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Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans

Electricity prices to be decoupled from gas prices in UK. The method is via switching Renewables providers on old RO contracts to newer Contracts for Differences. Enables more stable pricing.

About 10,000 people are now employed in the UK wine industry, of which 3,500 are full-time roles.

Pretty encouraging to look through this on what is a pretty rainy Friday in South Wales. — it shows power generation projects across the UK for the National Grid, you can see what's getting built to help fix the grid etc.

It’s a nice reminder that while yes it's a bit crap atm a lot of new energy capacity is still on the way.

https://locara.co.uk/power

Great little site that.

As someone who lives in the North East, this is both a relief and super exciting! Nissan in Sunderland is enormous, and long may it continue!

The rollout of Covid vaccines – the largest immunisation programme in UK history - was an “extraordinary feat”, the Covid inquiry says.

It says the way the jabs were developed and deployed so quickly – 132 million jabs were given in 2021 - was one of the key successes of the pandemic along with the speed at which the UK identified which treatments worked best against the virus.