Good Energy agrees near-£100m takeover by UAE-linked firm
Esyasoft to acquire UK company, which supplies renewable power to about 245,000 households and businesses
A British green electricity supplier, Good Energy, has agreed a near-£100m takeover by a company controlled by a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family.
The retail energy company said on Monday it had agreed a deal with the Dubai-headquartered Esyasoft for a cash offer of £4.90 a share, valuing it at £99.4m.
Continue reading...Exclusive-Russian oil refining rises as US sanctions target crude exports – sources – Yahoo Finance
- Exclusive-Russian oil refining rises as US sanctions target crude exports - sources Yahoo Finance
- Exclusive: Russian oil refining rises as US sanctions target crude exports - sources Reuters
- Soaring Tanker Costs Stall Russian Oil Trade in Asia After US Sanctions OilPrice.com
- Goldman Says Cheap Oil, High Freight Keeps Russian Crude Flowing Bloomberg
- No threat to availability due to US curbs on Russian oil: IOC chief The Times of India
South Korean plane crash probe focuses on bird strike, runway barrier – The Washington Post
- South Korean plane crash probe focuses on bird strike, runway barrier The Washington Post
- South Korea's Jeju Air plane crash probe finds duck DNA in both engines of jet that burst into flames in Seoul CBS News
- Jeju Air: Bird feathers found in engines of crashed South Korean jet BBC.com
- South Korea reports initial findings of Jeju Air crash CNN
- Final 4 minutes of recordings on Jeju Air flight missing, preliminary report says ABC News
Ancient British coins found in Dutch field likely to be spoils of Roman conquest
Archaeologists hail discovery of very rare hoard featuring 44 gold coins bearing name of Celtic king Cunobelinus
A hoard of British coins bearing the inscription of King Cunobelin and found in a Dutch field have been identified as very likely to be the spoils of war of a Roman soldier from the conquest of Britain.
The 44 gold coins, known as staters, were discovered alongside 360 Roman coins, by two amateur archaeologists with metal detectors in a field in Bunnik, near Utrecht. The coins are believed to have been given as military pay.
Continue reading...Father of girl, 14, killed in family’s kitchen in Darlington guilty of murder
Simon Vickers, 50, had claimed his daughter, Scarlett, died in a freak accident, but prosecutors said he stabbed her
A father who claimed his 14-year-old daughter died in a freak accident after innocent horseplay has been found guilty of murdering her by stabbing her in the heart with a kitchen knife.
Simon Vickers, 50, claimed he did not know precisely how his daughter, Scarlett Vickers, came to be killed in the family kitchen on a Friday night in July last year.
Continue reading...Refugee’s justice hopes ‘crushed’ after Italy releases Libya war crimes suspect
David Yambio says Rome ‘has blood on its hands’ after freeing police chief he alleges beat him in Tripoli prison
A man who says he experienced abuses at a notorious prison in Tripoli at the hands of the head of Libya’s judicial police, Osama Najim, has said Italy has “crushed” his hopes for justice by releasing the war crimes suspect despite an international criminal court arrest warrant.
David Yambio was held at Mitiga prison in Tripoli after several attempts to cross the Mediterranean in search of refuge in Europe were thwarted by Libya’s coastguard as part of a controversial pact with Italy.
Continue reading...Bird remains found in both engines of crashed Jeju Air jet, report says – The Guardian
- Bird remains found in both engines of crashed Jeju Air jet, report says The Guardian
- Bird Feathers and Blood Stains Found in Engines of South Korean Plane That Crashed into Wall, Killing 179 PEOPLE
- Final 4 minutes of recordings on Jeju Air flight missing, preliminary report says ABC News
- Duck DNA found in both engines of Jeju Air plane that crashed, report says NBC News
- Guv Issues Warning to Trump: I’m Ready to ‘Stand in the Way’ The Daily Beast
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Scottish child abuse gang members jailed for between eight and 20 years
Seven people, whom the judge said had plumbed ‘the depths of human depravity’, will be monitored for life
Seven people convicted of being part of a Scottish child abuse ring that plumbed “the depths of human depravity” have been jailed for terms ranging eight from 20 years.
The two women and five men will be monitored for life after being convicted of gang-raping a child and abusing other children in a drugs den in Glasgow where heroin and crack cocaine were used.
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Australia’s road toll hits 12-year high as pedestrian and cyclist fatalities rise
Government figures show 1,300 people died on the roads last year in a worsening trend not seen since the 1960s
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Australia’s roads are getting deadlier, as a four-year period of surging fatalities marks a trend of increasing danger not recorded since the 1960s, before seatbelts were compulsory.
Annual road fatality data collated by the federal government’s Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) shows that 1,300 people died on Australian roads in 2024, up from 1,258 in 2023.
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Continue reading...Open (your wallet) wide: Australians pay more for dental care than most OECD countries
Australia ranks well when it comes to total dental care expenditure. But a closer look at the numbers reveals that trips to the dentist are a luxury many people can’t afford
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Australia spent $11.1bn on dental care in 2021–2022, ranking it sixth out of 31 OECD countries for per capita expenditure.
At first glance, that statistic seems pretty good. Dig deeper? Not so much.
Continue reading...Peter Dutton’s boilerplate campaign video is most interesting for what it omits
The shots of sharing cuppas with constituents and laughing with his kids skates over the details of his ‘small family business’
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Election season officially begins when the prime minister drives in the back of C1 to visit the governor general – but its unofficial commencement is when leaders start releasing soft-focus profile videos with their log cabin story, surrounded by family and backed by twinkling music.
For an opposition leader especially, whose contributions can often be overshadowed by the prime minister whose job they covet, the productions – often short yet packed with meaning – are a vital chance to re-introduce or repackage themselves to a public who might not know much about them.
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Continue reading...How Australia’s ‘unfair’ dental system – and the way $1.3bn is spent – is driving inequality and leaving millions of people behind
Half of all government spending on dental care goes to private insurance rebates – meaning those without often skip treatment until things get worse
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Patients bear the brunt of dentist fees. But of the $1.3bn the federal government spends on the nation’s teeth, more than half goes to subsidising the uptake of private health insurance.
The inequality of Australia’s dental care system can be seen in the numbers, says Peter Breadon, the health program director at the Grattan Institute.
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Continue reading...Palestinians reunited with loved ones in north Gaza
Palestinians are reuniting with their loved ones in north Gaza as tens of thousands made the journey back home.
Bird remains found in both engines of crashed Jeju Air jet, report says
Plane appears to have hit ducks before it crashed in Muan, South Korea, last month killing 179 people onboard
An investigation into the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil has found duck remains in both engines, according to a preliminary report, suggesting the passenger jet hit birds before slamming down on the runway.
While officials have not yet determined the cause of last month’s Jeju Air crash that killed all but two of the 181 people onboard, the report released on Monday said feathers and bird bloodstains were found inside the Boeing 737-800’s engines.
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