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Wylfa in North Wales is the preferred site for a major new nuclear power development, the government has announced.Ministers are beginning talks with international energy firms to explore building the UK's third mega-nuclear power station at the Anglesey site, according to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). The department said the gigawatt nuclear power plant could provide enough clean power for six million homes for 60 years.Britain […]

Mauricio Pochettino has left Chelsea by mutual consent after one season in charge.The Argentinian manager, who joined Chelsea in July 2023 after coaching at Paris Saint-Germain and rivals Tottenham Hotspur, had a year left on his two-year contract. It comes after the west London club secured European football with a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League with a final-day win over Bournemouth on Sunday.Whether it will be a place in […]

Jailed dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza has lost an appeal to force Russian authorities to investigate two alleged poisonings that left him with a nerve disorder.The dual British-Russian national is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for treason. Appearing in court in Moscow via a video link from a penal colony in Omsk, Siberia, the opposition activist looked gaunt and thin.The 42-year-old was arrested in April 2022 after criticising Russia's war in […]

An increase in nightmares could be an early sign of some autoimmune diseases, new research suggests.Researchers at the University of Cambridge and King's College London surveyed 676 people with lupus, a disease that causes the immune system to attack tissues and organs, and 400 clinicians, as well as interviewing 69 people living with various chronic inflammatory autoimmune disorders and 50 clinicians. They said three in five of the patients who […]

The Princess of Wales is not returning to work yet, but remains fully updated on the Early Years work going on in her absence, it was revealed at the launch of a "landmark" new report.Keen not to distract from the importance of the findings of the Early Years business taskforce, that was set up by the princess last year, a palace spokesperson confirmed that "it should not be seen or […]

The parents of a baby girl say they will "never forgive the callousness" of a nursery nurse convicted of killing their "wonderful daughter".Kate Roughley, 37, was found guilty of manslaughter by ill-treatment following the incident on 9 May 2022 at Tiny Toes in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport.Prosecutors said the youngster died from asphyxiation from a combination of "pathophysiological stresses" after the deputy manager placed her face down, tightly swaddled and strapped […]

Three men have been sentenced to a total of 30 years in custody after a "fake Rolex" assault which resulted in the loss of the victim's eye.The 45-year-old victim was assaulted by three men who robbed him of his fake Rolex watch. The man lost an eye in the attack and South Wales Police say it has had a "devastating" impact on both his personal and professional life.Thierno Dilallo, 20, […]

A memorial to polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will travel more than 7,000 miles to Scotland to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his birth.The wooden cross from Shackleton's Hope Point memorial on the island of South Georgia will soon be on display at Discovery Point, a museum in Dundee where the Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery, which first carried the explorer to Antarctica in 1901, is kept. Shackleton was born […]

"I'm never drinking tap water again," Kayley Lewis says."My symptoms have made me lose a stone in two weeks." Ms Lewis and her two children have been suffering from diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach cramps for over a fortnight - since South West Water found small traces of the parasite cryptosporidium in the Hillhead reservoir."I can't trust them [South West Water] again."I might start using tap water for dishes... but definitely […]