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The chemical is lethal to bees which are important pollinators and necessary for a functioning ecosystem.

Ofsted is set to publish a new policy on pausing an inspection of a maintained school or academy ‘where a serious issue has been identified’.

The damage caused by the bark-stripping pests means landowners are not planting the trees needed in the drive to reach net zero.

The 24-year-old was arrested on Wednesday morning on suspicion of assisting an offender.

Bronson Battersby, two, was found beside his father Kenneth, 60, at a flat in Skegness, Lincolnshire, on January 9.

Diggers have moved on to the site and some of the properties have already been reduced to rubble.

Owners will have to muzzle their dogs and apply to have them added to an exemption list if they want to keep them.

Green Party MEP Grace O’Sullivan said: ‘This is a dark day for the European peace project.’

Iain Packer, 50, denies all the charges against him at the High Court in Glasgow.

The tech giant has started construction work on the facility in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire.

Nine men, three women and two young girls, were discovered in the container at Rosslare Europort on January 8.

Lord Cameron was appointed to the Cabinet last year in a shock return for the former prime minister.

Unions will consult their members on how to respond to job losses in South Wales, with industrial action not being ruled out.

William Brown, 16, also known as William Lindsay, died at Polmont Young Offenders Institution in October 2018.

The First Minister said ‘why would we not wish to have a Nato ally here?’.

In November and December there were six test events and two times that the scheme was used in a real-world situation.

Biomass currently benefits from controversial subsidies due to end in 2027.

There was no sign of the Northern Ireland Secretary as strikers chanted slogans outside the NIO office in Belfast city centre.

A minute’s silence will be held at midday and Marie Curie said it wants to encourage people to come together to remember and reflect.

Sam Altman added that, despite rapid improvements in generative AI, ‘you don’t actually want that to drive your car’.