Industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has said Rosebank and Jackdaw would support a peak of more than 3,500 jobs during the construction phase. It says the fields would support 880 jobs, external throughout during their lifespans, with an average salary of £85,850. OEUK also says they ...
A teenager who was 16 when he was arrested at Heathrow Airport has been jailed after being convicted of providing cyber-security support to groups including al-Qaeda. Yusuf Shah, from Ilford, was also found to have downloaded documents including instructions on how to make explosives and h...
An animal rights group is urging Crystal Palace to retire their live bald eagle mascot with immediate effect, saying a “bright stadium filled with boisterous fans is no place for animals”. In a letter to Palace CEO Sharon Lacey, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta...
Pakistan’s cybercrime agency has arrested a man accused of running a counterfeit operation that caused $126 million (£94m) in losses to the US Postal service. Faheem Akram is accused of having sold fake stamps via a fraudulent website in the US since 2023. He was indicted by a federa...
A woman was told she had cancer by a hospital employee who accessed her record days before she was due to receive test results from her consultant. Pippa Boardman, from Lostwithiel in Cornwall, said she had lost her dignity and privacy through the data breach at the Royal Cornwall Hospital...
Coles was unexpectedly exposed by his famous brother, who wrote in his 2014 autobiography: “My older brother Andy brought his own drama with him. “He had joined Special Branch and was undercover, living a double life, infiltrated into some sinister organisation while his wife a...
Speaking to BBC Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster programme Brian Stack’s son, Austin Stack, said the apology “means an awful lot to us”. “It’s a great sense of comfort, to particularly my mother and to myself and my two brothers, because the state is o...
A solicitor has been secretly filmed by the BBC explaining how he could make a £45,000 illegal working fine go away. Mohammad Alias Yousaf, also known as Alias, made the claim to an undercover reporter posing as a mini-mart owner facing a fine for employing an illegal worker. The Bradford-...
The ORiW proposal would see 12,800 people connected to the sewage network for the first time with up to 86 miles (138km) of new sewage infrastructure and a single wastewater treatment works built to serve them at the end of a 4m-wide sewage tunnel. Two slightly different plans are being pu...
“In my opinion, 100%. It’s just a question of when,” says David Nicholson, the Chief Technology Advisor at The Futurum Group, a market research company. The unveiling of the Tesla Roadster last week – a futuristic electric car powered by SpaceX rocket thrusters R...