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Tory leadership: Jeremy Hunt sets 30 September ‘no-deal deadline’

Jeremy Hunt has said he will decide by the end of September whether there is a “realistic chance” of reaching a new Brexit deal with the EU. The Tory leadership contender said he would deliver a provisional “no-deal Brexit budget” in early September and then give the EU three weeks. He vowed to abandon talks after that if there was ...

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Tory leadership: Boris Johnson backtracks over Scottish funding

Johnson has long criticised the Barnett formula Boris Johnson’s leadership team have promised “no change” to how Scottish government funding is calculated if he becomes prime minister. Jeremy Hunt had already pledged to “maintain” what’s known as the Barnett formula, and had challenged his rival to match his commitment. Mr Johnson has long criticised the formula. At one point he ...

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Let’s be realistic (climate and food)

Fatema Miah:   It is July now and the weather seems under the climate effect. Climate change is prominent issue, let’s leave the arguement about whether global warming or is it cooling, the issue is changing atmosphere’s effects on the biosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere and  hydrosphere already made drastic turn and causing suffering. The suffering here we are talking about isn’t ...

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Washington and Tehran proliferating

  Rayhan Ahmed Topader:   Washington claims Iran is behind a succession of recent shipping attacks in the Gulf. It said grainy video published on the US Central Command’s website provided evidence of Iran’s involvement in Thursday’s attacks. The footage purportedly shows an Iranian boat removing an unexploded mine from one of the vessels. The US has accused Iran of ...

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Cricket: Ecological awareness becomes more acute

Rayhan Ahmed Topader:   Babies born around then might never watch a live ODI. The T20 game will see global franchise brands across tournaments, with centralized administration and coaching functions. A simpler boundary rule would save us endless agonizing over whether elbows, sleeves, shoes and the like are touching the boundary cushion. Players will wear GPS devices that monitor their ...

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UK seeks new no-deal Brexit freight plan

London, Jul 1 : Transport companies are being asked to bid to provide extra freight capacity to be used in the event of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October reports BBC. The hurried ferry procurement process as the UK prepared to leave the EU on 29 March cost taxpayers more than £85m. That included £34m in a settlement and legal ...

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Nokia distances itself from boss’s warning over Huawei 5G kit

Dhaka, Jun 30 : Telecoms giant Nokia has disowned the comments one of its senior executives made about rival Huawei, reports the BBC. Nokia’s chief technology officer Marcus Weldon told the BBC that the UK should be wary of using the Chinese hardware. He said Huawei’s telecoms kit had vulnerabilities that meant it posed a risk to 5G networks. In ...

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Property firm fined for failing to comply with scheme to protect tenants

  A property management company has been fined £3,000 after failing to join a Government-approved redress scheme for tenants, leaseholders and landlords, after an intervention by Tower Hamlets Council’s trading standards team. Following a hearing at the Upper Tribunal, G Crawford Management Ltd of Westferry Road on the Isle of Dogs was found to be in breach of legal requirements ...

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Ignorance, ego and dismissive became norm (food and health) 

  Fatema Miah: In some communities, ie the Bangali/Pakistani People are ignorant vast majority, ego is a devil  red heated up with horn killing people from within and they destroying each other, and dismissive nature has become a norm. These are the damaging aspects in  nature destroying humanity and has been. Tried to avoid, I ignored. I have been trying ...

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Theresa May: Salisbury poisoning suspects must face justice

The suspects in the Salisbury Novichok attack should be “brought to justice” and Russia must stop its “destabilising activities”, Theresa May has said. The PM spoke to the BBC before she met Russia’s President Putin at the G20 summit for one-to-one talks on Friday. The UK believes two officers from Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, were behind the poisoning ...

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