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Bank of England to stress test hedge funds and private equity lending

Central bank to examine shadow banking sector amid fears it could put UK financial stability at risk

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2022

UK sanctions Iranians for making drones used in 'evil' attacks on Ukraine

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said that deals between Russia and Iran 'threaten global security', with Iranian-made drones being used by Russia to attack Ukraine

Daily Mirror · Dec 13, 2022

Care home resident, 92, lends hand to give Ukrainian refugee English lessons

When Oksana Deinychenko asked ex-senior marine economist Terry Medley to help her learn English, he was happy to oblige.

The Independent UK · Dec 13, 2022

Ukraine war: drones are transforming the conflict, bringing Russia on to the frontline

Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg spoke recently of his fear that the war in Ukraine could spin out of control into a full-blown confrontation between Russia and the west. “If things go wrong, they can go horribly wrong,” he told Norwegian broadcaster NRK.

The Conversation · Dec 13, 2022

Trial finds targeted drug treatment boosts survival for blood cancer patients

More than 1,000 patients across the UK and Switzerland were recruited for the trial.

The Independent UK · Dec 13, 2022

Calls for ‘quick fix’ to visa routes to fill UK labour shortages rebuffed by government migration advisors

Other recommendations in the report include increased funding for tackling labour market exploitation

Evening Standard · Dec 13, 2022

Sunak urged not to focus on cutting immigration amid UK staff shortages

Migration advisory committee calls for rural visa pilot to help send workers to depopulated parts of countryside

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2022

Uniper and Shell's Humber hydrogen plan moves forward with contract awards

Process design packages awarded to three competing companies

Birmingham Post · Dec 13, 2022

London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city

In the car-crazed 1960s, planners came up with a scheme to slash through the capital’s inner suburbs with huge freeways. Only fragments were ever built – but they tell of a fate narrowly avoided

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2022

Gove’s defence of UK coalmine dismissed as ‘greenwashing nonsense’

Head of offsetting standard rubbishes minister’s claim of Cumbrian mine’s carbon neutrality as ‘absurd’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2022