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Pimlico Plumbers founder says he will pay nurses’ ULEZ charges and calls for policy to be binned CITY AM says Plumbing tycoon Charlie Mullins says he will pay nurses’ ULEZ charges and called for the scheme to be “abolished immediately”. The Pimlico Plumbers founder and multimillionaire has vowed to shell out the cost for all nurses newly affected by the ultra low emissions zone (ULEZ) charge in September. “This is a tax on working people that will cost patients their lives, and so must be abolished immediately. Rishi Sunak needs to grow a pair and force Khan to back down…

Society already has difficulty responding to one kind of natural disaster like drought, researchers say. Now we suddenly have floods too.

We can avoid flight chaos in future, says air traffic boss Martin Rolfe, the head of National Air Traffic Services (Nats) has said the flight chaos caused by a computer glitch should not happen again. Speaking to the BBC, Rolfe said measures were in place to protect against the “incredibly rare” system failure which has left hundreds of fights cancelled. “If that happens again, we can resolve it very, very quickly,” he said. Thousands of passengers have been stranded and many forced to sleep on airport floors, as delays and cancellations are expected to continue for days. Passengers have been…

The sequel to Skyrim has left pre-production and is now in full development, but that doesn’t mean you’ll see anything soon.

There have been some very bumpy plane rides recently.

The winger’s potential move to Spurs has been given the seal of approval.

Disengaging with China not credible, says James Cleverly James Cleverly has said it’s important for the country to continue engaging with Chinese officials, saying it would not be “credible” to disengage. The foreign secretary met with China’s vice president on the first trip to China made by a senior UK figure in five years. He said the trip would help avoid “mistrust and errors.” But ahead of his visit, some UK MPs attacked the government’s approach to China as “incoherent.” Relations between the UK and China have deteriorated in recent years following concerns over threats to civil liberties in the…

Network Rail axes bonuses for staff who went on strike Rail staff who went on strike in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions are now set to lose their annual bonus. Network Rail has sparked anger by refusing to dish out bonuses to staff who went on strike. Up to 20,000 members of the RMT union, who took industrial action over pay, jobs and working conditions could be affected. The dispute was settled in March when they voted to accept a 9% pay rise. However, those who took part in strikes from June 2022 onwards will not receive a…

Hurricane Idalia strengthens to Category 3 as it nears Florida Hurricane Idalia has strengthened to Category 3 making it the greatest threat of all the storms so far this season.  One of the big worries is that water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico are above normal, especially near the US coasts where the waters are 2-3C warmer than average. This will lead to rapid intensification of Hurricane Idalia on its final approach to Florida with the current forecast predicting sustained winds of 125mph, with gusts up to 155mph.  Landfall is expected within hours in northwest Florida with torrential rain…

Broadcaster is said to be trying to ‘find a way out of the dispute’.