Two UK energy suppliers succumb to record surge in prices
The record energy market surge has claimed its first casualties after two UK suppliers collapsed leaving almost 100,000 customers without an energy supplier.
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ECONOMY
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WORLD 
September 9, 2021 Putin warned after threatening UK with gas crisis by choking EU supplies: ‘Not good idea’
It comes after the Russian President tightened his grip on the EU’s supplies as the Nord Stream 2 pipeline enters its final stage. The deal – signed between Mr Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel – will see gas transported from Russia to Germany, bypassing Ukraine and Poland. Mr Putin is said to be hoping to stop Berlin from […]
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UK NEWS
September 9, 2021 UK traffic travel light system ‘to be scrapped by 1 October’, says insider
The UK’s “traffic light” travel system could be scrapped from next month, according to one industry insider.
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GREEKS ABROAD
September 9, 2021 Great Greek Mediterranean Grill Spreading to Charleston, S.C.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic that closed a lot of Greek restaurants and diners across the United States, the franchise The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill is going great guns and will open more locations, two in Charleston, South Carolina. They will be operated by the Willis family, said Restaurant News, and feature favorite Greek fare such […]
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CYPRUS
September 9, 2021 Cyprus Presidential Commissioner points out over the fate of missing persons
Presidential Commissioner, Photis Photiou said the fate of the missing persons is the most tragic aspect of the drama experienced by the people of Cyprus since the coup and the Turkish invasion of 1974 and said Turkey has great responsibility over their fate.
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EUROPE
September 9, 2021 Borrell says EU can ‘do more’ to aid Libya polls
The European Union is “ready to do more” to help Libya organise elections planned for December, the bloc’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell said Wednesday (8 September) in Tripoli. But “there is no time to lose to approve the necessary legislation, go to the parliament, and start the necessary preparations” for the 24 December vote, Borrell […]
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HISTORY
September 9, 2021 9 September 2021: This day in history
1000: Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea: King Olaf on board the Long Serpent defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age. He leaps to his death overboard. 1776: Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies) 1817: Alexander Twilight, probably first African American to graduate from a […]
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HEALTH
September 8, 2021 Latest Covid-19 case rates for UK local authority areas
Here is Tuesday’s update of Covid-19 case rates for every local authority area in the UK.
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LIFESTYYLE
September 8, 2021 Britney Spears’s Father Files to End Her Conservatorship
Britney Spears’s father, James P. Spears, who agreed earlier this summer to eventually step down from his own role in the conservatorship that has overseen her finances and controlled much of her life since 2008, filed a petition on Tuesday asking the court to “now seriously consider whether this conservatorship is no longer required.”
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POLITICS
September 8, 2021 Government says polluters can dump risky sewage into rivers as Brexit disrupts water treatment
The government has given polluters the green light to dump risky sewage that has not been properly cleaned into rivers and the sea as Brexit and Covid disrupt normal water treatment.
