Happy birthday. Hope you have a good day and enjoy your week off celebrating.

🔥Councillors in Tees Valley are attempting to remove Mayor Lord Ben Houchen from his position as chair of South Tees Development Corporation (STDC) because of a possible conflict of interest.

Councillors move to oust Houchen as STDC chair

Councillors in Tees Valley are attempting to remove Mayor Lord Ben Houchen from his position as chair of South Tees Development Corporation (STDC) because of a possible conflict of interest

Some Welsh words are used commonly enough that they’ve been included in the leading English dictionary, the OED. It may surprise you which words those are | Robert Rowlands

Sglods with everything! Welsh in the OED

Some Welsh words are used commonly enough that they’ve been included in the leading English dictionary, the OED. It may surprise you which words those are

The Royal Household now costs British taxpayers more than half a billion pounds a year, a new report published by campaign group Republic has found. Spokesperson Graham Smith said: “The half a billion pound cost of the royals represents a scandalous abuse of public money…”

Cost of monarchy hits half a billion pounds a year

"It is the result of a family that believes it can spend public money with impunity", Republic spokesperson Graham Smith said.

Thanks for the reminder, I’ve just booked mine.

Apartheid is up there with slavery, ethnic cleansing and genocide as one of the most overt ways racism can manifest and yet the Labour Party doesn’t think it’s racist to impose apartheid, it thinks it’s racist to oppose it. www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/labour-bans-its-members-from-using

Labour bans members from using the words "apartheid" and "genocide" to describe apartheid and genocide

What other words are people supposed to use?

🔴 Lucy Letby: The Thirlwall Inquiry and the Truth About the Countess of Chester Neonatal Deaths Scandal The inquiry has dismissed the increasing body of concern around the legitimacy of the verdicts as “noise”. It is anything but, says John Ashton bylinetimes.com/2024/09/24/l...

Lucy Letby: The Thirlwall Inquiry and the Truth About the Countess of Chester Neonatal Deaths Scandal

The inquiry has dismissed the increasing body of concern around the legitimacy of the verdicts as "noise". It is anything but

Six water firms in England ‘overcharged customers by up to £1.5bn’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Six water firms in England ‘overcharged customers by up to £1.5bn’

Firms underreported true scale of sewage pollution for 10 years, which allowed them to set higher bills, tribunal told