Residents of Fleetwood say continuous foul smell from Transwaste site is making life hell and making them sick In the week that many families took to the coast for the fresh sea air or the tang of fish and chips, visitors to one Lancashire resort inhaled a rather more unpleasant aroma. “Welcome to Fleetwood,” read the local newspaper headline. “The town that smells of bin juice.” Continue reading...
Australia and Singapore will ‘make maximum efforts to meet each other’s energy security needs’ in refined fuels and LNG, according to new agreement Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s largest petrol source has pledged not to cut supplies, with Singapore’s prime minister telling Anthony Albanese that fuel will keep flowing despite the international crisis. Albanese’s whistle-stop visit with his Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong, culminated in a new agreem
Reports say Fed chair Jerome Powell among attenders at meeting in Washington The US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned major American bank chiefs to a meeting in Washington this week amid concerns over the cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model, according to reports. Bosses including the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, were said to have gathered at the Treasury headquarters for the meeting after the release of the Claude Mythos AI model that Anthropic says poses unpreced
PM appears to draw comparison between Russian and US leaders and calls for plan to restore shipping through strait of Hormuz Keir Starmer has said he is “fed up” with the effect that Donald Trump’s actions in the Middle East are having on the British public, while appearing to draw a comparison between the US president to Vladimir Putin. Speaking to ITV’s Robert Peston on Thursday, the prime minister said: “I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down
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NPR News · Oct 8
Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred. (Image credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Prime minister touches down and says two countries ‘strategically aligned’. Follow updates live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A search for a fisherman who disappeared in waters off Coffs Harbour has been suspended, police said last night. Emergency services were called to Emerald Beach, Coffs Harbour, on Monday following reports that a 32-year-old man had been washed off rocks while fishing. There’s been substantial damage in the Gulf and that will have consequence
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Text on plaque in Hall of Valour updated to include references to war crime – murder charges and the ongoing legal process Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Australian War Memorial has updated the display dedicated to Ben Roberts-Smith after the former Special Air Service (SAS) corporal was officially charged with five counts of the war crime of murder. The changes, implemented on Friday, mean nearly half of the descriptive plaque in the museum’s Hall of Valour is
