The sale of gas-only boilers in the UK could be banned by 2026, with all new systems to run on hydrogen instead as Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushes ahead with his radical Net Zero climate change agenda.
About 3 million households in the UK could begin using low-carbon hydrogen to heat their homes and cook rather than fossil fuel gas under government proposals to attract at least £4bn of investment to the hydrogen economy by 2030.
Applicants for permission to own a firearm or shotgun will be subject to social media checks in the wake of the Plymouth mass shooting, the Government has announced.
Special prayers are set to be said in Plymouth on Sunday as the city mourns the five people killed in a shooting spree which has left the local community shocked and saddened.
A Grade II* listed medieval church has been vandalised in a horrific attack just 10 days after reopening from repairs.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is set to temporarily suspend the Conservatives’ “triple lock” election manifesto commitment on state pensions. The “triple lock” meant that Mr Sunak was committed to lifting payouts to match the highest out of average earnings, inflation or 2.5pc. However, the furlough scheme that was introduced last year is very likely […]
Measures are being introduced to try to identify what is driving rising murder rates in the wake of a spike in teenage deaths in some of the UK’s homicide hotspots.
The human remains found last Friday in the Pyrenees have been confirmed as those of missing hiker Esther Dingley.
People should be fully vaccinated before returning to office jobs but it will not be made a legal requirement in England, a cabinet minister has said.
The UK is likely to swelter in regular 40C summers, experts warn, even if global warming is limited to 1.5C.
