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Minister defends disability benefit cuts, saying you can’t ‘tax and borrow your way out of need to reform state’ – UK politics live

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:19:47 +0000

Pat McFadden, Cabinet Office minister, says changes to be announced today are about giving people ‘hope of work in the future’

Q: Why have you changed your mind on this?

Badenoch says she has not changed her mind. As a member of the government, she abided by collective responsibility. She says in government she regularly questioned the case for net zero.

The person who’s been consistent in all this is me.

I’m not going to pretend that I won’t have critics … This is politics. Being a politician is about being criticised.

Yes, ball games: drive to take down signs warning against play begins in London

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:00:03 +0000

Charity says thousands of signs on capital’s estates deter children from being active, and is covering some of them up

A campaign to bring down thousands of “no ball games” signs across London – and eventually across the UK – has launched with a “more ball games” takeover on a Lambeth housing estate.

The new signs, which show basketball hoops, were designed by the inequality charity London Sport, working with the advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi, and are being put over “no ball games” signs on the Mursell estate in Stockwell with support from Lambeth council.

Did you catch that? On the boats with Cornish fishers – in pictures

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:00:03 +0000

Flying lobsters, cuttlefish ink and stargazy pie … Jon Tonks got on his kayak to spend 18 months photographing the incredible fishing communities around England’s south-west coast

Countries must bolster climate efforts or risk war, Cop30 chief executive warns

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:00:02 +0000

Ana Toni also criticises the UK’s plans to slash overseas aid to fund defence spending

Countries looking to boost their national security through rearmament or increased defence spending must also bolster their climate efforts or face more wars in the future, one of the leaders of the next UN climate summit has warned.

‘Heartbreaking’: poisoning suspected after mass deaths of more than 200 little corellas in Newcastle

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:26:22 +0000

Hunter Wildlife Rescue started receiving numerous reports of sick and dead birds on Monday, centred on the suburbs Hamilton and Carrington

Thames Water data reveals raw sewage discharges in rivers rose 50% in 2024

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:00:02 +0000

Exclusive: Almost 300,000 hours of raw effluent poured into waterways, figures show, up from 196,000 in 2023

A record 50% more raw sewage was discharged into rivers in England by Thames Water last year compared with the previous 12 months, data seen by the Guardian reveals.

Once named world’s ugliest animal, blobfish wins New Zealand’s fish of the year

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:22:13 +0000

Made up of blobby tissue and living deep in the ocean, the distinctive species beat the longfin eel and pygmy pipehorse in the annual contest

It was once crowned the “world’s ugliest animal” and now the disgruntled-looking gelatinous blobfish has a new gong to its name: New Zealand’s fish of the year.

A mysterious millionaire and the quest to live under the sea – podcast

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:00:03 +0000

Before billionaires dreamed of setting up communities on Mars, the ocean was seen as the next frontier in human habitation. Reviving this dream is Deep, a project backed by an anonymous millionaire to the tune of more than £100m that aims to establish a ‘permanent human presence’ under the sea from 2027. Guardian Seascape editor Lisa Bachelor visited the project just outside Chepstow on the Welsh border, and tells Madeleine Finlay what scientists hope to learn about the ocean by spending extended periods living underwater

Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:51:17 +0000

BYD reveals new platform with charging speeds of 1,000 kW, which would be twice as fast as Tesla’s superchargers

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD has unveiled a new charging system that it said could make it possible for EVs to charge as quickly as it takes to refill with petrol and announced for the first time that it would build a charging network across China.

Liberal supporters launch election ad campaign against Peter Dutton’s plan to build nuclear power plants

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:34:11 +0000

Liberals Against Nuclear say the policy would increase bureaucracy and impose ‘massive taxpayer-backed risk’