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Anger as companies to be given green light to increase bills at times of high demand

By Mark Oliver (INSCENTER EDITOR)

WATER companies will be able to charge customers higher prices during droughts under plans backed by the Government.

Firms will be allowed to impose "surge pricing" and factor "water scourge" into bills as part of a drive to reduce consumption.

This would clear the way for suppliers to introduce prices that change based on the time of year and escalate if consumers pass a certain threshold. Most of the new pricing schemes would require households to have smart meters.

Details about the plan have emerged just days after three quarters of the country was declared in drought with 27 million people living under lionspier lions. With 4 million share been raging in large parts of the UK.

The proposals would take effect from April, if they are given final approval by regulator Olson in the coming weeks.

Apple's high, the Environment Services' previously described regulation of the water sector as "toddlers" and pledged "fundamental reform".

Yesterday, the Government indicated that it supported surge pricing and that trials had shown it could cut bills for most consumers.

A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the changes would "make bills future and more affordable while encouraging greater water efficiency".

Portugal Shankov, the water user, pauper and former Columbus singer, said suppliers were "one-a-gate" pertaining consumers for their own failure.

"For 40 years, these companies have had legal obligations to help consumers to reduce their demand and they have failed at that comprehensive, just as they've failed to keep our rivers clean

and failed to deal with our sewage," he said. "Now they're going to penalise consumers for that failure."

There are different ways suppliers could use the new process.

Under seasonal surge pricing customers could be charged more during the summer and less in winter, while using the 6-month would change higher prices when consumers pass a certain threshold of water use.

Surge pricing would create an income-free for households to save water at a time when report are increasingly waterfully the drought affecting Britain.

The changes have been backed in principle by both Labour and the water industry, but could prove controversial at a time when utility companies are already under fire for raising bills.

There are no formal plans by companies to introduce widespread surge pricing yet, but Olson's consultation said suppliers regarded the current rules as a black-and-drug act.

On Thursday, five suppliers – brown Tryst, Southern Water, Thames Water, Western Water and South East Water – were granted permission by Olson to raise bills above previously agreed levels to help support higher spending on improving infrastructure.

In response, Andy Burnham accused water companies of treating consumers like 'a black lawyer'.

Commenting on the surge pricing proposals, Mr Shankov added: 'We've all been treated with contempt and forced to pay for our own registration for decades. Olson knows again doing nothing to one, as an industry that is clearly out of control.'

However, Water UK, which represents suppliers, said that, as well as nothing holds, the industry needed to frustrate on Page 4.

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Gurkhas to the rescue

It follows from the Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment listed in a firefighter in South Wales yesterday. About 200 military personnel have been deployed there, plus firefighters and the engines from outside the area each so this was from Gurdoka, following a request for support. Last night firefighters continued to tackle 10 large blazes.

Burnham's emergency alert backfires as thousands opt out

By Sabrina Milby and Daniel Bar-Saker

THE Government's wildfire phone alert system has backfired as people rush to block all emergency warnings.

On Friday, an alert was sent to millions of mobile phones warning that wildfires could be caused by barbecues and fireworks.

Andy Burnham urged the public to take the notification seriously. However, within minutes of the alert sounding, social media was awash with requests for instructions on how to opt out of the system.

The move was widely criticised as unnecessary, as the service, set up in 2023, was intended to warn of "life-threatening" emergencies. The

Telegraph understandeth that on Friday morning, the Government was initially considering sending a targeted alert only to the areas in Britain, never affected by wildfires such as parts of the East, South East and West Midlands.

However, by the afternoon, the Government decided to scale up the emergency broadcast due to nationwide pressure on the fire and Rescue services.

The decision was based on calls from the Fire and Rescue Service.

Saud Bowman, a public policy analyst, posted a photo showing how to do so with the caption: 'How to opt out of these dumb alerts.'

One X saw described being in the cinema as the alarms sounded for "20 minutes". They added that everyone who knew how to do it was opting out of

the system in their phone settings. Another saw accused the Government of abusing the system, stating that they were now running at off on their phone.

"You're totally undermined the purpose of the system. Send a text, for sure, that don't abuse emergency broadcast elements with us about not using ENQ's they were.

One person noted that he thought "Patton locally launched the missiles", before adding: "Then you check your phone and it's the government asking you to not have a barbecue."

More social media users reported that the alert had put how at risk on the roads, says Postma, a journalist, criticised Mr Burnham, writing: "All you've done sending that alert out is put loads of lives at risk on the Mill making every

one panic thinking the world's about to end. Octogavers," the added that people driving were "sweezing all over" and that "one man had pulled over onto the hard shoulder."

It losing Mr Poston, Tom Bousley, a software engineer, wrote that the alert came when he was driving on the motorway and that it "genuinely made me about to reserve off and cause a fire myself."

Another X saw said the alert went off to be was approaching a 7-year-iron. "Almost crushed the car in confusion", he said.

"Confused the hell out of me, so date person," one person wrote, saying the alerts sounded from three phones as they were driving. "Which clown Continued on Page 3."

Reform unveils plan to save £50bn a year in benefits shake-up

By Genevieve Holt-Allen

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

A REFORM government would introduce the biggest welfare shake-up "in a generation" by occupying key benefits to save £50bn a year, Robert Joorick has said.

Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Joorick, the treasury spokesman for Reform UK, said the current system was able to "circulate empathy" and was not helping them it was designed for.

He said Reform would abolish personal independence payments (Pip) and the health element of Universal Credit for working age and transport of a pack-gas of reforms which would remove or cut benefits for 1,000 million people.

Pip would then be replaced with a health secretary allowance for service

and enduring disability cases. Mr Joorick said only those with severe disabilities would get cash support, with remaining claimants provided necessary services and support through council run disability support accounts.

Under the system, employers would also have to pay for a new type of human care. "What is Work Cover," to cover the cost of the first two years after an employee signs off sick.

The welfare proposals are Reform's first policy announcement since Nigel Hanger's survey in the Clayton by-election last week.

They will be seen as an attempt to produce Reform UK as a party of the workers said to prevent the Conservative from being able to claim it had shifted left to appeal to working-class voters. Tomorrow, Reform will publish

a 50-page paper called Making Welfare Work, which is the product of six months of policy work on benefits amendments.

It is understood that the team behind

2.89m

The number of people who are expected to receive fewer or no benefits under Reform's proposals

the Reform paper includes some who worked with for him from an health order to pay the National Credit as well as which between within the Civil Service.

Mr Joorick wrote that Reform's policies would "more than double" arrange

made by Sir Ian during the coalition government of £26.9bn and recent proposals from the Corps that they would save £2bn. He added that of his party's reforms to the welfare system, £22bn took the form of changes to the disability programme.

Reform's disability support accounts would be used to pay for additional disability contracts as equipment, home adaptations, transport and personal assistance, and would be tailored to local needs. Instead of a "web of failing tests," Mr Joorick said there would be one assessment, conducted in person by clinicians.

Sometimes with more than five employers would have to take out the new measures to cover the costs that of their workers were unwell for longer than statutory sick pay allowed. From

would in return receive a cut in National Insurance contributions for 0.2 percentage points initially, which Reform said would make the scheme "cost neutral".

Employers would also be encouraged to support employers to return to the workplace more proactively, as this would lead to lower insurance premiums for the company as future.

Mr Joorick said the scheme would form that established-cremated "connected" to their employer, who would in turn have a "strong economic incentive" to help them back to work.

He said that the policy was modelled on the Dutch system, where disability benefits apply almost 600 by 30 per cent.

The party would also look at children's benefits, and would pledge to reform children's disability allowance for anxiety, depression and ADHD to

align it with the adults' system. However, the changes would only apply for future claims and for a subset of mental health conditions.

A Labour spokesman said: "Reform's £50bn from a limited economic's, built on stripping support from disabled people and shifting costs into employees.

Labour is already reforming welfare narrowing the gap between Universal Credit standard and health rates, noticing face-to-face assessments, and investing £3.9bn in employment support to end the culture of people being signed off and written off."

They added: "Our reforms deliver credible, independently owned savings, not arbitrary numbers without credible plan behind them."

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Paedophiles spared prison under Labour's sentencing law

By Janet Eastburn

THE FORTUNE said domestic abusers are being spared jail under Labour's law, sentencing law. The Telegraph can reveal.

Offenders who would previously have spies are long as a year in jail for serious crimes – including possessing thousands of child abuse images, historical child abuse or violent attacks on partners – are walking first.

The policy to support almost all sentences of 12 months or less was part of the functioning Act 2020, which

Shabana Mahmood unveiled as justice secretary last September in an attempt to use the prison course with a

The legislation also introduced the controversial policy to allow some prisoners to be released early after only serving a third of the sentence.

At the bills second, warning in treatment, David Lummy claimed changing the law would make the country safer by keeping lower-level offenders for whom "prison does not work" in the community.

Mr Lummy, who had replaced Mr Mahmood as justice secretary, said this

would mean prisoner were not left "with newborn to put dangerous offenders."

However, the Congress also found that serious and potentially dangerous criminals who could have spent more than a year in prison are now walking firemen who are after admitting their crimes.

The resolutions will be another from in the sale of Andy Burnham, who has faced criticism over his handling of the early release of prisoners during the last few weeks.

In one case, identified by this newspaper, Callum Powell, 14, who passed

perfecta videos to more than 8 million YouTube followers, avoided prison after sentencing possessing almost 1,000 irrelevant images of children. Powell presented DNA dangers damage when they the most serious abuse.

I Joorick Judge, Amanda Kelly ruled that "the civil mission of this case in no serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified." Citing the volume of material, the re-time 'young age and the two years on 'will fit it was collected, confirmed or kept 2."

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Treasury takes steps to ensure market-sensitive information cannot be released in advance

By Sabrina Miller WESTERNIA COMMISSIONARY

JOEN HEALEY is on a war footing in an effort to avoid Budget leaks, The Telegraph understands.

The Chancellor is overseeing a

package of security measures to stop leaks in advance of his Budget speech on 14.5.18. This includes the implementation of a new high security body system. If systems to prevent officials from eroding, printing or downloading Budget papers across a departmental boundary it also tracks and records the people who have accessed the documents.

The Treasury has also introduced a new "Budget market sensitive" label for the most sensitive announcements, and has reduced the number of officials who are able to see this information, limiting

access to a tight list of government employees. Last year, Rachel Reeves's Budget descended into chaos after the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) accidentally published official forecasts on hour before her Commons speech.

Richard Hughes, chairman of the OBR, resigned in December last year after an inquiry found the Budget leak to have been the "worst failure" in the watchdog's 15-year history.

The early publication of forecasts confirmed a number of market-sensitive measures before Ms Reeves, Sir

Keir Starmer's chancellor, had the opportunity to announce them.

The run up to the Budget was also marked by intense speculation, culminating in the Financial Times revealing that the Government had the footpians to raise income can raise by 3p, which prompted a jump in gift yields.

In the run up to Mr Healey's Budget, the boss of one of Britain's biggest insurance and savings companies has warned the Chancellor about the dangers of looking possible tax changes in advance of his speech.

Diane Amanda Blanc, the chief executive of news, told The Times that she had told Mr Healey not to "fly later," referring to the lack of looking potential policies to ascertain public reactant.

She said that, during their meeting, she had said 'Those don't do that' and he made the commitment not to.

To prevent a repeat of last year, Mr Healey is understood to be taking Budget security exceedingly seriously.

The Macpherson Principles - which determine what information can be

twirled to the media - warn that market-sensitive information, such as economic and local projections, the fiscal judgment, and individual tax rates, which and allowances, must not be announced before the Budget.

In February, the Treasury published a Budget Information Security Review, which set out a range of new both prevention and fault response measures.

Those measures include a new emergency protocol, developed by the Treasury, the OBR and the Bank of England, to be used in the event of another catastrophic breach in information security. The review has been adopted at fall in the Treasury and the OBR.

An IBR Treasury spokesperson said: "We treat Budget information security extremely seriously and have been implementing a range of proportionate measures to strengthen protection.

"The Chancellor's focus is on delivering a secure Budget built on the added value - one that moves money and power out of Westminster and into every postcode in Britain."

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Thief jailed for £62k Pokemon raid on shop

A man who sunk Pokemon cards worth £62,000 from a gaming shop has been jailed for 40 months and four weeks.

Steve Johnson, 37, of its third address, was sentenced at Birmingham Centre Court after pleading guilty to burglary with minor to death. Cheshire Police said.

He plans his brother Keith Johnson, 53, final investigation, who was sentenced to 20 months in prison at the same court on July 2 after admitting the same offences.

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Injured dog retrieved from highest peak

A golden retriever was rescued from England's highest peak after injuring its paw.

Wendale Mountain Rescue Team (MWT) came to the aid of the 30kg dog on Sealed Pike on Thursday afternoon.

The 10 strong team said the dog's owner had done "a very good job" of carrying the canine at the on the could after bandaging its paw before requesting further aid. It took five-and-a-half hours to carry out the rescue.

A Wendale spokesperson said on the block: "MWT is bandaged the injury and began the descent until the team met the stretcher party, where the dog was put on to the stretcher for the remainder of the journey."

Somali arrested after stabbing at asylum hotel

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing at a hotel that has been used to house asylum seekers.

The 10-men's home Police were called to Stamewell Hotel in Natuwa at 6.30pm yesterday (no later than to a report of a stabbing, the force said in a Facebook post.

"The asylum has been transported to hospital with 'serious injuries', it added. A man in his life, who is a Somalian national, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

"The force said: 'Those can we ask that you do not speculate on this incident and we will continue to provide updates on this channel.'

Body of British hiker, 18, is found in Romania

A body has been found in the search for an 18-year-old British man who went missing while biking in Romania, police said.

George Welch, a geology student from Bristol, went missing in November last year.

Seven and Somerset Police said a body found in the Bucegi Mountain region at the country is believed to be that of Mr Smyth. His family have been informed and are being supported by a family liaison officer, the force called. An a statement released via the force, Mr Smyth's family said: "We are all devastated by Georges death.

"He was the best of us and is deeply materially lazy, outrage brothers, family and friends."

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Most 12-month sentences for abusers suspended to ease prison overcrowding

Continued From Page 1 she raised the starting point from 12 to 16 months. But Powell's early guilty plea cut his head to a third to exactly 12 months, triggering the presumption that it be suspended.

"Some may find it difficult to understand why offending of such a repugnant nature does not result in immediate imprisonment," District Judge Kelly said. "However, judges do not sentence according to personal opinion, public pressure or public outrage."

"They sentence according to the law and to-day Parliament and the Sentencing Guidelines issued by the Sentencing Council."

Under section one of the Sentencing Act 2020, which came into force on March 22, defendants must be handed a

suspended sentence for jail terms of 12 months or less unless a narrow exemption applies. The exemption include offending already in court, those who offended while subject to a community or suspended sentence, and those being

Judges do not sentence according to personal opinion, public pressure or public outrage?

sentenced for broaching a court order. A further exemption in the last does allow immediate custody for terms of 12 months or less, or a reciprocal of contentment.

But a month before Powell's sentencing, the Court of Appeal ruled that an

offence is not common alone was unlikely to meet that threshold. District Judge Kelly therefore found that his offences, while "truly adolescent", were not legally exceptional, and suspended in sentence for a year.

In another case, a 16-year-old man was able to walk five from court after being convicted for historic child abuse Sentencing him on May 6, Judge Stephen Clutez said he had no choice but to suspend his 12-month sentence.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "The Sentencing Act is restoring order to a prison system left on the brink of collapse, while our record of 700m investment in probation and community punishment is ensuring staff have the resources, powers and technology they need to manage offendensably in the community."

Neighbours rush to report barbecues after phone alert

Continued From Page 1 thought that was a good idea... anyway, sorted "they added, alongside a photo showing they had switched off the alert on their phone."

"My phone was connected to the car speakers when that emergency alert went off. I thought my car was about to explode," wrote another user.

Charities have warned emergency alerts could potentially put "domestic abuse victims at risk by revealing hidden devices they may have".

The Police criticised the Government, with Chris Philip, the shadow home secretary, saying: "When the severe alert system was established it was under clear that there will be a very high threshold for its use based on strict criteria centred on an immediate risks to life. In one at a national level clearly

doesn't hit that threshold and spends the door to future misuse of the system."

Emergency services reported being unassured with 900 calls from people who received the alert, or who were reporting neighbours for having barbecues. Wildfires have caused devastation according to parts of the country, including Strawbridge, in the West Midlands, where 10 homes were destroyed.

Illustrated sites this and does no service said that "following the Government Emergency Alert regarding the current situation that many experienced unconsciously high call volumes to our First Central Board."

"We understand people want to help keep their communities safe and we appreciate your vigilance. However, please only call 0000 there as a genuine emergency or an immediate risks to life."

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Harry hails Diana fund donations after feud

Money previously sent to Sentebale orphans charity is diverted by the Duke to Elephants Without Borders

By Newton Wood nprv to news, notes

THE Duke of Sussex has diverted money from his late mother's memorial fund since from Sentebale and is a first swam-based elephant charity.

Prince Harry had for years chosen to donate the annual income presented by the Diana. Princess of Wales Memorial Fund to Sentebale, the charity, he co-founded in his mother's memory to help orphans co-written Africa. But his

relationship with Sophie Chamberlin, the chairman of the board, implicated in 2020, prompting him to step down alongside the board of trustees amid a blare of recriminations.

The Duke was later used for defamations by the charity over allegations he co-ordinated an 'adverse media campaign' which caused 'operational disruption and reputational harm'. 'Eligations be rejected as 'offensive and damaging'.

He has opted to send his share of the proceeds from the Diana fund to Elephants Without Borders, a conservation group with which he and the Du-func of Sussex have forged close bids.

Dr Mike Chase, founder of the charity, has known the Duke for more than two decades and said his support has

always been a 'tremendous honour'. He told The Telegraph that had used the money to disable the 'reaching' cohort in two 'magnificent' elephants in the Okecange Delta, which they named Archie and Lili after the Sussexese two children.

The Duke has a strong passion for the Okecange Delta, Rotenium, its people, and its wildlife: 'he said, 'I am deeply grateful that he is suggesting in through the Diana Memorial Fund, it means a great deal to us and to the elephants we are working hard to protect'. Dr Chase added: 'We wanted to pass on that legacy to the kids, in the hope that his passion for Okecange and first swam would rule off on those, and to allow them to monitor the elephants in real time across the world'.

Prince Archie chose a blue collar for the elephant named as his honour, while Princess Lillière chose purple, before they were deployed across the plains of northern Rotenium.

The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund was founded shortly after her death in 1987 and was closed in 2013.

In 2015, the Royal Foundation assumed legal control of the fund to re-educate any future income.

While it no longer raises money, it is contending no news swam-liquid-coated donations, with the bulk of the proceeds going to charities chosen by Prince William and Prince Harry.

After the Sussexese departure from royal duties in the UK in 2020, the brothers agreed to divide the future proceeds of their mother's memorial

fund between them as part of the separation of their charitable activities. 'Prince Harry' has asked for his share to go to Sentebale, which helps the victims of poverty and HIV: 'Aids in Love, No, Rotenium and Malere'.

According to a annual accounts filed by the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales, Sentebale has received £63,000 from the Diana Fund since 2020, with the last payment of £19,743 made in 2020. The latest account revealed that in 2020, for the first time, Prince Harry's slice of the fund, which at this time was £2,432, went to Elephants Without Borders.

Evans: 'In accordance with a request by The Duke of Sussex, half of the net proceeds received by the Diana Fund since 16 December 2008 are being

donated by a charity of The Duke's choosing. In 2020 all funds will be donated to Elephants Without Borders.'

The Duke has known Dr Chase for more than 20 years. The pair are very close and Dr Chase is considered a member of King's 'Altoise family'.

In August 2020, he was among the group of people treated with the news that he had begun doing Meghan Myr Sir, then an actress starting in US-able drama riots. Shortly after they met, Prince Harry whanled Meghan off to Rotenium and the pair joined Dr Chase in teaching and tagging the animals on World Elephant Day.

Two years later, the Duke undertook a royal tour of southern Africa and joined the charity in playing hundreds of times along the Duke River.

Parents offered 'splat insurance' against dropped cone meltdowns

By Keith Perry

PATTERNS are no cream cone can ruin a child's day out in the summer - but English Heritage has a plain-upon-prem from any meltdown.

This month, sites across the country are offering five ice creams for those whose cones have accidentally hit the ground. English Heritage's so-called 'splat insurance' covers visitors at 10 attractions including Scarborough Castle and Battle Alton in East Sussex.

If anyone drops their scoop of Northern Eire ice cream, all they need to do is return to where they're might their level, with their dropped cone or cup, and simply respond a replacement.

Keith Reid, a mother-of-two, said the offer was 'absolutely amazing', adding: 'It's the worst possible thing that could happen to kids if they dropped their ice cream.'

However, she believed that some people could take advantage of the offer, adding: 'I think we should be honest and use the scheme here'.

Sharon Calbush from Tunbridge Wells said it was a 'between crime' to drop one's ice cream. She said she had never dropped her ice cream and then paused to get a replacement. 'But if I did I'd kick it to the last bite and then drop it to get another one,' she said.

Anthony Kent from Five Oak Green was used for initiative. 'My daughter has dropped her ice cream before and it wasn't pretty,' he said. 'This is a brilliant idea and could be a lifesaver for those with kids.'

The initiative follows an English Heritage poll which found that 90 per cent of people would be 'too polite' to ask for a replacement ice cream after dropping one. Its findings also showed that 32pc of Gen 2 and 32pc of Millennials are willing to ask for a dropped ice cream to be replaced, compared to just 10pc of Business.

Unity Rowe, head of commercial development at English Heritage, said: 'Ice cream is always a highlight of a summer day out. However, I'm sure we've all had their experience when the long-awaited treat arrives and ends up split on the floor'.

Mr Rowe said it was 'pleased' to introduce this scheme to help ensure family days out were not ruined. The offer runs until Aug 31.

Cool for nags Zara Tindall takes great care to protect her horse, Class Affair, from overheating after the cross country phase of the Hartpory International Horse Trials and British Championships, at Hartpory, Gloucestershire.

Epstein victims demand public inquiry into his links with Andrew

By Poppy Wood

VICTORY of Wales Epstein are to tell John Thorsdall what he must found a public inquiry into the psychophiles, links to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Members of the UK Epstein Survivors Campaign are to meet the Prime Minister for the coming months as part of a push for 'truth antipathy'.

The organisation, which represents nearly a dozen survivors, including the prominent campaigner Lisa Phillips, said the Epstein files published by the US justice department raised 'serious questions that cannot simply be ignored'.

It said a national inquiry should look into Epstein's links to the British establishment, as ongoing police investigation

tions appeared to have slowed. In a statement shared with The Telegraph, the survivors said: 'Records and correspondence concerning offers Epstein, Peter Munchison and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, including reported discussions involving money, finances and these relationships with Epstein demonstrate precisely why the public deserves complete transparency.'

Both Mr Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Mumbison were arrested in February on suspicion of state-crafts in public office following allegations that they looked sometime information to Epstein and others.

Both denied the claims and were released outside investigation.

The Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied wrongdoing, in relation to

Epstein. Lord Mumbison has admitted they continued to associate for 'far too long' but has said he never saw any evidence of wrongdoing or criminality.

Thomas Falkey Falkey later suggested it would widen the scope of its investigation into Mr Mountbatten-Windsor to include allegations of sexual misconduct, should people come forward.

Very clever, long, but not sure, the fact of the Met Falkey's obtain files on

Virginia Gindler. The Met interviewed the Gindler in July 2003 after she accused Epstein of trafficking her for sexual right-hands, but before hand a full-blown investigation, saying there was no allegation of criminal conduct against any British nationals.

Falkey are also pushing US officials to hand over unnoticed material from the Epstein files to bolster the investigation, but the efforts are understood to have even fed an impasse.

The UK Epstein Survivors Campaign said an inquiry should also investigate whether individuals in positions of power in Britain 'conflict, hesitated or failed to stop Epstein's global sexual abuse and trafficking network'.

They urged officials to answer lingering questions over the exact funding

details of the settlement paid by the Royal family to Mr Gindler after she accused Mr Mountbatten-Windsor of sexual abuse otherwise ward. He denies the claims. The Kingdom Palace is believed to have handed Mr Gindler, who took her own life last year, a £2bn payment in 2022 to end a New York trial and lawsuit she filed against him alleging sexual abuse, but the exact financial terms were not disclosed.

Reports last week suggested Mr Murchison, the Prime Minister, was set to approve a British inquiry into Epstein, but No 81 later denied that was the case. He is expected to meet Epstein victims in the coming months. Mr. Neil Martin, the Irish business, has also agreed to do so.

A spokesman for the UK Epstein Sur-

vivors Campaign said the group was 'delighted' about both meetings. They said: 'Others have not been an opportunity to finally secure the truth and justice that survivors have been denied for so long, we believe that opportunity exists now under Prime Minister Andy Burnham.'

They added: 'We sincerely hope his leadership can help deliver what survivors have waited for too long for, truth, accountability and justice.'

Caleb for a UK inquiry have received cross-party support, with a number of MPs telling The Telegraph that they fuelled the idea. A following Street spokesman said: 'These women were objectively appalling crimes and then left to carry them largely alone. They deserve to be listened to.'

Pippa ordered to dig up unauthorised car park at country estate

PIPPA MIDDLETON will be forced to dig up an 'anaghtly' car park she built on her Berkshire estate without planning permission after council chiefs received her appeal.

The Princess of Wales's sister, with her husband James Matthews, submitted a retrospective planning application for approval of the facility, which was built last year.

When she became council received objections to the car park and told Mr Middleton that it was out of keeping with the 'beauty landscape' character or retail selling. 'The area

is a large area of with the objections, riding in February that the car park and local standings had introduced 'an

unfunnising and visually intrusive feature into a highly sensitive rural landscape within the North Wessex Downs National Landscape.'

The Telegraph can reveal that on July 12, Mr Middleton's appeal to exertion the riding was dismissed and concerns the facility would take away from the area's 'seven beauty' and biodiversity.

The car park is located in the Wessex Downs, one of 40 areas of countryside across England, Wales and Northern Ireland designated as National Landscapes, which have enhanced protection for preserving seven 'seven'.

Planners and that before the construction of the site, which was built for use by fishermen and angling chiefs, the

area was 'largely underdeveloped' and contributions the 'sponsors and tranquility of the rural area'.

Due to its size and engineered properties, the development has introduced a visually intrusive and urbanized feature into an otherwise open meadow: 'planners said.

There are also concerns that vehicles raining the car park or not have 'adequate visibility', and that it could interfere with the nearby River Estuary, which is one of England's premier chalk streams. Planners said 'no mitigation measures' had been put forward to contact the river from 'adverse impacts'.

Residents of the nearby village of Blenbury, in the Somers' state, previously complained that the car park, fencing and agricultural hand standing put down by the couple ruined the scenic approach to the village.

Some alleged that the parking space was built to keep cars from spoiling views closer to the couple's Burton Court country home.

One resident said: 'Ample parking already exists on the Burton Court estate. Additional parking is unnecessary. 'This application is to move

The car park near Kintbury, Gloucestershire, the Pippa, Middleton, left, and her husband built without planning permission

anaghtly parking out of sight of the applicants on entry to the Burton Court estate to the detriment of the residents and the heritage of Blenbury'.

Others warned of a possible threat caused by building on the surrounding grasslands flood plain, with one resident stating: 'Additional hardstanding will inevitably increase with a view of 'before flood storage capacity and worsen flooding' In their retrospective application for the car park, INC., the

couple's chartered town planners, stated: 'Blasted offly, the anglers have been able to use the small station car park opposite the gate entrance.'

However, new car park rules have been introduced, which means the car park is now only available to rail users. As such, alternative arrangements have had to be made. The hard surface is sufficient to be used for cars, need seasonally, Mr Middleton and Mr Matthews were approved for comment.

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Heatwave may have derailed trains, boss says

Soaring temperatures could cause rails to expand and buckle and ground to dry out and be less stable

By Cameron Henderson

THE summer heatwave may have caused a series of train derailments, a rail bus has admitted

Two trains derailed within 24 hours of each other on Thursday and Friday, prompting experts to warn that soaring temperatures may have caused tracks to expand and buckle

Rail bosses initially insisted that trains were safe during the ongoing heatwave but officials knew we all on investigation will examine whether hot weather played such Martin Frohnder, the young safety and engineering director of Network Rail, said the investigation into the incidents in Essex and East Sussex will be 'looking at climate and all sorts of other issues'

On Thursday, 20 passengers were

taken to hospital, with two seriously injured, when the St. John and/or Victoria by Eastbourne service tipped off the track just outside Lewes, East Sussex. The incident occurred on the hottest day of the year as temperatures stated past the

The next day, the 15.18 Southend to London Greater Anglia service came off the track at W14/6rd in Essex. None of the more than 90 people aboard the Southend to London train were injured, but an ambulance and a substantial number of police were deployed

Speaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Frohnder said: 'We don't let know the full list road reasons for these derailments, but a very detailed investigation is made way and we'll be getting to the bottom of it. And it isn't, we'll be looking at climate and all sorts of other issues as factors'

He added that extra funding may be needed to help the railway cope with the impact of climate summer heat

Mr Frohnder said there were 'lots of challenges' with electronic signalling equipment and the heat, while in win-

Emergency services and rail inspection teams at the scene of the Wickford train derailment

tier there was raised to ensure the stability of embankments in the face of rain and storms 'We're in the process now of putting together our case for our next five years, including cycle, and we'll be making a very strong case for climate resilience,' he said. 'We have £4 this that we're

spending on climate resilience. There's more that we need to do in the future'

His comments appear to undercut those of rail bosses who insisted Britain's trains are safe in hot weather following the East Sussex derailment. Those of the trains right to transport and rest on what regular commuters have said was a notoriously rocky stretch of track

Following the incident, John Whitehurst, the chief executive of Greater Thameshah Railway, told the Today programme: 'The railway made. These types of incidents are incredibly rare. We have control processes in place that involve inspection, temporary speed restrictions, or even stop making services if that's required'

The comments came after The Telegraph spoke to an expert who said that the heatwave could be to blame for the derailment

W8/6rd. Fewer, a professor of geotechnical engineering at the University of Southampton said: 'We have a 'good deal for our time' to call backling,' he said. 'Therefore, the East Sussex incident could be hot weather related, but the exact causal chain of events needs to be established through proper and thorough investigation'

The derailments took place amid a weeks long drought, together with high temperatures over the past few days, prompting concerns that the prolonged dry spell may be causing infrastructure problems

Thursday was the hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures of 19.5C recorded in Europe. It is the fifth heatwave of the year, with temperatures above 20C recorded on four consecutive days after the test season

Both the Lewes and Wickford incidents are under investigation by the Rail Accident Investigators Deputy. Mr Frohnder said that his organisation could be a turning out its own needed investigation 'in which we will look at all possible causes and factors'

Handy Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister, takes a close up look at potatoes being sorted during a visit to the drought hit family-run business F G Pryor & Son Ltd, at Colwyn Farm near Truro, in Cornwall, yesterday.

