National Disability Insurance Scheme had “run out of control” on Sunday, adding more “can be done”

Labor admits it ‘missed the mark’ with social media posts sharing T-shirt that states ‘This is Australia, we eat meat, we drink beer and we love Medicare!’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn Australian Labor Party social media post has left followers scratching their heads, with its apparent send-up of white nationalist messaging triggering the question: “Have you been hacked?”The Instagram post – which was uploaded on Sunday and then deleted on Monday – features a white man wearing a T-shirt that states, over a flag-themed map of

Golfer announces relationship on social mediaVanessa Trump was married to Donald Trump JrTiger Woods has confirmed he is in a relationship with Donald Trump’s former daughter-in-law, Vanessa Trump.Woods announced the news on Sunday. “Love is in the air and life is better with you by my side! We look forward to our journey through life together,” Woods wrote on X to his 6.4 millions followers … At this time we would appreciate privacy for all those close to our hearts.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/23/tiger-woods-vanessa-trump-relationship Author : Guardian sport and agencies Publish date : 2025-03-24 00:37:00 Copyright for syndicated

Greenland’s prime minister Múte Egede says the trip by US second lady and national security adviser is a ‘provocation’Usha Vance, the wife of US vice-president JD Vance, will travel to Greenland this week as President Donald Trump clings to the idea of a US annexation of the strategic, semi-autonomous Danish territory.Vance will visit Greenland on Thursday with a US delegation to tour historical sites, learn about the territory’s heritage and attend the national dogsled race, the White House said in a statement. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/24/greenland-usha-vance-mike-waltz-visit-anger Author : Guardian staff and agencies Publish date : 2025-03-24 00:41:00 Copyright

Ismail Barhoum died in attack on Khan Younis, which Israel says followed extensive intelligenceAn Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza has killed five people, including a Hamas political leader and Palestinian medics, Hamas has said, in an attack Israel said had targeted a key figure in the militant group.The Gaza health ministry said the strike hit the surgery department at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. The Israeli military said its attack followed extensive intelligence and used precise munitions to minimise harm at the site. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/israeli-strike-at-gaza-hospital-kills-five-including-hamas-political-leader Author : Reuters Publish date : 2025-03-23 23:19:00 Copyright

Ekrem İmamoğlu, rival of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, placed in pre-trial detention along with dozens of staff and officialsAn Istanbul court has formally arrested the city’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on corruption charges, sending him to pre-trial detention on the day he received his party’s nomination to run for president.The mayor of Turkey’s largest city and a rival of the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was jailed on charges of leading a criminal organisation, bribery, misconduct and corruption, along with dozens of his staff and municipal officials. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/istanbul-mayor-ekrem-imamoglu-arrested-pre-trial-detention Author : Ruth Michaelson and Faisal Ali in Istanbul Publish

Three-quarters of Australians support ban on gambling ads as recommended by a bipartisan parliamentary review. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWe heard Katy Gallagher this morning and treasurer Jim Chalmers yesterday say “it remains to be seen” when the budget will be returned to surplus.ABC News Breakfast has lobbed the question over to shadow finance minister Jane Hume, who says the Coalition would “restore those fiscal guardrails to try get us back to a structural surplus” over the medium term.We’re now seeing red ink as far as the eye can see. There

Measures blocking companies involved in modern slavery from receiving public money could be overturnedMeasures that would have blocked companies found to have used forced labour in any part of the state-owned Great British Energy supply chain from receiving public money could be overturned this week.Labour MPs are being whipped on Tuesday to throw out the clause that was inserted into the energy bill in the House of Lords in February. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/mps-could-axe-clause-in-bill-banning-forced-labour-in-gb-energy-supply-chain Author : Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Publish date : 2025-03-23 19:05:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Immigration officials could give names and addresses, raising concerns about abuse of power by Trump administrationThe US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reportedly nearing a deal to allow immigration officials to use tax data to support Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, according to reports by the Washington Post.Under the proposed data-sharing agreement, said to have been in negotiations for weeks, Immigration And Customs Enforcement (Ice) could hand over the names and addresses of undocumented immigrants to the IRS, raising concerns about abuse of power from the Trump administration and the erosion of privacy rights. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/irs-ice-deal-share-data-undocumented-immigrants Author

Host of Top of the Pops and My Top Twelve among other shows was one of last people to interview John LennonAndy Peebles, the former Radio 1 DJ and presenter who was one of the last people to interview John Lennon, has died aged 76, his family has confirmed.Peebles began his radio career in Manchester in 1973 and joined Radio 1 in 1978, where he was a familiar voice for 14 years. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/23/andy-peebles-former-radio-1-dj-presenter-dies-aged-76 Author : Mark Brown Publish date : 2025-03-23 16:43:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Victims identified in shooting that occurred at a park after ‘an altercation between two groups of people’, police sayPolice have arrested two people in connection with a mass shooting on Friday night at an “unsanctioned car show” in Las Cruces, New Mexico that left three people killed and at least 15 others injured.Local police said the shooting occurred at around 10pm on Friday at Young Park following “an altercation between two groups of people”. There were approximately 200 people at the park when the shooting occurred. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/mass-shooting-new-mexico Author : Maya Yang Publish date : 2025-03-23

Israel continues to batter territory in renewed offensive as Palestinian officials say death toll of war has passed 50,000Malnutrition is spreading in Gaza, medics and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory are warning, as a total Israeli blockade of all supplies enters its fourth week.There has been no sign that Israel will open entry points to allow essential aid to flow or ease the new offensive in Gaza, which started on Tuesday with a wave of airstrikes that killed 400 people, mostly civilians, ending two months of relative calm. On Sunday, Palestinian officials said the total death toll from

