Water firms have apologised for sewage spills and vowed to clean up their act, but why do these spills happen in the first place? Sky News looks at why raw sewage ends up in the river and seas and what water companies are doing about it. Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/why-is-sewage-pumped-into-rivers-and-the-sea-12883507 #sewage #environmentnews #ukseas SUBSCRIBE to our
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) heckled Rep. George Santos (R-NY) after the House voted to refer a resolution to expel Santos from Congress to the Ethics Committee. Bowman then got into an argument with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) outside the US Capitol.
Micron Technology Double-Data-Rate Synchronous Random-Access Memory (SDRAM) chip Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images China’s chip stocks rallied on Monday morning following Beijing’s announcement to bar some purchases of products from U.S. memory chipmaker Micron. China’s Cyberspace Administration barred operators of “critical information infrastructure” in China from buying products from the U.S. chip giant following
Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMay 21, 2023, 06:36 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ROCHESTER, N.Y. — In the final round of the 105th PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club on Sunday, Brooks Koepka seemed determined to step on the
Ryan S. Clark, NHL reporterMay 21, 2023, 09:06 PM ET Close Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. LAS VEGAS — It wasn’t like the Dallas Stars didn’t address why they lost a second straight overtime game to the Vegas Golden Knights. If anything? There was more of a conversation around the circumstances
Meta is expected to face a record fine later over its transfer of Facebook’s European user data to US servers, according to reports. Reuters news agency cited two anonymous sources familiar with the matter as saying that the penalty from EU regulators will be higher than the previous record – a €746m (£647m) fine for
SpaceX’s second private flight has launched passengers, including Saudi Arabia’s first female astronaut, to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre on Sunday night. The crew will be led by a retired NASA astronaut who now works for the company, which arranged the 10-day trip. It is the
What is it about politicians and driving fines? In 2012 Lib Dem minister Chris Huhne resigned from the coalition government after his then-wife took speeding points for him. They both ended up in prison for perverting the course of justice. In 2019, Labour MP Fiona Onasanya was jailed and ejected from parliament for the same
Meet ChargeX, an EV industry consortium that was announced today by the US Department of Energy (DOE) – and its mission is to improve public EV charging reliability and usability by June 2025. More specifically, ChargeX’s plan is to make sure that customers achieve first-time plug-in success every time they use public EV chargers. The
Getty Images To avoid rising energy costs and benefit from increasing renewable energy incentives and tax breaks, more homeowners may be considering a home solar system. Last year, the growth of residential solar in the U.S. boomed. Even as overall growth of solar installations, including commercial and utility-scale projects, decreased year over year, residential solar
Kyiv was hit by a fresh barrage of Russian air strikes overnight, but Ukrainian forces say they managed to shoot down all 18 of the missiles. Philip Ingram, former British Army intelligence and security officer, said it was “almost certainly” retaliation from the Russians. It followed President Zelenskyy’s visit to Western allies, including the UK,
Lyft CEO David Risher tells CNN what business lesson he learned from Jeff Bezos after working at Amazon.
Rishi Sunak will speak to his independent ethics adviser regarding Suella Braverman’s speeding fine, Sky News understands. The prime minister will consult his adviser upon returning to London from the G7 summit in Japan. Ms Braverman, 43, had been caught speeding last summer and opted to attend a driving awareness course rather than accept a
ESPN News Services May 20, 2023, 02:22 PM ET The New York Yankees designated Aaron Hicks for assignment on Saturday and signed fellow outfielder Greg Allen to a major league contract and added him to the roster. Hicks has more than two years left on a seven-year, $70 million contract signed in 2019. He is
Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary will take over presenting duties for Monday’s This Morning following the departure of Phillip Schofield. Schofield, who has been on the morning show for more than 20 years, said on Saturday that he was stepping back because the programme “has become the story” and “I want to do what I
Sam Altman, chief executive officer and co-founder of OpenAI, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Congress is debating the potential and pitfalls of artificial intelligence as products like ChatGPT raise questions about the future of creative industries and the ability to tell fact from fiction.
The government is to begin the hunt for a new boss of its flagship trade and cultural promotion campaign after the incumbent decided to step down after two years in charge. Sky News understands that Andy Pike OBE resigned as director of GREAT earlier this month, and will leave the post in September. Mr Pike
A Tory mayor has said there should be “no compromise” when it comes to standards in public life following accusations the home secretary may have breached the ministerial code over a speeding fine. Andy Street, the mayor of the West Midlands, said there “have to be standards in public life” as Rishi Sunak comes under
Even as Ukrainian fighters remain in Bakhmut, for all intents and purposes the city is now effectively controlled by Russia. There has been an inevitability about its capture by Wagner and Russian regular forces for weeks. I last managed to get inside the city at the end of January and the situation then was desperate.
Martin Amis was very much a legend in his own lifetime. Novels like Money and London Fields looked at the seamy side of London in the Cool Britannia era. He was a big fan of snooker. He had an alter ego who ate fast food and misbehaved in various ways. He summed up that period