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Recycling options dwindle for councils hit by China ban
19Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, Featured

Recycling options dwindle for councils hit by China ban

    A number of councils are re-thinking their recycling policies as dealing with unwanted plastic becomes more difficult. Until earlier this year, the UK sent a big chunk of its used plastic to China, where it was used to make items such as computers, toys and appliances. But the Chinese banned imports of plastic waste in January, leaving local councils searching for other options. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has told residents to recycle only plastic bottles, shampoo and bleach bottles, leaving all other plastic in regular waste bins. The council's cabinet member for regulatory services and the environment Hayley Eachus said: "There has been a drop in the market for recycling mixed plastics making it unviable for the company providing mixed plastic bring b...
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EU leaders ready to help May sell Brexit deal to parliament
19Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

EU leaders ready to help May sell Brexit deal to parliament

    EU leaders are preparing to back Theresa May in building a coalition of the reasonable in the UK parliament, in a desperate bid to avoid a no-deal Brexit. Following what has been described by diplomats as a call for help by the prime minister at a crunch summit in Brussels, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, stressed that the EU had to pursue “all avenues” to find a deal that can get through the Commons. I think where there is a will there is a way, she said. Jean-Claude Juncker, the European commission president, said: It will be done. He is understood to have told EU leaders that May needed help to sell a deal in parliament. While ruling out major concessions, Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said it was clear that the roadblock to a deal did not lie in ...
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Anjem Choudary is FREED who inviting support for ISIS
19Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Anjem Choudary is FREED who inviting support for ISIS

    Anjem Choudary has been released from jail today after serving just half his five-and-a-half year sentence for swearing an oath of allegiance to ISIS. The hate preacher, 51, was swept out of Belmarsh Prison in south-east London at 4am this morning and taken to a bail hostel in north London. Choudary, branded Britain's most dangerous extremist, is a free man despite becoming 'hardened' in jail and more determined than ever to spread his toxic Islamist propaganda. The hate preacher's already militant views became 'far more extreme and aggressive' while locked up and he now regards himself as a 'martyr', according to those who met him in prison. Yet he has been released automatically after only serving half his jail term despite inspiring around 100 British jihadis t...
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PM insists Brexit deal can be done
19Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

PM insists Brexit deal can be done

    Theresa May has insisted she is convinced she will get a deal on Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, despite a moment of truth summit passing with no sign of a breakthrough. The Prime Minister infuriated MPs from all sides of her party by indicating she is ready to delay the UK’s final departure from EU structures until 2021 in the hope of breaking the deadlock over the Irish border. Just a month after the humiliating Salzburg summit at which her Brexit proposals were roundly dismissed by EU leaders, Mrs May admitted that there were more difficult moments to come before agreement is reached. But she said she had found a very real sense that people want that deal done among her fellow leaders, citing positive comments from German Chancellor Angela Merkel who she was m...
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News brief from Bangladesh high commession London
19Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

News brief from Bangladesh high commession London

Saudi King and Custodian of Two Holy Mosques Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has highly appreciated Bangladesh's tremendous development under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and stressed the need for continuity of the Sheikh Hasina's government. The appreciation came as the Bangladesh Premier called on the Saudi King at the Royal Palace in Riyadh yesterday. The Saudi King said, if the continuity of the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is maintained, the relations between Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh would further be improved and development would  be achieved on all sides. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited Saudi entrepreneurs to come to Bangladesh with business and technology for mutual benefits. The Premier made the invitation as she was holding a meeting wit...
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Tories lash out at Brexit concessions
18Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Tories lash out at Brexit concessions

    Theresa May has come under attack from Tory colleagues after conceding the UK may have to remain tied to EU rules and laws beyond December 2020, in a bid to solve the Irish border issue. The prime minister told fellow leaders on Wednesday evening she was open to extending the transition one proposal mooted during intensive talks over the Irish backstop issue, which broke down without agreement last weekend. But the idea was quickly rejected back at home. David Davis, the former Brexit secretary, said the idea was unwise, and it was the wrong time to take the pressure off in the negotiations. Five Conservative ex-cabinet ministers, including Davis and Boris Johnson, have signed a letter to May urging her to reject a Northern Ireland backstop and, crucially, an all-U...
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Grenfell mum wanted to jump rather than be burnt alive
18Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Grenfell mum wanted to jump rather than be burnt alive

    A son who carried his mother down to safety from the top floor of Grenfell Tower has described hearing her say she was ready to jump rather than go through the pain of being burnt alive. Farhad Neda lived on the 23rd floor with his mother Flora and father Mohamed, known as Saber who died in the blaze. He had walked through the front door of his home at the west London block just two minutes before the fire started on 14 June last year. The Grenfell inquiry heard on Thursday that the family first became aware that something was amiss when the smoke extractor in their hallway began whirring loudly, prompting them to ring the Tenant Management Organisation (TMO). Mr Neda told a call operator the fan had gone off, the lift was not working and he could smell electrical...
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UK hostages are among 700 captured by ISIS: Putin says
18Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

UK hostages are among 700 captured by ISIS: Putin says

    There are 10 American and European hostages among 700 taken by ISIS in Syria, according to Vladimir Putin. Putin, who made the claims in a televised interview, says the terrorist group has issued an ultimatum promising to execute 10 people every day. The Russian president, speaking in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, said ISIS has expanded its presence in areas controlled by US and allied forces. Putin said the hostages included several U.S. and European nationals but that no-one on the international stage was talking about the situation. Everyone is silent, some kind of silence as if nothing is happening, he said. They have issued ultimatums, specific demands and warned that if these ultimatums are not met they will execute 10 people every day. The day before ...
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What is a no deal Brexit and what does it mean for you
17Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

What is a no deal Brexit and what does it mean for you

    The UK will leave the European Union on 29 March 2019 and with each day that passes, No Deal Brexit is becoming as bigger threat. As time runs out, plans are now being put into action while the nation's politicians try to escape their deadlock over a Brexit deal. If there's no arrangement in time, we'll lose 70 international trade deals in a blink, shed access to EU criminal databases and have to stockpile food and medicine at the stroke of 11pm. The government has issued 104 technical notices on the practical effects of No Deal everything from driving licences to cats. A lot of the effects are on business. UK farmers face a nine-month wait for approval to export organic goods to the EU. Fishermen could be blocked from EU waters. And manufacturers fear their supply...
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Life-threatening cyber attack on UK in little doubt
17Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Life-threatening cyber attack on UK in little doubt

    There is little doubt a major life-threatening cyber-attack on the UK will take place in the near future, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned. In its second annual review, published on Tuesday, the NCSC revealed it has handled more than 10 attacks a week in the last two years the majority of which it traced back to nation states in some way hostile to the UK. Since it became fully operational in 2016 it has handled 1,167 cyber incidents, including 557 in the last 12 months. The majority of the attacks were undertaken by groups of computer hackers directed, sponsored or tolerated by the governments of those countries, writes Ciaran Martin, CEO of the NCSC. These groups constitute the most acute and direct cyber threat to our national security. Non...
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