COST creep is a universal affliction in the nuclear power industry and sometimes it isn’t so much creep as leap.The two-reactor nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C on the UK coast went from an ...

A MONTH ago, the government announced the formation of the Defence Universities Alliance which will “bring together academia and the Armed Forces.” A hundred universities rushed to join, of which only ...

SIMON TISDALL’S latest column in the Guardian is a remarkable document. Its complaint, running through every paragraph, is not that the West has been too aggressive towards China, but that it has not ...

HEAT strikes, like those due to begin this Friday by London bus drivers organised in the Unite union, will become more common as long as governments shut their eyes to the scale of climate adaptation ...

Meanwhile, more than 1,500 London bus drivers set for heatwave strikes this Friday, demanding air-conditioning and better working condition ...

PRIME Minister Andy Burnham rejected calls to set a maximum workplace temperature by a coalition of unions and climate ...

CAMPAIGNERS demanded council leaders back Andy Burnham’s drive for national social care reform after a new study revealed access is “postcode lottery.”Analysis from the Care and Support Alliance (CSA) ...

AT LEAST 2,000 people have died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), whose current outbreak of the disease is the fastest growing on record, according to government data published today ...

MOST local council by-elections turn out short of a third of the electorate with elected councillors barely scraping past ...

NAGASAKI marked the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombing on Sunday, as the mayor called nuclear weapons “absolute evil” and criticised growing support for nuclear deterrence. The anniversary ...

OLDER people and other more vulnerable people must take extra care during extreme heat as amber warnings were issued for Thursday, with temperatures in part of England expected to hit 38°C. Age UK ...

A MASSIVE tropical storm dumped heavy rain on eastern China today, causing flooding in some places and disruption to daily life and transport.Dolphin had forced at least 760,000 people to evacuate, ...