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‘Absolute scandal’ if Scottish renewable projects are awarded to foreign firms
BiFab Trade Unions Warn: Prospect of no work from renewables projects would be ‘an absolute scandal’ BiFab trade unions GMB and Unite have warned that the prospect of no work coming to Fife from two major Scottish offshore renewables projects would be ‘an absolute scandal’. The Moray East and Kincardine offshore wind farm projects have a total value of around £2.8 billion and BiFab’s new Canadian owners DF Barnes have been actively pursuing contracts from both. However, the fabrication work...
Urgent action need as social care system is ‘crumbling beneath us’
NEW CROSS-PARTY SOCIAL CARE PARLIAMENTARY GROUP LAUNCHED TO TACKLE GROWING CARE CRISIS. A new parliamentary group on social care will launch in Westminster today amid warnings from GMB Union the care sector is ‘in crisis’. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Care (APPG Social Care) is a cross-party group of MPs who have come together to look at the care system, funding and state of staffing in the sector. The group is sponsored by GMB Union, while its first...
Firefighters battled through night to extinguish large gorse fire on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh
The fire engulfed about 800 square metres of gorse on the Salisbury Crags
“Apocalyptic” fire covering 1.5 sq km of land at Saddleworth Moor is continuing to burn
Dramatic photos show the scale of the raging inferno reportedly the size of one-and-a-half football pitches
Forest has gone up in flames on the hottest February day on record
Dozens of firefighters and 11 engines tackled at least two blazes in Ashdown Forest.
NASA’s new £2.45 billion space telescope ‘could find hundreds more planets’
The £2.45 billion mission will build on the work of its predecessor Kepler that found more than 2,600 planets outside our solar system before its mission ended last October
These horrific photos show a young seal which died after becoming entangled in fishing netting
Environmentalists believe the seal is likely to have starved to death, due to its body mass and bones protruding
Top state secondary school to switch to four-and-a-half day week
From September, students at Forest Gate Community School in east London, rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted, will leave just after midday every Friday afternoon
May commits to votes on no-deal Brexit or Brexit delay
The PM has commited to votes on no-deal Brexit or Brexit delay. The climbdown came as the PM attempts to avert mass resignations by her ministers who have been vowing to rule out no deal in crunch votes set for tomorrow. Theresa May said she will put her withdrawal agreement - including any changes she has agreed with the EU - to a meaningful vote by 12 March. If MPs reject her Brexit deal again, May promises vote on no-deal...