Labour rallies in Scotland have been far from headline news for a very long time. Their political sparkle fizzled out in the wake of the independence referendum in 2014 as an electoral punishment for teaming up with the Conservatives in a bitterly bruising campaign. Opponents have repeatedly poked fun at Labour’s failures at the polls,
Mike Coppinger, ESPNOct 5, 2023, 11:49 AM ET Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk are likely to fight not once, but twice, for heavyweight supremacy. The deal for the undisputed heavyweight championship fight, which will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, contains a two-way rematch clause that the loser of the matchup can trigger for a
Every time Tyrelle Willis peels back a bit of tape stuck to the skirting board, tiny black bed bugs scurry out – leaving behind hundreds of tiny eggs stuck to the adhesive. We’re at a house in Croydon where bed bugs have taken over the bedroom on the top floor. The pest control technician points
They move efficiently down the mountain paths and through the brush. The Kosovo police are reasserting their authority in these northern territories after gunmen stormed the village of Banjske in the valley below. The attack, by more than thirty heavily armed ethnic Serb paramilitaries in late September was the worst explosion of violence in this
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Tesla dealership in Colma, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla cut the price of some Model 3 and Model Y versions in the U.S. after the company reported third-quarter deliveries that missed market expectations.
This Labour Party conference will feel different. Unlike the Conservatives, they don’t need a big comeback moment to save them from dire polling, nor are there peacocking leadership hopefuls waiting in the wings (or at least, there is no looming vacancy). Instead, particularly after the massive win in the Rutherglen by-election, this is a party
Tesla prices have been falling all year, and today we’ve got another price cut to report on most trims of Tesla’s most popular models, leaving the Model 3 at the lowest price it’s ever been. Model Y – Long Range & Performance are $2k cheaper The Model Y Long Range and Model Y Performance are
From February 5, 2023, the European Union will no longer purchase petroleum products such as diesel, gasoline or lubricants from Russia. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Russia’s government on Friday said it had withdrawn a ban on diesel exports delivered to sea ports via pipelines, removing a large chunk of restrictions it
One thing that quite often puzzles people who do not work in financial markets is their tendency to treat seemingly good news as bad. We got a classic example on Friday with news that US employers added 336,000 jobs in September. That was up from 227,000 in August (a figure itself revised higher from the
A 36-year-old man has been charged over an alleged plot to kidnap TV presenter Holly Willoughby. Gavin Plumb, 36, of Potters Field, Harlow, has also been charged with soliciting to commit murder, incitement to commit rape and incitement to commit kidnap. The suspect is in custody and will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates Court later today.
A 36-year-old man has been arrested in relation to an alleged plot to kidnap TV presenter Holly Willoughby. The This Morning presenter, 42, pulled out of the show on Thursday and her London home is reportedly being guarded by police. Essex Police said the suspect was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to kidnap
JD Wetherspoon has credited a surge in sales and reduction in costs for its first annual profit since the COVID pandemic. The value pub and hotel chain, which trades from 826 sites across the UK and Ireland, reported profit before tax for the year to the end of July of £42.6m. That compared to a
AS COACHES AND players trudged into the locker room at halftime of what would become yet another dispiriting loss — one of 62 for the 2021-22 Houston Rockets, a team built to lose in its first full season since the end of the James Harden era — they heard an unusual voice command attention. “You’re
At least 40 people have been killed in flooding in the Indian Himalayan region, officials have said. The flood began on Wednesday when the waters of the glacial South Lhonak lake breached a hydroelectric dam. That triggered flash flooding in the mountainous Sikkim state of northeastern India, impacting towns and villages along the Teesta River
Labour sources at the Rutherglen and Hamilton West count were either playing a game with us about the scale of their party’s victory or were genuinely surprised. Early on at the count, they said they thought the swing from the SNP to Labour would be 7% to 8%, suggesting a gain of 15 to 22
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk on Thursday in an effort to compel the billionaire to testify over his purchase of Twitter last year. Attorneys representing the SEC alleged in a complaint filed in the Northern District of California that Musk failed to appear for a Sept. 15 testimony as required by
Tesla and the Nuevo León state government are still negotiating for the latter to deploy infrastructure at the Gigafactory Mexico site, which could possibly explain the holdup in starting construction. Tesla finally announced Gigafactory Mexico during its Investor Day in March. The automaker secured a piece of land just outside of Monterrey, Nuevo León, to build the plant.
Sam Bankman-Fried Trial appears at Federal Court in New York on Oct. 4th, 2023. Artist: Claudia Johnson Marc-Antoine Julliard typically trades cocoa beans. But in the spring of 2021, the London-based commodities broker decided to diversify into cryptocurrency trading. His platform of choice was FTX. Two years later, Julliard stood as the prosecution’s first witness
The United States has shot down an armed Turkish drone operating near its troops in Syria, the Pentagon said. It was the first time Washington has brought down an aircraft of NATO ally Turkey. Turkish drones had been seen carrying out airstrikes in Hasakah in Syria on Thursday morning in a so-called American “restricted operating
Stephen Holder, ESPNOct 5, 2023, 12:51 PM ET Close Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in the 2015 Indiana Associated Press Media Editors competition, and he is a previous top-10 winner in explanatory journalism in the Associated Press Sports Editors national