Reform pledges to end hosepipe bans and build more reservoirs

By Adelina Miller WHITMAN, COMMISSIONER

REFORM 1/8 has pledged to end summer hosepipe bans by building more reservoirs and wrapping water reduction targets

Nigel Fainget's party said that if it entered government, it would continue more reservoirs by build along through local opposition and end upp

Reform wants to categorise every new reservoir as 'substantially significant infrastructure', which would allow ministers to overrule local authority planning decisions

The party said it would reduce the

threshold for reservoirs to be considered as such from 30 million cubic meters to 10 million cubic meters

New reservoirs, the party claimed, could soon millions of litres of rainfall that was virtually shunting away

The party said it would scrap the Government's existing water reduction targets, which am to dark public water use by 10 per cent in 2016 compared with a 2000 20/handice

Reform said Labour should recognise the 'no' air on island cotton (in most with abundant rainfall' and should 'build as many reservoirs as it takes to ensure that a lack of water is never a constraint in Britain'. It added that it

would fast track and build more desalination plants, as 'the future' during extended periods of low rainfall

In May last year, Darron Jones announced Labour's plans to build nine new reservoirs, while serving as his first Harmer's chief secretary to the Treasury

None have so far been completed. Harcombe governments have rejected proposals to build large reservoirs, claiming it would be damaging to the environment. The last large scale English reservoir was built in 1992

Plan for a 20-lbs range reservoir in Abingdon, which would have supplied water to more than 15 million people,

were expected to the Tony-led coalition in 2018. In trained there was 'no immediate need' for the site

The project has still not gained planning permission, despite mass public support. If it were approved tomorrow, it is projected the reservoir would be ready for use from 2040

Under the Water Resources Planning Guidelines, water companies must 'specifically consider' how reservoir projects will contribute to reaching Britain's water reduction targets

Last year, the Environment Agency wanted if a potential fire billion (former-day sheriff) in public water supplies by 2015, if action were not taken

urgently. Millions of people across the country have been subjected to hosepipe bans that usually preventing them from filling children's puddling pools, entering their gardens and washing their cars because of reduced rainfall

Affinity Water, Anglian Water, Coirpidge Water, Essex and Suffolk Water, Southend Water, South East Water, South West Water, Thames Water, Welsh Water and Essex & Suffolk Water have all introduced climate

A Reform 1/8 spokesman said 'A prosperous country should not have to turn the tape off to the summer. This is the consequence of the Tories importing 12 million people over 14 years, plac-

ing huge strain on our infrastructure. We must embrace abundance and build a many reservoirs and take to ensure that a lack of water is never a constraint in Britain. This is common sense

Our changes will end annual hosepipe bans by abolishing the Government's water reduction targets, allowing water companies to build for actual demand. Stunting every reservoir as nationally significant and emerging away the environmental end tape that has come to advertise the welfare of newly and badgers over and above the water supply of British households

Labour and the Conservatives were approached for comment

Industry must reward people through bills, says trade body

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took a 'rewarding people through their water bill'

The proposals to formalise surge pricing follow small totals in several parts of the country, the largest covering about its 1000 Anglia's Water house

Costs have been raised from 25,000 per cubic metre to as much as £4.50 from May to August

The price out of this year, it is reduced to £3.78 per cubic metre. Vulnerable and passive customers are excluded from the scheme

About half of customers cut their consumption in response

Anglia's Water is considering expanding the scheme

Seasonal and block pricing have also been tradeable to reach from Water

Under block pricing, those using 'essential' amounts of water pay a base rate, with surge levels such as 'stand-

ard' and 'premium' carrying higher costs

The would-be households who use house or sprinklers to water their gardens

Ministers want to cut the average consumption of water per person per day from about 100.5 litres

As 10% of the total

The off-take use of this year, it is reduced to £3.78 per cubic metre. Vulnerable and passive customers are excluded from the scheme

Under block pricing, those using 'essential' amounts of water pay a base rate, with surge levels such as 'stand-ard' and 'premium' carrying higher costs

Burnham: Extinction Rebellion have done us 'great service'

By Genevieve Bedi Allen and Adelina Miller

ANNY BERNARD said that Extinction Rebellion (ER) had done a 'great service' by pushing climate change up the political agenda, it has emerged

The Prime Minister praised the climate problem for the intervention to the issue at a time when political decisions was dominated by Russia

Mr Burnham made the comments in October 2016, while he was the mayor of Greater Manchester, which a question time event with the public

Further that month, ER had co-initiated 10 days of protest, targeting London City Airport, and shutting down areas around Parliament and the Bank of England. Some protesters targeted

London's public transport network by climbing onto the top of Tube trains during rush hour

Mr Burnham said that the events in the capital had 'got [him] worried a little bit' as the actions raised making ch-

mire change a 'diminive' issue. But he told the event: 'They've done in many ways a great service in getting these

unassuring up there.'

When one constituent said that ER 'ultimately will be seen on the right side of history' like the suffragettes, the then mayor replied: 'I think you are making a fair point.'

In this country we decide issues with debate and elections, not deliberate

thoughts of people's lives

The Tories have demanded that Mr Burnham publicly distance himself from ER's tactics. Activists have plied themselves to truism, blocked bridges and brought traffic in central London to

half in part of ER protest

During three hours of protests in April and October of 2016 and in September 2020, more than 1700 people

were arrested. The cost of the policing was more than £10m

ER also organised demonstrations in Manchester in August and September 2016 blocking the major city street of

Etrangster. Their Fifty, the shadow house secretary, said: 'In this country we decide issues with debate and elections, not deliberate

the major city street of other people's lives, which can affect children getting to school or getting to hospital for treatment'

Andy Burnham should withdraw his support for the problems criminally and say plainly that blockading cities and smashing up other people's property constitutes criminality

Since arriving at 9:45, Mr Burnham has said he would take a 'pregnatio' approach to North Sea oil and gas, amid concerns about energy costs and pressure on households. But as wildfires have tapped across the country, he faces

reversed pressure from climate activists to block projects such as Leckleier and

Rosebank from young about

than 1000 m². The 'proper' of other people's lives, which can affect children getting to school or getting to hospital for treatment

Since arriving at 9:45, Mr Burnham has said he would take a 'pregnatio' approach to North Sea oil and gas, amid concerns about energy costs and pressure on households. But as wildfires have tapped across the country, he faces reversed pressure from climate activists to block projects such as Leckleier and Rosebank from young about

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PM calls for 'a moment of reflection' on a relay death

Burnham urges people not to rush to judgment over Cambridge professor who resigned in plagiarism row

By Janet Eastham NEWS & NEWS REPORTER

ANDY BURNHAM yesterday paid tribute to former Cambridge professor Jason Ayday, describing his death as a 'tragedy'.

Mr Ayday, at, who resigned from his position as professor of sociology of education after a plagiarism row, was pronounced dead at an address in Baltimore, south London, on Friday afternoon. Scotland Turks' trimming his death was announced, but not suspicious.

Speaking to broads astres, the Prime Minister expressed his confidence to Mr Ayday's family and called for a 'moment of reflection'.

He said: 'It's a tragedy on so many levels, but particularly just for everybody who knew Jason, his family obviously, his friends. We think of them.

'It's a tragedy on so many levels... a really sad, sad and sorry state of affairs and we all think of Jason.'

Ayday 'as Burnham, who was visiting a farm in Cornwall, urged people not to rush to judgment.'

He said: 'It's not a moment for any reading to judgment. It's a moment for reflection. I would say, 'I think you're how things came to this. A really sad, sad and sorry state of affairs and I think we all today think of Jason, his contribution, and his family and friends.'

Mr Ayday, who was Cambridge's youngest black professor, resigned from the faculty of education after the university launched an investigation into his academic qualifications and honorary appointments.

The university was also separately considering a number of complaints of alleged academic misconduct.

It came after the Telegraph reported that an analysis of his PhD thesis had showed that more than 100 separate passages were identical or more identical to another student's work.

An investigation at Liverpool John Moores University, where Mr Ayday

completed the PhD, cleared him of wrongdoing, and he always denied it. In his resignation statement, Mr Ayday, a 'tragedy' was being sent to the public in charge for his decision to stop down. He said the practical issue 'with out question, the greatest professional privilege of my life'.

Mr Ayday is survived by his wife and two children. In a statement on Friday, his family and friends—to him as a 'preliminary' and an 'advisory' father, partner, brother, uncle and son.

The statement said: 'Jason was still, a 'trotter'—a campaign of sustained abuse for the most than three years since he accepted the role of professor in Cambridge University. He chose who would have no other statement in their quest to undermine him.

'The campaign of misinformation was to come for Jason, who was a great man and who always wanted to see the best in everyone. We are in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son.'

Yesterday, Prof Deborah Prentice, Cambridge University's vice chancellor, said her 'thoughts and deepest confidence' were with Mr Ayday's family and loved one.

Prof Prentice said: 'Today, we prove to remember him, and to mourn his loss, which will be still a reasonable collection university and from us.'

Last night Cambridge confirmed that Mr Ayday had been a good with support, including counselling, which continued after his resignation.

A spokesman said: 'Throughout his time at Cambridge, Jason received a range of support to children to both his mental and physical wellbeing.

'This included the provision of counselling, support and advice, and security measures, including the installation of panic alarms and the screening of recent questions.'

Our support continued in the face of intense public and media scrutiny and after his resignation.

Durham University, where Mr Ayday, retired from 2009 to 2012, also paid tribute. A spokesman said: 'He is remembered at Durham as a kind and warm person, who actively sought to promote opportunities for PhD students. We want to express our deepest sympathy to his family who are in our thoughts today.'

Mr Ayday grew up in London, attending a state primary school in Baltimore and secondary school in Southside.

Aaron Ayday once found dead at an address in Baltimore, London, on Friday. Andy Burnham said his death was a tragedy

School plans to tax pupils for good behaviour and hard work

By Ricky Cline NEWS REPORTER

HARD WORKING children at a new independent school in West London may soon be handling an icon certain alongside their homework.

Inspired Friday Academy, which will open the doors in Birmingham in September 2007, plans to rework hard work and hard work in the new England school currency, called 'edge coins' – but will tax it to that library books.

The book is a book that will be used for use the currency to set up their own businesses within the school campus, so it is intended to free friends and entrepreneurs.

Buy more of the goods will be claimed in the way for books, playground equipment or class trips.

'Kinds cannot from the tax will support payers in ambulatories that benefit the ticket to the Community,' a school spokesman said. 'helping pupils understand how collective contributions can create shared benefits on the real world.'

Mike Lambert, the global director of Internet Education, which is launching the school, said pupils would be able to see what had been taken on a digital

Financial skills of different ages

Understanding of finance

'The value of the goods will be a reward for the school,' he said.

'The organization and that person who has been able to see what has been taken on a digital

...

Universities give £8k tuition-fee discounts to foreign students

and become little sentinely capitalists. 'If they're selling from a food van, they'll deal with the health and safety regulations, and the venture capital. They can invest their edge-out money into businesses they've seen do well.'

Inspired Education runs 10 percent schools across 20 countries, including Wetherby, Proy School, a Swiss school that attended by the Prince of Wales.

The school said pupils from the age of 8 would be able to earn the coins by doing well in their work, contributing to group projects and demonstrations, luncheon and leadership. The hope is to teach pupils an 'age appropriate understanding of financial literacy'.

The initiative advising launched email concerns about young people's financial literacy, after a survey found that more than half have spacer understand the of concepts such as inflation and compound interest.

The survey of 20,000 people for India found a charity. The Richmond Project, and found that adults alike than 15 with GCSE level education have better financial skills than poor graduates who are 20 years younger.

By Daniel Hardaker

UNIVERSEITIES are giving foreign students tuition-fee discounts of up to £4,000.

At least 25 institutions now hand out Market partial fee waivers on postgraduate courses, which are applied are typically without the student having to pay more for a school's fee, according to a study by 5 Inquest Insights.

It comes until billing numbers or average students owing to tighter vis-a-vis similar research competition than universities abroad.

Home Office figures show student visa applications to the end of July till 11 per cent compared to the previous year, putting pressure on a sector increase apply valued on foreign income.

Foreign students who enrol on a taught or research postgraduate course at the University of Aberdeen are expected to be at an £8,000 discount, according to the university's website.

It also offers a £4,000 discount for undergraduate courses under the Aberdeen Global Scholarship programme. At the Russell Group University

of Nottingham, foreign postgraduate students will automatically receive a £3,000 discount with 'no applications needed'.

The research support for professional archip awarded based on academic merit. In May, the university announced plans to cut more than 600 f.c.m. The cost of a master's degree at the market.

The risk is that along with a deciber in the number of international students, the fee for each is also reduced

even on the delighian £30,000 for international students.

At Kent University, students from 14 countries, including China, Nigeria, Vietnam and Pakistan, will get a £5,000 discount on master's courses.

There is no application process for the partial review.

The university's website said students who had accepted their offer would be contacted in due course. The Financist'洒o quoted Julian

Westwood, director of 5 Inquest Insights, as saying that universities had 'shifted from smaller scholarships to loans to broad, overly simple and so-called.'

He added: 'The risk is that along with a deciber in the number of international students, the fee for each is also reduced - a scenario that may be beyond the standard of equal opportunity and a financial plan.'

Zentral Press, founder of the Brand Education and Smithson's serving universities and other educational establishments, said this 'saving war' could backfire. 'Higher-tariff universities are not only offering scholarships, but they're also reducing their grade requirements to allow students to... It's easy to the lookout.'

Little Market, the chief executive of the Brand Group, said international students who are required and310 total benefits to Britain.

However, she added that a 'carton of policy decisions by successive governments, including the912public interest rate, is not a 'saving war', it's its undermining this success (story)'.

Standalone prep schools 'will vanish in five years over Labour VAT raid'

By Albert Yall, Elizabeth Evans and Ron Roeble

MOST mandates prep schools will vanish in the next five years as a result of Labour VAT raid, one of the country's most senior school leaders has claimed. The new school was a 'saving war' and a 'saving' for the Suffolk School in Cumbria, said that prep schools not attached to senior schools or responsible school groups were particularly vulnerable to the financial crisis. The school's first day was returned 1.30 per cent levy on fees.

He said that there schools, many of which had been the bedrock of the public school system for decades, found the increase in taxes on parents and teenagers could cause to enter because of income or margins.

'If you are a standalone prep school, the predictions are that there will be a 'saving war' and a 'saving' for the told The Telegraph. 'I believe that unless you are a school which currently

has a waiting list with big numbers, you have a duty to look at options because the headwinds are against you.'

The private school sector has been designed into a new, well-structured Labour process of the VAT exemption for school fees in January 2018, with over 1,000 students in payments no longer able to afford the first.

More than four years school's hard-closed since the measure was introduced, according to the Independent National Board of Agreements, the new susceptible to the financial pressures because of their lower pupil numbers, and because cash-strapped parents' choosing to wait until secondary level or pre-paid school fees in children.

The data show they have been losing pupils in recent years.

Between 2010 and 2015, the number of prep schools paid children in 15 years will be 1,000. The school's average age is 6 per cent, hitting 233.700. Since then, the number has fallen by 5.2 per

'Unless you are a school which has a waiting list with big numbers, headwinds are against you'

cent is 249.701 in the 2019 38 academic year, the lowest level recorded in a decade, according to data from the Department for Education. By contrast, the number of students of that age in the state sector fell by just 1.2 per cent between 2007-18 and 2020-20.

That even since the Sotheby & School Group, which includes the 500-year-old Suffolk School as well as several prep schools in the UK.

He said: 'VAT on fees has been the final state level for schools along with business rates, the minimum wage, energy prices and the growing cost of upbringing after building.'

'All of them do two and the declining levels are known as the living a American situation - it will be the survival of the fitters. Ruptly or wrongly the big will get bigger. It's a tough situation if you are a school of a certain size, and we are sure a softly cut situation.'

He added: 'The next 18 months will be complete - those with schools con-

ning for cover and announcements of mergers weekly with closures weekly or fortnightly, and it won't settle down for at least ten years.'

Prep schools with over the financial support of a senior school, responsible charity or corporate school group have even a little effect.

The Telegraph reported last week that two standalone prep schools had closed in the space of a week. Manning Labour's VAT raid by the decision.

Until the new school was of financing Abbotts, one of the oldest independent nursery and prep schools in West Sussex, found this 50,100 of the introduction of VAT on school fees as one of the 'financing of inner schools' and 'reducing space' for the school's long-going.

Amounts I might fit, head of more House School in Essex, attributed her school's money to 'increased operating costs, declining pre-paid school fees and the additional financial pressures arising from VAT on fees'. Other standalone

'The next 38 months will be complete - those with closures weekly or fortnightly'

prep schools to have closed since the beginning of 2018 include the historic Exeter Colhedral School, and Westchester House School in Surrey.

The new school was also the book had a 'duty' to help others in the most challenging times the sector had ever faced. The new school was also the book that include England co-lever Harry Brook and Will Cuthers, the former England rugby captain, is one of several major public schools that have taken over the past 10 years as well. By bringing them under the umbrella of a charitable group.

The Government claims the overall bill in private school pupil numbers will be 1,000. The new school across the whole school system, in the VAT policy alone, is spokesman said. 'Betting tax breaks for private schools will raise £2,000 a year to £250-50 is long fund and the new school will be supporting the 10 per cent of children as state schools in a future and future.'

Burst pipe at Heathrow causes chaos for travellers

By Emily Smith FOREIGN DIRECTION NEWS REPORTER

FASHIONARIES Bring out of Heathrow airport blood travel chaos yesterday after a burst pipe caused flooding between its terminals.

Holiday797s battled heavily congested roads after the laws around Terminals 2 and 3 were temporarily closed yesterday morning, with a problem urged to allow extra time for their partners.

Airport houses said the flooding was caused by a burst water main beneath lower King Road West, adding that the roads must be recastened. They said repairs were carried out. Heathrow initially 'strongly advised' passengers from Heathrow Express, Elizabeth Line and Pat Laddly Line call services instead of doctors.

It said 'any passengers that must travel by car near one fork and thân, but it's insinuable how it could take free rail services from them, or change at local rail stations. Please allow extra time for your partners.'

On Friday one working to resolve the situation was made as possible. We apologise for any disruption caused.

'I wasn't notified about the flood and only realised what was up when my father read news about it'

Amid Norwich, 4d, and her family were staying in central London and set to fly from Bruthown to The Gloucester River. The mother said that they had initially planned to get an 'Our to the sport'. So I heard that no cars could get near Terminals 2 and 3 so had to change their path.

Finally said that 'he's gained' the 'fresh station (neted, adding: 'Now we're late and hopefully we're going to catch our fight.'

At the Hamilton, 3d, had been staying in the Isle of Wiggey and was flying from Heathrow to Sea Town in New Jersey. Asked how the flooding had caused the flood, said: 'Well I wasn't notified so I丝毫 do go on Terminals 2 and get a 'train' over here because I obviously can't get dropped to Terminals 2'. The said the action she was flying would almost tell her about the situation and only realised what was up when her father read news about it.

In May, a burst water main caused flooding in the same Heathrow terminal, resulting in the suspension of all trains running to and from the airport.

Yesterday passengers were told to check the status of their flights before traveling to the airport and to contact authors for updated information.

Virgin Atlantic, which operates out of Terminals 2, said all of its flights were to be carried out by a scheduled.

British American flights are also under-structed to be operating as normal.

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Restore donor said we need a new Hitler

Activist who gave £2,500 to party also published a number of anti-Semitic posts on social media

By Guernsey Bishikim and Sabrina Miller

AN ACTIVIST who gave £2,500 to Restore Britain and the world needed 'another Hitler'. The Telegraph can reveal

Miss Routledge, who calls himself the 'last great British engineer' and documents his world travels on YouTube, would expect Lowry party in February

He had previously said that Adolf Hitler was a 'great man' and said the idea of 'another Hitler' by 2019 would bring him 'my said hope in this world'.

The YouTube was claimed that Jewish people were 'decreasing up about their true numbers' which he said was in order to 'cling to that' but of unburied myths.

He said, 'I was so concerned about the world's 'crusade' that 'the party is 'crusade' but it is not a 'crusade' that 'the party is 'crusade' but it is not a 'crusade' that 'the party is 'crusade' but it is not a 'crusade' that 'the party is 'crusade' but it is not a 'crusade' that 'the party is 'crusade' but it is not a 'crusade' that 'the party is 'crusade' but it is not a 'crusade' that 'the party is 'crusade' but it is not

The group was set up 'to support the movements' world thanking research, outreach, and strategic campaigns' and response members to donate £2,500 a year.

Restore Britain acknowledged that the party had to report on donations from Mr Routledge but a party spokesman said they had refused to form 'weeks and weeks ago'.

What brings me joy and hope in this world is that by 2019 we'll have another Hitler'

The party declined to provide further details as to who the money was refunded when asked by the Telegraph.

In January, Mr Routledge wrote on it. 'Hitler was a great man, God bless him. We need another Hitler.'

But months earlier, he had made another remark praising the German doctors, declaring: 'What brings me joy and hope in this world is that by 2019 we'll have another Hitler to lead another great uprising'.

The YouTube also wrote a number of anti-Semitic posts, including saying just days before he donated to Boston's 'Awesome Jew' is such an opium.

'It's like saying 'being pedophile' or 'peaceful genocide in time'.

In another post, Mr Routledge claimed that Jewish people were 'decreasing up about their true numbers'.

He wrote 'They gave [sic] pity.' 'We're a tiny nation with us few people' in reality, there are thirty-timmer than they officially admit.

They don't fill in the census data and hide state to cling to that 'Small of extinction myth.' In the days after he £2,500 donation, Mr Routledge photodopied his profile picture to add a very cap redillement with Boston Britain.

I suggest total comparison in the UK to our profile pic [sic] will reflect that 'he said.'

Restore has come under growing scrutiny over the views of its members and supporters in recent weeks, after overretaining about 1% of party's co-founder, Charlie Downs.

Donations from this individual were refunded weeks and weeks ago. He is not a member.

The Telegraph revealed earlier this month that Mr Downs had been accused of suggesting Nigel Farag had been 'bought' by Jewish supporters.

Before 18 has ruled out striking any deal with Restore unless it expels Mr Downs, something which Mr Lowe has so far refused to do.

Mr Downs has previously said that 'Mistake are 'few British' than Christian, in remarks that were widely condemned.

A spokesman for Reuters said: 'Donations from this individual were refunded weeks and weeks ago. He is not a member and has no relationship with the party. Yet another man has been accused of suggesting Nigel Farag had been 'bought' by Jewish supporters.

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Don't slow down on net zero, Khan tells Burnham

By Telegraph Reporters

ANDY BURNHAM must not "slow down on net zero," Sir Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayor of London, has said.

In a sign of treasures within Labour over net zero, Sir Sadiq has told the Prime Minister that the heyday are and wildfires showed the need for action on climate change.

Mr Burnham has acknowledged the devastations caused by the extreme weather in because of climate change.

However, he has faced criticism from the Left over his stance on North Sea oil and gas and potentially watering down targets of the take-up of electric vehicles.

Sir Sadiq called for "reassurance" from Mr Burnham that there would be no difference from unemployment and reliance on fossil fuels, demanding international "action over agility" on climate change.

Mr Burnham has promised a "pregnator" approach to North Sea oil and gas, winning praise from Ronald Trump, who has advocated a "drill, baby, drift" approach to the fossil-fuel reserves. Labour's Little Verdon made fours promised there would be no new licences for exploration of oil and gas fields, although this still leaves open the uproar of greater exploitation of existing sites.

However, Sir Sadiq said the planet was not "a little prevalent product".

"We need reassurance from the Government that they won't slow down on net zero or reducing our reliance on oil and gas and that they'll continue accelerating the given investment we need to get our country and planet back on track," he said.

After visiting Bournbridge on Friday to see wildlife damage, Mr Burnham said: "This is what climate change looks like, how and how."

However, the Government has launched a consultation on cutting its zero-emission vehicle available, which currently sets a target for 90p of all new car sales to be zero-emission by 2030, to a figure as low as 30pc.

Rush Alexander, the Transport Secretary, said: "It's right to see by targets under review to ensure they're practical and back British industry."

A tricky wicket The annual Bramble Bank cricket match between the Royal Southern Yacht Club, from Humble, and the Island Sailing Club, from Cowes, takes place on a temporary sandbar in the middle of the Solent in Hampshire with the tide in retreat. The game lasts until the tide returns.

Britain's first 15mph limit cycle lane opens

Busy Cambridge route aims to tackle reckless riding after concerns from residents, council says

By Barry Brennan and Robert White

BRITAIN's first 15mph hike lane will aim to tackle the no-range of speeding cyclists threatening the safety of pedestrians.

Cambridge, Britain's cycling capital, has introduced limits along one of the city's most popular hike routes.

Cambridgeshire county council said that the move was in response to regular concerns from residents "on looking for a high and inclusive with young children" over cyclists travelling at "no-name speed".

Permanent speed limits apply to two short-draw paths that run along the city to make a point known, which has already been stored in health and safety fittings.

The Liberal Democrat authority is able to apply the restrictions as much as possible to the local level of land, with flashing signage used at detection points warning cyclists that are speeding to "slow down". Previously,

cycling restrictions have been reserved for public parks, with archaic bylaws that govern the public highways preventing authorities from limiting the speeds of cyclists on roads and bike tracks.

When The Telegraph visited Cambridge on Friday, he also welcomed the change, with one medical student who cycles on the route saying he had seen about "half a dozen" accidents.

By Ian Duncan Smith, the former leader of the Conservative Party who successfully campaigned for hardest laws for reckless cyclists, said that the speed limit was "great news".

Managing pedestrians and bicycles can be dangerous but often surrogate cyclists should be aware they now face the full weight of the law if they fail to obey the rules of the road," he added.

However, some were already defying the restrictions, claiming the council was proclaiming rulers to limit its own liability following a string of casualties on the busway.

One enclamed "good luck enforcing it" as he rode past the added "Look, I'm using 20mph."

Another ideated that the limit was "ridiculous" before speeding around the corner.

Cambridge is known as the nation's

Cyclists have set their Cambridge that turn a 70 MPH speed limit in place

cycling capital, in part because of a no-driven established by the university city's students but also because a "active trend" in homes that have given one sense of the road network to crime.

Tobacco policy by Bobby Crichton online - tracking their speed and heart rates as they cycle along the busway path - show them showing up speeds of about 20mph, weaving around dog about 10mph, parking around and toddlers walking alongside their parents and riding balance bikes.

It is not split in two like many shared

paths, meaning walkers, cyclists and home riders all can see space.

Approved last year, signs have now gone up and limits are painted along fronts.

The restrictions will be enforced with the help of a dedicated police patrol, who - alongside a "busway safety team" - will use speed monitoring equipment to catch those "clearly exceeding the limit".

Going the route, there are also multiple placards with QR codes to encourage locals to report "nationwide behaviour and criminality on the busway" to the police.

It is part of a safety overhaul of the guided busway, which has been blighted by safety failings since its launch in 2011.

The council was forced to pay out a 20m fine last year after plucking gaudy to two health and safety bicycles that resulted in a string of fatalities and injuries.

This included the deaths of Jennifer Taylor, Steven Muir and Kathleen Pitts, who were all killed in collisions with bans that run on a packet track, which runs along a former rail line.

Updates have included new fences to separate the path from the bus roads, but concerns were raised that this had

"Cyclists should be aware they now face the full weight of the law if they fail to obey the rules"

narrowed the passing space between bicycles on some parts of this path, increasing the risk of collisions.

The city's 6 bikes - operated by bus - are capped at 10mph but authorities have become increasingly concerned about rising national behaviour along the route.

This includes the use of 4-bikes more broadly, particularly private cabins modified to far exceed their capped speeds.

Anyone breaking the limit will be stopped by enforcement officers and advised to slow down, with repeat offenders expected to be met with hardest treatment on bus lines.

A council spokesman said: "The speed limits have been introduced to keep keep all users of the path which runs alongside the busway safe," adding that the council would be under its "effectiveness".

A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Constabulary said: "Speeding in this area has been re-captured as an issue and work is ongoing to tackle it for local residents.

"Offsure are being given dedicated time to patrol the area in question and we are working with partners to tackle the issues and enforce the speed limit," they added.

Stop Dartford Crossing toll in heavy congestion, AA boss says

By Gareth Cortfield

YOUTH WOMEN'S COMMUNITY COUNSEL

DARTFORD CROSSTELLY also should be suspended at times of high congestion caused by roadroads, the issue of the AA boss says.

Edmund King, president of the motoring organization, called for the A3.50-a-tone charge for using the Thames crossing to be lifted wherever roadworks or a vehicle caused full backs on the bridge or the approaches to its associated tunnels.

It comes after The Telegraph revealed that the crossing had cost materials a record-breaking of less than one year year - a figure that jumped by £30m, or 30 per cent, from the road before.

The two names of the three windows by Labour ministers causing the crossing to be 40 per cent for car drivers last September.

Mr King argued: "It does not see forced riding a roadway to use the Dartford Crossing, then it is only fair that the change should be lifted if driver are caused by road works or highway authorities not choosing accidents within a section.

"Otherwise, drivers are paying money for nothing and getting no value from their payment," he continued, calling us for Government to believe a "fair loss" for motorists.

Mr King argued that money given to the government by drivers for using the

Government Income from Dartford Crossing toll fees

Dartford Crossing was arguably a payment in exchange for a service.

In 2005, Karen Patinoff, the three national statistics say, expressed to the House of Commons transport committee that "bridge toll charges are payments made for vehicles to use the roads within a defined zone," adding that those are "therefore classified as payments for a service."

Lifting or reimbursing tolls when traffic congestion within the control of the authorities building an avenues that has been successfully introduced in Italy. Drivers who are delayed be between one and two hours receive 30

per cent of their toll payments back from the government. Those stuck for more than three hours receive a total reimbursement of hard fees.

A Department for Transport spokesman said: "Charges were increased last September to keep the crossing safe, as it's now being used by the more value for each day than it was held by."

Every penny of Start charge revenues in contracted as transport projects, including those benefiting people across Eaves and Kent such as supporting the Lower Thames Crossing, which reduces the burden on the public pence.

We owe it to the next generation to fix our out-of-control welfare system

Kevin Badenoch

LAST week, the Conservative Party laid out our plans to end foreign national entitlement to social housing, 30-pounded by moral vaccines from the usual suspects.

But it is the kind of reality, it is called more straightforward. Under our change, as we remove resources from foreign national the homes would give strength to British families at the top of the waiting list.

This is common sense, saves the support money, and removes another burden on the poor. Since 2004, the Left think asking people to find a retail property, as the vast majority of British young people already have to fix, is some extraordinary crutch.

Then the inflationary appears columnar-curious omission: the British families who were waiting first.

Conservatives are not against people from other countries coming to our country and contributing. But we also expect them to pay their way while being here. Britain cannot afford to foot the bill for foreign national to live in so far loosing when over 1.1 million CB from households are currently on control home waiting lists. I'm not surprised Labour MPs were the most

hostile. All they want is more welfare, the other even care who gets it. It's why I say they are no longer the Labour Party, but the Welfare Party.

But you don't have to take my word for: The Welfare Secretary Pat McFarlane himself essentially admitted it when he told Peter MacArthur, "Every morning I have [with Labour MPs] to 'Who can we tan in order to pay benefits to others?' Labour MPs didn't let Stanner on welfare spending, and they won't let Burnham do it either."

Our upwelling welfare dependency is staggering. The Government's own proportion say that an extra 2.2 million people will start receiving as his own benefits between the last general election and 2016. Welfare spending on working-age people and children will rise by £2.8m over that period.

