Month: February 2025

UK News: Hilda Jackson and fellow residents partied with strobe lights, glowsticks and drum’n’bass from festival-headliner

It was a birthday party that would do even the most seasoned raver proud, with strobe lighting, glow sticks and a headline act who has played some of the biggest festivals in the UK.

The birthday girl sipped on champagne, while guests helped themselves to free-flowing cocktails from a pop-up bar run by Jägermeister. This was not an Instagram influencer’s Ibiza pool party, however – it was Hilda Jackson’s 105th-birthday rave in her Derbyshire care home. Continue reading…
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UK News: Jeanne Shaheen discusses Trump’s demand that Kyiv grant US firms access to rare-earth reserves for helping end war

Donald Trump may be pursuing a mineral rights deal with Vladimir Putin and Russia as well as with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, a top Senate Democrat has warned, discussing the US president’s demand that Kyiv grant US firms access to 50% of its rare-earth reserves, as a price for helping end the war three years after Russia invaded.

“I think anything that helps position Ukraine for any peace negotiations is a positive move,” said Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the ranking Democrat on the Senate foreign relations and armed services committee, who recently visited Ukraine. Continue reading…
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Salary: £40,247 to £56,921. Grade 7 / 8 per annum
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Exclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacks

The release of beavers into English waterways is to be allowed for the first time in centuries, the Guardian can reveal.

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, is to announce that nature groups will be able to get a licence for the release. The first releases could happen this autumn. Continue reading…
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City of Portraits, a decade in the making, celebrates tightknit community in tiny Welsh city. But joyful project had sad beginnings

From a distance, they look like vivid pieces of abstract art – but move a little closer and dozens of small, characterful portraits shine out of the work.

The ambitious idea of the City of Portraits (Dinas Portreadau) project, a decade in the making and nowhere near complete, is to record the faces of all 1,800 people who live in Britain’s smallest city, St Davids in south-west Wales. Continue reading…
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