Emergency pesticide authorisation to protect sugar beet crop conditionally approved
A neonicotinoid pesticide will be permitted for use on the 2024 sugar beet crop in England, only if there is a danger as evidenced by an independent prediction of...
Monday, 4 March 2024 20:18
AustralianSuper announces £8 billion investment in the UK
A fresh £8 billion investment from Australia’s biggest pension fund, AustralianSuper, will take its total investment in the UK to over £18 billion by the end of the decade...
Monday, 4 March 2024 17:55
Any use of chemical weapons by anyone, anywhere at any time is unacceptable: UK Statement at the UN Security Council
Statement by Deputy Political Coordinator Thomas Phipps at the UN Security Council meeting on Syria...
Monday, 4 March 2024 17:52
Policy paper: Changes to member contributions in the NHS Pension Scheme, 2024
Report on changes to member contribution rates and the earning thresholds at which rates become payable...
Monday, 4 March 2024 17:50
Hedgerow regulations will be brought into law to protect farmland wildlife
English hedgerows will be protected in law as the government today (4 March) sets out its plans for domestic hedgerow regulations, following a consultation last year...
Monday, 4 March 2024 16:35
Gaza war may fuel much wider Middle East crisis, warns UN rights chief
Negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza continued in Egypt for a second day on Monday as the UN’s top rights official warned that the war there risked morphing into a much “wider conflagration” enveloping every country in the Middle East and beyond...
Monday, 4 March 2024 15:42
Conservatives invest in jobs for Wales
Responding to the news that Rolls-Royce Submarines are creating more than 100 jobs in Cardiff to provide nuclear reactors for new attack submarines. Paul Davies MS, Shadow Economy Minister, said...
Monday, 4 March 2024 15:39
UK and Faroe Islands reach agreement on fishing opportunities for 2024
UK secures over 2,200 tonnes of fishing quota through annual negotiations with the Faroe Islands...
Monday, 4 March 2024 15:37
Budget is the last chance for the Prime Minister to reverse crippling school cuts before the election, say school leaders
Ahead of the 2024 spring budget, Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, said...
Monday, 4 March 2024 14:00
DfE blog on "How we’re encouraging children at our school to read for pleasure"
Whiston Worrygoose is a ‘Reading School’. Reading drives everything we do and it’s at the centre of our whole curriculum offer...
Monday, 4 March 2024 13:09