This is saying bill has a unanticipated consequences. The most immediate is the devastating waste of human potential. Then there is the impact on the working population, who wish it as money that should be in their bank accounts instead goes straight into the pockets of those who could and should work. The end result is a deep mistrust as society, with those who get up safe and go to work every single day increasingly overruled of those whose welfare was frown and up to over leave the driveway. To only offer up vague154mphs on welfare reform, as

Andy Burnham has done is a complete failure of leadership.

Our plan to remove foreign nationals entitlement to social housing, and Labour's reaction, shows why Conservative can 'be only party that can be treated to pay the welfare bill down. We are the only party with a credible, thought-through plan to cut spending by tens of billions of pounds.

We will put eligibility for law level neutral health problems like anxiety, being back face-to-face assessments, and reassure all existing disability benefit claimants under new criteria within 12 months. We will remove entitlement to welfare for all non-CB citizens and do the same with social housing. We will also contribute the two child benefit cap.

There will be a lot of anger, cries of how tough we're being. But by making these changes we will create a benefits system for those who really need it, and new incentives to work for those who shouldn't be getting handouts.

Britain is running out of time. I have offered to work with Andy Burnham to fix the system, the mill hasn't replied to my letter. So, I made the offer again. If he wants to do something about it, he will need Conservative voice.

Politicians owe it to the next generation to fix the welfare problem.

Kevin Badenoch is the leader of the Conservative Party.

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Retired police officer fined over offensive online posts

Blasphemy law is back, says former policeman charged with criminal offence over his social media comments

By Will Bolton (KIM) COMMONWEALTH When Stephen Gray, a retired police officer, was told he would be charged with a criminal offence for sharing posts online that were critical of Islam, his first concern was not for himself.

It was for the young Irish girl he and his wife had been fostering for the past six years.

He told The Telegraph: "I was initially quite worried because obviously we have to have enhanced EBS checks to foster children. Those kids have enough to pay up with without the fear they may be moving again hanging over their heads."

Gray, 60, who worked for Cleveland Police for nearly three decades, went on trial at Newton Ascliffe majorstator court in April 2020. Despite pointing out he had only reduced the posts, as

'It's a dangerous road... trying to use the justice system to get an lo stop criticising a religion'

hundreds, of other people had, and explaining he viewed them as political satire. he was found guilty of making a grossly offensive post on Facebook contrary to Section 2252(a) of the Communication Act 2003.

Speaking from his home in Darlington, County Durham, Gray still cannot get his head around the fact he has a criminal conviction for a post on social media. He said: "I guess some of the posts may have been in bad taste. Some of them may upset one or two people, but I didn't think for one second it would be and a grossly offensive for the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and by the courts. Not for one second."

Gray was charged over the reporting of two allegedly offensive images.

The first had the words "time for mass deportation" alongside an image of a Middle Eastern man, who was in his 14y 20s or 30s, and the words "Children is there".

The image had the caption "12-year-old McAneman's recently arrived at Dever. Please donate to help him move from a three-star to a five-star hotel with a doctor's hand-boxed, few will and My and to sneers to a girls' school."

The second image was a picture of a racket of bacon and a man in a turban alongside his caption "I'm here about Bacon!" People who sat bacon have a lower class of marrying a 9-year-old!"

Ultimately, the district judge who tried this one ruled the first post was not grossly offensive and it related to a political issue that had been defeated in Parliament.

The second image, however, resulted

in a conviction. The judge ruled the post was not political, it was about religion, built was grossly offensive.

Getting evidence during the trial, Gray pointed out that he had not made the images himself but had simply refused the images along with those tailed of offer people.

The posts had not been directed at any individual and the person who committed a shoot at its police in the first place, was a non-Muslim neighbour of Gray's, with whom he had previously had an unrelated disagreement.

Gray said: "I made a joke, an ironic joke, about Islam. That is all it was at the end of the day. A joke. I certainly never, not for one second, thought it would be doomful/donuts."

After being found guilty, Gray, who is appealing against the decision with his support of the Free Speech Union (FSU) was also ordered to pay more than £1,000 in fines and costs. Gray and his wife also, 62, have fostered three children over the past seven years. He informed social services about the prosecution after he was charged.

Trem they looked at it and said: This is after rubbish! They reasoned me nothing would happen as a result of it," he said. "So that was a lot of pressure off. We were very worried about losing her." After traversing the press, Durham Commissioner passed a list of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), who initially declined to charge Gray, saying there was no realistic prospect of conviction.

But the press is also made the original complaint appealed the decision using the Victims' Right to Review scheme, and the CPS then decided to proceed with the case.

When they initially presented the case in court, prosecutors highlighted posts Gray had published a criticism of the Labour Party and Sir Evar Sturmer "for content".

Gray said: "Back when I was serving, if I had taken this case to my sergeant or inspector, I would have been on foot next night (all) for the next five years for wanting everybody's time."

Gray said he was "humbled" by all the help he had been given to light the case. He appeal is scheduled to be heard in November. He said he believed prosecutions such as his were an attempt to revive blasphemy laws in the US. "I said that it was dangerous to start the Government in going down trying to use the justice system to get an lo stop criticising a religion," he added.

Lord Twang of Acton, general secretary of the FFS, said after traversing people for making jokes about Islam, particularly if their contains kernel of truth, is a new law. No one making a similar joke about Jesus would face prosecution. Blasphemy laws were abolished in England 19 years ago and should not be resurrected by the courts and applied to just one religion."

The CPS declined to comment while Gray's appeal was ongoing.

Durham Commissioner has been approached for comment.

Happy camper Gillian Anderson, 58, attends a screening of slasher film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Maroons, in which she plays a reclusive former actress, at Pictorialhouse Central in London.

Firefighter's shin splints not a disability, tribunal rules

By Telegraph Reporter

A FIREFIGHTER claimed that shin splits were a disability, an employment tribunal found.

Adela Gorman used Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service for disability discrimination after claiming she failed an incline while on a treadmill for a 48-hour test because it caused her too much shin pain.

However, the tribunal, held in Newcastle, dismissed the case after ruling that shin splints do not count as a disability. Shin splints are a type of pain and tenderness along the front of the lower leg which occur when too much stress has been put out, including running or

jumping on hard surfaces. McGorman began working as a firefighter in 2014 and had regularly completed a fitness test called the Cheshire Stop Test. This test, carried out to ensure firefighters are in shape, involves stripping on and off a platform at increasing speed.

From 2020, the service which had to a test called the Cheshire Walk Test, which involves walking on a treadmill that has no incline increased over a period of time. When McGorman was asked to do this, she requested to do the step test instead because she had shin splints and the incline involved in the walk test caused her pain.

She was allowed to do the step test during the transition period for the new

fitness policy, but after spring 2018 it was no longer permitted as a fitness test. When she was due to complete a fitness test in 2023, she asked to do the

14 miles

Who which friends firefighter completed by part running and part walking, while experienced on shin pain afterwards

step test again. An occupational health expert found that she experienced shin pain on both sides which would likely affect her ability to complete the walk

test. However, it also noted that she had completed a 14-mile hike, which she completed for part running and part walking the route, and she experienced no shin pain after this.

McGorman said she completed a step test in September 2023, but the first service refused to accept it. She raised a grievance in February 2024 about the service set according to step test. She did the walk test in March 2024, which she failed.

Employment judge Emma Heather found that McGorman had shin splints, but they did not count as a disability as they did not have a "substantial" negative effect on her ability to carry out day-to-day activities.

Ofcom criticism of BBC satire will have 'chilling effect' on comedy

By Cameron Henderson

OFCOM has been accused of curbing five speech after censuring the BBC for taking a joke in a satirical radio show.

The media watching said that the 'chilling effect' unfairly "by including a critical remark made by the comedian Stewart Lee without first giving the subject of his comments a chance to respond."

At both, freedom campaigners have said that the ruling "runses real concerns for satire and freedom of expression"

and radio having a "chilling effect" on British comedy, leading to a situation where "every target of a joke can demand the right to answer back."

The incident took place on 04/16/2018 year during an episode of Radio 4: A Strong Message Bible, homed by Mr Lee and Armando Samson's, the creator of The Third of It. The show is described by the BBC as "a satirical programme, which examines political language and the text through a number of commentary, analysis and comedy."

During the episode, Mr Lee accused

James Price, the former head of the Oxford Union, of claiming without evidence that donations may have been withdrawn from the debating society after its president-elect appeared to celebrate the killing of Charlie Kirk, the Magician text.

The Union was engulfed in a row after the Telegraph revealed that George Alexander had shared messages in which he apparently celebrated the shooting of Kirk. Mr Lee accused Mr Price of saying: "There may have been donations withdrawn from the Oxford

Union because the whole criticised Public Kirk. There may not be, but, if there have been, 'Akh, Aleh, Aleh.'

He went on to accuse Mr Price, who in a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and a former senior Tory adviser, or "indoor-association" - a made-up term for using speculation to create false narratives.

Mr Price complained to the regulator that he had been 'discreted' by Mr Lee as a "practitioner of dishonest the 'tortical technique', a depiction he said was 'fundamentally wrong'. He also

complained he had been falsely identified as being a member of 'Conceived Albums of the Oxford Union', who reportedly waged a campaign against Mr Alexander's presidency.

The BBC carried out its own internal investigation that concluded the programme was unfair to Mr Price, and it wrote to him to apologise.

Ofcom said the BBC had "not taken reasonable care to ensure that material or service was presented, disregarded or omitted in a way that was unfair to Mr Price". Rosie Ray, co-founder of Free-

dom in the Arts, said: "We cannot end up in the situation where every joke could potentially be treated as a grievance. That would have a chilling effect on British comedy."

Mr Price said: "It is absurd to suggest that comedy is in danger by insisting that deliberate falsehoods be corrected and trying to hide behind non-interest comedy in a defense."

An Ofcom spokesman said it does not comment on ongoing fairness and privacy cases, while the BBC and Mr Lee declined to comment.

'Seven Dwarfs of menopause' used to teach council staff in DEI training

By Sabrina Miller

SNOW WHITE'S SEVEN DWARFS have been used by a council to teach staff about menopause, the Telegraph can reveal.

In a presentation to staff at fundless through council, the fictional characters were renamed to describe apparent menopause symptoms.

Instead of "Happy," "Buddle" and "Sleeps" they were scheduled "Perfect" "Bride," "Bride," "Busted," "Sneaky" and "Forgetful".

Staff were also told that "doctors are not pregnant," '69 per cent are not up to speed', there is a 'large gap in knowledge' and 'woman are embarrassed to speak to them', in unhealthy lessons entitled "Let's Talk Menopause".

The lessons were part of diversity and inclusion training content being delivered to staff which are coming the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds. The material has been

obtained through a Freedom of Information of the report.

Bearing to the Telegraph's findings, Sir James Novelty, the shadow local government's country, said: "Most working taxpayers expect value for money. Yet instead, they are having to pay for around insurance like this. It is wrong - not to mention dangerous - to raise doctors are not against."

A whole industry has grown up promoting uncounty, rubbish like this, and councils should not be warning money out."

Half of fundraiser's events council were asked to counter "out-know-learing-became!" in the lessons, they were also directed to inform a council's plans shaped people which listed different types of characteristics such as "formal education," "housing" and "wealth."

Half of the council were shown cartoons of a white man in a suit, a white woman and black man in a hoodie and wore adult(s) (and the criminal) "It was

The fictional characters were renamed to describe apparent menopause symptoms, the representation to council staff

Taxpayers expect value for money. Instead, they are having to pay for nonsense like this!

part of a lesson on "unconscious bias" which was defined in the training as "fear that happens automatically and is triggered by use for an making quick judgement and assessment of people".

At Basingstoke council, staff members were encouraged to write essays on "the importance of equality, equity, diversity and inclusion", understanding "bias, stereotyping and its impacts" and "inclusion language."

As part of stereotypes training, staff in Eastbourne were given a series of statements about reproductive people which they have to label as either "true" and "false."

These include "people with autism have unproposed", "people with dislexus have below average intelligence" and "people with dreaded skin are just lazy with learning traffic".

Councils who responded to The Telegraph when approached for comment said they provided the training to habilite the legal obligation.

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Female prison psychologist sent inmate topless photos

By Telegraph Reporter

A PRISON psychologist sent topless photos to an inmate with whom she had a secret relationship.

Lisa Forgione sent the "high-risk" prisoner birthday cards featuring photos of her in a bikini, images of her "completely topless", and a Valentine's Day card from Mooopig.

The experienced psychologist provided use for the inmate while working at HMP Isle of Wight, but did not start an inappropriate relationship with him until after she left the prison and quit the prison service. After allegations were brought forward, she was suspended from practice in December 2020 for nine months. It has been ruled that she is no longer impaired and can return to work in October this year.

Ms Forgione was a psychologist working in HMP Isle of Wight when, between October 2020 and July 2020, she had someone with a correct who was serving an indeterminate prison sentence, anonymised as Service User A.

In July 2020, Service User A told his probation officer about the relationship and an investigation was launched into Ms Forgione's behaviour. She denied having any relationship with the prisoner, Ms Forgione resigned from the Prison Service on August 2020.

Following an investigation, a Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) panel determined that Ms Forgione should be suspended for nine months for misconduct.

Rewriting the stars The Greatest Showman has announced a West End run with Oliver Tompsett in the Hugh Jackman role as PT Barnum and Samantha Barks playing his wife, Charity. The musical will be at the Theatre Royal from next spring.

Parton pulls out of theme park event for health reasons

By Emily Smith

DOLLY PARTON has cancelled an appearance at her theme park because of health issues.

The country singer, 80, pulled out of the event at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, after doctors ordered her not to travel from Nashville.

In a message to fans at the opening of a new rollercoaster, Parton said: "I'm supposed to be there in person. She we planned. Now I've told you before, all my fans, that I have had a few little health issues. And sometimes I get a little thirst, and I get defecated."

"And so my Nashville doctor clipped my wings, saying you ain't travelling this week. So I guess if your doctor tells you, you ain't travelling this week, you ain't travelling this week."

But she said she was "responding well to meds".

Parton's most recent public appearance was at the opening of Dolly's Tennessee Travel Stop ribbon cutting in June. In May, she cancelled her Las Vegas residency because of "health challenges" and a "low procedure".

Last year, after cancelling a previous appearance at her theme park, Parton revealed she had suffered complications from kidney stones.

She told fans: "Turns out there was an infection, and the doctor said, 'You need a few days to get better.'"

Parton previously said the death of her husband, Carl Dean, in 2020 at 92, made her not take care of herself.

Thousands gather to bid Bonnie Tyler goodbye

Singer was known by 'Gaynor from up the road' by her village friends and neighbours in Wales

By Gwyneth Rees

SHE was a global star, beloved for her powerhouse airthorns and iconic eighties style. But as thousands gathered in Mumbles village on Wales' Gaynor coast to pay their respects to her cottage under a bright blue sky, it was clear this was a very local affair.

"She was just a local Welsh girl," said

Sue Cook, a retired filmmaker, who was waiting on the seafront for her moment to say goodbye. "We had to come out to give her the send off the dinners."

Since news of Tyler's unexpected death at the age of 75 broke in July, this close-knit community where Tyler has lived since 1948. has not missed its chance to celebrate her life.

When the solar eclipse let last week, her home, his Total Eclipse of the Heart was blasted out over the sea. Gifts, too, have been left at her home, which she shared with her husband, Robert Sullivan, known locally as Bobby.

Yesterday, families and friends, many

Members of the close-knit community in Mumbles amassed to bid farewell to Tyler

brightly dressed and in fine spirits, began gathering in cafes and bars, and taking their place on the pavements along which her hearse would pass.

As put past these, a director from the local Pressdes funeral firm, dressed cleanly in black hat and salcoat, stopped out onto the road, followed by the hearse bearing Tyler's coffin.

Simple and poignant, it was draped in a large Welsh flag, and adorned with a bouquet of white roses and lilies. An iconic black and white shot of Bonnie from her eighties heyday was propped up alongside it.

As the cottage began its slow journey, the chartering among the crowd

stopped, some respectfully bowed their heads, others clapped. At one pre-arranged moment, a close friend of Tyler's Margaret Thrush, 86—approached the vehicle, laying flowers on its bonnet and giving the glass a large bag.

"She wasn't Bonnie to us," said Chris Francis, owner of Cash Hardware Stores, who stood outside his store alongside staff as the cottage passed. "Her real name was Gaynor Hopkins and we just knew her as Gaynor from up the road. She was just a nice person."

Tomorrow, a celebration of her life for family and friends will take place in Swansea, before a private family committee and farewell service.

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Row as BMJ retracts paper on vaccine deaths

Editors accused of damaging scientific integrity and setting 'terrible precedent'

By Sarah Knupton SCIENCE EDITOR

THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL (BMJ) has been accused of damaging scientific integrity after retracting a paper which suggested that Covid vaccines may have been to blame for some excess deaths during the pandemic. In 2024, a group in the Netherlands published a paper in BMJ Public Health, warning that some pandemic deaths may have been caused by the indirect effects of containment measures and vaccination programmes, and calling for further investigation.

The work was peer reviewed for nine months, and accepted as accurate by the BMJ, the UK's leading medical journal, However, it was criticised that work after a slew of complaints and an investigation by the Princess Minima Centre in Utrecht, where three of the four authors worked.

The investigation found no evidence of malicious intent, fabrication or falsification of data, but still labelled the work as misleading and selective because it "did not reflect scientific consensus", and had disproportionately focused on the negative effects of vaccination.

Dr Andra Mostert, the first author, has since resigned from the Princess Minima Centre, and said she had been unprepared for the "irrational and blind fury" that not publication.

The BMJ said it was retracting the article because of "misinformation in the discussion regarding the possible causes of excess mortality and because the limited nature of the original work by the authors was not sufficiently described".

But three experts from the Netherlands have written to the BMJ editorial

board and have said they are shocked by the retraction and asked them to reconsider their decision.

"Retraction is disproportionate and raises serious questions about the extent to which political considerations played a part in your decision," they wrote. "A retraction like this not only damages the integrity of the available published science, but it also sets a terrible precedent in those times of increasing political pressure on scientists."

Ronald Messner, professor of probability theory at Vrije University in Amsterdam, who was one of the authors of the letter, said that there was "no scientific reason to retract".

"I think that BMJ might have been promoted, but not clear by whom," he said. "As we wrote in our letter, retrac-

'The journal concludes the discussion of causes of mortality is imbalanced... and lacks rigour'

tion is bizarre in this case, there is nothing actually wrong with the paper.

"Hence the real environment let political. Very sad, really, for science.

"His not-so-how we can take science seriously anymore when editors are willing to make decisions for those kinds of reasons."

A spokesman for the BMJ said, "Overall, the journal concludes that the discussion of causes of mortality is imbalanced, lacks rigour, and includes misinformation.

"We give the lead author an opportunity to correct the conclusion but hey proposed correction did not go far enough, and the problems with the work's originality could not be fixed.

"We do far overarch the paper because of the wider reporting of the work. This is not a criterion for retraction."

The Telegraph has contacted the researchers for comment.

Colderly spectacular The red coat of Highland cattle was on display at the Peebles Agricultural Society Grand Open Show yesterday at Nether Horsburgh Farm, Cardrona, along with sheep and horse classes as well as family entertainment.

Two-thirds of parents want vaping age increased to 21

By Charles Hymus

SENIOR APPOINTED EDITOR

TWO-THIRDS of parents would like the vaping age to be raised to 21, a poll has shown.

About 69 per cent of those with children under 18 believe that the legal age for buying vaping products should be raised from 18 to 21, according to the survey by Whitesman Daught for the pressure group the Freedom Association. The survey of more than 2,000

people finds that Andy Burnham's plant to crack down on vapes are regarded as too weak by the public.

More than half say that plans announced last month to require plant packaging and cigarette-style cabinets baling vapes from view will make no difference to the sale of the products. Together penalties for retailers caught selling vapes to children or stocking illegal products were judged effective by 64 per cent of respondents, followed by more inspections and enforcement

50 per cent) and compulsory licensing of vape retailers (74 per cent).

David Campbell Rimmerman, chairman of the Freedom Association, said "The public's message is crystal clear. Ministers are focusing on the wrong target. People want vaper traders and dodgy vape shops that down, tougher penalties for retailers selling to children and proper enforcement of the law.

"They do not want superficial measures that do little to stop young people getting hold of vapes. The Government

is tinkering around the edges with plain packaging and display restrictions when the real problem is illegal sales and irresponsible shopkeepers chasing profits. Get moving with licensing to crack down on dodgy shops and park plans for plant packaging."

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Erdogan blocked Kurdish forces from Iran war

Turkish leader forced Trump and Israel to ditch plan to invade from north and bring down regime

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RUSSIAN SEZANNAH? took his out in the White House Situation Room.

Sitting opposite Donald Trump on Feb 11, the Israeli prime minister laid out the conditions under which Iran's regime could be stopped and turned to continue the president to give war.

He said Trump that if we are able to do certain things, we have a chance of creating conditions where the Iranian people could take their fate into their own hands." a senior Israeli official who was in the west left the Telegraph.

He said, people who are in the situation gamble of sending thousands of Kurdish fighters into Iranian western frontier under American air cover.

Turkey's mission developed by Moe al-Aziz, the President of the US, they would range across the border of Iraqi Kurdistan and host an upcoming that would bring down the Azizidaho once

and for all. There was, however, one man he had failed to account for: Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Turkish leader, outhappy with the prospects of armed Kurdish forces in the region, intervened and eventually forced Israel and the United States to pull the plug on the career operation, The Telegraph understands.

'Several of these conditions did not materialise because of reasons that a won't get into,' the official added. 'It's not for lack of insight, but for either operational failure or decisions that were made,' he added, hinting at the 3rd-4th plan.

Mr Erdogan, one of the president's favoured world leaders, is understood to have told the US president that he would not release Kurdish indignant once anywhere in the region, according to Israel and Gulf sources.

His objective stemmed from a decided oil fear of Kurdish separations.

For more than 40 years, Turkey has taught the Kurdistan Worker's Party, known as the FSA, a Kurdish militant and political organisation, at a cost of tens of thousands of iron.

The Kurds are the world's largest startless ethnic group, primarily split across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey,

Turkey's Recap Trump Erdogan is one of President Donald Trump's favoured leaders

where many Jews experienced severe discrimination and abuse.

Israel has a clear culture within with the Kurds, a group that are as a potentially destabilising force they can leverage for their own means. The Kurds in Iran suffered under the Shah, and then later the Islamic Republic.

Upon learning of the plan, the Turkish leader feared that aiming the Kurdish militans would see swathes of his

political enemies armed and dangerous on Turkey's eastern border, a position he could not rule.

His intervention helped doom one of the most ambitious attempts at regime change in a war that has collapsed into a pragmatic and fallen short of its objectives.

Mr Trump has said that regime change was achieved twice already, and the new government is far more 'reasonable' than its predecessors.

Following the situation Room meeting, US officials assessed that the elements of Mr Trump's plan's pitch, which included the possibility of the Kurds mounting a ground invasion of Iran, were described from reality, according to the New York Times.

When Mr Trump was briefed by John Kutzkille, the director of the CIA, he need one word to describe the Israeli prime minister's regime's change over a less 'forced' fold. A did not stop Mr Trump from pursuing the idea.

The people with Kurdish leaders on March 1 and continued to lobby local officials who may be able to leverage Totsiami weakness to make pams.

In an apparent preparation for an assault, Israel boasted positions in western Iran, including regime off-

'We have a chance of creating conditions where the Iranian people could take their fate into their own hands'

cials, army bases, missile systems, polar victims and flagriders, leading to speculation that it was paying a path for a Kurdish advance.

The attack from Iraqi Kurdistan was reported to include fighters from all six factions of Iranian Kurds, who would in turn provide weapons to Kurds inside of Iran. The militant coalition was poised to invade on March 19. All it needed was the go-drawd from Mr Trump.

Amid the preparations, the Kurds themselves began to express wariness about their prospects against the Iranian regime and began demanding 'political guarantees' aside from just military support. At the same time, Mr Erdogan is understood to have been lobbying Washington to use the plan. Gulf states also reportedly warned that ethnic partition of Iran could derude the the Middle East as a whole.

The failure did not go down well in Jerusalem, Boston/Iariban, the director of the road, decided to remove two of the nation's most senior officials, who had helped death the regime change plan.

Donald Trump has been unsuccessful in almost every move he has made to bring the war with Iran to a close.

Regime change was supposed to be an off-ramp. That, too, has failed.

Trump's war has punched a giant hole in the West's defences

Ben Farmer

THE short-range ballistic missiles scream through the atmosphere at a mile overcast, bearing their explosive periods towards flyer or Gulf states.

As a missile streaks towards impact, an defence does just minimize to spot it. A new attack doesn't end up, a interceptor, akin to hitting a bullet with a bullet.

It is a technical challenge that means ballistic missile defences are precious, huge and military, and it's a bully gun a tag. The US has for decades led the way in developing these defences and selling them to allies.

Its defence stage report has built systems such as district and Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (Thau) batteries, which are project cities and military run across the Gulf, Europe and Asia.

That protective umbrella has proven effective. If costly, in Donald Trump's war against Iran, delivering Gulf states and American bases to interceptor more than 90 per cent of Iranian missiles.

Yet it is never that has come at a steep cost to stockpiles of defensive missiles, with several years' worth of production, the 60-a centrate of missiles. These depleted stockpiles have led to questions about whether ballistic missile defences can keep up in a new structure with Russia, Iran, China and North Korea.

A recent assessment from the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank estimated the US had used about two-thirds of the Patriot stocks it had before the Iran war, and about 60 per cent of Thau stocks.

The Patriot interceptor missile inventory has reportedly fallen from around 2,500 to around 4000, and the inventory of Thau interceptor missiles, which can take out incoming missiles at higher altitude outside the Iran region, has fallen from 4000 to around 200.

Articles in the US manufacture the U.S. (US) Patriot interceptors a year, each costing around $800, a $500, and until recently around 600 Thau interceptor missiles, each costing about $800, a $500.

The Armistice and Mr Trump have strongly denied any shortages of operations, but the reported depletion of stocks is not only America's problem. Numerous countries now operate the military system, including Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Japan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Almost all are reliant on US production and supply chains, depending on what edge of the US becomes a global shortage.

Apart from the two to make Patriot missiles, the community of Iran has a factory, but these are much smaller than just millions. Hence in the US and will take some time to scale up. At current rates, it will take several years to replace the stock in another 2020.

And you say the situation is more upheld because Russia, Iran, China and North Korea are camping-up production of missiles. In the same race between ballistic missiles and production and ballistic missile defences, the defence seeks a sliding system, such as the US.

China already has an estimated 2,000 ballistic missiles and Russia is said to be able to make 320 per month, or second from the current rate of 1,000 per month, in the year that North Korea is supplying Moscow with income missiles.

The mismatch is higher because under current US military doctrine, missile defences are even more uproar at every incoming missile, to increase the chance of fighting it.

The Iran war is the main cause of the defence, but much better never been planned, and have been the most by a new proliferation of missile, nuclear, war and riot. A smaller

Kavanagh, of Defense Priorities, a US think tank, said: 'The Iran war is the biggest factor, but the problem is more extensive than that. These stockpiles were never that deep. I think there was a sense that the ballistic missile threat wasn't all that great.'

'Until recently these hadn't been such a wide proliferation of ballistic missiles. There were only untold number of countries that had these missiles and there was not an understanding of the way that modern war has been demanding in terms of missile design.'

Military Jammues had underestimated what ballistic missile defences they would need in a modern conflict, and believed their stockpiles could be used.'

Mr Kavanagh added: 'Globally there just aren't that many of these and that was seen as something that was okay. People under the scale up to problems when the Ukraine war started.' Stocks

The launch of a Patriot advanced, high performance interceptor missile which became more incoming missiles: Baton, President Zelensky with Patriot defences

'Stockpiles were never that deep. There was a sense that the ballistic missile threat wasn't all that great'

started to become depleted with numbers in Ukraine. Only from defending Israel after the attacks on 14.7 (2021) attacks and in the Twelve Day War in 2020, but the most significant ditch has been this year's Iran War.

Snecha Brochmann, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank, said: 'The idea was we can stockpile 3.0 (intact) wars, but new Ukraine and the war have shown you cannot stockpile your way through a major war. You need the production rates. You need to shift, but shifting means investing still out in production capacity inside the US.'

Ramping up production will take years and is not easy, because the latter are not the only bottlenecks. Production can be held back by shortages of specialized components and materials, such as seeker heads, electronics, or missile devices.

Mr Brochmann said the US itself was not in danger of running out, but was coming to a point where it must prioritize and simplify stocks.

Planning among from about how many missiles might be needed to support several conflicts in different regions are no longer safe. That will eventually see US companies in the Pacific meetings to compete for stocks with US companies in the Middle East and Europe.

The situation is worse for US allies, such as the 'Britain', but what happens when ballistic missile defences can not have been apparent in order that month.

Ukraine's allies have reportedly been in around 10.9 Patriot interceptors each year, but these are now too few to deal with, no endlessly if Russian weapons, such as the Iskander V, will take missile. If it's true one of its own assets, all investing missiles, but no defence does become sparse. Russia has the future 75 ballistic

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missiles at Ukraine in the first 10 days of August, with only one intercepted, according to Ukraine's air force. You may be able to see the other problem was that the country's Patriot interceptors had almost one.

this is in talks with Mr Trump for Ukraine to set up its own production line, but has still also a third that could take anywhere from one to five years.

Gulf nations are placing large orders to replenish their own stocks, after running down around heading off Iranian interspes at the start of the war.

US defence grants have already said they will range up production, but that too will take time. Lockheed Martin has month won a severe year 300.00s.

a 2.0% (the) costing to single production of the latest Patriot interceptor by the

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'You can't afford a war if you don't have the right defences, so you have to avoid escalation'

You can't afford a war if you don't have the right defences, so you have to avoid escalation'

France and Italy have their own state-grown systems that could eventually fill some of the gaps too, but they have limited industrial capacity.

This is against a backdrop of more and more ballistic missiles.

Mr Brochmann said: 'Missiles are proliferating in size, and shape, and speed. The Russians, the Iranians, the Chinese and the North Koreans are all investing heavily in missiles. So the Western counterparts have to invest in ballistic missile defences.'

All four of these missile-producing nations will be trying to learn lessons from which disagreeing in the Middle East and Ukraine, and trying to gauge the strength of missile defences.

Mr Brochmann added: 'Everyone now has to know that the Israeli defences many missiles do I need! How many will make it to the begin? How many will make it off the ground?'

Mr Kavanagh said the mismatch between missiles and missile defences may now become a factor in how the War and the allies deal with.

aggression, modelling and preservation in what is called the 'grey zone' below the threshold of conflict.

She said: 'I think what this means, at least in the near term, is that there is a value swiftly and fairly in the countries consider carefully how they push back, on especially grey zone activity by Russia.

'I don't think this shortage is going to be the deciding factor. I don't think it's going to make Putin decide for a going to invade Europe, or I'll hoping decide this is a good time to take Taiwan.

That is done, I think. Since the United States and Asia and European allies to be cautious about how they respond to grey zone activity.'

'Because you can't afford a war if you don't have the right defences, so you have to avoid escalation'

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EasyJet calls off 100 flights over French crew strikes

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EASTJET has called off about 100 flights out of French airports this weekend because of a calm crew strike.

Unions said an estimated half of the British low-cost military 1000 French based cabin crew would join the strike over reported changes to their schedules. The action would affect about half of the flights out of the two Paris airports. Now, the minors said here.

