‘Go back home you IDIOTS!’: Cyber renegade hacks into traffic system and changes road message to warn drivers they are ‘meant to be in lockdown’ Staffordshire Council investigating cyberattack on Burton-on-trent’s system An electronic sign in the town read: ‘We are supposed to be in lockdown!’ After a complaint from Karen Banks on Facebook the … Read more
National Grid may lose its role running Britain’s electricity system after 30 years in move that could knock £4.8bn off household bills by 2050 Ofgem said that a completely independent entity should replace National Grid It believes this would be more suited to lead the UK towards its climate targets It estimates this could also … Read more
NASA have traced the cause of the premature shutdown of the Space Launch System’s engines during a demo firing on Saturday to its hydraulic system. Engineers said that overly ‘conservative’ test parameters had been introduced that caused the mega-rocket’s systems to go into shut down after just over a minute. Despite initial concerns, the core … Read more
Reform Britain’s outdated business rates system now to help High Street survive the pandemic, Sunak told By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 18 January 2021 Britain’s outdated business rates system must be ripped apart and rebuilt to ensure the High Street can survive and … Read more
Ministers are meeting today to thrash out details of the new Covid testing rules for UK borders amid fears people will find it impossible to get screened in some countries, Boris Johnson confirmed earlier this week that a requirement for arrivals to have tested negative will be introduced, amid alarm at the spread of new … Read more
The UK’s post-Brexit immigration structure will work on a points based system while new restrictions for British travellers will come into force as free movement ends. It comes as the government announced a Brexit deal had finally been reached following months of intense negotiations between the UK and European Union. The summary of the deal was published … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer slaps down shadow education secretary Kate Green for labelling the UK honours system ‘offensive’ and ‘divisive’ as he says his knighthood means the ‘absolute world’ to him Shadow education secretary Kate Green criticised the current honours system She said use of language associated with British empire ‘divisive’ and ‘offensive’ But Sir Keir … Read more
A new superhighway network running through the Solar System has been discovered by astronomers, and it could speed up space travel in the future. Researchers from the University of California San Diego looked at the orbits of bodies in our Solar System and computed how they fit together and interacted. The highways allow space rocks … Read more
A new superhighway network running through the Solar System has been discovered by astronomers, and it could speed up space travel in the future. Researchers from the University of California San Diego looked at the orbits of bodies in our Solar System and computed how they fit together and interacted. The highways allow space rocks … Read more
China is pushing for its social credit system with a sweeping data-collection scheme to monitor and solidify control over companies, a study has said. The Corporate Social Credit System (CSCS) would punish and reward companies by putting them on ‘blacklists’ and ‘redlists’ after compiling information and analysing their behaviour, according to a Beijing-based consulting firm. … Read more