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New push on North Sea oil licences as Rishi Sunak opens fresh front in net zero battle The Independent says Rishi Sunak will push forward the expansion of North Sea oil and gas exploration in the King’s Speech – as he widens the divide with Labour over environmental policies. The prime minister will declare the drive will help the UK meet its green targets “without adding undue burdens on households”. Ministers will legislate to ensure new licences can be awarded every year, despite pledges to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/north-sea-oil-sunak-king-speech-b2442054.html

British Steel plans to shut furnaces putting up to 2,000 jobs at risk More than 2,000 jobs are at risk as British Steel announces its plans to close down its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe. The business, owned by China’s Jingye Group, wants to replace them with two electric arc furnaces – one at Scunthorpe and one at Teesside. The construction is expected to take between two and three years. British Steel said it aimed to transform the firm into a “green and sustainable company” and had to look at different scenarios to help it do this. The shift could lead…

Tory MP apologises to doctor over strike tweet Tory MP Lee Anderson has apologised to a doctor over a “misleading” social media post. He has offered his “sincerest apologies” to Tom Dolphin for any distress caused by a post on X, related to the ongoing junior doctors’ strike. Anderson has agreed to pay £1,870 to the British Medical Association (BMA) strike fund to “compensate the upset I may have caused”. In the since-deleted tweet on X, Anderson responded to a Mail Online article that reported Dr Tom Dolphin had “boasted of charging the NHS for a strike cover shift”. A…

Gaza hit by intense strikes as Israel says it has cut Strip in two Israel says it has hit 450 “targets” in the past day, as huge explosions have been heard across northern Gaza. Israeli bombing of the area has intensified with one BBC reporter in the area saying the strikes overnight on Sunday felt like the most intense since the war began. Internet and phone communication lines were down in the Gaza Strip during the overnight bombing but the lines are now being restored. The Israeli military says troops have reached the coastline in the south of Gaza City,…

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Tyson Foods recalls US nuggets after metal pieces found US meat processor Tyson Foods says it’s recalling around 30,000Ib of chicken nuggets after metal pieces were found in the product. The voluntary recall is “out of an abundance of caution.” The nuggets were produced at one facility and shipped to distributors in nine US states including Alabama, California and Illinois. The US Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said it received one report of a minor oral injury. “A limited number of consumers have reported they found small, pliable metal pieces in the product, and out of an abundance of…

Ukraine war: Military chiefs face criticism over deadly Russian strike A recent Russian missile strike, that’s reported to have killed more than 20 Ukrainian soldiers, has led to criticism of Ukraine’s military chiefs. Ukraine’s military has not yet given casualty figures of what it says was a “tragedy” in the Zaporizhzhia region. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said the incident “could have been avoided”. “Criminal proceedings have been initiated,” he added in a post on social media on Sunday. “Every soldier in the combat zone – in the enemy’s line of fire and aerial reconnaissance – knows how to behave in…