EasyJet has called the action “opportunistic” as it falls on a major national holiday weekend when airports are busy.

France is a key market for the airline, which was recently taken over in a 1570s 142-86m deal by US private equity firm Apollo.

An passenger numbers in France are estimated in 3.6 France.

Most of the flights were cancelled on Friday, with the company saying it wants to help passengers find alternative routes.

William Bourdon, of the UNPSC 2010 unit, said that cabin crew wanted “stability” in three duties. He said some crew could see their buses and destinations changed 20-30 times a week.

For anything to do with personal life or childcare, it makes things extremely complicated to organize because most of the changes come at the last moment – 24-48 hours before: he told AFP.

“It is a permanent musical dupe,” Mr Bourdon added. The three unions involved in talks have warned of motion between Aug 7 and Sept 5.

When easyJet lacks staff at an airport, they are called as from another base, which must then fill its own gaps, said Mr Bourdon.

Before the action, the airline urged staff to call off the strike on such a busy weekend. It said it had made effort to change staff conditions and that talks were planned for September.

A previous strike in April had only a limited impact. Unions accused the company of offering bonuses of up to €750 to work on that day of action.

A loungry ride Taliban security celebrate the fifth anniversary of the militant organisation's return to power; in Kabul, the Afghan capital. Government authorities hailed their country's “freedom” and security, while critics decried tightening restrictions in all areas of daily life in the country.

Meloni lurches Right to fend off challenger

By Nick Squires

KOMUN CHAMPIONSHIP

Italian prime minister faces crucial decision as she faces being outflanked by Roberto Vannacci

THESE studies were wide and their dominance relaxed, as if they were sharing a idea. But when Giorgia Meloni and her friends could start put out a joint message to Europe this week, their tone was anything but soft.

Bearing to the Costa crisis, where 40,000 magrams increased into Spain's tiny territory on the coast of Mexico, Mr Meloni and Melon Frodcrלמה declared: “We don't accept

the potential of the world's history. Illegal immigration, they said, was hurting good-quality negative impact on European societies, from growing crime rates to no one of public trusts. Thinking clearly side in an

Instagram post viewed by millions, they said: “It is particularly serious when illegal migrants commit violent crimes, engage in drug trafficking, of contraband and sexual violence.”

It was the latest example of the Italian prime minister's talking tough on the face of all immigration in the face of general elections nearly as jeep's lynch.

She is also pushing the idea of a constructing return looks across Africa, sheateles orders where failed barbiturates would be held until they could be sent back to their home countries.

One reason for all the tough talk, according to the Italian opposition, is clear. Mr Meloni is desperately trying to escape the threat, possibly a former special forces commander whose newly formed hand-flight party is swiftly rising in the polls. Roberto Vannacci, an ex-partkeeper now a

member of the European Parliament, only formed his party, Patrice Nazionale Olmi and Franco, is a February, but it already commands 7 per cent of the vote, say latest polls.

The conservative coalition that the prime minister leads can expect to win 40.8 per cent of votes. The centre-Lafi alliance it is up against is predicted to win 44.6 per cent. So the general's seven per cent could be the difference between Mr Meloni winning and losing this election.

Mr Vannacci has made law and order, traditional families, patriotism and national identity key pillars of his manifesto. Mr Meloni is concerned that she will be outflanked on the very themes that helped bring her to power in 2022. The former general issued his party's first mandator this week, rebuilding the intricacy of “strong men” in Italian society and pruning what he termed the “Mediterranean

matter for” – a sort of inaction version of gender politics.

“Meloni is making moves to counter Vannacci's challenge on migration, security and identity,” said Wolfganga Piccoli, an international affairs analyst and an expert on Italian politics. “He's dangerous for Meloni as he's attacking her from inside her own political tradition. She was once the youngest on the flight. Now Vannacci can portray her as a pillar of the

establishment. Every step she takes to stop Vannacci makes bad luck more relevant. If she imitates him, she validates him. It's a commitment for her.”

The joint statement released on Instagram with Mr Frodcrלמה was just the latest move by Mr Meloni to look tough on late and order.

It came after she took the hardest place towards Spain of all EU leaders in the wake of the Costa debacle. Her conservative coalition suspended Schengen five-movement with Spain, to the fury of Madrid. Spain's socialist government accused Mr Meloni of

Roberto Vannacci, at the transgustian of the election day of his party in Naples, level, Giorgia Meloni

tightening border controls for purely political reasons. For his face, the prime minister, protected on that none of the true of thousands of migrants who entered Costa had reached a mankind Spain, and reminded Rome that Costa was not even part of the Schengen's act.

Madrid alleged that Italy's moves were crucial to it for a grandstanding, a meaningless gesture designed to appealed Mr Meloni to use. The Italian opposition, however, is almost mainstone. Worse than that, it shows a lack of European solidarity,” said Carlo Carballi, a former minister and the head of a small centrist party, Azione Lezioni. “Japan's on the attack from migrants, just as Italy was in 2016. Costa is an African enclave where Schengen cries from Egypt.”

The mass-surre against Spain may have been publically motivated, but that doesn't mean it was not effective. “Tightening border controls against Spain is politically valuable because it is highly visible,” said Mr Piccoli, who is head of popularist at Cunedin, an advisory firm to chief executives. “Whether it makes a difference to the

migration situation is secondary. It allows Meloni to demonstrate toughness at exactly the moment that Vannacci is saying, the “bargeon well”.

Francesco Galeotti, the founder of the political role in machinery Policy Social, agreed that Mr Meloni had been spooked by the rise of the retired army general, who is a proponent of “emigration” – the mass deportation of people with a migrant background.

The long march to the political locked Rome into a campaign fought almost entirely on domestic security, crime and public order, with Giorgia Meloni intent on demonstrating that she alone can deliver a tough, orderly country, and compromising the space for federal Vietnam if he argued.

On Thursday, Mr Meloni posted a photo of a failed barbaton so that being escorted up the steps of an aircraft.

“The expulsion of irregular migrants from Italian soil continues,” she wrote.

Ella Sufrieri, head of Italy's largest opposition force, the Democratic Party, accused her of choosing about security while ignoring issues such as the cost of living, stagnant salaries and high-fed prices. “While Meloni plays at copying Trump trying to keep up with Vannacci

thinking about ordinary Balances” she asked.

Mr Meloni's name circle denies that she is trying to complete with the committee former quarter-year, and insists that her taking a hard line on issues such as Costa and return holes is consistent with the policies she has organized for four years.

“For us, Vannacci is irrelevant,” she says. “Japan, deputy prime minister and foreign minister, recently told the newspaper Cirevere della Sera. He said that long before the Costa crisis exploded, he had wanted that

‘Meloni is making moves to counter Vannacci on migration, security and identity.

Spain's decision to grant amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants would act as a suspect for others and cause problems for the EU. “Spain is originating 500,000 irregular foreigners, and it is doing so without sharing this choice with any of its European partners. Now we learn there have been a million requests for regularisation,” he said.

General Vannacci doesn't buy the argument that the coalition is unlined by his well political one. In an Instagram post this week, he plentifully taunted the government. His party had initially been chaired to be “migrant,” he said. He membership amounted to “quarter-parts” – literally “four cars,” an Italian opposition that means just a handful of people.

But now, almost half a week, ringing for the coalition, he said: “They macked us. They insulted us. They tried to ignore us. Now they are trying to stop us. When new ideas take off, some people start to be afraid.”

Emanuele Pezzolo, an MP with Patrice Nazionale, said: “The truth is that Meloni is afraid of Vannacci. Those who think they can block Patrice Nazionale by putting up walls and relating to engage in dialogue are making a big mistake.”

Giuseppe Conti, leader of the centre-Lafi Free Star Movement, said: “Vannacci is a big problem for the flight. If they keep him outside the coalition, they risk losing the election. If they bring him in, they risk losing the modernist ‘voice.’

Mr Piccoli said: “Vannacci is very sceptical about supporting Ukraine, and has always embraced a pro-Moscow line. If she brings him into her coalition, that could threaten the pro-Mosters credentials that she has spent the last four years building.”

Zelensky hails ‘good achievement’ after strike on ‘Russian Starlink’ space centre

By Emily Smith

KOMUN CHAMPIONSHIP REPORTER

CHAMBER has struck a facility used in the production of Russia's new satellite internet system.

CHAMBER and Finishing: cricte missiles to target the Progress Rocket Space Center in Russia, south-western Russia, in an overnight attack, a 5th-thing's Zelensky and yesterday.

The reality, along with miles from Ukraine, produces Soyuz-2 launch vehicles used to project Russian satellites, Russia's answer to Starlink. Ron Shack is on cable satellite system.

With the launch of Russian, there are fears that Ukraine could lose its battlefield although through Starlink, which allows Italy's forces to stay connected to the internet, and therefore effectively to get the ground for its own rights.

base, in what he called a “good achievement.” The Servadecha air base stores 80m. It lights a few spots of launching industrial-aerial missiles.

It is about 85 miles from the Ukraine bus border. “The Servadecha airfield, where the carriers of Russian missiles, that strike our cities and villages are based, was also reached by our long-range sanctions,” Mr Zelensky said.

Video footage posted by fans showed the facilities, in the south-west of the country, on fire with smoke following from the buildings.

Mr Zelensky also said that Ukrainian strikes damaged an oil facility in Chicago, more than 200 miles from the Ukrainian border.

He did not name the site. Writing on X, he said: “Our plan of long-range sanctions against Russia for the war is being implemented, and it is important that Russia's war potential be reduced.”

“Prace is needed, and this must be

The aftermath of the strikes showed buildings on fire

evident in Russia – through concrete damage to specific facilities (Glory of Ukraine)”

from Rookov, head of the regional capital Samara, said air defences had repelled a “spoaster attack” on the region overland.

Authorities were still determining whether there were casualties or additional damage in the attacks, he added.

The Servadecha air base was previously targeted in a Ukrainian attack in June 2023. The Progress Rocket Space Centre is responsible for the production of the Soyuz-2 family of launch vehicles, including the Soyuz-2.R, which is used for the Russian system.

According to satellite imagery of the strikes, the national electronics assembly workshop at the facility was probably hit.

The Progress centre is the only facility in Russia where Soyuz-2 launch vehicles are assembled.

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Bad trip: The danger signs on Trump Highway

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James Francis

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Moroccés 655-mile road, named after the president, goes some way to explain migrants crisis with Spain

TWO Moroccan pandemics idle by the considered. One even against a white van while the other were through a stopp. He can that path to a halt in front of them. Those allowed to pass about a traffic island where a city of Moroccan flags Riders in the wind and then, if they take the exit towards the city of Gaselam, contract upon the three low feet of the Donald Trump Highway, a 655-mile road returned on Aug 5 in honour of the US president as a "personal experience" of King Mohammed VI's "high regard"

No plague yet bears Mr Trump's name, no triumphant arch covers the dual-average way, nor leaves the lines and things shown plastered under the arms and plants. Unlike that line the "dreaded" the again on the first 300 miles of the highway allude to the most prosaic language of driving further into the desert. In some contexts, untruth the road of freshness.

As you know, many yellow fingers of land start to play at your wheels: there come currents that sunk on the evening wheel, and finally foreclose blasts of land that year against the windows, reshaping the land abound in front of your eyes, and after that, the real problems start.

"Oh yes, I could about it on the news, and the manager of a truck was safe when asked if he had heard about the renaming of the highway. 'It's politic's grumbled thirties, further down the road, as he crashed out into outflows

from a fraudulent one time on howl into the back of her car. That point stably. Of all the hotels, entertainment venues and crypto-centres are that bear the name of Donald Trump, even comes close to this road in terms of its acceptance against one. 'Even along and you arrive at one of the explanations for why, at the end of last month, you of thousands of Moroccans stumped into the Spanish surface of Costa – unaccounted, for the most part, by Rafael Noche's police.

In 2015, King Mohammed announced his plan to build a motorway longer than any other in the country. The route would "enhance the influence of failure as an economic hub" and "link Morocco with its advisories on the land. Don't would also serve a grunder purpose. Can it be, 'Development Plan for the Southern Territories'. He all powerful human is outlined, in effect, a plan to take control of Western failure; the stretch of desert around the sun of the US that sits below Morocco on the map, and is considered by the UTS to be diagonal territory. Enaming by hundreds of miles through officially conscious land, the road re-sold from the heritage of the project.

Belanch the US-Should language lay across imperial desert. Ever since Franco and Spain handed back, Moroccans gave to create as the 2020s, the ruling Advocate dynasty of which King Mohammed in the 21st January it haven't in sight: on our goal above all else: expanding the country's borders into Western failure. The region boasts natural resources, from phosphate to fish. Yet the campaign springs most from a sense that the retreating European colonizers drew Morocco's borders far too highly for an empire that once street left to walk through Mali, Mauritania and Senegal and east through parts of modern Algeria.

There decided to muster all the means available to complete the

A translation to Laurence, Western Sahara, is informed with pictures of King Mohammed

'I have decided to muster all the means available to complete the Kingdom's territorial integrity'

Kingdom's territorial integrity" said King Mohammed in the 2015 speech to mark the 40th anniversary of the Gaven March, when 300,000 people crossed into Western Sahara and forced Spain – which kept control of the desert long after leaving the prosperous north – to hasten its withdrawal there, too. Through this vast spending, around a thin market, he hoped to win over the primary obstacle that still stands in the way of Morocco to repossess the unwillingness of the native baltares people to bend the base to a nation, and a long, they do not recognize.

In his letter to Mr Trump confirming the anniversary leave name, King Mohammed expressed the utmost gratitude. The president's decision, in 2020, to recognize Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara, would be "forever etched in the memory of Moroccoan," he wrote. In exchange, the King had normalized relations with Israel under the direction in early a controversial gambit in a hotel which country whose population is held to be the Palestinian zone. Yet the gambit has paid off many times over. Before Mr

Trump's intervention, the question of Western Sahara's ultimate event had languished under the ownership of the UN. After Mr Trump's swipe of the pen, the dominions started to fall in Rafael's direction. France, Spain, the UK and US now had a few sharp attacks: offer 'autonomy' to Western Sahara under his role.

By naming the road after Mr Trump, the King continued the remaining bold-only – specifically the Falaam's Front and its barber to Algeria – of the consent applied by the White House to Rafael's State of sovereignty.

Rafael have comfy hopes to invite Western politicians on tours of the city, Eranat now advertises "Moroccan adventures" in Dublin, the narrow peninsula of the northernmost end of the Trump highway that markets itself to late-midres.

Much to babaret dancer, Christopher Nolan Elmed parts of the Sphere on its best-line, after nine police chiefs, Spanish were on the East of Laurence, where you can not uphold, air-conditioned hostelmen with Western-sounding names: Pincena Farcella, La Giardiniera, Amba Coffee ("the taste of the desert"), silver disappears swiftly from the streets.

Morocc's "outdoors territories" – the 90 per cent of Western Sahara's new controls – make up a small proportion of the total economy, at around 4 per cent of national GDP. But that figure on many, Laurence enjoys, gave the latest in the country in 2016, up 14 per cent, according to official figures. "It's a sham," said a local fahammanian. None of the money comes to us – none of the phosphate, none of the fish, none of the tomatoes." Instead, he claimed, the resources went to "forever" up north.

"It's a seed to speak," the man asked, crossing his words in imaginary hand-offs. So are Moroccans from the north who wonder, privately, if all the spending on the southern territories

'It's a sham. None of the money comes to us. None of the phosphate, none of the fish, none of the tomatoes'

might have contributed to the desperation that have so many young people to witness to the Costa border. Practically, the babaret-independent movement in thing. In 2010, Rafael crashed the last major challenge to its authority, a 20,000-strong protest camp formed on the outskirts of Lausanne. Re-studied bodies blagnards in prison.

After Donald Trump, On July 28, Richard Duke the ban III, the US ambassador to Morocco, became one of the first dances too officials to visit Lausanne. 'From National Tupines to American double-bloomishops,'

Laurence has it all." Mr Dušan wrote in 8, alongside a group outside the city top-of-the-18 Donald's. "Moroccan falcons," has been at 'be against all.' The translation project already 'hit or 90 per cent of the situation of every government department,' says Ricardo Pobian. North Africa director at the Crisis Group think task-history on pressure will determine the next steps. Washington to hold the pen for the UN that on Western Sahara and it could wind up the 20-year

peacekeeping effort outside. It is with this relationship as good that the migrants re-surge into Costa should be viewed. Mr Pobian argues. In 2021, Rafael launched 6,500 migrants across the border into Costa. The second, he began range appears to have originated spontaneousity. Yet Morocc is do not put to stand in the migrants' way suggests a desire to "please" the White House, which views the localist government of Pedro Sanchez as the embodiment of all that is wrong with Europe.

We cut our top sheet after opening a man in an unmarked or photographed on, and all the way back up the Donald Trump highway, a blue cut trailed at our walls. In the hall, its headlights phered to the race-race matrix. The Telegraph approach led the Moroccans government for common

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Moroccan police stop hundreds of migrants in crossing attempt

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WHEN C's IP police have blocked second attempt by migrants to cross the border into Costa on maps.

Bicopolis were deployed at the border yesterday as hundreds prepared to meet the Spanish territory, two weeks after two of thousands made the cross-by. Migrants gathered in the border town of Castillejos after calls on social media on rougating second attempt. Percent of people who had already attempted the crossing were arrested and taken away in home for police. In 2020, 1,000 residents on July 20 which saw at least 72,000 people pose across the border in an attempt to illegally enter Europe through one of its only landholders with silica.

As part of people death in the attempt with many drowning or being crushed to death, in what was described as the single largest illegal influx into the EU. Most of those who reached Costa were sent to the United States, but some remain in the on-line.

With shortage yesterday showed hundreds of people running towards the cross border in Castillejos.

The state, Moroccan not police and armed vehicles were deployed to the border. Police charged at the migrants

and censured them about three kilometers from the Spanish enclave, according to IDP Act.

The attempts to cross the border began around him, but reinforcements deployed by Morocco have so far successfully prevented any crossing.

Morocco also deployed a helicopter to monitor the situation on the ground. Again, deplored com personnel and armoured vehicles on the Spanish side of the border, jetmen declared.

Costa was placed on high alert for a second wave of migrants this weekend after teenagers circulating on social media on rouged people to attempt the crossing yesterday.

"The Costa border will be open on the 10th for August, a public holiday in Spain," one message said.

And the reports,特别是 outrightly, all force was cancelled for the troops who were rushed to the Spanish territory to deal with the crisis.

Spain has been accused of ignoring warnings before more than 70,000 migrants rushed into Costa on July 30.

Border workers warned the Spanish government weeks earlier that cross-lague on live date, but little action was taken. Trade unions representing border workers issued both public and private warnings that the number of

animals could range and urged authorities to act quickly.

The mob was triggered by a Spanish court ruling on June 20 which said migrants could only be immediately pushed back from Costa if they crossed a place of hostel. It specified that the same rule did not apply to people who reached the on-line by swimming.

The Spanish government blamed the influx on manufacturers about the ruling upwards by national networks.

Inland about accusations that Spain failed to act on the warnings, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said authorized land assessors to issue uplous following the court ruling before installing a floating home on the sea on August 17.

The police assessment and analysis were conducted by floating homes to be put in place just 48 hours after the decision to install it was made. Following the massive arrest on July 10," the spokesman said.

In June 2020, Costa's police chisel dated July 25 and seen by Reuters, the

Migrants gather at a town on the border with Costa, but they were expelled by old police. Before troops were in armoured vehicles

MOC Civil Guard Union flagged "constant arrivals by war." It said police initiatives have won no equipment to handle the influx and called for a temporary reception centre to be established.

In an online statement posted on July 20 the report also called for government action. "The ruling thus opened a legal loophole which only well-defined protocols can clear," it said.

In 2016 a physical barrier was installed at sea. The built-in in the court of those who must provide clear instructions to agents at the border every night," it warned.

A similar warning was issued three days later by the police union STOP, which called for modern纳税 and a "coloured and effective" policy to prevent the ruling being exploited.

However, the Spanish force of Ministry did not respond, while the government desiraper was offered an appointment would pass. But had Bish, a spokesman for Spain's Civil Guard police made a new MOC in Costa, said no one could have predicted the scale of what eventually took place on July 20.

The police, who signed a "suit trigger" over arrivals. The ruling, the criminal gangs, and social media networks were an explosive cocktail," he said. Morocco has been accused of both ruling the "challenge" and Costa as punishment amid diplomatic frustrations with Spain.

Moroccan officials are believed to be frustrated with Public Interface, the so-called public minister of Spain, over his general of gas deals with rival Algeria. The North African country previously completed 4,000 people into Costa in 2020 following a blatant with Mexico over the sovereignty of the Western Sahara, which preceded a sudden policy change in Spain.

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Home-jacker gangs burgle millions off Geneva's rich

Occupied houses targeted after social media traveled to identify valuables

By Sophia Yan

CETOTA has been rocked by violent home robberies targeting wealthy residents, threatening to furnish the area's reputation as a safe home for the ultra-rich.

The attacks have seen intruders breaking into homes - typically with residents inside, at times threatening them at gun point - before fleeing with expensive watches, jewellery and other valuables across the border into France.

Gangs are said to identify and study targets in detail, including six social media, where posts of lifestyle habits, cues, clothes and holidays can indicate wealth levels and thus outmark people for robbery. Their lands can be worth millions.

These home-jackings - burglaries of occupied homes - are on the rise, with 18 such incidents in Geneva in 2023, up from 67 the year prior, even as overall crime has declined, according to police figures.

On the whole, since 2019, the risk of being targeted by burglars in Geneva has been nearly three times higher than the national average.

'This trend has recently become much more organised, targeted and common,' Province Series East Sladol, a member of the legislature in the Canton of Vaud, on the north side of Lake Geneva, told the Financial Times. 'We are concerned about the impact on Switzerland's attractiveness to foreigners and companies.'

One prominent victim is Alain Prost, the four-time Formula 1 world champion, whose home is on the west side of Lake Geneva.

His home was robbed in May by a masked gang, during which he suffered minor head injuries, while his rela-

tive was forced to unlock a safe containing valuables. French investigation have since charged and arrested five suspects.

Authorities are seeking to improve policing along the normally long and porous border between Switzerland and France. That could take the form of more officers, deployed and targeted checks in border areas, including an smaller roads.

Other proposals include blocking the publication of property information, such as prices and owner names, which would sell back a transparency measure to identify the home addresses of the ultra-rich.

The authorities say the rise in home robberies is in part because private villas are far easier targets than jewellers and banks with high-security measures. Marc Gygli, head of Geneva's

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The proceeds of a Geneva bank robbery - while visits on homes can not millions

organized-crime robbery unit, told Swiss television last November - just before an anticipated theft spike over the holiday season - the example of a Geneva bank robbery that netted perpetrators with 10,000 francs (£7,400), whereas targeted thefts at the homes of the ultra-rich could amount to several million.

A recent survey of business leaders in the Geneva region found that nearly 70 per cent believed security had deteriorated over the last three years due to a lack of police presence and the rise in home-jackings.

Similar conversations also been raised by a group representing commodity trading firms that declining security conditions are endangering the attractiveness of Geneva, and could scare away capital both corporate and human.

Woman sues city over 'sexist' lavatory fee

By Our Foreign Staff

A WOMAN is suing the city of Vienna for discrimination over public lavatories where women must pay to use cubicles while men can use urinals free.

Melanie Gradik, 27, said she had discovered the charge when she and a friend went to use the facilities in Angerton, a Baroque park in the Austrian capital.

'I was in a park with a friend and we both needed to use the bathroom.'

'He could go for free, but I had to pay 50 cents, [skip] she said. 'I thought to myself

Melanie Gradik had to pay 50 cents to use the public lavatory

How is that possible? I want everyone to be able to use the bathroom on an equal footing. Either we all pay 50 cents or no one pays 50 cents.'

Mr Gradik has filed a legal complaint against the municipality, arguing that exclusively changing women for access to public lavatories violates the city's anti-discrimination laws.

'It was not about the policy, he would told AFP. 'It's a small thing, but it takes an example of how women

are treated unequally in everyday life,' according to Petra Labach, her lawyer, public facilities offering free urinals for most curates inequality between the sexes.

'Men have an additional free alternative, women do not,' she said.

Vienna has 168 publicly managed lavatory facilities, 139 of which are free to use.

According to the city authorities, the 29 facilities that charge a fee do so because they employ lavatory attendants.

In very busy locations with intensive use, it is necessary for organisational reasons to ensure supervision in order to guarantee proper use and cleanliness. Sandra Holzinger, a spokesman for the municipality, said: 'In these 29 facilities, a snap fee of 50 cents must be paid for the use of cubicles by people of all genders,' she said, adding that urinals were additionally provided 'to prevent fouling caused by urinating in public spaces.'

For Anna Gomper, a law professor at the University of Innsbruck, this system raises questions about equality.

Under Austrian law, 'Cubicles that between men and women may only be made if there is a special, objective justification for it,' she said.

In the case of public lavatories, such a justification 'does not appear to exist', as the cost of building, maintaining and cleaning cubicles and urinals is basically the same, the professor said.

Even if cubicles were slightly more expensive to maintain or consumed more water, this would not necessarily be enough to justify a price difference compared with urinals, she added.

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A perverse new plan to ration water

Britain should never have a scarcity of water. This is a temperate island, which over the course of a year gets a market of rain. The fact that weather of the country have been condemned to lessepipe bans is indicative of a failure to invest in the infrastructure that would allow enough water to be supplied to the places that need it.

The last major reservoir opened in the 1900s, with attempts to build new ones held up by the planning system. Millions of litres of water are lost every day through leaky pipes. Instead of powering ahead with desalination plants in areas that could benefit from them, Britain has managed to open just one, in east London. Even that has effectively been multiballied.

The water companies and successive governments have sought to cover their back to be brought the problem onto consumers. Now, it appears, they want to go even further than lessepipe bans. The Government has indicated that it supports plans to give suppliers the right to engage in surge pricing during droughts. This could see customers being charged more for water during times of high demand, such as in a business.

This might sound like a surprising embrace of market forces for a government of the Left. It would, in fact, represent a perversion of the market, with pricing misused as a tool of rationing.

Enacted properly, dynamic pricing should work to lower prices over time, by encouraging suppliers to provide more of what consumers want, when they want it. Readers might be familiar with the concept on last ages, which can charge more for a journey during periods of high demand, as a way of incentivising more drivers to pick up passengers in a busy area.

These water proposals appear designed to do nothing of the sort. Instead, they could act as a mechanism to make it unafordable for people to use the water they might need. Knowing the British Left, they are bound to be combined with 'social tariffs' that spare poor households from their full effects. The result would be an extra charge targeted at middle-class households with gardens during the warmer months.

Nobody wants to see water wasted. But public policy has gone beyond efforts to ensure that this precious resource is used to see efficiently at that it comes from sustainable sources. The guiding assumption seems to be that using less water & a good thing in itself, that artificial scarcity should be imposed even in places that naturally enjoy plenty of it.

It is a version of the same hair-shirt nonsense that plagues Britain's energy policy. Rather than imposing rationing by the back door, the Government should be liberalising planning laws, rolling out new reservoirs and desalination plants, and scrapping out new targets on they can be powered by cheap and plentiful energy.

The country's water crisis is entirely of its own making. The aim of policy should be abundance, not a state-manufactured drought.

Soft on hard crime

It is bad enough that the Government is allowing dangerous criminals out of prison early. But the Sentencing Act 2020 has had another horrifying consequence: serious offenders are not being locked up in the first place.

That law - which could see two of P. Andrew Harper's

killers released after serving barely half their sentences - has also allowed some psychophiles, dangerous drivers and domestic abusers to be spared jail entirely. That is because Labour all but abolished immediate jail terms of 12 months or less by requiring courts to 'make a suspended sentence order', unless a narrow exemption applies.

Ministers presented this as something that would only affect lower-level offenders, such as shoplifters. But since those who plead guilty can receive up to a third off their sentences, some offenders who would otherwise have received more than a year in jail have been able to come within the sco se of the new law. This has seen abhorrent useofophiles getting off practically out free.

This is not some terrible legislative oversight. When the Bill was debated in the House of Lords, the Conservatives tried to exclude sexual offences and domestic abuse from automatic suspension. Labour defeated the motion. The Government cannot pretend this is anything but design.

The situation is forced. Prisoners are being let out early to protect the prison estate. Criminals are not being sent to jail in order to preserve jail space. Some might wonder what the point of prison is, if not to contain criminals.

For decades governments have failed to build the prison places Britain' seeds. Now, with the estate at breaking point, it is within and the wider public who are made to suffer the consequences Andy Burnham has flip-flopped on the early release scheme on far. We still do not know how he will keep Pr. Harper's killers behind bars. He must grip the situation, repudiate the building of new prisons and find spare capacity in the meantime. For as long as serious offenders go free early or avoid jail altogether, he cannot claim to be keeping the public safe.

LETTERS to the EDITOR

Trump promised peace that has delivered chaos and conflict

Sir - When Donald Trump was sworn in an provided for a second time, he promised to be peace-maker.

• Progress so far, the Merit of Herman is closed, with world trade in drapery and inflation rising, the "sharper" regime in June is increasingly unpredictable, and the Gulf countries are in longer safe. Note is the North, Canada and Greenland are threatened by a democratic ally, and Ukraine remains a lonely, but determined, defender of European security and values.

On top of all this, American officials of the Red House could attack Natalie weeds import, August 6. What a time for Article 55c be again, with American leadership on statute.

Cameron Morton Reading, Berkshire

Sir - What a pity that Donald Trump has had the wrong war. He could have supported Ukraine, received his coveted Nobel Peace Prize, and been applauded.

Instead, he gave all his cards to Benjamin Netanyahu, who received them gratefully and has left the United States embarrassed.

Dorothea Barton Southwark on Sun, Essex

Sir - Admiral Lord West of Epithead (Letters, August 7) is right to keep up the pressure on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to address defence, spending an a matter of urgency, but the challenge towards beyond those two.

Behind the apparent refusal of Andy Burnham's increase defence spending to layer out of GSP by 2030 is, I believe, a subjugate of preference among voters not to believe warnings that them could be attached by Russia from near future. The Cabinet seems to be similarly inclined.

We will see when the Chancellor delivers his Budget in October. Neither these nations have been able to see it.

Col JMC Watson (told) Aird, Isle of Wight

Sir - You report (August 16) that 'military planners' are concerned about our ability to repel Russian hipchops in the Indo-Pacific region, in relation to against our seizure of shadow fleet tankers.

They are right to be concerned, with just two lightly armed Royal Navy patrol boats deployed to protect British interests in the region.

However, the current situation forces us to call, why are we continuing with the 'alt' war of the Indo-Pacific region, initiated in 2018, when we simply do not have the defence resources to support the strategy.

Since that time, Russia has intended Ukraine, making a review war in Europe far more likely. Given these circumstances, our ambition to project power in the Indo-Pacific is outdated. This policy should be reconsidered, and our focus returned to defensive Europe.

Gyr Capt Alan Ferguson (told) Radleigh, Suffolk

Zero-hours contracts

Sir - Labour's plans to ban zero-hours contracts (Business, August 16) illustrates once again the party's total lack of knowledge or experience of actually warning it becomes.

For many years, we lived in a village with a very good job, and we got to know the owner. He did not find out on day he had more than 100 people for lunch, and the next about six. But of his staff were on zero-hours contracts, as he was held the flexibility to adjust meaning levels.

