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Two earth tremors in two days at UK’s only fracking site
Cuadrilla are under fire after a secret non-disclosure agreement between the fracking firm and the UK’s earthquake monitor, the British Geological Survey, was unearthed.
Temperatures rise as UK faces hottest August bank holiday on record
Roads are expected to be jammed as tourists head for the coast with the hottest August Bank Holiday weather ever forecast in the South.
PM warns migrants trying to illegally enter UK: ‘We will send you back’
Boris Johnson made the comments after nearly 100 people tried to cross the English Channel from France in one day
France says it opposes Mercosur trade deal because of Brazil president’s ‘lies’
The spat comes amid concern about wildfires in the Amazon rainforest which prompted a spat between Emmanuel Macron and Jair Bolsonaro.
Billionaire and US conservative campaigner David Koch dies aged 79
He was one of the wealthiest men in the US.
Fire at tower block near Grenfell sees firefighters battling huge blaze
The blaze at Markland House on Silchester Estate.
Hasbro slammed for release of “mean-spirited” socialist edition of Monopoly
"It goes without saying that this game is entirely uninterested in trying to understand what socialism actually is and how it might function".
“The amazon is burning. Unnaturally, illegally, irreversibly. Will the world just watch?”
Brazil’s government has complained that it is being targeted in smear campaign
Minister & close ally of Boris accused of ‘cosying up’ to Brazil government as Amazon rainforest burns
Wildfires in the Amazon, which produces a fifth of the world’s oxygen, have increased by 84% since last year.