Image copyright PA Media & BBC The government will consider whether failure to pay the TV licence fee should cease to be a criminal offence, a Treasury minister has said. Rishi Sunak confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of the sanction for non-payment of the £154.50 charge, which funds the BBC. Prosecution […]
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Image caption Anglian Water said 12,000 properties in Bedfordshire were without water at one point Up to 5,000 homes in Bedfordshire have been left without water since Friday evening due to a faulty valve. About 12,000 properties in Leighton Buzzard, Toddington, Hockliffe and surrounding areas were affected. The valve was fixed on Saturday evening but
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg and Germany’s national railway company created a tweetstorm after she posted a photo of herself sitting on the floor of a train surrounded by lots of bags By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press December 15, 2019, 2:32 PM 3 min read BERLIN — Climate activist Greta Thunberg and Germany‘s national railway company
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Mikaela Shiffrin took the day off and left the way clear for Petra Vlhova to win a World Cup parallel slalom event on Sunday December 15, 2019, 1:35 PM 2 min read ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Petra Vlhova took advantage of Mikaela Shiffrin taking the day off to win a World Cup parallel slalom event
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Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: ‘strip-mining’ them of their innovations. SEATTLE — Elastic, a software start-up in Amsterdam, was rapidly building its business and had grown to 100 employees. Then Amazon came along. In October 2015, Amazon’s cloud computing arm announced it was copying Elastic’s free software tool,
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Image copyright Kiara Worth/IISD Image caption Some of the difficult issues proved impossible to resolve in Madrid The longest United Nations climate talks on record have finally ended in Madrid with a compromise deal. Exhausted delegates reached agreement on the key question of increasing the global response to curbing carbon. All countries will need to
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Alexis Pinturault won his first World Cup slalom in almost six years on Sunday to lead the overall standings December 15, 2019, 1:13 PM 2 min read VAL D’ISERE, France — Alexis Pinturault won his first World Cup slalom in almost six years by a big margin Sunday, after American prospect Luke Winters could not
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Ozil, a former Germany international, has been at Arsenal since 2013 China’s state broadcaster CCTV has removed Sunday’s Arsenal-Manchester City game from its schedule after comments made by Gunners midfielder Mesut Ozil, state media has reported. Ozil posted on social media about the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China. Arsenal distanced the club from the
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Nikola Jokic had 28 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists for his fourth triple-double of the season, leading the Denver Nuggets past the Oklahoma City Thunder 110-102 By DENNIS GEORGATOS Associated Press December 15, 2019, 6:38 AM 4 min read DENVER — Breaking out of a mini-slump, Nikola Jokic is reasserting himself as the centerpiece
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Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: ‘strip-mining’ them of their innovations. SEATTLE — Elastic, a software start-up in Amsterdam, was rapidly building its business and had grown to 100 employees. Then Amazon came along. In October 2015, Amazon’s cloud computing arm announced it was copying Elastic’s free software tool,
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