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Is the UK energy grid ready for AI's power demands?

AI data centers require vast power resources at a time when the national grids are shifting toward renewables.

TechRadar · Aug 15, 2025

TCL C6KS (50C6KS-UK)

TCL rewrites the rulebook again with a 50-inch 4K TV that delivers Mini LEDs and local dimming for an amazing price.

What Hi-Fi? · Aug 15, 2025

Former Afghan interpreter exposed in huge MoD data breach has UK relocation revoked

Another family also being housed in a Pakistan hotel awaiting relocation to the UK are detained by police and readied for deportation

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2025

Minister ‘hugely disappointed’ as talks to agree UN plastics treaty fail

Emma Hardy said she is however ‘extremely proud’ of how UK negotiators worked tirelessly to seek an ambitious deal.

Evening Standard · Aug 15, 2025

What’s the secret to fixing the UK’s public finances? Here’s what our panel of experts would do

Unexpected growth in the UK economy isn’t enough to detract from the gaping hole in the country’s public finances. Speculation is ramping up about what steps the chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, might take to plug the gap come the budget in autumn – and there are no shortage…

The Conversation · Aug 15, 2025

‘We made it our catwalk’: the photos showing Black British women’s Saturday night fashion through the ages

Deborah Carnegie has gathered photos of women from the Windrush generation to the present day getting ready for a big night out – and changing the face of fashion in the UK as they went

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2025

Charity rowers mistaken for 'illegal migrants' by Rupert Lowe arrive in Scotland

A team of charity rowers that were mistaken for 'illegal migrants' by former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe have arrived at the Forth Bridge near…

The National (Scotland) · Aug 15, 2025

MPs to debate doubling skilled worker visa residency requirement amid backlash at new immigration rules

More than 250,000 people signed two official petitions against Home Office plans to make it more difficult for immigrants to Britain to qualify for permanent residence

Evening Standard · Aug 15, 2025

UK rights watchdog warns against ‘heavy-handed’ policing of Gaza protests

EHRC calls for clearer guidance for officers to avoid a ‘chilling effect’ on freedom of expression

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2025

Pope Leo XIV prays for peace as US-Russia summit over Ukraine war gets underway

Pope Leo XIV is praying for a peaceful end to the “increasingly deafening violence” of wars around the world

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2025