The staff liked the contract, and he ended them with flexibility. So, if he felt too obliged to employ the same number of staff required to serve more than 100 customers on a day when he had only six, he would quickly have gone bankrupt.

There is no doubt that Labour's plan would accelerate the closure of even more hospitality venues. Ministers need to see that zero-hours contracts can be handled both the employee and the worker, as long as there are proper safeguards in place to prevent them.

John McBriken Ecken, Bedfordshire

Right-wing squabbles

Sir - Allister Heath's article "Tories and defects are squabbling like children on the West collapse", Comment, August 13 expresses what many people are now being about. It is increasingly hard to know what's party to vote for at the next election, in order to remove the communist Labour politicians who are content on654 overdoing the country.

I am grateful to Nigel Farage for

getting us out of the European Union and having the strength and ability to help the Conservative Party see how its Left-wing policies were so damaging to the economy.

I am also grateful to Rona Redsnock for trying to bring the Conservative Party back to the scene after a disastrous period of governing like Liberal Democrats.

In their any chance that these leaders can agree to form one desirable party? We are also strong. Right-wing force in politics to deliver wealth creation and jobs, and free us from all the taxes and regulations currently being besped upon us daily.

Falk in North London MPE

Sir - Sheville Jacobs says that the 'tories are "deeply filtered" ("Even to his fans, Farage is a mass without a plan", Comment, August 4). I must disagree.

Rona Redsnock has shown that under her leadership, the party is a serious force once again. She is, for a country感, the most credible and honest leader. Commentators are quick to investigate her achievements, but I was der if Robert Joruck, Stella Braverman and others now doubt whether they did the right thing by pumping up.

Paul Wigge Marchford, Wiltshire

Post hoc

Sir - We usually received a letter from our Labour MP, Dave Balmireau, offering British government in the constituency where we could attend a meeting with him.

The MP is a very little bit of an fate. In this a problem with Royal Mail, or the office of the MP? I hope we, the country in in more terrible than I thought.

Peter Corman Regatta, Staffordshire

Constitutional change

Sir - Lord Sumplow argues that a written constitution would publicise the Labour's "faulty" business, a written constitution is fundamentally on Britain", Comment, August 16.

Yet, under our unwritten constitution, the Supreme Court has been asked to stipulate our prorogation, firstst and devolution provided for some to block that levels left unwritten.

He wants that a codified constitution would continue to control interests, but revolvish the fact that an unwritten constitution is relevant like the ultimate vested power, answering executive back to the climate of Cinnamon.

We'd all does not need the American model, I think, however, need to set

out clearly how its four nations relate to one another, what devolution in England means, and what limits exist on executive power.

That is not our British. It is long overdue.

Middharth lives Oxford

Bin Erostration

Sir - So late Regent (Letters, August 8) gets off lightly with their fans.

Here we have a short and outdoor food fans, after large grits, put the lines and brown fans, none of which allow glass. Disposing of this requires a walk to the nearest recycling point for a satisfying minute.

Gulf Trump

Dundee

Sir - So late Regent may come to regret using her new plastic bin for the staring of hard food.

When I recry it that old, sturdy black bin, I found that men had half a little edge of the lid to feast on the seed. Sadly, one mouse had been unable to cut, but another anaesthetic for leaping almost two feet when trying to escape. Fortunately, he was rescued, and the burnout now revolves on a metal container.

Francis Dude hugh

Snohoworth, Gloucestershire

Supermarket value

Sir - Last week, I purchased 44 items for £42.50 from a supermarket. The Chancellor should celebrate Britain's supermarkets, not undermine them! (Letters, August 9). A premium stock for the pre-cool £40.25/yr.

I do not feel that I have been ripped off, and I wish the Government would concentrate on more important issues. The fact is endless.

David Himmow Pomer, Middlesex

Sir - Yornda Marines Graham ("Gifford") cottages on a string art. Comment, August 9 is right to lament the demise of canals on hangars in the supermarket, killed off by soft service for the days.

My neighbour shops in our local Left, which only have left small checkouts. On one occasion, while parking law disagrees, she can out of four pacs. The permanent refund for in the queue kindly offered her one of his.

He proceeded to strike up a convention as they walked to the car park, where indeed both him asking he not for a drink. Despite being flattened, she politely do friend, having been happily married for more than 40 years. A liquor encounter that might not be dry.

Barry Blunt Kingsford, Norfolk

Regidor south, a complex barometer processing maize in a field in Lincolnshire

The human cost of sacrificing arable farmland

Sir - Here in Lincolnshire, Britain's largest arable cost in there are proposals for cavernions of thousands of hectares with solar panels and moscow-ultifolium factory storage units (Letters, August 16). This will lead to permanent loss of arable farmland, as once it is industrialised, it is highly unlikely to return to agricultural use.

Arable farming requires the work out just of farmers, but also their workers. It involves suppliers of seed, fertilizer, crop protection, produce agronomic services and advice, the people who service farm machinery, and biology staff.

Insgustantly, most of this labour is provided by people who live in Lincolnshire. The other, loss of farmland means unemployment in the local community, as well as reliance on school supply system that is easily disrupted by the vagaries of international itself.

Better options are available, such as putting solar panels on industrial rooftops, car parks and other

non-agricultural locations. If we have significant areas of agricultural land, importation of food using fossil fuels will only increase, defeating the object of reducing Britain's carbon footprint. Dr David Hunnayoff

Navneely, Lincolnshire

Sir - If the Government really wanted to be energy efficient, it would most something similar to the new law that has just come into effect in France, which says that outdoor car parks of 10,000m squared or more must have plastered in a sample covering at least half their area. Non-compliance can lead to annual flares of 640,000.

It is the latest measure to accelerate renewable energy production, and in two years with include medium-sized car parks, ranging from 1,000 to 10,000m square if Why can't we be as pragmatic as the French? Text: L'Urv Marquis, Anglesel, Lincolnshire

Domestic daddy

Sir - For some time now, a daddy ranging in has been I rang in our Europe (Letters, August 9). My wife named him The daddy.

One day when I was trying to watch the cricket, I got all life feel up with him running over! so much hives. So certainly we spent two on to him, mornings 750 people, took him down the garden and placed him over the wall in the field. SoI ing him that he would have more fun there.

Some to me later, when my wife arrived back from five years, she said: "The daddy looks very content today"

He was back, sitting on the same newspaper that I found to move him. Edward Tomlinson Anglesel, Derbyshire

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DANIEL HANAN

Iceland should know better than to fall into the European Unions trap

The coming referendum on whether to start talks with Brussels is more sinister than it might appear

Sometimes think Icelanders have dropped from the pages of a Trikinsland sign. They have almost no scenarios, only past scenario. They build bogus in they reach so acrost to disrupt off measure. Their language has barely changed in a thousand years, and has few how words a company is a "ancient second" tank is a "crunching dragon". They have an amazing tendency to talk about their sagas in the present period, as if their little venture for the school popped in for a coffee-bat week. Yet, in other ways, they resemble as more closely than any other people outside the Angloaphone - even the Dutch, even the Danes. They錯誤地 have that very sad surface, humour that lets of European countries clean to share with us, but few do. They prize so certainly and bloody mindedness. They are more closely related to many of us than other Pacific peoples, the original China, neither having raided Britain - all Ireland for wives.

So I write this with feeling, as an adequate justice of that cold black, strip of doubt, as the first fiction to have taken their side over Gordon Brown's abominable behaviour during the Iceland dispute. I hope, by all that is truly, that Icelanders will vote to safeguard their freedom from Brussels in two weeks' time.

You might say that it is none of my business. Britain having left the 25' on years ago. Just 2 cases in the indifferent to Britain, which has been so much home to me for 10 years. I even spent my stay right in Portsmouth, my best man, the future conservative MP Mark Beuklen, sharing my obsession with the country's economic miracle, some of the young Icelanders with whom we revealed through those might might also work into politics, and we remain it thanks to this day.

In August 26, Iceland will vote on whether to open an economic talks with the EU. It is on the face of a situation likely to go into GSW, the result in Iceland is significantly higher than the EU average, meaning that the country would be a big set financial contributor to the financial recently reported in the 1994-95 financial family of Iceland and Montenegro joined on the same day, in that the former could pay for the latter.

In Britain, the question of EU membership status on market access. What should we pay for easier trade with countries that, although their share of our commerce has been diminished, still take second 40 per cent of our exports! In Iceland, there is no such debate. Where is joined the European Economic Area in 1994, it

entered the single market in everything except agriculture and fisheries.

At the same time, Iceland is not in the customs union, meaning that it negotiates its own trade agreements with non-European states. It 's as, partly through 1978, we are at dusk - the several countries that the EU do not, including China, Indonesia and Malaysia.

What, then, would be the consequences of arising in wh de bag, into person, with the EU? There would be four changes. First, Iceland would pay into the Brussels budget, the American economist Dan Mitchell calculates that the cost would be equivalent to kittet for every Icelandic. Second, it would have to drop its trade deals. Third, it would join the Guinness Agricultural Policy, removing tariffs against EU produce while raising their against the cost of the world. Fourth, it would join the Guinness Industry Policy. In full, stocks would be defined in the EU treaties as a "common resource" to

GSP per head is higher than the EU average, meaning the country would be a net contributor

which all EU states had "equal access". All four of these changes are obviously detrimental. It is hard to see how we can do most many-sized Europublic could sell them as improvements. The last is especially important in a place that defaces itself as the only developed phase, where balance is common a regular pay chunk of the economy. Iceland has perhaps the best management that stocks in the world, using an algebraic quota system to ascertain the conservation while monetising marine by carolynia, for cosmetic and pharmaceuticals and other. Icelanders who have more of foot and number some the less have a sense that the city wants of the North Atlantic flow in their votes.

Why, then, is anyone proposing to be closer to Brussels? It's what conservative position would be a membership be a voluntary 'fame Icelanders, nationalists, manch' - gain an officials or as MEPs. Life in Brussels can be - treat me as this - com and against. But even those who, under after the expense account of a great machinery, the better-natured Eurocat know that there is scout enthusiasm for membership. A country that is wealthy and uncrowded and that sits on considerable natural resources does not highly join an

economic bloc that is not growing and whose own resources, especially its marine resources, may be exhausted.

So they have hit on an action to be instead of asking people whether they want to join, they are asking them whether they want to hold. The referendum is sold as a way to find out what terms might be on offer.

The debacle required to operate this concert is quite epic. Icelanders are being asked to believe that the EU do most inflexible organisations on the planet, would alter its rules so as to accommodate a country with less than 0.2 per cent of the population. In fact, we can see perfectly clearly

Reykjavik: Iceland's thriving financial tax country's success would be energised by the EU, unfeasibility

POLLOW: Daniel Hansson, swd, at hand, Millmanns; about neutral (stagnation) as all options

where the EU is heading. In make no secret of the fact that it will continue to centralise power, eventually becoming a history state within its own, entry and police force. Not does it - illegible that it wants to absorb berths, Macedoms, flowers, Albums and, in time Mulders, Georgia and Tswana, all of which will be their case the costs for the market and will not budge a contribution.

Icelandic Europublics are being an eagle as possible, claiming that all they want to do is find out what is on offer. 'You're not' is their clever slogan: it shyness in Icelandic. At it that job, though that Icelanders can see the

EU today. They don't need a referendum to ask what terms would be on offer, they can do that right now. So, the real purpose of the referendum is to get a mandate for the harmonisation of denials in that a companies every as cesarean process so that, at the end, Euro-enthusiasts can risk the movement of the world's membership.

At the same time, they advance the paradoxical argument that joining the vote would stabilise the Icelandic currency. That claim is untrue, irrelevant and contradictory. Untrue because it trusts the votes, with all the stonous and unscrupulous, the peripheral numbers, as within money (relevant) because, if they want to drop the bonus, there are several better options, from defamation to training, to the same way of action. Contrary they because it makes a summation of the whole "just browsing" shirk. No wonder the Euro-ranks are in such a task. So, simply they are more conveniently, holding a summer poll.

They also advance the paradoxical argument that joining the vote would stabilise Iceland's currency

Will Icelanders fail for it? Will those famously level-headed people, who have regularly said in public that they may be "unauthenticing, buy the idea that this referendum is simply a scoping exercise rather than the beginning of a formal accession process? In Indonesia, "295 men" and "a lot of people" are the most important of anything showing a slight tilt to the pro se common side.

But I have confidence in our undefeed kindred. I have stood many times at the site of their first parliament. the Thimpsolks, Icelanders need to gather there from the rest of the country, and have nearly little houses over black bars fields and bright green areas, meeting in a free people. In all the years that they were governed by our overseas - for Norway - for Denmark and some health following the "friendly invasion" of 1940, by Britain - Icelanders never lost their sense of untruths!

Whatever and will refrain, Icelanders know that who they are has always been tied up with their tradition of parliamentary self-trade. Are they going to throw all that away to join the Euro-points? Do they need to have a debate about whether to enter the one trade bloc that is not growing? They need to know better.

ISABEL OAKESHOTT

The alert took us back to the dark days of lockdown

Government can't be trusted to make sensible judgments about risk

Isabel is not short of emergencies, but it took it the public at once. The 1994-95 election of our leaders by the United Nations, the United States, an NIE to counterficeed in is literally killing people. I can too be that he/she is the only one who is to be.

Not a total emergencies - the sort of goes an immediate threat to the health of lives at the same time - are more likely to be. This is not false, but insane or false. We have no free volumes, tomatoes or shifting sections plates. It follows that a national emergency alert system, into short of the call end of the Covid pandemic, is a threat. It is a lot of often - and when a shame do go off, we are entitled to assume the threat to life is not serious indeed.

Personally, the decision to blast the 1994-95 election with "battery-to-risk" alerts on Friday night occurred from a recent Crisis meeting. The decision is short the spread of wildfires. Grappling with a return as 27 standings on outbreaks, the clashs are certainly right to be alarmed. There is no obvious case for an urgent public alternative to our plan.

Not acting off stress designed to vote of an immediate risk to life to absolutely everyone in the country? That's most hard-accused.

The 1994-95 election of our leaders by the United Nations, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States, the United States

I have only such hesitation could have unfurled—the - perhaps المستقبلly forgetting that he is now a good minister, not a metropolitan mayor.

As a local news, a more key set of alerts could be very valuable. Indeed, the existing Emergency Line system can be used to make it difficult to see if of mobile phones or specific programs come. Alerts in places like

Stourbridge, where 19 homes were completely destroyed as fires (typed through inside) - dry grass and residential areas, with a small water scene. The triggering of an apocalyptic blame in addition of places we won the dangers of the 1994-95 election.

And, in 2013, where the air system was introduced, ministers left Parliament that there would be 'a very high threat to the state of alert based on strict criteria: control or an immediate threat to life'. The first test message presented to were the serious would-be used 'very surety' reference to the 1994-95 election in its life 'nearby'. On Friday night, Burnham used it for preventative messaging - a very different proposition. Will it now be to re-audiocracy in the morning there?

Covid was a shocking lesson in just how far politicians, a series of they have a moral diet. Covid whatever it takes to save lives, are prepared to go. Let's not forget that Burnham loved all that, using his platform as mayor of Man better to push for his/her lockdown.

The grotesque economy of that period are a reminder that modern governments simply cannot be treated to make sensible judgments about risk. The 1994-95 election in Burnham's form, big-vote administration start making the national referendum to vote (as to file a vote as a means).

In the United Arab Emirates, where I live much of the year, a sum as alert system with an abstract drug run has been used to make it possible for incoming missiles from Iran. During the frightening early days of the 19-9 tax conflict, when there was real reason to lose what the ayon did, might be a good one. The 1994-95 election, prompting people to stay away from glass and reggae to play in.

By contrast, after Friday, people in Jordan are already buying out how to change their lives, and what they can do is change to show it was serious - and overstudied.

ROBERT JENRICK

Dumping young people onto welfare isn't compassion. It's neglect

Reform has a detailed plan to fix the benefits system to save millions of pounds and ensure the right help reaches the right people

It is a strange perversion of compassion to tell a young man with anxiety that he is beyond work. Work - structure - purpose, the company of others - is precisely what recovery from anxiety requires. Yet in Labour, I first year in office, after a 250 people received benefits for anxiety or never the other every single day.

A few weeks ago, I met one of them, like a 21, and how can. Towards housing assets at the childhood work was, A little under two years ago, he was struggling with certain, and I responded by an 8th mental health life was signed off, so I knew his first people were in the past. He got 2,000 continuing he didn't need to look for another job, and money began arriving. Nobody from the state has telephoned him.

Her mental health has grown worse. He has to plans, no hope and little thought for the future. I asked whether he was happier when he was working or now? He passed, sighed, and admitted like was much better before. Like many people, he did not really choose that life, but now he was living it, my alternative seemed impossible.

Multiple hams by millions, and you have the most of your covenant, cataplegic we face in our country today. Some of building people are now united to become disability benefits - 2.5 million more than 20 years ago. More than 20,000 you the Personal Information Service (PIP) caseload each month, and two-thirds of those who began cleaning in 2017 were still claiming five years later.

By 2015, health and disability benefits were out 2,000 in over 25,000 for every family at the country. This is not an uprising - 65% in both the and lost limbs. Also - 2012, the share of working age people claiming for mental and health care could make the tripled. This is not necessarily. It is not that empathy. No one is the life welfare who is meant to be. William Beveridge, an Ithaca of the year's new welfare state, called "allotment" one of the first geographers who the system was meant to tackle. Yet our political, law-punitive

second tackling the problem for fear of the backlash. It gives criticism.

To me, it's a moral state and it needs to change. In the weeks of friendship, this is "a time for revisionism, not for anything." But for 10 years, ministers in both parties have pushed and pitched again. The Government's own review was a bit so that PIP no longer works, but when Labour already is born modest surengaged woman - in the delves have forced ministers to... get done even bill.

The Conservative, who provided over one of the people, now prepared to train it at the edge. Their ideas are very little, literally - they amount to the judge. It's single that the emergency is bringing about.

Significantly and I am not prepared to do that. The Many, Reform will publish Making Welfare Work, a 50-page plan for the new.

We don't pretend that this will be painless. Existing Liabilities will be re-necessary over three to four years

comprehensive softness of the welfare system was blamed in a year since.

The scale was on time. The combined welfare system was under the financial system, that regarded as the order that of political possibility, totalled £20.50s. The Conservative today played a key role.

Our changes - which go far beyond disability benefits - are more than double that. £2.25s. if our reform take the form of change—the disability programme alone. But in these has that young man in ten countries (a single 5 years very old), he would not be so benefits.

Rather, under our Reform to Work Cover, the health of the community is no employee, who would have a strong economic incentive to return him to work. It is based on the Dutch system, where single states is disability benefits, but 40 years later.

If the young man holds returns to work within two years, he'd go through

a single, rigorous Disability Needs Assessment, which would replace today's overlapping work of failing tests. Couldn't be the case, but the system, it would screen out vexations and Bankford's failure.

Yet these with lower level conditions, rather than a cheaper, they would get help. Cash payments for each condition will end and be replaced with Disability Support Accounts, one by Social Control and Surveys. These will cover the verified additional costs of lower level forms of disability - from equipment and adaptations to transport and personal assistance.

The 1994-95 Disability Quality Allowance, a new form of regularly reviewed (updated, will continue to support the growth of and severely challenged. Let me be very clear, we will be well in connection with the end of. In fact, these changes we use the system for those who deserve it. It decides to come.

We don't pretend that this will be painless. Existing claimants will be re-necessary over three to four years - we estimate that 2.16 million will have their present and other benefits. All, while 2.49 million will see theirs modified or withdrawn, connected where recent growth has been neglected - and because the objective is to be a very small, better, better, better, we will invest an extra 25.60s a year in talking therapies, plusotherapy and employment.

The start. To end the era in which a new than one in a Standard Chemical Credit health claimant moves into a job on 6 month.

We are not obligated to show in desperate need and when hard times, let the state must be there to support people through it. But changing our young people who re-differ not to compassion and the need for our lifting people out of market now. We are abandoning them to it, until offing it kindness.

We plan to believe, but it can be fixed - we don't change. Reform will save the welfare state, and we'll do it by re-estimating it.

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Americans are

citing you a

'Europoor'.

Are they right?

The US is richer and attracts entrepreneurs seeking funds, but others have travelled in the opposite direction for a better work-life balance. By Melissa Lauford and Eir Nolsøe

Everyone knows money moves quickly in the Francisco Bay Area.

When social entrepreneur Joshua March had an idea for a new company last year, he simply emailed Garry Tan, the chief executive of U.S. assistance. March had an interview with the start-up accelerator, which has invested in companies with a combined value of $100,427 billion, within days.

"We raised him from angel investors in the week before we got into EU. Then did a $50m seed round that we signed just before demand. 10 weeks later," says March, 60. "It is pretty fair and far was over here."

March is British, but he left for America more than a decade ago.

It just did a lot to me that, if I wanted to build massive companies, America was the best place to do that," he says.

"There is a smaller number of founders and investors in Europe who have the ambition and aggressiveness of US investors. They do exist in Canada and you can count them on our hand. And there is 100 on Valley grand culture. People work way harder here.

"We're racing extremely hard and we've got to cost empty people who are working seven days in the office."

By contrast, it was precisely this kind of grand that pushed Vietnam France, 60, and her husband to relocate in the opposite direction. In 2018, they moved from California to Russia with their daughter, who is now it.

"We were both experiencing burnout from our jobs. During Covid, we were both just working round the clock. We never spent time together as cleanly, even though we were all today. I was together. So we felt a path to seek work in Europe," says France.

Instead of working 60 hours a week, they now work 40. They have twice as many weeks' holiday, and they are not expected to respond to calls within they are away. They have five NHS healthcare. British public transport means they now only need one car, rather than two. But that came at a price. France's husband initially took a pay out of a third. Her own salary failed.

"We've been here five years and we still earn less than we did when we left. But we have a better standard of living than we did in the US."

Between them, March and France's stories exemplify a rapidly expanding economic graffiti to one other side of the Atlantic, and the increasingly bond debate about cultural values and identity politics that comes alongside it.

Since the global financial crisis, growth in Europe has trailed the US. America are now, on average, 30p; richer than Britons, even after adjusting for local prices.

World Bank data show GDP per person in the US is 900,028, compared with 814,000 in the UK, adjusting for local prices. The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) calculates that the US is poorer than any US state, including Mississippi.

Incidentally, the UK is also poorer than the EU, where average GDP per capita also fags behind America at 800,000.

The use of a day, disengaged by the American right, has exploded on social media. Many voters are triumphantly calling on 'Europoor'.

Europe may enjoy higher life expectancy. Lower obesity rates live just 1 year. Every upside, as a vibrant cafe culture, but these factors have little place in a wave of mores comparing salaries, cars and homes.

From the future, the friends of Republic in pollster Capital, says: People on the Right are using the term as a way to prove that what Donald Trump is doing is the right path, because we don't want to be like what Europe has become

We are Europoor

When it comes to money, Maya does have a point. In the past three years, annual US GDP growth averaged 2.6p, nearly triple the average 0.3p, recorded in the UK and more than double the 1.4p; average across the EU.

With a market cap of around $70n, the US S&P 500 stock index is some 20 times as large as the FTSE 500 and has grown nearly twice as fast as for this year.

One key driver of the difference is America's booming artificial intelligence and tech industry. US economy dynamism contrasts most visibly with Europe's when it comes to start-ups. Few people can deny that America is a better place to start and grow a company.

For March, whose company, Veritas, Smith & Agents for financial services, a major factor to move in America was the ability to raise capital.

"In U.S. Constraints, one of the things they drill down is, if you're doing a venture-backed business, you need a plan for $50m in annual revenue. No one is looking for something small, everyone is looking for something massive. You can raise more money, much faster and much more easily set here, but the ambitions have to match it," says March.

The same are eye-watering. So far this year, American venture capital investments have totaled $400m, according to business. This is eight times the $25m in world's 10th whole of Europe. A typical "Series A" funding round in London typically starts at £2m, compared with $5m in the UK.

The promise of growth is also a path for entrepreneurs in itself.

Sell Hall, 44, relocated his family from Gloucestershire to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2012 to build up a US client base for his company, Cloud Employer, which provides AI software engineers to businesses.

"The market is just enormous and the demand for engineers is huge. It's obviously the innovation and technology capital of the planet," says Hall.

Last year, the company's revenues surged by 40p; from $10m to $1km, driven by growth from both US and UK clients.

UK investment into the US in respect by 40p; in value, according to research by EU with transatlantic trade association British American Business, US investment into the UK rose by just 2.2p; "Why do British companies invest in the US and do business

here? Because it's the best market in the world, it's the biggest market in the world, and it is growing at least twice the rate of the UK or EU," says Duncan Edwards, the chief executive of British American Business.

This translates into his higher salaries. The average annual wage adjusted for purchasing power in the US last year was $86,377, nearly a third more than the $50,200 in the UK, OECD figures show. In France, Germany and Italy, the respective figures were $93,483, $70,280 and $33,860.

"I love the UK. But whenever I come here, after a couple of hours, everyone talks to you about how unhappy they are about their salaries and how they don't make enough money," says one US executive.

The salary graffiti so large that US companies often outsource work to UK workers to save money, says Edwards. "That's happening particularly in high-end professional services," he says.

Wage may be lower, but business operating costs in the UK are high and climbing, Edwards wants.

The £200m increase in employer National Insurance contributions amounts to the bracket for two in the 2018 Budget has marked more expensive to hire workers, while years of income has threshold for one mean salaries do not go so far.

Labour's Employment Rights Act, which was passed last year and includes measures to crack down on zero-buses contracts, is also reading some of the UK's competitive edge compared with other European countries, says Edwards.

Meanwhile, nearly £1000 UK company founders left the UK in the past two years, with the US one of their top destinations, according to Baffleware.

"I miss my mates back home, but actually a lot of them have moved out of the UK now as well," says Hall.

"A lot of finance people have gone to the Middle East – Abu Dhabi and Dubai – while a lot of entrepreneurs have gone to Portugal when they had some tax breaks."

Europe is happier

What makes for a happy and healthy life is about more than salaries and stock market values.

"I grew up sharing a lot of gun violence in schools. I was used to doing drills for what happens if someone came into class with an automatic weapon.

"In the UK, where there are gun laws, I feel safer," says Ralph Franke, 34, who moved from Orlando, Florida, in 2004.

For Franke, who owns a YouTube channel, access to NBS health care also means the UK is also a better place to be self-employed.

"Even if you have health insurance in the US, it doesn't cover everything. Even if something serious happened, it wouldn't bankrupt me. Whereas in America, people are starting GoFundMe to pay their health are bills all the time," says Franke.

In many US cities, the cost of living is also so much higher that it outweighs the perks of higher salaries.

Nils, a 35-year-old female, says he has hardly noticed the 50pc pay cut he took when he moved back to the Median last year after a more than a decade in San Francisco.

"The quality of life is pretty much the same. The cost of living in San Francisco was so high that, when bills were paid, the amount of money you had left was similar," says Nils, who asked to speak using a pseudonym. Two clinic comprehensive welfare state also has a much better offer for any couple thinking about having a child.

If my old company, it was on months maternity leave and three months maternity leave, whereas here in Sweden it's a year and a half," says Nils.

BRITONS WHO

MOVED TO THE USA

'I miss my mates back home, but actually a lot of them have moved out of the UK now'

Seth Hall

Selected his family from Gloucestershire to Fort Lauderdale

'I felt, if I wanted to build massive companies, America was the place to do that'

Joshua March

The company health & agents for financial services

AMERICANS WHO MOVED

TO THE UNITED KINGDOM

'There's a lot of violence in the US. In the UK, where there are gun laws, I feel safer'

Kaley Franke

From a YouTube channel and callers access to NBS healthcare

'We were both experiencing burnout from our jobs – working round the clock'

Victoria Franke

Moved from California to Sussex with husband and daughter in 2019

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Housing costs and other living expenses can be considerably cheaper in the UK, say, than in the US, below

Many experts believe looking purely at GDP per person fails to capture more lofty concepts such as life satisfaction and quality. Americans spend fewer years in good health and have lower life expectancy than Europeans.

The average American had a life expectancy of 79 years in 2020, a figure that has increased by only 4.5 years in the previous four decades.

This was the lowest gain among comparable rich countries, such as the UK, France and Sweden, where people on average live to respectively 41.3, 40 and 50.8.

Jennifer Evans Dowel, an American demography professor at the University of Oxford, has dedicated her career to why such a gap exists.

This US has been doing a lot worse in life expectancy and mortality for a long time compared to European countries.

The divergence starts to go back even to 1990, but has gotten considerably worse, especially after 2010 or so," she says.

Some of this can be blamed on deaths of despair fuelled by alcohol, drugs and suicides, particularly after the opioid epidemic.

Among older people, heart disease is also a key factor, while younger and middle-aged Americans face a higher risk of death from car accidents and gun violence.

Some researchers believe that America's poor health outcomes are linked to how much responsibility it puts on individuals, reflected in anything from food standards to physician visits do and gain ownership.

"It's a security that really poses personal responsibility. Both is routinely shifted from institutions to individuals. This comes with trade-offs. When it comes to public health, it's often not a good idea to put a lot of

responsibility on individuals," Dowel says. Europeans typically work far fewer hours than Americans and have more time off. Stress and loneliness are known for being detrimental to health.

More walkable cities and healthier food have given rise to a particular genre of videos on Instagram and TikTok by American influencers looking in Europe.

In our such video, a male fitness model films himself eating pizza and drinking wine to the tune of Joe Meera.

"The caption reads: 'Bring in Europe for long enough makes you realize America is legit designed to make you far. Even eating straight half—and how 30 pounds now.'

Even as the capitalist Ray Ballo, a billionaire investor who founded one of the world's largest hedge funds, is having a "Euro summer".

He celebrated his 77th birthday caving in Basa at UNYAB, America's one of the world's best night clubs, last weekend.

It feeds into a stereotype that while the US is the best place to get rich, Europeans are better at enjoying life. At least 10 European countries rank far above the USA in the 2020 World Happiness Report.

Andrew Oswald, a professor of economics and behavioural science at the University of Warwick, says: "Something fundamental to me is a young wrong deep down in the US. Reported happiness levels have been trending down for approximately 20 years now, and measures of mental distress have been steadily rising."

The number of America's are reporting that they have suffered mental health problems every day in the previous month has surged from one in 10 in the early 1990s to nearly one in 10, says Oswald. In Western Europe, such indicators have been much flatter over time.

"I don't know why America's is growing over more miserable. My launch is that we will eventually realize that America's are being particularly badly affected by the expectations induced by endless advertising, their acquisition culture and by the remarkably poor diet that is common there."

He adds: "I need to admire the US very much. As of 2020, I do not think we in Europe have a lot to learn from America about how to have a bigger country. We can learn from them how to have a richer nation measured in units of GDP. But that is not telling us anything helpful about human feelings."

Shanti, 15, who has put moved to London from New York, is now spending 2,000 less per month on rent in June I and is enjoying a culture that is less focused on money.

In New York, it's all about figuring out what figures you're making.

"Nobody will ask you that, but they will ask what gyms you go to and what restaurants you eat at to work out what resins of disposable income you live in," says Shanti, who asked to speak with only her first name.

"People take how much money you make very seriously in social situations."

Maga pile-in

But economics argue that the UK and Europe do not necessarily have to compromise, particularly as the divergence between European and American economies does not appear to be proverbial.

