The UK-EU body overseeing the implementation of the Windsor Framework is due to meet later. The meeting of the Joint Committee comes ahead of a major step in implementing the deal. The Windsor Framework, which was agreed by the EU and UK in February, is the revised post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland. On Sunday, a […]
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The UK is to rejoin the EU’s flagship scientific research scheme, Horizon, the government has announced. UK-based scientists and institutions will be able to apply for money from the £81bn (€95bn) fund from today. Associate membership had been agreed as part of the Brexit trade deal when the UK formally left the EU in 2020.
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West Midlands Tory mayor Andy Street has said Rishi Sunak would be “cancelling the future” if he “gives up” on the Manchester leg of HS2. It comes amid speculation that the prime minister is about to announce the axing of the high speed rail line. Downing Street has insisted “no final decisions have been taken”.
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A window and door manufacturer has been placed into administration, resulting in more than 500 job losses. Administrators for UK Windows and Doors said 496 jobs would go at sites in Treorchy, Llwynypia, Williamstown and Taff’s Well, all in Rhondda Cynon Taf. A further 67 jobs will go at sites in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and Biggleswade,
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A lightning strike has caused a huge gas explosion at a food waste recycling plant in Oxfordshire. Witnesses reported seeing a fireball light up the night sky after the blast at the Severn Trent Green Power Plant at Cassington, north of Oxford. The company said the strike caused one of its biogas tanks to explode
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