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2024 was fourth hottest year on record for UK as climate warms, Met Office says
Provisional figures for 2024 from the Met Office showed an average temperature for the UK of 9.78C, 0.64C above the 1991-2020 average and putting it in fourth place for the warmest year following ...
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Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models
THE DIPLOMATIC ructions at COP29, the United Nations climate conference currently under way in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, are based largely on computer models. Some model what climate change ...
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Met Office pinpoints exact time heavy snow will hit Nottinghamshire
The Met Office has revealed the exact moment heavy snow is set to hit Nottinghamshire after an amber cold health alert was issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). According to the ...
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2024 was fourth hottest on record for UK as climate warms, Met Office says
Last year was the fourth warmest on record for the UK, the Met Office said, in another “clear illustration that our climate is changing, right now”. Provisional figures for 2024 from the Met ...
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London snow: Met Office issues weather warning
It is currently unknown how much snow the UK is likely to get, but the Met Office has advised that there may be large amounts of snow, particularly on higher ground. Southern parts of the UK may ...
London Evening Standard21d
Post Office needs to be taken out of Horizon redress scheme, MP says
So far, legal firm Herbert Smith Freehills has received £82 million in fees for work on the HSS and overturned convictions schemes, the Post Office told the committee in December. It said that le ...
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Retrofits reach record high in Ireland, but scheme boss says more needed if Climate Action Plan to be met
Around 125,000 homes have heat pumps in Ireland, but that includes new-builds. Under the Climate Action Plan, 400,000 homes are to be retrofitted with heat pumps by 2030, which would require ...
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Snow, rain and wind weather warnings set to cause disruption across UK over New Year’s Eve
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... paid for by those who can afford it. Met Office chief forecaster Andy Page said the forecast for the upcoming week was “complicated ...
Independent Online8d
Eastern Cape Cogta office manager arrested over R150,000 fuel fraud scheme
A 39-year-old office manager at the Eastern Cape Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) has been arrested for allegedly orchestrating a R150,000 fuel card fraud scheme involving ...
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Post Office must be removed from its role handling compensation schemes for Horizon scandal victims, says MPs
THE Post Office must be removed from its role handling compensation schemes for the Horizon scandal victims, MPs say. Payouts are not being handed out quickly enough, a report by the Business and ...
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Edinburgh Hogmanay cancelled - as UK set to be hit by high winds, heavy rain and snow on New Year's Eve
The first yellow alert, for rain and snow, covered almost all of Scotland on Monday. Image: The Met Office weather warning that came into force in Scotland on 30 December. Pic: Met Office Orkney ...
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Climate and Environment
President Trump’s wave of executive orders yesterday sent an undeniable signal to the world about the United States’ role in fighting climate change. The imitation meat industry is facing an ...