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Protests make Norway's energy minister cancels UK trip

Norway’s energy minister has canceled a trip to Britain because of a protest against a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway as activists continued to block entrances to Norwegian ministries

The Independent UK

Scotland sees lowest rate of store closures in seven years

Fewer retailers shut up shop here than almost anywhere else in Great Britain last year

Insider UK

Here’s why so many people sleep rough on Britain’s streets – Sunak’s Tories have chosen to leave them there

Ministers can fix this: during the pandemic, rough sleepers were moved to warmth and safety. Now they are left to perish, says writer and activist Danny Lavelle

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More than a third of drivers nervous when overtaking lorries – survey

Department for Transport figures show 216 people were killed in collisions involving HGVs in Britain in 2021.

The Independent UK

How sport became the new religion – a 200-year story of society's 'great conversion'

“Jesus Christ was a sportsman.” Or so claimed a preacher at one of the regular sporting services that were held throughout the first half of the 20th century in Protestant churches all over Britain.

The Conversation

U.S. and others express concern at conflict in Somalia breakaway region

Representatives from the United States, Britain, Qatar, Somalia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey met on Tuesday and expressed concern at the conflict in and around Laascaanood, a disputed town in Somalia's northern breakaway region of Somaliland, according to a statement released by the State Department.

Reuters

Energy suppliers need to be ‘ready’ to pass on cuts to consumers – Shapps

The Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary will give a speech at Chatham House on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

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Northern Ireland confronts compromise in post-Brexit deal

Britain and the European Union have reached a new agreement on post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland

The Independent UK

Edinburgh remembers Britain's 'first modern lesbian' who kept coded diary of affairs

Marking LGBT+ History Month, the Georgian House is hosting a walking tour of the spots visited by Anne Lister - the 19th century woman who was known as Britain’s ‘first modern lesbian’.

Edinburgh Live

St David’s Day: how the sixth century monk inspired centuries of devoted followers and poets

The man we know as St David, or Dewi Sant in Welsh, lived in the sixth century in the west of the island of Britain. He founded a monastic community on the site of what is now St Davids Cathedral in Pembrokeshire.

The Conversation

Britain's most wanted murderer greeted police with a calm 'oh, hello there' when finally arrested

Detective Sergeant Tim Grogan described killer Michael Sams as a "shambling, one-legged trainspotter" when they came face to face in Nottinghamshire, ahead of a new documentary this week on Channel 5

Nottingham Post

Trailblazer became Britain's first black train driver after arriving in UK penniless

Wilston Samuel Jackson, originally from Kingston, Jamaica has been honoured with a blue plaque at King Cross Station in London after driving the Flying Scotsman and Mallard steam trains

Daily Mirror

How Scotland's oil funded Thatcher's devastating transformation of Britain

THE first thing you ought to know about Scotland’s oil money is that it was never officially recognised as such when it was swallowed up by…

The National (Scotland)

Trust in government hits record low as 75% polled say UK is heading wrong way

The annual Edelman Trust Barometer found widespread pessimism about the state of Britain and an increasing lack of faith in politicians.

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Daily Mirror

Britain's most wanted man cheerfully gave police directions when he was finally arrested

Detective Sergeant Tim Grogan reveals he still thinks of Julie Dart more than 30 years after her body was found ahead of a new documentary on killer Michael Sams

WEKU

Why Brexit's back in the news: Britain and the EU struck a Northern Ireland trade deal

Britain and the European Union signed a new agreement to solve one of Brexit's thorniest challenges: the trading status of Northern Ireland.

The Guardian - UK

Bronson: Fit to be Free? review – has Britain’s most violent criminal really been saved by art?

The last time he was let out of jail, Charles Bronson robbed a jeweller’s and fought a rottweiler. Will this time be different for the inmate now known as Salvador?

The Independent UK

Irish premier says EU moved ‘a lot’ to facilitate new protocol agreement

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the Windsor Framework breakthrough was ‘hard-won’ and that talks would be very difficult to reopen.

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Reuters

UK opposition Labour Party will vote for N. Ireland Brexit deal

Britain's opposition Labour Party will vote in favour of the new post-Brexit trade deal, agreed earlier on Monday, party leader Keir Starmer said in parliament.

Reuters

Factbox-What is the Stormont Brake?

The British government will be able to stop the application of new EU laws on goods in Northern Ireland if requested by a third of lawmakers in Northern Ireland's regional assembly, but only "in the most exceptional circumstances", the EU and Britain agreed on Monday.

Daily Mirror

Paul Whitehouse hits out at 'liquid death' sewage dumps in UK rivers

Actor and keen angler Paul Whitehouse is fronting two hard-hitting documentaries, where he looks into why Britain's rivers are so polluted with sewage

Wales Online

Let Shamima Begum come back to the UK, terror watchdog says

Jonathan Hall KC, the reviewer of terrorism legislation, is expected to say Britain should match allies such as the United States

The Independent UK

UK access to EU’s £88.6bn science scheme on the cards, EU chief says

The Windsor Framework paves the way for Britain to become an associate member of the EU’s flagship research programme, Ursula von der Leyen suggested.

Reuters

Northern Ireland's DUP leader: We are studying new Brexit deal texts

The leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on Monday said his party was now studying the legal texts published earlier in the day setting out proposed new post-Brexit trading arrangements agreed between Britain and the EU.

The Conversation

What Denmark's dead hedgehogs tell us about their lives -- and how we can help them

The European hedgehog is in decline all over Europe. In Britain, the species is already deemed vulnerable to extinction having seen its population fall by at least 46% in the past 13 years to an estimated 500,000 animals.

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