The Latest Breaking News from North Sea

TV drama of canoe couple's story hopes to bring theme of forgiveness

When John and Anne Darwin fooled the world, and their sons, into thinking he had died in the North Sea, it was one of the UK’s most shocking crimes

Wales Online · Mar 23, 2022

Spring Statement 2022 - live: Voters support windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas to help cost of living

Pressure on chancellor to scrap next month’s rise in National Insurance ahead of today’s mini-Budget

The Independent UK · Mar 23, 2022

Shell U-turn on Cambo oilfield would threaten green targets, say campaigners

Company is reviewing decision to withdraw from North Sea project because of high oil price, report claims

The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2022

Tory chair under fire after saying ‘net zero dogma’ must not stop drilling for oil in North Sea

‘Pandering to fringe elements’: Cabinet minister Oliver Dowden’s comments branded ‘frankly unbelievable’

The Independent UK · Mar 18, 2022

Rees-Mogg dismisses ‘partygate’ row as trivial ‘fluff’

But Tory chairman Oliver Dowden said any suggestion politicians had breached the rules needed to be ‘taken seriously’.

The Independent UK · Mar 18, 2022

Huge gas field discovered under North Sea as UK to mine own fuel amid Putin threat

The UK has been handed a pathway out of the energy crisis created by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, with a new major gas field being discovered under the North Sea.

Daily Record · Mar 15, 2022

Union calls for ring-fenced UK share as North Sea gas exports double

GMB says it's 'morally repugnant' to reach net zero by winding down domestic industry while relying on gas from 'despotic regimes'

Insider UK · Mar 15, 2022

UK politics: Blair calls for push for peace deal but says Nato should not rule out intervening in war – as it happened

Latest updates: the former PM says the west should not give up on the possibility of negotiating a peace deal with Vladimir Putin

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2022

UK must spend on home insulation and heat pumps, ministers told

Civil society groups call for £3.6bn for insulation, £4bn for heat pumps and return of universal credit uplift

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2022

UK petrol prices could hit £2.50 a litre and diesel £3, experts tell MPs

Diesel rationing a possibility after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Treasury select committee told

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2022