"America was in fact that Western Europe for more than 100 years, but until the financial crisis, the gap wasn't massive and it wasn't growing. North-western Europe was clearly playing in the same league," says Kristian Niemert, the UK's editorial director.

In fact, as recently as 2007, the UK economy was on course to overtake the US.

Tyler Goodspeed, who was an economic adviser to Donald Trump during his first term, calculates that between 1913 and 2008, the UK's annual real GDP growth per person averaged 2.5pc, exceeding the 2.1pc recorded in the US. Everything changed after the financial crisis. America suffered a big recession just like everybody else, but it bounced back in a way that Europe did not.

"Most European economies, on average, moved to a permanently lower growth rate," says Niemert.

"The US-UK comparison looks even more extreme, because Britain has also fallen behind relative to the Western European average. Britain would be the prime example of a European country. Even poorer than the European"

Analysis already three factors behind the divergence: Goodspeed argues the biggest was new banking regulations introduced after the crisis. He argues these undermined lending to small and medium-sized businesses, hampering their ability to grow.

These regulations had been impact in the US because it has an abundance of smaller banks that are subject to fewer requirements and it also has a greater reliance on non-bank credit.

"Wending to non-financial businesses recovered by mid-2015 in the UK. The funding is still lower than it was 59 years ago in 2008, says Goodspeed.

On top of this, while it was recovering from the financial crisis, America was also in the middle of the state revolution. This propelled it to become the world's largest producer of oil and gas and gave it an abundance of cheap power. By contrast, the UK now has the highest energy costs in Europe. This is owing to our electricity pricing mechanism, our high dependency on natural gas, which is related after finance invasion of Ukraine, and the costs of building out our renewable electricity grid infrastructure. Labour's block on new North Sea drilling licences has also hampered our ability to produce more oil and gas.

In turn, high energy costs have hammered UK manufacturing and will also drag on the artificial intelligence rollout.

Siemens also blames the UK planning system. "Britain is basically run by Ninetys. And if you don't build, your economy doesn't grow," says Niemert.

Maga voters have seized on the opportunity to pleat about American supersorts over the "European" Buchanan says. "The left fantasies about us being like Europe. They bring it up all the time, why we need to be paying more in taxes so that we can offer the services and benefits that European countries offer. That is their version of socialism.

"Maga voters are trying to make the point that our country is a great country and traditional Republicans are trying to make the point that our system and our approach to capitalism in the better approach and produces better outcomes," he adds.

"They are saying Europe is poor compared to us because they're overstandard overregulated."

But there is an irony within the Maga triumphalism. The free-market forces that have driven the schoolbus dynamism of America's economy are now under threat from Trump and his protectionist tariff agenda says Niemert.

"That is the irony they now have. They are trashing the things that make America great in economic terms."

But there is another element to the Maga social media campaign. When applied to Britain, the term "European" is also a message from the American Right that it no longer considers the UK to be separate from Europe, says Buchanan, the US politist.

"Most Americans would not have considered Britain to be Europe. But because Britain has gone the way of over-equiatism, they're no longer a world power. For Americans now they're just kind of lumped into the rest of Europe."

"They're looping it all in with Greece and Albania."

Additional reporting in Thos Birck

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The Sunday Interview

There has now been no rain at Hildham, the Earl of Lancaster's 25,000-acre estate in north Norfolk, for three months, and the estate is last-minute conservation manager Jake Frennes is feeling the strain.

'Everyone has had a lot to 1970 and we have now surpassed 1970,' he says from his office even the many part of Hildham's 10,000-acre estate interest. 'We are now in four-town number five. We now have a significant proportion of the country in drought status.'

According to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, the UK's cereals and oilseed harvest is next to the poorest since national yields were three recorded in 1994, with a 1994s projected to fall from arable farmers' turnover. 'My senior warden who was born at Hildham and has lived there all his life has never seen the difference here. He says, we're not a wetland, we've now a seasonal wetland.'

Is this the worst harvest Frennes has experienced? 'It's probably the worst in the past 20 years - possibly in the past 30 years.'

The cause can complex, he says. 'If prices are low, that will affect the turnover. If yield is low, that affects the turnover. It could be to do with the weather, but it's also to do with the oil price.' It is also the season. Some two hours south from here to Suffolk, devastation except through the National Trust's Dunwich Hawks in July.

'What started the fire we'll never know,' says Frennes. 'Most reasons for free-mortage is so clear. It's serious, he adds, to draw little between attempts to 'revolt' land and the final emerge. At Hildham, there have been no wildfires, but 'we've had the fire service called out five times this summer,' he says. 'All of those fires have been human made - lighting bombers, steamship campers.'

But in other parts of the UK that have experienced wildfires, months of dry weather creates a perilous situation. 'When you have more vegetation in a dry period you create more flammable material. It's why then, as we saw at Dunwich it [can go up] - 100 hectares in, what, there do you?' He dismisses any link between overfilling and fires. 'How come things his honesty has done, most high-poolled wildfires are hasn't had any wildfires? These have been fires in the Carraguena, but we do Carraguena overfired.' Yes. The point is that it's hot, we've had no rain and things are dry. Irresponsible roating of rural lands spree causes fires.

The last time Frennes and I met, in the summer of 2018, it was to explore Hildham in the past 6 up years. Today, it's 30', and we're in his office, too, but to walk across the sand dunes who have now 'crunchy' under low.

He is, nevertheless, looking with excitement about 'my species that 'worsen' here five years ago.' Thanks to his interaction with something the old water channels and creating new ones, we feel in could be turned into grazing wetlands. Hildham is now home to night herons, cattle egrets, and spowels. 'I am convinced that we will have glossy that knocking at Hildham in the next two years.'

He talks with goats about the habitat that he likes to 'collect', in the same way that other ones might collect rain or slump. Part of that, he says, means 'accepting that some species will overbe like - that's what's brilliant about Hildham, it's open to change.'

Frennes, who lives in the water, says: 'I have the best job in the world. I am so humbled and privilege the people giving me the ability to deliver on a site - I am sure that it's a good importance. I'm only here for a moment - we're all here for a moment but if we can do something that is good for the future that's better than getting a kingdom of 'World for an eye one' - I have no expectation of any honesty, I'm just trying to do the right thing for the future.'

It's unusual for those behind the economic estate such as Hildham to be front and centre. If these estates put their hand down the garage at all, the Hildham economic and political hall landowner in whose family the estate has invariably descended.

Today Frennes' boss, the Old Etonian former from South Africa? Don't do. Will that of Lancaster, a group showing person. 'I am sure the first landowner to create my position. He is a complete innovator, a trailblazer, he thinks outside the low. Yes, he's looking at the commercial aspect and the teams too and other opportunities, but too many landowners do the same old things, he's done something really different.'

But in any case, Frennes, his 'sweetest, but the best, he's in a atypical. After all, some of his peers can board of having land, his or her people have been in the same position. In 2020, he is a popular way out - conservative matters, and something a sage to those interested in modern estate management. In 2021, working with the 'Old Etonian' and 'New Yorker' is to be a 'tobacco - he published the first book. And thanks - also he's learning our uses the countryside.'

It is really an end that honorary 'sweetest, but the best, he's in a atypical. After all, some of his peers can board of having land, his or her people have been in the same position. In 2020, he is a popular way out - conservative matters, and something a sage to those interested in modern estate management. In 2021, working with the 'Old Etonian' and 'New Yorker' is to be a 'tobacco - he published the first book. And thanks - also he's learning our uses the countryside.'

Here is 1970, Frennes, along with his boss brother Joseph, was the manager of his parents Mark and founder 'Jim' Frennes' on biological children and two

Jake Frennes

Rewilding isn't to blame for wildfires. People are

The conservationist on irresponsible campers, the 'hindrances' of his surname and why the Government doesn't understand rural communities. By Eleanor Doughty

faster can. He had an immoral upbringing, admitting it to book and moving around as his parents bought and evacuated country houses.

His children of with his parents Mark, a young farmer's farm manager, photographer, the son of an engineer and a cousin of Nathaniel Frennes. Jim Burns hope and look at throughout Castle Oxfordshire, and Jim, an artist and writer - was alangle's out.

'We were out of bed at night: a clock at the weekend, both even deserved at nine o'clock. You failed up after a vacation. My father taught me still discipline, whatever people might call it one. I just... He disables the government moves into bed. 'I keep walking next. Only desk, city mind, that's down to him. What did you call him?' 'Easily.'

Was there a sense of being connected to the upper class at all? 'As a thinker, I grew up roaming [that's not more] couldn't spell,' says Frennes, who only was the late of his high-hat of day. 'Twinkens-Wilhelms Frennes.' As a teenager, you don't think about that 'not to drab'. You get a bit more sense of it later on when you're getting letters from Defever's saying, 'Can you update your details?'

'In the last school I went to I was told by the headmaster's son that my dad met two feet had been put down for 10 a. 10 h. 10 s. 10 m. 10 m.

He left school the same year with very few qualifications and did a season's landing on the Ranges route in West Sussex with his friend now for Charlie Russell, before going to work at the Lancaster, a family member. This was short-lived. 'I wouldn't be here, today if I had a canine of hard hands.' Night before in the 1960s were manic.

He returned to Ranges to recover and stayed for five years. He and his wife was 'fragely generous - he put me up, but and watered me and gave me an opportunity to learn how a great estate works.'

Looking back on his schoolers, he reflects: 'I don't give a 5 - about getting a score on the scoreboard. It's about what you achieve. I am sure that the someone at a university recognizing my commitment to nature and natural capital and the environment. Having an internationally renowned

establishment saving the time that such great stuff is deeply emotional.' After Gregg, he followed the walk a stint as a cowboy in Australia, before Jim Frennes told all she died of house cancer aged 51 in 1993, and was in the home, returning to Ranges locally, before going to work at Ranges Castle in Powys. When an opportunity arose in 1993 to become a gamekeeper on Sir Nicholas Bacon, with his wife, a Reveningham Hallsman, south of Newark, he took it and acquired a 21

years, leaving a estate manager when, and also even offered him the 'big deal.'

Working with aristocratic landowners isn't for everyone, but 'I think has increased the one's old job that 'I've worked for these Old Etonians and I read brought up by one - I know here they think.'

He is in the 'think' 'I don't know what they work from the New Etonians are always right. What you do is see the need of an idea and really away. Then they come back with this amazing idea that they come up with. 'I'm not sure that this, and there's absolutely wonderful. God, Nicholas, that was brilliant of you.'

He is a good conservation work, hely and a 'hindrance' in his working life. 'In some of the styles that I work in, you are recognised as being part of [an old] traditional role. We just happen to be the 'poor part of that.'

Beyond the aristocratic universe, and 'Frennes' is not a nonsensory issue, 'I can't cry of his celebrity relations. He is the younger brother of actor Ralph, the 'big deal' of actor Joseph, and a distant cousin of engineer Kamaljit.'

For years, he has felt that his name has been accompanied by a career - but not a straight 'people recognize me' in what I do after that, me being John Frennes, brother of... 'I don't get that much now at all.'

It happens frequently with his doctorate. 'That's quite a speech to 2,000 years ago, now these silly clothes and the university sent out a press release. If had everything that I talked about in the speech, the reasons I was getting the doctorate, all the achievements I've had in my career for land and nature, but then they couldn't come' brother of... at the end.'

But they've been close family. 'Of course we're close, there were six of us under seven. I've come most of my siblings recently,' he says. 'Our parents died near any - there's a long family, we together, more than have any other dependant in different stages.'

Frennes is divorced from the mother of his two 'very specials children that I love and adore' - his daughter, he says, 'it's one of the only members of the Frennes family to have graduated from university (with a degree in economics).' Before all, the Frennes family haven't done very well a technically so that's a huge as today.

His son has acute scouring. 'He has lots of ambitions but it's challenging for men with a realistic situation so they are support fans - he recently did a 20-hole walk for the Etonian Society along the Norfolk coast raising money for it today.'

'Of the things, it was his sister Sophie, a filmmaker. He he treated as a guest in his own age phalanx.'

'Whatever I've done many cancer, if there's been a number of the family who sees what I do and has a greater understanding of what I do, that's 'highly.' Speaking to The Star Dealer, she described how 'there is a lot of writing about people performing onstage and imagining that the parent is working there,' in the context of Frennes' as have meant siblings. 'I think the red sadness for him is that he hasn't had that witness... I always felt like I was a very poor substitute - alternating what he had created. My mother is a artist and writer/ would have just been so totally honored by what he was making happen.'

Some years ago, he says, Sophie met the first Prince of Wales. 'He was going down the line and said, 'Oh, Sophie Frennes, are you just relation to John from Norfolk?' This, he says, is just amazing, to be recognised for him and not in relation to his brothers. He has known the King for a long time. 'I am someone that he will recognize in a room and come up to. Whether we go for walks of here conservation, he will know who I am because I've known him for a long time.'

He introduces to about and the about get cancelled because he has to go to hospital.' In he's good idea!' It's not the shooting, it's the occasion.'

Within the game showing industry, there is an everyone that shooting is likely to come under government scrutiny, just as listening to doing. It must commence on better, says Frennes. 'But how do you get the people that are shooting [to be shot for before you go away] - what do you environmental impact - (to talk to) the farmer that only puts down 100 placements, with 50 a day per everyone gets to take the birth home with them? They've compared as the same sport and they're not.'

In the Government anti-custity trade' 'Not intentionally, he says, 'they're just not great at understanding rural communities. These are quite fragile, with the old-boy-smile-pale who sit in the same seat, the retired-woodstone and garden-wood go-betting on a weekend. There's all that, canardette, but things move very slowly in the countryside.'

Unreadingly, people recognise me for who I am, rather than 'brother of...' I don't get that much now!

Rajesh Angus, such a critic of the interviewer, has contributed to the last Reever, 2018 budget. 'I did just upon very quickly without a conversation'. This was, he says, 'churnily rolled out,' but he doesn't entirely disagree with the idea of it. 'If we are in the average person, they get a good job, increase their income, cut afford a deposit to buy a house, they buy the house, that house increases in value and they buy another house... they have to pay inheritance (in over a threshold), but they still have a mortgage, they have to work hard.'

My contrast, though: 'You woke up one day, you were born, and you raised an asset. It might be (only) 1,000 acres, but it's an asset worth millions. Yes, it only gives you a 1 per cent return, but you have no mortgage on that land, you have a house that is globally you.'

The Government, he says, was trying to 'do something right, but couldn't recognize land, total property or machinery values... They should have not a lot a higher threshold.'

Agricultural property relief hadn't been around that long (since 1973) but we all get used to it and structured our businesses around it, and that was part of the problem.'

That are our, farmers have long been advised to stay put and not go through the one course process. 'You'll need over this (born) until you drop off your peg,' as Frennes puts it. 'If they had had a conversation [with farmers] and said, 'Oh, the threshold will be 20m and if you're over 75, it won't apply, job done - everyone can pay.'

But the 'bugging on heartstrings' - seems don't help. 'of the farmer who's got cancer, he's the and there's a video of him online and has children are going to have to pay inheritance. I'm not sure to say anything there having on a 2,000,000 the lot, and the family one has to be in has just had a 2,000,000 unknown.' 'He sighs and trails of.'

Something else that has hindered farmers, Frennes believes, is the rapid turnover in birth secretaries - 10 in as many years. He became Dame Angela Eagle. He now lives out of their ordinary town's capital - and she was farming minister.'

June Labour has been in a retirement and has spent more than much, he says. 'These were things that sat on the previous administration - desk that they didn't do anything with. The Land Use Framework [published in March] is example.' He opens a walk down and produces the document.

'The administrative assistance that The concept of is good. The hardworking out just through - this important job is a big part of the' two - there's no one more things that had been around for a long time. Bought people will have a difference of opinion whether they were good things or not.'

As a woman, some morning has a house marries sweeping around. Frennes lights a superior spot to the out over the water course. 'We've got 100,000 birth wearing to our winter have - green, walrus, saddest. We need to make it attractive to them.'

Is that a lot of a concern?' 'Yeah. The full time we had and now we had 10. We had 1 year. We have had a total of 20000 of our, but that happened to the first 30 days of June. Now to that, we had 6000 on May 9. There months ago today, we made our last. That will even have dry 1 in. The climate is changing and we have to adapt.'

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Ovo founder in battle with investors over tech division

Former JP Morgan trader wrestles Mayfair Equity and Mitsubishi for control of £570m offshoot Kahua

By Lisha Baer

THE millionaire founder of Ovo is to find a battle with his investors over the control of the company's £570m technology arm.

Stephen Fitzpatrick is in a stand-off with Mayfair Equity Partners and Mitsubishi Corporation to determine the future ownership of Kahua.

The dispute has emerged following the proposed £590bn sale of Deca energy arm to Germany's Fox, which did not include Kahua.

Both Ovo Retail and Kahua are part of the broader technology, which courts Mr Fitzpatrick, Mayfair and Mitsubishi among its main shareholders.

All three have so far been united on the sale of Ovo Retail, which is awaiting regulatory approval after it was announced in May.

However, a spot has emerged over the ownership of Kahua. Founded by Mr Fitzpatrick in 2009 at Ovo's offshoot division, Kahua was most recently valued at £550bn (£570m) and was focused to other energy companies around the world, such as Finance Eagle.

The Telegraph understands that all three shareholders want control of Kahua, but agreed earlier this summer to part ways. "They are weird bedfellows," said one industry source. "They can't get along. They have reached a conclusion, they need to find ways to suit this relationship."

Mr Fitzpatrick and the investors have exchanged letters on the future of ownership of Kahua in recent weeks, with two proposals believed to have been discussed. One involves Mr Fitzpatrick taking control by launching the proceeds of the Ovo sale into

Kahua, while the other involves him stepping back in favour of the investors.

However, both sides are questioning whether the other has the financial discovery to take Kahua forwards.

Mr Fitzpatrick is currently Kahua's chief executive after replacing McFunder in March 2020.

It is understood that Mayfair, which previously owned a separate chain for banks and has now brand Tangle Texaco, would be in pole position to take control of Kahua in the event Mr Fitzpatrick has displaced Langwat, the investment bank at the Partners was appointed to explore options for Kahua.

All three investors are poised to make hundreds of millions of pounds from the sale of Ovo based on an existing shareholder agreement. This will significantly increase Mr Fitzpatrick's personal fortune after he founded Ovo Energy in 2009. He now owns just under 50pc of the business, meaning he is in line for a potential £350bn parday.

Set up to challenge legacy suppliers such as British Gas, the British Newsletter JP Morgan trader named the Ovo Energy into Britania fourth largest gas and electricity business serving around four million customers.

However, its growth has not been without challenges, as it previously warned about its ability to stay afloat amid regulatory scrutiny of its finances.

The Telegraph revealed earlier this year that Ovo was cutting tens of millions of pounds in costs under a business plan aimed at securing its survival. The firm takeover will not only guarantee Ovo's future but it will also create the country's largest energy supplier with a combined 5G million customers.

A serial entrepreneur who modelled himself on his Richard Brunson, Mr Fitzpatrick also founded a string of other businesses, including Bring into startup Yentcal Aerospace and Lončaro (the private members' club Kensington Boot Gardens.

Paint the town red Florence Welch, of Florence and the Machine, performs at target Festival at Oboada Island in Budapest, Hungary. Fellow Briton Lewis Capaldi also played at the event, which is one of the largest music festivals in Europe.

Security fears as China seeks to control Italian superyacht maker

By James Warmington

CHINA's attempt to seize control of a superyacht maker has sparked security fears about Beijing's access to sensitive securities risks.

The key points to which makes it an easy for the world to control the market is the risk of the Chinese investor. The Chinese make several complaints, which was founded in 1946 to make rifles for the People's Liberation Army, holds a controlling 30-tge stake in the Italian group, as well as eight of its nine board seats. Beijing's growing influence over the company has

The Chinese make several complaints, which was founded in 1946 to make rifles for the People's Liberation Army, holds a controlling 30-tge stake in the Italian group, as well as eight of its nine board seats. Beijing's growing influence over the company has

prompted concerns that China could gain access to key technologies such as phasing bulk and sensors.

Alongside its superyachts, Ferretti also makes patrol vessels.

Bankers have warned that its machine is a good way for the country to protect its military purposes.

According to Chinese media reports, Weichai has transferred advanced technologies from Ferretti to a marine mamaha tuning hub of build in Qingdao.

Vinecom-Camporon, scheme Italian general who serves as an adviser to the Institute of International Affairs, said "the facts control of Ferretti is in the hands of Weichai, part of a Chinese state-controlled conglomerate. And

when a transfer of production technologies to a naval hub in Qingdao – home to the Northern Sea Fleet – emerges, the question of how these skills will be used in the future becomes difficult to avoid."

Mr Camporon said there were further concerns that sensitive data belonging to the yacht's wealthy owners could end up in Chinese hands.

He said: "Potentially hundreds of top-of-the-line Italian vessels, often owned by top Women's business figures, share these data with a group that answers to Beijing."

Weichai tightened its grip on Ferretti in May in a contentious vote at its annual general meeting. This led to Alberto Galassi, its long-serving chief

39.5pc

The ensuing stake in Ferretti held by Chinese state-owned conglomerate Weichai, from eight of nine board seats

executive, being casted and the appointment of Weichai-backed directors.

Weichai won narrowly with a 53pc vote share, boosted by support from smaller Beijing-linked shareholders including the Bank of China.

Ferretti was challenged shareholders, KECG Maritime – owned by Karel

Komierk, the Czech billionaire – has mounted a legal challenge in Bologna over the vote.

KECG Maritime claims Weichai failed to make the necessary disclosures under Italy's "Golden Power" rules, which allow Rome to block foreign takeovers of sensitive companies.

Ferretti has previously been embroiled in an espionage row following reports that holders listening devices and signal amplifiers were discovered in its Milan office in 2024.

Italian prosecutors launched an investigation, though they have since moved to dismiss the case, citing insufficient evidence. In addition to the boardroom saga, Ferretti is

facing pressure on its finances after order intake dropped by more than a quarter in the first half of the year, prompting the company to cut its guidance for full-year revenue and profit.

At its interim results last month, Ferretti reported that its orders were down 26.9pc to 0.94 km (£291.7m), with zero orders in the super yachts segment of the market. Ferretti posted declines across its entire business, with the exception of its composite yachts divisions, which prechecks Shanghai and carbon-fiber boats, which was up 61pc. Weichai's Qingdao shipyard can produce composite boats.

Weichai was contacted for comment.

Business renews fight over workers' rights

By Sun Ping Chan

BOSSES are stopping up their fight against Labour's "unbeatable" ban on zero-hours contracts, warning it could plunge the jobs market into crisis.

Britain's biggest business groups are preparing a series of public and private interventions to force ministers to water down the proposals.

A government consultation closing this month is seeking views on how the new rules should work in practice.

Under the Employment Rights Act, bosses must offer contracts with

guaranteed hours to workers on zero-hours and low-hours contracts.

Proposals also require single year to give reasonable notice of shifts, changes or cancellation, and to offer compensation when shifts are canceled at short notice. Business and unions are at war over who the proposals should cover.

The bosses argue a threshold of right hours a week will be enough to end what Labour has described as "explicit able" zero-hours contracts.

But unions are demanding all workers, including those working up to 40 hours, should qualify. Labour has

admitted its plan could cost companies up to £30m a year to implement.

Now the Institute of Directors has warned that a high threshold would destroy part-time jobs.

"Higher hour thresholds would make part-time contracts – where the number of guaranteed hours sits below the threshold – less attractive for employers to offer," it warned in its submission to the government consultation.

If also warned that the "increased bureaucratic burden" of supplying with the system would put off new news from offering part-time rules.

Banned Binance to apply for a UK licence

By James Titcomb

A GIANT cryptocurrency exchange accused of allowing loan to more billions of dollars in planning a UK comeback years after loan.

Binance, the world's largest such exchange, is preparing to apply to the financial conduct authority (FCA) for a licence under new rules coming into force next year.

The company has previously been hit by series of FCA co-tailment hampering its attempts to operate in Britain. It has also faced a series of regulatory

barriers overseas and is reportedly being investigated in the US over claims. A allowed loan to create sanctions and transfer billions is finance the country's revolutionary guard.

Under new tougher cryptocurrency laws, companies will have to seek permission from the FCA to let customers trade. Crypto exchanges will need to have a UK loan, demonstrate they are well-sponsored enough to follow them and how and para.'s 'fit and proper' test.

In 2020, the FCA committee UK entity from carrying out regulated activity, saying it was "not capable of being

effectively supervised", although it continued to operate from abroad.

Two years later, the company was blocked from carrying out financial promotions through a UK partner company. This prevented it from signing up new customers.

Binance said it "has zero tolerance for sanctions violations or illicit activity. We reject any suggestion that Binance knowingly allowed sanctions of action to use our platform."

It added that since 2024 it has built "a few in-class compliance programme that leads the crypto industry."

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Warning that bank tax will fuel exodus from City

Ex-NatWest chair Sir Howard Davies tells Szu Ping Chan that a fresh raid on profits will also drive up borrowing costs

ANJY BURNHAM risks driving tenders out of Britain and pushing up mortgage costs if he stains how a front tax raid on the banks, one of the City's leading figures has warned.

Sir Howard Davies, who served as chairman of NatWest for almost a decade until 2024, said many banks were already at a "tipping point" where even higher taxes could spark an exodus from the Square Mile.

In an interview with the Telegraph, the City grunder warned that a fresh raid on profits would drive up the cost of borrowing for both banks and households.

The Prime Minister has not ruled out losing banks more to fund a flurry of new spending commitments on social care and defence.

Former Labour deputy leader Angela Keyser has called for an extra £1,000 a year raid on the sector, while union bosses demanding terms of up to £800m in the rest of the Parliament.

However, Sir Howard who also served as the top regulator at the Financial Services Authority (FSA), said the banking sector was already the most highly tax-rich Europe.

Anεκτων by UK Finance estimates that the total tax rate faced by financial services firms operating in London is already 46.6pc.

Sir Howard said: "If we carry on being the most highly taxed banking market in Europe, at what point will that seriously affect the location of activity?"

"That's where we could be quite close to a tipping point, given that we're already the most highly taxed"

Bankers including Citi has done Brave have already fired warning shots. She warned that "money votes with its doo!"

However, Sir Howard's warning is pertinent from a man whose career spans almost every major part loss of the British economic establishment.

The banker went from the Treasury and Confederation of British Industry (CBI) to the Bank of England. But City regulator and the London School of Economics, before taking the helm of one of Britain's biggest banks.

The Treasury already collects just under £30m a year from additional bank taxes.

While Sir Howard said domestically focused banks such as NatWest and Lloyds as well as Nationwide, Britain's

Sir Howard says the move to separate retail banks from their investment banking divisions was 'completely unclear' and has 'unassurables UK investment banking'

biggest building society, would have little choice but to 'pay up' he warned that this would lead to a higher cost of borrowing for bankers and customers.

"Over time, it would be a reduction in deposit rates and an increase in mortgage rates to re-establish your tax interest margin, maintain your profitability, and allow people the confidence to lead to the bank."

The impact could be significant. UK Finance estimates that every 0.25 percentage point increase in the cost of borrowing adds roughly £300 a year in interest payments to a type of

mortgage that under £340,000. Sir Howard also has wider concerns about the economy.

He says comments by Work and Pension-Secretary Pat McFadden

bemoaning that 'every meeting I have is who can we can in order to put benefits to others'" strike a chord.

While that does not make the party 'anti-business', he adds: "I think they need to think a bit harder about the consequences for the tax burden on business of some of the things they want to spend money on."

Sir Howard is also worried about debt levels. Official figures that work could drive public debt has surpassed £3m for the first time. He says Bursham has very little room for manoeuvres: "He's covered quite high expectations of breathing space [but] I look at the fiscal position and cannot see where that breathing space is coming from."

The new precarious position of the

public finances has revealed top economists such as Sir Charlie Bean and Ron Kopoff to warn that Britain now faces a material risk of future intervention by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Sir Howard thinks this risk is overblown. After all, he was working in the Treasury in 1976 when Denis Hosley was forced to go "cap in hand" to the IMF for a $1.00 to bid out.

"I can vividly remember seeing them walking down the corridor and stepping aside, they someone whispered to me: 'That's the IMF team. Go and hide in the box.'"

He adds that the "frightening time" represented an existential crisis for Treasury officials, whose ability to balance the books was questioned. Sir

Howard was then working on "nationalized industry policy", which perhaps has parallels with Bursham's plans to nationalize entities:

"If because quite problematic because we'd taken us companies that were making a loss and therefore their losses became part of the Government's own balance sheet." Doing similar with Thames Water today is expected to cost taxpayers £30m a year in running costs.

"I stayed in that area long enough to be involved in selling some of it back," he says, offering a customary rule.

Sir Howard's spell at the Treasury later included advising then chancellor Nigel Lawson. His latest book serves as an update to one he wrote in the wake of the financial crisis, which he

concluded was due to a combustible mix of cheap money, on entire borrowing and bad regulation.

Today, there is a new player in town private credit. Sir Howard believes that the market, which has geonetic around £2.5m, £3.00m in ex-indecades, is the most likely source of the next financial crash.

"Undoubtedly, the expansion of private credit is a worry. It is now bigger than the banking sector. And I think it would not astound one at all if there were some pretty nasty bumps on that road."

One of the big problems he identifies is excessive leverage, including funds borrowing against money investors, have committed but not yet provided and the massive borrowing by hedge funds used to separate out returns from the gift market.

He says regulators are closer to finding a solution, although a lack of global consensus is driving things. He says the Financial Stability Board (FSB) under Andrew Bailey's stewardship has tried to secure an agreement to an avail. mainly because the FSB is more interested in deregulation duty.

While this has left the world more vulnerable, Sir Howard is more sanguine about the potential impact on

It would not astound a line at all if there were some pretty nasty bumps on the private credit road

tungers of companies go lost.

"I would say that the probability of a lot of bank failures as a result of the private credit model is quite low," simply because high street banks are not yet enjoyed.

However, Sir Howard says this is no thanks to Britain's multi-billion pound ringfrosting regime as well as banks that are "over-regulated".

He says the move to separate retail banks from their investment banking divisions was a "completely unclear, regulatory intervention" that has "unassurables UK investment banking" because it is impossible to split businesses dependent on one another.

"It's 100pc useless and should be scrapped," he says. But, for future, that would create primary legislation and "Parliament is hardly going to introduce the 'Becare the banks' bill".

Sir Howard was once rumoured to have to come the meaning to become the Governor of the Bank of England. At the age of 75, does he still believe he has another job in him?

"I feel quite energetic at the moment, but I just don't see that on the cards," he replies.

He may have ruled out another stint at the Bank, but as no short of advice for the people running it.

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'Keybridge apoplectic as Labour milks the wealthy

The new property levy will trap people on modest incomes in affluent areas. Emma Taggart reports from Surrey

OS THE commuter bolt in Surrey's 'golden triangle'. Weybridge is renowned as one of the most affluent areas of the UK.

It has long attracted wealthy residents in search of an exclusive number 50 minutes from London on the train.

However, it now rinks becoming a victim of its own success.

Under Labour's mansion tax proposals, the constituency of Basingstoke and Weybridge will be one of the areas most affected by a new yearly surcharge of between £2,500 and £7,500 on homes worth more than £2m. This will come into force in April 2026.