Private understanding ensures tending of British military graves in Russia and Crimea, and Soviet graves in UKIn graves at Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok, in Russia, lie the bodies of 663 British military personnel. Most of the dead lost their lives in the period just after the first world war, when allied troops were sent to support rightwing White forces in the Russian civil war against the Bolsheviks, while 41 are casualties from the second world war Arctic convoys.Their resting places have been tended over decades by the Russian military and by private contractors, paid by the UK’s Commonwealth War Graves

UK chancellor ‘not satisfied with the numbers’ at the moment but promises economy and living standards will improveRachel Reeves has promised the UK’s economy and living standards will improve, as she pledged to cut running costs of government by 15% and civil service jobs by 10,000.Ahead of Wednesday’s spring statement, Reeves defended her stewardship of the economy since the election, saying she had made difficult choices. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/23/rachel-reeves-promises-economy-and-living-standards-will-improve Author : Rowena Mason Whitehall editor Publish date : 2025-03-23 10:35:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

US and Ukrainian officials to meet in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, ahead of US-Russia talks on MondayRussian troops seized the small village of Sribne in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, citing the defence ministry.Sribne is located southwest of Pokrovsk, the industrial city which, if taken by Russia, will deprive the Ukrainian military of a vital supply and transport hub. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/23/ukraine-war-live-russia-deadly-drone-attack-kyiv-ceasefire-talks-saudi-arabia Author : Yohannes Lowe Publish date : 2025-03-23 09:40:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

The alarm has been raised by experts as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the introduction of lockdown Key scientific lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic are being forgotten, UK scientists have warned.The researchers have raised the alarm as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the introduction of lockdown, which was announced by then prime minister Boris Johnson on 23 March 2020. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/key-lessons-of-covid-are-being-forgotten-uk-scientists-warn Author : Robin McKie Science editor Publish date : 2025-03-23 06:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

MPs claim during her 2022 party leadership campaign she promised them she was committed to green targets Kemi Badenoch has been accused of breaking a promise made to Tory MPs during her leadership campaign after abandoning the party’s commitment to reaching net zero by 2050.Speaking to the Observer, Chris Skidmore, who served as a government minister between 2016 and 2020, said that Badenoch had made clear to a group of Tory MPs and other Conservatives at a leadership hustings in 2022, when she was seeking their votes in the race to replace Boris Johnson, that she backed the policy. Continue

Recently installed prime minister expected to confirm 28 April ballot as he seeks to keep Liberal party in governmentMark Carney will run for election in the Ottawa riding of Nepean as the new Canadian prime minister seeks to join parliament for the first time, his Liberal party has announced.Carney on Sunday is predicted to trigger an early general election on 28 April. The Liberals said on Saturday that Carney would run to represent the suburban riding, or district, of Nepean, noting in a social media post that Ottawa is where he raised his family and devoted his career to public

Treasurer seizes on shadow finance minister’s comments on ‘out of control’ disability insurance schemeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Coalition has hinted at a more aggressive approach to containing the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in comments treasurer Jim Chalmers says would “send a shiver up the spine” of people relying on the $47bn program.The shadow finance minister, Jane Hume, said on Sunday that there was “more that can be done” to curb the scheme’s rapid growth.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email

Met Office warns of flooding, as parts of country sees torrential rain after warmest spring equinox in more than 50 yearsHeavy showers, hail and thunder are forecast to hit the UK days after the warmest spring equinox in more than 50 years. There was torrential rain in some parts on Saturday afternoon and National Highways said parts of the M18 in Yorkshire were closed while specialists worked to clear flood water. It is expected to be a cloudy start to Sunday with rain in the north and east and sunny spells in the north-west and south-east followed by showers, the

One killed and seven wounded in attack as freed hostages and families of those still held in Gaza urge end to fightingIsrael carried out a strike in Tyre, south Lebanon, on Saturday, killing one and wounding seven people and endangering the shaky truce that ended a year-long conflict against Hezbollah, as 40 survivors of Hamas captivity called on the Israeli government to halt the “endless war”.The strike on a building came after Israel carried out dozens of airstrikes in Lebanon on Saturday, its most intense aerial assault on the country in four months. In total, six people were killed, including

Departments will be asked next week to reduce spending by 10% by 2028-29, says Cabinet Office sourceThe civil service will be told to slash more than £2bn a year from its budget by the end of the decade as part of the government’s spending review, with unions warning of significant job losses, the Guardian understands.The Cabinet Office will tell departments to cut their administrative budgets by 15%, which is expected to save £2.2bn a year by 2029-30. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/22/civil-service-to-be-told-to-slash-more-than-2bn-a-year-from-budget-by-2030 Author : Nadeem Badshah Publish date : 2025-03-22 23:57:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

Israeli PM says reason he sacked Ronen Bar was agency’s 7 October report, rather than investigation into his office’s ties to QatarisIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in a Saturday speech that the decision to fire the country’s domestic security chief Ronen Bar was made before the announcement that Bar was investigating the prime ministry for alleged ties to the Qatari government.Netanyahu said that he had decided to fire Bar, the director of the domestic Shin Bet security agency, after the agency’s report into the 7 October 2023 attack, rather than after Shin Bet opened its investigation. Continue reading... Source

From July 1 households and small businesses will see rebates automatically applied to their electricity bills. Follow today’s news liveAnd welcome to the Sunday live news blog.Overnight, the Albanese government announced another $150 in energy bill relief before Tuesday’s budget, which is tipped to include more cost-of-living support for households. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/mar/23/australia-news-live-labor-energy-bills-rebate-cost-of-living-coalition-peter-dutton-greens-us-funding Author : Rafqa Touma Publish date : 2025-03-22 21:33:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.