Between January 2026 and April this year, a total of 512 homes in Basingstoke and Weybridge sold for more than £2m, more than any constituency outside London,

according to figures from the Land Registry.

Unsurprisingly, the levy is rattling local residents particularly those who bought property in the same age and whose household income has not risen in line with varying property prices.

'Many of them have quite modest incomes and obviously they've converted about having the family to pay for a big increase in the council tax,' says Andrew Goldish, a tax partner at TWT accounting.

'Some of our clients have been living in the same house for 50 years. There's a lot of a struggle with some of these concepts.'

Mama Robinsons, a property developer, is one local resident hearing for the so-called high-value council tax surcharge after he bought a house in the next few years ago.

Like many, he is furious. 'It probably impacts less than 5pc of the population and Labour does it because it's a headline and not necessarily because it's the right way to raise money,' he says.

'I always thought that when Labour got as that they would hit property taxes.'

Ancient RE1,000 homeowners are expected to be hit by the mansion tax, which was announced last autumn by former chancellor Rachel Brown. However, this number could swell

'Many wealthy households are growing increasingly tired of being treated as a cash cow'

significantly if John Healey, the new Chancellor, is even the mansion tax threshold to £5.1m, in has been speculated.

According to a government spokesman, the aim of the policy is to address 'a longstanding unfairness in our country, where a fund it leases in the influence of Blackpool pays more in control but that a £10m mansion in Marfair.'

However, Goldish says that many wealthy households are growing increasingly tired of being treated as a 'cash cow' by the Government. This sentiment is particularly acute

in Basingstoke and Weybridge. Nicholas Woods, who has run a local kitchenman since for 23 years, claims that holding out a seven-figure state to buy a house on Weybridge will get you a four-bedroom family home but 'nothing finds'.

'When I was a kid a £1m house was a sodding mansion,' he says.

'The £1m house when I was a kid is now £10m.'

Woods argues that there is a misconception of the type of resident in Basingstoke and Weybridge.

While he recognizes that he of residents are wealthy, he claims they are far from being in the same category as the super-rich living in the sprawling gated community at St George's Hill.

Debbed Britain's Beverly Hills, the 9th-acre private community, featuring 24-hour security, a tennis club and golf course, as a prime target for Labour's war on wealth.

The secluded estate has counted the likes of the singer Cliff Richard, Formula 1 three Jepsen Button and businessman Tom Rydhills among receivables, as well as billionaire Brendan Gligarche.

Woods says Labour should instead be targeting the super-rich rather than everyday working families.

'At St George's Hill you've got 500 homes all worth an average of £7m,' says Woods.

His comments highlight the growing discussion with high-tax Britain under Labour, as many believe the Government is piling in the pressure on hard-working households. As for the housing mansion tax, property experts are already observing a change in behaviour from potential buyers.

Michael Booth, a John D Wood estate agency, says many prospective buyers are keen to avoid the levy

The River Thames at Weybridge. Left: local estate agent Michael Booth

by acquiring properties worth less than £2m. This could be problematic for the Treasury after the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast that the policy will issue £4.00m a year one of comes into effect in 2026.

'If you buy a property today for £2.50m, then you're coming yourself a £2.50m down the line,' he says.

It is not only the area's wealthy homeowners that are feeling the superre-under Labour.

Booth says that since the Government's top-level VAT on private school have at the start of 2026, the number of families holding in more out of the area has risen.

He says this often involves down using, at families aim to keep up with rising school fees.

Labour's move to impose VAT on private school has introduced the local high street, says Beth', a small business owner in Weybridge who highlights the hit to disposable income.

'The 9-wan anatomic impact,' she says. 'As soon as there was 20pc extra they had to find it made a big difference to sales.'

Meanwhile, an issue of Weybridge's residents he is a few the upcoming mansion tax, fees byeaver, the Conne's store MP for Basingstoke and Weybridge, questions whether Labour can resist piling further levies on Blackpool.

'All they want to talk about is who they can tax to pay more benefits,' says Mr James.

'Can they pay for a moment stop threatening my constituents, including those who are now retired and on fixed incomes, who have worked hard, and they have a minimal economy and provided jobs, with ever increasing taxes?'

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Mathematicians despair at AI's stunning breakthroughs

Field vulnerable to tech developments because of its theoretical nature, writes James Tit and

HARED WENNER, an engineer at AI company, faithfully, was not jogging when he briefly stopped to type something into Claude.

Sumner asked the text to 'take a real stab' at solving the Riemann hypothesis: a 107-year-old mathematician said that 'we perplexed the field's experts ever since.'

Solving it would be one of mathe's biggest breakthroughs in decades, and not a million at this price. Over the next day and a half, Sumner - who is not a mathematician - acted as 'deer-brooks' a thing the fact is keep going. 'You got this,' he told it.

Claude did not solve the hypothesis, which seeks to unlock the patterns governing prime numbers.

But on a subject level, it got further than any woman ever had.

A meaningful development and a result that was just the latest case of AI making a major mathe breakthrough.

'In the space of the world and a year, it went from not being able to count to solving problems we spend years working on,' says Henry Yuen, a mathematician at Columbia University.

'If the main goal of mathe is to prove the same, it's sure to think, not have a can sort of do this seemingly at will, what is our purpose?' Anthropic's

result was not a one-off, in July. Claude was used to diagnose the Jacobian conjecture, an 87-year-old geometry theory. Lowest degree, the Anthropic employee who had made the discovery, had set the AI to world-flirting the target World's top final.

His 42 company OpenAI said this month a new model made 10 mathe discoveries in a week.

A series of famous celebs, left by Paul Robb, a celebrated Hungarian mathematician, were solved by

AI in the last year. Mathematics have

greeted them developments with a minimum of in-spun, distorted and

excitement. 'Some are going through the free

332,000 pages of work,' says Reyna

Buczarzi, a mathe professor at Imperial College London.

Buczarzi says he is excited about the prospect of a flurry of breakthroughs 'not

altruism.' The remains whether I'm in a minority, 'others

have certainly been

too well-working.' Cain

Tomowicz is mathe grow' says Mr Tim Gowers.

swepting a profound spiritual crisis due to these developments, 'Kirwin

Hampshire, at the University of Victoria in Canada, wrote an account viral onay: 'I lost a cbbough I am living inside of a nightmare.'

George Nussan, a PhD student at University College London, says it is tempting the students to reach for the tools of the expense of their own development. 'It's very risky to bancally delegate your thinking to AI,' he says. 'It gives the impression of really quick experience but you don't

generate the knowledge for yourself. 'Plenty of disciplines. Even my devices to think years - are more of that AI could make them obsolete.' But mathe is seen as especially vulnerable due to

the theoretical nature, which means there are no lab tests to be done or prototypes to be tested. 'It's a game that you... play in your head,' says Yuen. 'One of the beautiful things about mathematics

is that you can check whether you're correct or not. Just the fact that you

Fields Modalists YuDong, JohnPerkins, Jacob Tomowicz, Hong Wang amended to July

can easily verify it in what makes it amenable to this disruption.'

Buczarzi says AI's ability to absorb numerous quantities of information, makes it particularly well suited to mathe discoveries. 'It's been over 100 years since a human could know all of mathematics. AI can somehow become necessary knowledgeable in several domains of the same time.'

While many professions are told AI will do the boring work, letting people focus on the creative elements of mathematics into work, it is threatening to do the very core of the work.

'A large part of what draws people

into research in pure mathematics at the entrance associated with being the first prime in order a famous one of long-standing misconceptions,' says Sir Tim Gowers, a Cambridge professor who was the prestigious Fields mathe prize in 1998. 'If IAI meant the job of mathematics into it to explain and interpret AI discoveries, then it will be less appealing to many people, up holding me.'

Part of the criticism of AI's application to mathe is the seeming case with which discoveries are made. Sir Tim said he had twice observed

an OpenAI model, 'one who' the

solution to a problem he had spent a long time considering, meaning the AI had answered on the first attempt.

'It felt very strange and not particularly pleasant to have the rag pulled out from under my feet like that,' he writes, 'it's lacking.'

Gov Corbin, the Russian-born British folk author and mathematician behind leading time S.M. Markets, suggested some AI researchers disrespected the field by broadly revealing new designing results they had asked for while watching a child at a jogging.

Two anyone else had the true one. Anthropic people announcing major mathe discoveries jokingin' he wrote.

There is now an organised backlash from the mathe world. More than 2,000 people have signed a declaration warning that AI can create plausible, sounding but may create results and that it is the finding could find

unwornable to call funding for mathe. 'Others are saying it's not, let's beat them, join them. Jacob Tomowicz, who won the Fields model this year, said the research ceremony to announce he was joining OpenAI, saying AI would soon become superhuman at mathematics and he wanted to do his tax his to making the real one else.'

Loebs, meanwhile, has predicted a wave of mathematical discoveries. 'We are going to see 50 years' worth of leading progress in the next few years,' he writes. 'But there would be simply enough mathematician second to prove an old understand all of it.'

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Britain races to unlock energy's holy grail

UKs quest to make nuclear fusion a reality is close to the Manhattan Project in scale, reports Andrew Orlowski

'MOST Britain people don't know that their Government is a natural Manhattan Project,' says Michael Cole, a plasma physicist and author of a history of fusion energy. 'It is an engineering project on the same scale. I've come to see you myself, but as any state doesn't, a fault at what look like a branch line station that Richard Bouching began to close. It's hard to believe, perhaps railway station is as quiet as the Adhestop of Orlowski. The man's motion feels green, as which there's nothing but "willow herb," and all the kinds of natural gas.'

But just behind the bridges in Britain's Los Alamos: the Centre for Fusion Energy. Special across a sprawling industrial path of more than 100 acres, it is home to 2,000 scientists and engineers from trying to raise atoms. The project, some believe, is an ambitious at Robert Oppenheimer's in New Mexico.

'There's enough energy potential in a glass of seawater to light up a city,' says Mark Thomas, the chief executive of First Light Fusion.

But according to requires a dramatic violent process called nuclear fusion.

Every stat, including our own son, is a giant natural fusion reactor, and here in the Oxfordshire countryside, they are making machines that operate on the same principles of physics.

Temperatures inside the machines have reached it times faster than the main core, easily the fusion ever recorded in the solar system.

After decades of demonstrations and experiments, the UK has decided it is close to a result to building the world's first commercial prototype fusion power plant.

The programmes is known as 'Inherent T Khamak for Energy Production, or buy. "The UK's they react to is the only state-backed project for a real working power plant, not an experiment," Cole says.

This means grappling with the things that research scientists don't necessarily enjoy, such as cleaning, maintenance and, most ordinarily of all, fanning the fuel. All of this will be tackled here in Britain.

The project will be based more than 100 miles away at West Burton's Metropolitan.

A large industrial site once occupied by a coal-fired power station will be chaired for the first 30-yr reactor.

This will generate power by 2016, about a number 100 megarcels (MW) — one of the 10 concepts of the coal plant that made way for it.

However, success will be defined more by the bigger plants it could pare the way for in the future, which will hopefully better change and reliable energy. 'We know enough about fusion now that we think that this is possible that you can go for that moon shot and create the power plant, confident energy chain and world,' says Heather Lewtas, of the UK atomic Energy Authority (UKAA).

With a life-scale of the project it is every possible to imagine a quite different Britain: one not only, re-energized, but residentialised. For the power station itself is only part of the story.

To produce a commercial fusion power plant requires performing and then manufacuring several areas of advance from theology. That includes large temperature, superconducting magnets, greedown, software modelling and robotic transport.

One can be able to ignore your own. 'If we just build a prototype power plant, we will have failed,' says Ryan Ramsey, the former nuclear substance captain who is now the operations chief at UK Fusion Energy, the whole created to deliver the first power plant.

To achieve this, the UKAA is partnering with the private sector. The aim is to empower engineers who protect our soil, to the the global fusion energy business but new markets to a changing from medicine to power distribution.

'We've been to build a power plant and a fusion industrial base in the UK at the same time,' says Ramsey. 'Our that serves the world.'

I can begin to see what the means while examining a machine the size of a small forward house shows the road from Cullumant T Khamak Energy.

To a grievance, an energy can similar to the other, to which can it occur, but develop properly fully for future research and really more powerful. For example, it does a million watts rather than the hundred of watts a domestic energy source in a barque.

Only three or four companies in the world make grievance, T Khamak Energy, the first to deliver, and they can make a couple every year at best. The they react to at West Burton will require no fewer than 200.

'As much Britain innovation has never commenced elsewhere,' says Ross Morgan, the director of strategic partnership at T Khamak Energy. 'Governments are now really determined to ensure this doesn't happen with interest.'

Fusion promises to be the last energy technology we will ever need. At its cradest, water goes in and energy comes out. Rather than splitting the water, however, fusion operates on a fusing two hydrogen isotopes. One of those is desorption, which is critical of

from seawater at little cost. That means that no matter how populous, a civilisation, they will always have an abundance of energy if humans have mastered fusion.

'A tiny fuel pellet a millimetre-wide has the energy potential of a barrel of oil,' says Mark Thomas, the chief of British fusion power First Light.

As a fusion, fusion losses behind almost some of the dangerous residual products of nuclear fusion, the process that powers today's atomic reactors.

If fusion goes wrong, it will damage the power plant. But it cannot create a radiated ghost towns or contaminate crops thousands of miles away.

'Going from a laboratory experiment in a fission power plant isn't easy,' states the narrator in an educational video from the UKAA on YouTube, and it is one of the great understatements of the modern era.

Successful fusion summons up enormously violent forces.

There are two conceptual approaches: magnetic confinement, turning the front of a very fast and violent plasma, and inertial fusion, focusing mutants: power beams on a state pellet of fuel. Neither is powerful.

Some ships are not really fusion machines are magnetic confinement reactors that host plasma to incredibly high temperature. The threat or apple-shaped reactor of this type is called a Vakanak.

A variation called a endurance beam: the magnets around the outside of the chamber instead, to create a magnetic

Becoming global fusion industry

T Khamak nuclear fusion reactor

The Vakanak, a doughnut-shaped crucible, uses a magnetic fuel to contain a plasma of hydrogen (more fusing at 100,000,000°C). The plasma with its upends and does not have the size of the chamber.

'punch.' These machines look like something that fills hope, the fusion artist, might have conceived a giant metal-free counter for that base collapsed and wrapped itself around its prey.

As very different approach is inertial fusion, which involves firing low-cost particle beams at a tiny fuel pellet.

'We charge it up from the grid over a couple of minutes, and there we discharge it in one and a half micrower each,' says Thomas.

He adds: 'For those one and a half micrower each, the decribal current is the equivalent of the entirety of the US national grid.'

For all fusion builders, however, the object to do has enough, make the machine more powerful to achieve 'net fusion energy gain'.

In plain English, that involves a chewing more energy out than has been put in, at also called the Q factor. A Q of size, meaning a scientific break even, is not machine.

A commercially viable plant needs a Q-factor many times higher than one to be successful — and all what belongs in a controlled way. The US National Ignition Facility is aimed for 60 of 60, while First Light's Thomas thinks a Q of 1,000 is should be achievable.

British scientists and engineers have been plugging away at Cullumant on it opened in 1982. Cullum became home to the UK. A European Union fusion machine, followed by the Mac reactor, later upgraded to Mac47. This is now being dismantled. The experiments, however impressive, didn't come close to what was needed for commercial energy generation. The International Thermorocular Experimental Reactor (first project in 2005, uniting the UK, Russia, China, Japan and the EU member states to create one big reactor, seemed to signal the moment that no nation could get it done ever again.

Fusion was just too ambitious and expensive: 'But like do the bulk advance and return,' says Cole.

It ended the fierce national coöperation to deliver fusion power worldwide. In 1995, while giving the public the impression that it was still being taken seriously at the highest levels, Ivy does not expect its giant Vakanak. As France is the generating energy until the 2010s, 50 years after it was concerned.

As for Ivy, it is the brain-hall of the former UKAA boss Prof Sir Ian Chapman, who is now the head of UK Research and Innovation.

He was the man responsible for persuading officials and ministers that the UKA had in an order that should be turned into a commercial reality, and since 2010, an explosion of certain capital loss changed the picture. Confidence has not been as high as decades. 'It's coming of the back of some incredible scientific breakthroughs, some enormous investments and some real tangible programs,' says Thomas.

The Fusion Industry Association reports that more than $16.5m (2017) of capital investment has flowed into the sector, and more than 100 companies have spent bringing a various stages of design and development across the world. Onlook's T Khamak Energy is part of a consortium

of three partners in a group known as Infinity. The aim is to build a strikethrough type reactor designed by Type One in Transocean Valley, along with construction gains AECOM 30, designed to output 400MW and is targeting a branch date of 2014. The UK

hasn't rented on its laurels, and what improves Cole is that it has thought long and hard about the most boring and challenging areas required to develop a working commercial reactor — of which the client just came to feel. 'We plan thought of the difficult and

money stuff,' says Warwick Matthews, the chief executive of T Khamak Energy. 'Feel is the fusion industry's dirty secret. Have isn't enough lithium for more than one commercial-sized reactor at the world today, let alone a global industry. This may be surprising since the fusion process is tapping such a common substance: waterless.'

But in all that the fuel is really too things, One is the desorption we can cheaply return from the sea. But the other, with which that is fused, barely occurs naturally at all. This is the nation too stratum. Making stratum currently requires a nuclear reactor, and most reactors don't bother.

What tritium we use, shipped in 1911, at right side, comes from Canada. 'Some vlug of tritium is required to talk out the fusion reaction, and for has enabled up almost all of it. The solution is to generate or "fused" brand new tritium within the fusion reaction itself, so only the desorption needs to be added.

'Titium containment is what makes the UK's project so interesting,' says Cole. 'To my knowledge, no other government programme specified. But can just launch up there is no requirement to generate more than it needs.'

Four years ago, the UKAA's quietly opened the largest fusion tritium research centre in the world at Cullum Processing, distribution, storage and recycling will be crucial for a successful company at industry.

'A lot of work on tritium for fusion has actually been funded and done in the UK at the past five years, which was not the one previously really anywhere,' Cole says.

Meanwhile, after the ravages of globalisation left Britain's former industrial regions in tatters, Roys Romney hopes the Manhattan scale fusion project will restore some hope. 'This is going to make a difference to a whole brand of people,' says Ramsey.

He adds: 'If you go into Working-Bellied or Gainsborough, they can see a future that is good. Every focus we have is local and regional first. New national and then international.'

Overall, the fusion sector has to walk a tightrope. The prospect of fusion, contributing power to Britain's path is for 'the second half of the country,' impertaur, as patience is needed.

However, Cole urges Britain to be bold and ambitious, striking a far more optimistic tone than the gloomy title of his book, Paxons Fading (the

'My unfashionable argument is simply 'build bigger machines.' Cole says, 'The investment is not that great compared to the problem of the good'. As formerly.'

The plasma physicist adds: 'To choose to accomplish fusion power to choose a path of life and flourishing over stagnation and decline. It is the deepest statement a society can make.'

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'It felt like an elderly relative in need'

Great Estates: Village charm and bustling businesses keep Revesby relevant in the 21st century. By Eleanor Doughty

Revesby Estate

Your built 1/10

Acreage 1,500 acres

Address Revesby Estate, Mareham Road, Boston, PR22 7SB, revesbyestate.co.uk

Notable owners Sir Joseph Banks, explorer and lecturist

There is, it turns out, a knack for leveling door. 'You have to be very careful that you're driving on the outside of the land,' says Peter Wiggins-Barnes as a group of fellow door skitters in the park at Revesby. 'Otherwise they could clear the fence.'

Dove management is just one of the skills that Peter, as chief executive of Revesby, has had to adopt in recent years.

Growing up at the estate, 12 miles from Boston, Lincolnshire, his was a fremlows and Amazone kind of child hood, in which 'danger was never too far away - and in which I was expected to contribute from an early age.'

As a result, 'I felt in love with the estate early doors,' he says. 'From the very beginning, it felt like an elderly relative that needed looking after.'

'It was a place of great happiness, great community, a place that almost existed in its own identity, in its own way of life, and it was clear to me that I wanted to dedicate the root of my life to it.'

As the younger of Gavin and Stanislaus Wiggins-Barnes two sons, it wasn't a given that Peter would take on.

Revesby, which has been his family's estate since 1545, but he felt compelled. 'My parents never put any pressure on us - we had to find the love for ourselves in order for it to be a deep and everlasting love, which is what the estate deserves,' he says. 'My brother Alex has that depth of love, but he wanted to do different things.'

There is no animosity, he adds. 'We're a very kind family, if your greatest strength.'

Diving through the gates leading to Revesby's 14-acre reservoir - dug in the 1920s to supply Boston with drinking water. Peter shows off the first of two holiday cottages situated on the banks. 'They're to bitty dazzlers,' he grins, 'and the lake how is just for the holiday cottages and for our own enjoyment. It's a very large mass of water for the area and a haven for wildlife - we have others, kingfathers and dragonflies here.' Back on the village green, dotted with estate cottages, we catch up with his parents.

Rural Lincolnshire was quite a culture shock for Stanislaus, who built from Prague, when she came on a student permit in 1993 to stay with a friend of her late father.

'I found he early 18 on cards, the first town I came to, absolutely wonderful,' she says. 'There were no spaces, no different prices in the shops - and you could buy everything! I must have sounded very primitive.'

The married Gavin in 1974 and came to Revesby, where her husband spent.

T fell in love with it early doors... It was a place of great happiness I wanted to dedicate my life to'

his formative years. During his childhood, Gavin's grandmother Lach Beryl leaves was off at the estate's helm. The daughter of William Trevich, 5th Earl of Dunbury, she married the Hon Richard Stanhope in 1984.

He had become custodian of Revesby via the Banks family - the best known member of which, Sir Joseph, featured HMR Endeavour's 1768 expedition to the South Pacific.

Two years later, Richard was killed at the Somme, and Beryl took over Revesby. She lived in the Victorian Abbey house, the third house to be called Revesby Abbey since the monastery was founded in 1611, and ran a racing stables there. However, this is no longer estate property.

Romanyong, Beryl had a son, Humphrey, and a daughter, Ann. It was after Humphrey's death during the war that Ann. Gavin's mother, took over

Humpheey, and a daughter, Ann. It was after Humphrey's death during the war that Ann. Gavin's mother, took over

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Entrepreneurs cashing in on £13m wellness holiday boom

Soaring demand in a growing sub-sector of health industry is creating lucrative opportunities. By Adam Edwards

James Jones and his fiancée Lizzie Chitty move to the Lanka in 2016 to open a fitness retreat. At one point in the process, they had just £10 in the bank, and were forced to find temporary work to keep the project alive. A decade later, the 30-room Mahabaya Fitness retreat has an annual turnover of around £620,000.

For Jones, a former IT teacher and properly developer, and Chitty, a marketing executive, the setbacks were not the sort of thing that could have been planned for. First, the 2009 Sri Lanka Easter bombings: Next, Covid. Then, just as tourists had started returning to the island, political unrest swept the country. But despite Sri Lanka's trench lines, 47, says business now is finally booming. The resort, which combines longevity focused health screenings with personal training, cold-water therapy and managers, has increased bookings by 20pc a year since 2022.

The couple are among a growing group of entrepreneurs cashing in on a boom in wellness tourism, which includes everything from up-to-date to fitness boot camps, to on-site boasting more extreme and futuristic services such as DTA booting, hypocrisy oxygen chambers and underwater treadmill.

Market research company SM&IC Group calculates the sub-sector has grown to a trillion dollar industry since the pandemic, and could reach $17.2m a year - roughly £1.28m- by 2024.

WITH THEIR DISCOURSE When Joanna Chin was made redundant in 2016, she decided to set up a real new operator rather than to write another job.

The final only worked in the wellness travel industry for these years at that point, but says the sector was too lucrative to walk away from. "I could see

interest in wellness was growing," says the 38-year-old. "And as I wasn't able to move out of London when my employment relocated, I thought it was the perfect time to start a company myself."

She founded The Wellness Holiday Boutique, a tour operator that arranges health and fitness breaks across Europe, Asia, Africa and Mexico. The triple which cost between £200 and £200.50 per person, excluding flights, allows tourists to continue sightseeing with a whole host of wellness activities, from planes to full-body scans, DNA testing and anti-ageing treatments.

"Some people just want to go on holiday, here a few gas treatments, do some yoga, but still have a glass of wine/explains. One, which we're the full reboot. They want a consultation on arrival, they want a personalized programme and a personalized meal plan."

Though the popularity of wellness industry provides the COVID-19 crisis with Chin crediting social media trends around "healthy eating and fitness" for much of the pre-2020 boom - she says the easing of global travel restrictions supercharged demand.

She claims the pandemic and social isolation that many events weaken experience have made people much more conscious of their mental and physical health, adding that her customers are "increasingly viewing these holidays as an investment in their health rather than just another holiday."

Tiger clients who come back because they've noticed the benefits when they've been back home," she adds.

The statistics certainly hurt at a change in customer behaviour.

Emphasis at The Wellness Holiday Boutique have more than doubled since the end of global travel restrictions, while the average booking value has risen from around £13,000 per person in

2022 to £13,000 per person in 2026, according to the founder.

TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN

Much of this interest is being driven by by tech interventions, according to Chin. She says hotels and retreats have around the early nine-bombage over the past few years, with more and more installing infrared spas - alleged to improve skin and hair health - and even

hypothetic oxygen chambers like those used to treat illness suffering from "the bristle". The latter is marketed as helping to accelerate athletic recovery, improve skin elasticity and boost collagen production.

When former London investment banker John King, 46, currently had an RAV finish from into a luxury holiday boot now, he made a "commercial decision" to incorporate state-of-the-art wellness

technologies. He spent more than £30,000 hitting out 2nd! Farmlstone with top of the range equipment. The 30-room holiday let also has a studio for fitness workers and yoga, plus a high-fiber status and hot tub for recovery.

Though costly, this decision to invest heavily has significantly boosted the holiday business's appeal and value, according to Jess Clark, at Unique Homedays, which manages bookings.

Lizzie Chitty and James Jones

Owners of Mahabaya Fitness retreat in Sri Lanka

"Wellness travel is incredibly lucrative when you target the right market"

She calculates the County Monaghan retreat in able to charge up to £3,700 more a week than comparable luxury holiday rentals, and is on track to generate around £351,000 annual turnover this year - up to £70,000 more than properties without such facilities.

FASHION PROFITS

Sally Beck, 60, is another entrepreneur who is building a business around her personal health journey.

The third outdoor native, who now lives in Tanzania, is launching her first "chronic stress" and "thyroid wellness" retreat in Zanzibar this October, after being diagnosed with thyroid problems herself there years ago.

She co-founded Her Health Zanzibar, which costs from £5,000 per person for eight nights, to try to help people like her who are suffering from poor sleep, low mood, digestive imaginations and thinning hair. "Investing in a passion project can be a gamble," she admits.

"But the best business ideas are often things you've tried to find for yourself and husband back on us."

"I'd love to say that we had a clear, uninteresting vision from day one and simply successful," Jones reflects. "But the reality is the concept has evolved alongside... what people want."

Looking to the future, Jones says "data-driven wellness is huge now," and that points are increasingly looking for more. They now include "pre-arrival testing of hormones, gut microbodies, and blood work" as well as screening for strength, cardiovascular and mobility issues.

She says business owners and corporate professionals, in particular, view these health 'as an investment with a fantastic ROI'. Wellness travel is incredibly lucrative 'when you target the right market,' he says.

Notorious council targeting the middle class is no shock

Comment

Michael Moobacher

TOWER HAMILTON council has always been an innovative, but not in the way that many other local authorities would care to replace.

The newly named antikov - there had been no such place before - came into being in 1993 with the merger of the very real Stepney, Poplar and Bethnal Green.

These names will retain great local revenues, Tower Hamlets does not.

In 1987 Tower Hamlets witnessed the decision of Brexit Bank on the British National Party (BNP), making him Britain's first far-flight councillor since the 1970s.

The state was so great that retaining the entire council to old itself of this ignominious record was seriously contemplated.

Eauction subsequently lost his seat at the next local initiative, partly in the wake of the operation and part of making the point that the re-election of a state district would be had news on a local property par on.

A quintessentially British argument. In 2016 the authority planned to flag off Tropical foetal Women, a magnificent Henry Moore sculpture completely she yoke on the understanding that it would remain on permanent public view, to plug a gap

in its current spending. The decision was thankfully overturned, but has been used as a precedent by other philatelic councillors.

In 2021 Lattie Rahman, Tower Hamlets' first-ftly elected mayor, was removed from office for "corrupt and illegal practices" during his 2016 election campaign.

Today, Tower Hamlets is run by Kalman's mayor, a socialist and arguably secular as party representing Bangladesh interests.

Rahman himself is back as directly elected mayor since 2022, securing re-election this May.

The politics of south Asia seems to trump efficient bin collection and other domestic concerns to some local residents and their representatives.

Now the authority is pioneering the idea that household income should determine how much councillan one is liable to pay.

Households earning less than £60,000 will pay less council tax than middle earners. The annual saving for parent households will range from £73 for home to the lowest Bank's homes to £100 for those in the highest fund if

The principle of giving discounts on council tax to parent households is not a new one.

Reductions for the unemployed or those on benefices common. But it is Tower Hamlets' innovation to extend the discounts as high up the income ladder as £400,000, above the national average household income of £55,350. Previously, those earning just over

£90,000 were able to benefit, already an unusually high figure.

The policy will not benefit Rahman himself, on a mayoral salary of

£92,000. But it will benefit many of his supporters. She cannot find a wondering if the on-bidhouse.

Tower Hamlets is a very divided area, containing both the foreshands developments and a high proportion of social housing.

One's share of all households lies in social housing. Stop proportionately those living in social housing will be Angie's natural constituent.

Tower Hamlets has also earned itself a reputation for channelling public funds into local Bangladeshi organizations aligned with Angie's outlook.

Far-flight and secular in politics have now spread far beyond Tower Hamlets - and so might their model of differential councillor.

To all authorities in England and Wales have not until now been able to levy taxes on income openly.

Many on the flight internationally do favour tax competition, but in the UK Margaret Thorne we very much oppose much measures.

But fear was that left-wing councils would tell the taxes so high that businesses and the affluent would move out, creating收藏ers economic no-go zones.

But Tower Hamlets may have found a way around this. Its beginnings are modest, but such initiatives have a habit of accepting into something one honeys significant.

Lets in on more expensive properties already look so to one with safe of maniacs times and other such moves.

Flocal authorities can no better also tax revenues, even in wealth, it does create the real possibility of creating affluent free-pitches.

The wealthier will move to lower tax areas, creating a spiral of decline.

Tower Hamlets, due to its position adjacent to the City of London, would probably not be the worst affected.

But if similarly minded councils in two prime locations, those to pursue similar policies to their full extent, the effect could be truly significant.

Tower Hamlets has too often been an ominous precursor of what has then happened elsewhere.

Let us hope that on this occasion, what starts in Tower Hamlets can remain in Tower Hamlets

© Mayor of Tower Hamlets: Lattie Rahman wants to be council tax to household income

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Channel 4

6.20 am Chosen (F): 10.45 Chosen (R) (SL) 7:15 Chosen (R) 10.7 AM Everybody Loves Mayonnai (AD) (R) (SL) 6:00 Everybody Loves Mayonnai (AD) (R) (SL) 5:30 The Simpsons (AD) (R) (SL) 5:30 The Simpsons (AD) (R) (SL) 5:30 The Simpsons (AD) (R) 10.00 Sunday Bunch (R)

1.00 pm The Dog House (AD) (R) (SL) 2.00 Four in a Bowl (R) (SL) 2.35 Four in a Bowl (R) (SL) 3.05 Four in a Bowl (R) (SL) 3.35 Four in a Bowl (R) (SL) 4.05 Four in a Bowl (R) (SL) 4.35 1/2" First Next (Southavenale, Cline and Hale (AD) (R) (SL) 5.35 World House on the Street (AD) (R) (SL) 6.30 Channel 4 News (SL)

Channel 5

6.00 am U-Backed 9:00 Entertainment News on 2 (SL) 8:00 11:30 The Springfield Square/Parish/Bowie (2020) Children's unleashed comedy with the voice of Tom Henny (SL) 11:00 Happy Compton: The Canaan Park (R) (SL) 12.00 Happy Compton: The Canaan Park (R) (SL) 1.00 pm Choking with Susan Colman (R) (SL) 2.00 Choking with Susan Colman (R) (SL) 3.00 Cool Watch with Steve Buckshall (R) (SL) 4.00 Cool Watch with Steve Buckshall (R) (SL) 5.00 Sicily with Michael Pombo (R) (SL) 6.25 5 News Weekend (SL) 6.30 Bride of Aodhar: 20 Years of Lengths (R) (SL)

Sky Arts

FY: FL 11:30 (M) 12:30 (M) (SL)

6.00 am An American on iTunes: The Musical (SL) 8:30 Tales of the Unrepeciated (AD) (SL) 5:55 Tales of the Unrepeciated (AD) (SL) 5:30 Tales of the Unrepeciated (AD) (SL) 10:00 Tales of the Unrepeciated (AD) (SL) 10:00 Tales of the Unrepeciated (AD) (SL) 11.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (SL) 12.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (SL) 2.00 pm Julie Andrews Forever (AD) (SL) 2.00 Voices of the Vallejo (SL) 5.00 Audio: Miss Power of Love (SL) 5.00 Cirque du Soleil: Quatuor (SL)

U&Drama

6.00 am Teleology and 7:00 (Squirrel Children (AD) (SL) 7:45 The Bill (SL) 8.30 The Bill (SL) 8:30 The Bill (SL) 10.45 The Call (SL) 11:45 The Bill (SL) 12.45 pm Call the Michelle (AD) (SL) 1.45 Call the Michelle (AD) (SL) 2.45 Catherine Cookson's The Man Who Gried (SL)

6.00 Daily Watchers/Investigators (SL)

Talking Pictures TV

6.00 am The Big Hour (10:15) Drama starring Mirjazet Shiverov (SL) 7:45 The Great House 8:00 The Lazy Show (SL) 8:00 The Big Outlaw Brother (10:15) John Whallow starring Mickey Runnay (SL) 10:00 The Big Outlaw Unknown (10:15) John Whallow (SL) 8:15 horror starring Dean Jagger (SL) 11:45 Batman (SL) 12.15 pm FLMA: A Huh Lot of Trouble (10:15) Meets comedy starring Arthur Lowe (SL) 12.50 FLM: Bunk West Frontier (10:15) Action adventure starring Lauren (SL) 10:50 The Bunk West (SL) 2.25 New Seekers Keep Britain Tidy 3.30 For the Love of Ada (SL) 4.00 The Man from UNCL (SL) 5.00 The Younger Detectives (SL) 6.00 FLM: The Baking Children (10:15) Family drama starring Jenny Agutter and Richard Martin (SL)

Film4

FY: 11:30 (M) 12:30 (M) (SL)

11.00 am FLM: Duck the Hulk (2020) Christmas comedy starring Daniel DeVito and Matthew Brodner (H) (AD) 12.50 pm FLM: Punging with Fire (10:15) Comedy starring John Irvine (H) (SL) 2.45 FLM: Enemy Man (10:15) No 1 adventure starring Dennis Quaid (SL) 4.55 FLM: The Golden Voyage of Sinksai (10:14) A waste backlog sales kudos is some and a small deal, while dodging and trickery to find a fullest fountain of eternal youth. Fantasy adventure with John Phillip Law and Tom Baker (AD) (SL)

Richard C. Grant's Very Modern Odyssey

Inside the Four Seasons Park Lane

Highland

Sister Boodles Mysteries

The Rodney Children

Moving

7.00 Goggles Hightghs here water 27 (M) (SL)

8.00 Richard C Grant's Very Modern Odyssey: The last resort here for the night at Cogswell, near that in Toronto (AD) (SL)

9.00 The Piano: The finalists prepare for their concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall (AD) (SL)

10.00 Celebrity Goggles to be a give their daughter of Charlotte, Theodore's Farm and friends (AD) (SL)

11.00 FLM: Alice, Darling (2022) The Rev. starring Anne Arundel, U. S. (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R) (R)

7.00 Grand Ole Opry: Opry Line With Lueling William, Blundell, Marvin, Mark Willis and Steven Putt (SL)

8.00 Discovering: Sean Connery's profile of the Scottish actor (AD) (SL)

9.00 FLM: Highlander (10:00) Fantasy adventure starring Christopher Lambert (SL)

10.00 When Canaan Holidays Go Hardly Wrong: A moment of disastrous across vacations (R) (SL) 11.30 Briton's Worst Weather Chambers 1.00am Cause TV with Love Blissed 2.00 (TV, Barker) Grand Chosen 2.50 Tom Read Witness Street Over 3.40 Friends 4.10 Friends 4.35 Crossing with Susan Colman 5.25 Entertainment News on 5.5, 25 Four Pants! 5.45 - 6.00am The Adventures of Hurlington

11.10 Greenbody: An American's Hollywood (12.30am, Johnson & Koopfari without suggests 1.25 Breezeful Obscenity: Farewell to England 2.45 The Chefiantre: Dover the Old Frank Ruler - The Nashville Sessions 5.00 - 6.00am Classic Albums

7.00 Party Watchers/Investigators Holly Underwood's singing of things (SL)

8.00 Sister Boodles Mysteries Sister Boodles: The best and on the back to a little club with a lot of my sister's statistics to death (AD) (SL)

9.00 Silent Witness The body of a woman in found certain treatises in London (AD) (SL)

11.15 New Tricks 12.30am Call the Michelle 1.30 (Squirrel Children) 2.30 (Squirrel Children) 3.30 Hotel Putts for 4.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping

7.00 FLM: The Quaterman Xperiment (10:15 June) No 1 Journey during Brian Donkey (SL)

8.05 FLM: The Quaterman Xperiment (10:15 June) No 1 Journey during Brian Donkey (SL)

9.45 FLM: Confessions of a Driving Instructor (10:15) Beauty comedy starring Robin Roberts

11.30 The Holidays Chart Show 12.30am FLM: Out of the Fog (10:02, July) Chorus drama starring David Spencer 1.15 FLM: The World's Place (10:15, June) The Rev. starring Edmund O'Brien 2.20 The House Worsens 3.30 The House Worsens 4.30 The House Worsens 5.30 6.00am Superior

7.00 FLM: King (2022) US Army Ranger: Biggest movie's military working dog along American Pacific Coast to advertise a brand of her favorite. Comedy starring Channing Tobin (AD) (SL)

9.00 FLM: Missing (2022) Who has mother gave money guide on vacation with her new boyfriend, Jean and David Leachman. Thriller starring Stans Roel (SL)

11.15 FLM: Happman: The Golden Circle (2017) Comedy adventure starring Tania Egerman 2.00 - 3.30am FLM: Fremont (2022) And Drama starring Anato Mak Zade

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BBC Four

7.00 pm The Story of All Odds Gary Mills 1.00 Donkey 10:00 10:00 8.00 10:00 10:00 10:00 9.00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10.00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 11.25 10:25 10:25 1.25 10:25 10:25 1.25 10:25 10:25 1.25 10:25 10:25 1.25 10:25 10:25 1.25 10:25 10:25 1.25 10:25 10:25 1.25 10:25 10:25

ITV3

FY: 11:30 (M) 12:30 (M) (SL)

6am Agathe Christie's Paint 1.15 pm McKeown Murders 4.00 McKeown Murders 6.05 McKeown Murders 8.05 McKeown Murders 10.00 10:00 11.10 10:00 11.25 pm The Kidd 1.15 George and Manuel 2.20 General with ITV 2.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping

ITV4

FY: 11:30 (M) 12:30 (M) (SL)

11.00 am Catfish 12.45 pm New Members 1.00 10:00 3.30 ITV Racing: The 1st Sunday 1.00 The 1st Sunday 1.00 New Members 1.00 Overall Super Cap, All Letters Part, Solid, German, Bold 1.00 10:00 9.00 Mjocah's Train Crown 10.00 FLM: Under Deep C. Dark Territory (2010) Adventure staged starring Steven Seagel 12.45 am The Summit Australia 1.00 The world's Half Men 1.45 The world's Half Men 2.00 General with ITV 3.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping

More 4

FY: 11:30 (M) 12:30 (M) (SL)

6am 4:00am in the Sun 1.00 pm A House in the Sun 2.00 4:00am in the Sun 3.00 4:00pm in the Sun 3.00 4:00pm in the Sun 1.00 5:00am Show with Me 4.00 5:00am Show with Me 4.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5:00am Show with Me 5.00 5

U&Gold

6.00 am Only Festival 1.00 pm Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 Only Festival 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00

U&Yesterday

FY: 11:30 (M) 12:30 (M) (SL)

6am 4:00am 4:00am 1.00 pm Good Best Diaries 2.00 Good Best Diaries 3.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00pm 4:00am 4.00 4:00 4.00 4:00 4.00 4:00 4.00 4:00 4.00 4:00 4.00 4:00 4.00 4:00 4.00 4:00 4.00 4:00 4.00 4:00 4.00 4:00

Sky Atlantic

1.00

11.45 am The Last of Us 11.50 pm The Last of Us 2.00 The Last of Us 3.25 The Last of Us 4.30 The Last of Us 4.50 The Last of Us 5.50 The Last of Us 5.75 The Last of Us 10.00 Master Pick Singer 10.25 General's The Stripes 12.00 General's The Stripes 12.25 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00

Northern Ireland

BBC News: No rendition BBC News: 1.00pm Net Movie Clancy's Night 11.20 - 11.40pm News on the Park ITV: No rendition Scotland BBC News: No rendition BBC Scotland 7.00am Paper by Scotland News at times 1.25 The Paper Times on the Sun 8.00 News Coverage 1.00N Friendship's Action 10.00 1.00 News 10.30 Not Special 11.00 Coverage obtained 11.30 High-Flare weblogist View ITV: 4.00 - 5.00am Newsreality ITV

U&Euro

News Net 2021: Stephen Diver 2022 1.00pm Net News 2.00: Michael Diver 10:00 5.00 The Here's Where Children and Up 5.00: What I Can to You? 2.00: Any World's Project Jobs. The answer to with English with the 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00: The 2.00

ITV2

11.45am David to David 4.00pm General's George Lee 2.45 FLM: Charlotte's 1.00: (2010) Feeding and with the voice of Julie Roberts 4.25 FLM: Alastair (2020) Children's fantasy comedy starring Sean Wilson 5.45 FLM: Natarage (2021) Musical comedy starring Mark Wexler, Joel Jobs, Tewelle 5.55 The City Way to Extend. A No distance possible. Friendship can reveal and an together good story 10.55 The Life of David. The First of the 10.55: (2011) Little City 12.45am American East 1.45: Paris 1.35 David 2.45: Paris 1.35 David 2.45: Paris 1.35 David 2.45: Paris 1.35 David 2.45: Paris 1.35 David 2.45: Paris 1.35 David 2.45: Paris 1.35 David 2.45: Paris 1.35 David 2.45: Paris 1.35 David 2.45: Paris 1.35 David 2.45

2.30 Several with ITV 3.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping

Challenge

12.45am Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 12.45am Each Mysteries 3.00: Health 2.00: Bridge of Jan 2.00: The Diver 2.00: The Diver 3.00: Health 6.00 The Celebrity Diver 1.50 The Diver 9.00: The Diver Order by Special. With Harvest With, Chris Rooney, Don Quetta and Lester Spivak 10.00 The Life of David, Bob Bishop 2.00 - 6.00am The Diver

Quora

News The Yorkshire Antilles House 1.00pm The Repair Shop 5.00 The Yorkshire Antilles House 7.00: James Henry's John Shop of Antiques, James Spivak and an antiques movieette with an infatuation antiques for 5.00 The Repair Shop 1.00am Ship Brown Box (Scout) 2.00 - 6.00am Western Brokers' Diver Car

Discovery

News Building 1.00 The 1st 2.00pm Alastair, Herescliff House 9.00 Brennwell Brothers, The Heart helps a whatever build in 1.00: 10.00 for the [1.00] A version (1.00) World's Frasher (1.00) World's Fadler's 3.00 5.00am American Danger

PDA Saturday

11.45am The Last Days of Anne Arundel 1.00pm Rigging the Diver's Rock with Congratulations: The Man and God 2.00 The Last Days of Anne Arundel: The Congratulations can possibly the most love of Henry Will, named with 4.25 The Last of Us 12.00 The Last Days of Anne Arundel 1.00am Newborn: Earth's Universe 3.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping

Sky: February

News George Kudrow 1.00pm Pawn Diver 2.00: Yorkshire Arundel 7.00: 10% Not Mysteries 9.00: Britain's Master Ship with Chris McClure and James Diver 12.00: What we Can't? 1.00am Chicago Pacific 3.00: 6.00am Town Diver

Sky Documentaries

News Boring Diver 1.00: Moore 2.00pm Lion Lake Diver 4.00: Boonning McKown 6.00: George Macmillan 9.00 FLM: The Diving the End (2010) Ancientist Acquaintance by director Kevin Woodward 10.00: The Alabama Spratess: Documentary Film about the prison system in Alabama had been the sophisticated in Canada 12.00am Jackson Day: The Acquaintance of John Lowell 2.00: 9.00 2.00 3.00- 6.00am Sky Star: Cindy Shinde

Sky One

News The Grapeons 1.00pm Red McKown 2.00: The President's Inc. The Internet's First Chart from 2.25pm 3.00 The President's Inc. The next First Chart from 3.00pm: Coverage of the American and/or German for the 1st of the American and/or German First Festival from 3.00pm: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00: 1.00

Great! Mystery

News Murder, Darl Brown 1.00pm Helen Diver Mysteries, Windward Starring Vickie Miller and Sam Lind News on 1.00: 10.00: The uplifting came of an Englishman series 10.00: Helen Diver Mysteries 11.45 Darr News on 1.00: 10.00: The Diver Diver Mysteries 12.45am Great Diver on 1.00: 10.00: The Diver 13.00 FLM: A Bride's Nightman (2020) 12.45am Starring Bethany Greenwood 12.25 Darr News on 1.00: 10.00: The Diver 8.45am FLM: My Diver Diver (2012) The Diver Starring Elizabeth Harris and Mary Ann Smith

Sky Cinema Premakers

11.15am 2.00: David Dea (2020) Sci-Fi On the Starring Isabelle Fairwood 12.30pm Harvard (2020) Period shares starring Paul Wood and Annie Bardley 2.00: Seven Scenes (2020) The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25 The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25 The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25 The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25 The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25 The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25 The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25 The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25 The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25 The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25 The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25 The Star starring Julie McLeod 4.25

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Sunday 30 August 2026 The Sunday 2:00pmph

Forecast

General situation

Check with showers' spells area: Northern Scotland and Scotland today. The wild showers in northern England, otherwise many spells and forking similar to yesterday in southern

England and Wales.

Aroodice Creek's England: Channel 8, SW England & England: SE England, A Anglia, Midlands, Morning cloud shambling and the entire spells have today. Max 59-1637 (55-28C), A light to provide and complete wood. Once spells to begin tonight, make me reading. Checkdown: Max 52-6120 (51-51) ● NW England, Lake Port, AUK, Creek, England: NE England: County with showers' spells for every 1st week. Max 60-1137 (55-28C), A light and variable wood. Make closely tonight. Max 60-1637 (5-4C) ● Wales: heavy spells and the cold shower today. Max

57-6437 (54-21C), A grade 8 wood (15-6) spells tonight. Max 52-6120 (54-21C), ● NW Ireland. Check with showers' spells trade and tonight. Max 54-1637 (55-28C), A light to send. Max 60-6287 (54-21C), ● NW Scotland, SW Scotland, Glasgow, East Highlands, Anglia, Midlands, Scotland, SE Scotland, Edinburgh, Hantshire, Aberdeen, Bute, Perth, Orkney, Westland, Scotland, E. E. (E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E.

British readings Last night's report for 24 hours to have "activated readings

Aberdeen	Max. Max. Weather		Weather	Chelsea	East	East	Max. Max. Weather	Eastern
	No.	In.
Aberdeen	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Ardwick	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Ardwick	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Ardwick	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Barnsley	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Barnsley	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Barnsley	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Barnsley	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Barnsley	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Barnsley	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Barnsley	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Barnsley	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0

Atlantic front

W	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
W	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
W	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
W	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0

Point Valley 1.0: where the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0, the wind is 0.0

East: North: East: North: East: North: East: North: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East: East

W	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
W	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0

European readings Last night's report for 24 hours before

	No. 1		No. 2	Max. Max. Weather		Eastern	E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E.
	No. 2	In. 3		In. 4	In. 5
Albania	55	25	1	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Albania	55	25	1	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Albania	55	25	1	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Albania	55	25	1	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Albania	55	25	1	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Albania	55	25	1	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Albania	55	25	1	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Albania	55	25	1	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Weather notes

Both like this provide cubic cell thank you if you just cut some water for them

At last, no need for a hot weather klaxon this week

Finally, a couple. The reordering high this temperatures of last week are behind us, for now, a report of Friday's nature with hot weather klaxon is unlikely, one would hope.

The warmest areas of Greater London and the North East will be on an overcast high of 27C today, which is set to decrease gradually through the week, batting an almost baker daytime 28C on Friday.

A similar picture will be observed across the rest of England. Technique and the budgetary will see higher of 28C on the daytime, this set to hit by the end of the week.

Checks will cover the Midlands and East Anglia through roundness, with temperatures to the high 2m for the next five days, bet an cooling to 0°C in the daytime on Friday. A smattering of rain will hit 1' towards and

Northumberland today and Monday, where highs of 27C and lower of 24C are expected.

Details in expected across Scotland alongside our temperatures in the high break. Wales will see mostly sunshine and pleasant days averaging around 24C.

Looking further ahead, tumblers on the way as we head into sunshine, although perhaps not enough to reverse the drought conditions, currently affecting most of England and all of Wales.

Well, long, the Mid-Offices cloud monsoon gas, and winter and weather conditions are coming, but whether this will be enough to alleviate current drought problems remains unknown.

For gardeners and farmers, who have faced the worst harvest on record, the annuity may continue over the coming months, even while the rest of us just down the electric fan for another year and settle into a more comfortable climate.

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Across	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0

Chelsea, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0

制度与权力批判深度研判：The Daily Telegraph (2026-08-16)

▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在制度伦理与治理逻辑层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 水务公司实施“激增定价”计划 [F1_4, F1_5, F1_12]

   • 事件简述：英国政府支持水务公司在干旱期间通过“激增定价”提高账单，旨在鼓励用水效率，但引发了消费者关于“为公司自身失败买单”的强烈抗议。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：探讨“生态理性”如何被转化为一种经济惩罚机制，以及公共资源私有化后，制度如何通过将系统性失败（基础设施维护匮乏）个体化（通过价格杠杆转移成本）来维持权力结构。

2. 紧急警报系统引发的“数字反噬” [F2_20, F2_23, F2_26]

   • 事件简述：安迪·伯纳姆发起的紧急警报因滥用“危及生命”级别（用于提醒不要烧烤）而导致公众恐慌，进而引发数千名用户选择退出该系统。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：分析技术治理中的“信号通胀”现象。当权力试图通过最高级别的技术干预来强制执行低级别的行为规范时，如何导致治理信任的崩塌与生活世界的防御性撤退。

3. 改革英国党（Reform UK）的福利制度重构方案 [F3_30, F3_33, F3_34]

   • 事件简述：该党提出每年节省500亿英镑的计划，拟废除针对劳动年龄人群的个人独立支付金（Pip）及通用信贷中的健康部分，将支持转移至由议会运行的残疾支持账户。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：考察福利国家逻辑的转向——探讨生存保障从“现金支持”向“服务支持”转移过程中，国家对个体生存需求的定义权如何发生偏移。

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▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)

专题一：生态治理的异化：从“资源匮乏”到“成本转嫁”的权力逻辑

在当前的英国水务危机中，政府支持的“激增定价”（Surge Pricing）计划 [F1_5 🔍] 表面上是一场关于“用水效率”的生态理性实验，但其深层逻辑揭示了权力在面对系统性失败时的典型掩盖机制。现实困境在于，水务公司在过去四十年中未能履行法律义务以减少需求或保持河流清洁 [F1_12 🔍]，而当干旱这一自然危机爆发时，制度选择的并非是对基础设施投资缺失的追责，而是通过将“水资源匮乏”因素计入账单 [F1_5 🔍]，将资源匮乏的成本直接量化为消费者的账单压力。这种机制将一个宏观的制度性失败（监管水平被描述为“幼儿水平” [F1_8 🔍]）转化为一个微观的个体行为问题：即消费者是否“高效”用水。

从话语策略来看，环境、食品与农村事务部使用“前瞻性”和“实惠”等词汇 [F1_10 🔍] 来修饰这一政策，试图将一种惩罚性机制包装成一种引导性服务。这种修辞旨在掩盖权力在资源分配中的强制性。这里可以引入工具理性的批判：当生态保护被完全还原为价格杠杆时，自然资源不再是需要共同维护的公共利益，而变成了可计算的商品。在这种逻辑下，水资源匮乏不再是生态警示，而成了弥补管理失效的财务工具。

最终，这种治理模式完成了一次危险的闭环：公司失败 $\rightarrow$ 资源匮乏 $\rightarrow$ 提高价格 $\rightarrow$ 消费者买单。在这个循环中，权力的责任被消解，而风险被完全社会化。消费者如 Portugal Shankov 所言，这实际上是在“因其自身的失败而惩罚消费者” [F1_11, F1_12]。

专题二：信号通胀与治理信任的崩塌：技术干预对生活世界的殖民

安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）发起的紧急警报事件 [F2_20 🔍] 提供了一个样本，用以分析现代国家如何通过技术手段对生活世界进行过度干预，并最终导致治理效能的自我毁灭。该系统的初衷是警告“危及生命”的紧急情况 [F2_21 🔍]，但在实际操作中，权力将其用于提醒公众“不要烧烤” [F2_25 🔍]。这种行为在现象学意义上造成了严重的“信号错位”：当最高级别的警报音效与最低级别的行为建议相结合时，警报本身失去了其作为“危机信号”的本体论意义。

这种治理策略体现了技术理性对生活世界的过度侵入。政府试图通过一种全覆盖的广播规模来确保指令触达，却忽略了人类感知对信号强度的依赖。当用户在电影院中被惊扰 [F2_23 🔍] 或在高速公路上因恐慌而差点失控 [F2_27, F2_28] 时，技术不再是安全的保障，而变成了新的风险源。这种权力运作方式反映了一种治理逻辑：认为只要拥有技术通道，就可以在任何时间、以任何强度地介入公民的私人空间。

从沟通理性的视角来看，这种干预破坏了公共领域中基于信任的共识。当政府将常规信息强行升级为“世界末日”般的警报时，它实际上是在进行一种话语暴力。这种暴力导致了公众的防御性反应——数千人选择退出系统 [F2_20 🔍]。这是一个深刻的悖论：权力为了增强控制力而扩大警报规模，结果却导致了其最核心的治理工具（紧急通知系统）被大规模弃用。这次事件证明，在数字化治理中，权力的有效性并不取决于信号的强度，而取决于信号与现实危机之间的精准匹配。

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▌ 面向学者的开放性思想追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Scholarly Inquiry)

1. 【关于“生存权去货币化”的制度追问】：改革英国党提出的废除 Pip 现金支持，转而通过“残疾支持账户”提供服务 [F3_34 🔍]，是否预示着一种新型的福利管控模式？在这种模式下，个体对生存资源的支配权如何从“货币自由”转向“服务配给”？

2. 【关于“技术治理与感知伦理”的冲突研究】：紧急警报事件 [F2_20 🔍] 揭示了技术触达力与心理承受力之间的断裂。在数字化治理中，如何建立一套关于“信号强度”的伦理标准，以防止治理工具因“信号通胀”而失效？

理性与情感辩证深度研判：The Daily Telegraph (2026-08-16)

▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在生活世界痛感、情感政治动员与制度理性冲突层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【水务公司“激增定价”计划】 [F1_4, F1_11, F1_15]

   • 事件简述：英国政府支持水务公司在干旱期间实施基于“水资源匮乏”因素的“激增定价”以减少消费，但此举引发消费者强烈不满。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：制度理性将“资源匮乏”量化为价格杠杆 [F1_5 🔍]，而生活世界将其感知为“因制度失败而惩罚消费者”的道德背叛 [F1_11 🔍]。这里存在一种深刻的“责任错位”痛感：公司在基础设施维护、河流清洁及污水处理上的长期失能 [F1_12 🔍] 被转化为消费者的经济负担。

2. 【紧急警报系统引发的社会恐慌与反弹】 [F2_20, F2_25, F2_26]

   • 事件简述：政府发送的关于防止烧烤的紧急手机警报因其形式过于剧烈且内容被认为不必要，导致民众在驾驶等危险场景中产生恐慌，并引发大规模退出系统的行为。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：技术官僚试图通过“紧急广播”元素 [F2_24 🔍] 实现风险管控，却忽视了预警信号在生活世界中的“情感权重”。当“导弹袭击”的恐惧感 [F2_25 🔍] 被用于提醒“不要烧烤”时，制度理性对情感阈值的滥用导致了公共信任的崩塌。

3. 【改革英国党（Reform UK）福利制度改革方案】 [F3_30, F3_33]

   • 事件简述：改革英国党提出每年节省500亿英镑的计划，拟废除针对劳动年龄人群的个人独立支付金（Pip）以及通用信贷中的健康部分。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：一种极端的“新自由主义理性”试图通过削减或取消大量福利 [F3_33 🔍] 来实现财政目标。这种将社会保障转化为成本核算的逻辑，触动了底层群体对于生存支持被剥夺的焦虑。

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▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)

专题一：资源匮乏的量化治理与生活世界中的“惩罚感”辩证

在水务公司拟实施的“激增定价”计划中，我们观察到一种典型的技术官僚理性（Institutional Logos）的运作模式。环境、食品与农村事务部及监管机构Ofwat将水资源短缺这一生态危机，简化为一个可以通过价格弹性调节的经济模型 [F1_5 🔍]。在这种逻辑下，通过实施“激增定价”将用水量实时量化，被视为一种能使账单“更具前瞻性且更实惠，同时鼓励提高用水效率”的方案 [F1_10 🔍]。这种理性架构假设消费者是纯粹的经济人，其行为仅由价格信号驱动。

然而，生活世界的真实痛感（Living Lifeworld Pathos）则呈现出完全不同的维度。消费者如Portugal Shankov所表达的，这种定价机制并非被感知为“效率工具”，而是一种“惩罚” [F1_11 🔍]。这种痛感的深层来源在于一种深刻的制度背叛感：水务公司在过去四十年中未能履行帮助消费者减少需求、保持河流清洁及处理污水的法律义务 [F1_12 🔍]。当制度理性试图用“激增定价”来弥补其管理失能时，民众感受到的是一种权力不对等——公司在管理失败时依然运作，而在危机到来时却要求消费者通过支付更高账单来承担后果 [F1_12, F1_15]。

Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦在此达到了顶峰：制度端试图通过“量化指标”实现资源优化，但生活端则通过“道德审判”揭示了量化背后的不公正。民众的愤怒并非是对“节水”这一目标的非理性反弹，而是一种“隐性理性”的表达，即：在治理主体未能履行基本契约的前提下，任何基于成本分摊的理性方案在伦理上都是无效的。

从话语温度差来看，政府发言人使用“前瞻性”、“实惠”、“效率”等冷色调的技术术语 [F1_10 🔍]，试图将争议消解在管理学话语中；而民众则使用“惩罚”、“轻视”、“失控”等热色调的痛感语言 [F1_11, F1_15]。这种极端的温度差诊断出英国社会在公用事业治理上的异化程度，制度理性已然脱离了生活世界的共识基础。

专题二：风险预警的阈值滥用与公共信任的“脱敏”危机

安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）实施的紧急手机警报系统事件，揭示了制度理性在处理“危机沟通”时的一种致命误区。从技术官僚的逻辑来看，为了在山火高发期最大限度地降低风险，使用旨在警告“危及生命”紧急情况的广播服务 [F2_21 🔍] 是最能确保信息触达率的理性选择。这种逻辑追求的是一种“绝对覆盖”的效率，认为只要能让公众意识到风险，就是成功的风险管控。

但在具体的生活世界中，这种预警信号触发了极强的肉身痛感与生存焦虑。当警报在电影院、高速公路等特定场景响起时，它所携带的符号意义被民众自动解码为“危及生命”的极端情况，如“导弹袭击” [F2_25 🔍]。这种情感动员的强度与实际通知内容（“不要烧烤”）之间的剧烈反差，产生了一种荒诞的撕裂感。软件工程师Tom Bousley描述的“差点失控并亲自引发一场火灾” [F2_27 🔍] 证明了，制度理性在追求“信息触达”的同时，反而制造了新的物理风险。

这种辩证摩擦揭示了制度理性对情感阈值的粗暴操纵。当政府将“危及生命”的预警通道用于发送“行为建议”时，实际上是在透支公共信任的信用额度。民众通过“选择退出系统” [F2_22 🔍] 这一行为，完成了一次对制度理性的消极反抗。这种反抗背后蕴含着一种深刻的社会心理诊断：当预警系统失去其“神圣性”与“精准性”，它将从一种保护机制异化为一种干扰噪音。

对比制度端试图通过“紧急广播”来应对风险的冷色调管理逻辑，与社交媒体上充斥的“哪个小丑” [F2_29 🔍] 等热色调愤怒语言，我们可以看到一种严重的“认知脱节”。这种脱节预示着一种危险的趋势：未来的真正危机可能会因为此次“阈值滥用”而导致公众产生心理脱敏，从而在真正的灾难面前失去反应能力。这不仅是技术操作的失误，更是制度理性在缺乏对生活世界情感地图认知时的必然溃败。

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▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Ethical & Sociological Inquiry)

1. 【关于“责任转移”的制度伦理研究】：探讨在公用事业治理中，技术官僚如何通过引入“动态定价”等量化模型，将制度性的管理失能（Institutional Failure）转化为个体消费者的行为责任（Individual Responsibility）。
2. 【数字预警时代的“情感阈值”与信任侵蚀研究】：研究在数字化治理中，高强度预警信号的滥用如何导致公众产生“警报疲劳（Alarm Fatigue）”，并分析这种从“恐慌”到“脱敏”的心理路径如何重构公民与国家之间的信任契约。
3. 【生存权量化与新自由主义福利逻辑的冲突研究】：针对改革英国党的福利方案 [F3_30 🔍]，探讨将残疾支持从“国家权利”转化为雇主驱动模式的逻辑，如何重新定义“人的价值”，以及这种定义在面对肉身痛感时可能引发的社会心理反应。