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Thousands of cash-strapped schools are turning to online donations to pay for basics
More than 1,000 English schools are turning to online donations and Amazon wishlists to pay for basic supplies, a Guardian investigation has revealed. Some 700 crowdsourcing donations have been set up through websites such as Justgiving and Crowdfunder, and 300 schools are using Amazon wishlists to escape the teeth of government cuts. While much of the activity includes traditional fundraising efforts for new playgrounds or sports facilities, many explicitly mention the effects of government funding cuts in their appeals to...
No-deal Brexit risks two-year recession in UK, claims IMF
As the UK struggles to decide anything regarding Brexit a stark warning had been handed to the British Isles. In the case of a no-deal Brexit the UK would slump into a two-year recession, claims the IMF (the International Monetary Fund). A no-deal outcome that led to severe border disruptions and a quick erection of tariffs would cause UK GDP to fall by 1.4 per cent and 0.8 per cent in the first and second years The total negative effect...
Litter-pickers team up with scientists to create plastic pollution ‘gold standard’
They pilot-tested the technique by researchers from the University of Birmingham at dozens of sites across the English Channel
Renewables ‘better investment than carbon capture for tackling climate change’
International climate change models - such as in the Paris Agreement - are based on installing carbon capture at coal and natural gas power stations
Dad in court accused of murdering estranged wife & two daughters 12 years after their deaths in London
Mohammed Abdul Shakur, 45, appeared at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court charged with three counts of murder
RSPB hit out at local council for netting up a cliff stopping birds from nesting
North Norfolk District Council has put a large net across a cliff side, preventing sand martins from entering their nests and endangering their lives
Most glaciers in The Alps ‘could be wiped out by 2100’
Researchers forecast that more than 90 per cent of glacier volume in the Alps could be lost by the year 2100 due to global warming
Man, 22, shot and stabbed to death in East London
Detectives said the victim suffered fatal gun and knife wounds after being attacked by three men in the Manor Park area
Theresa May’s parliamentary bind could make cancelling Brexit her “new default”
Revoking Article 50 could have become the government’s default Brexit position, ITV political editor Robert Peston has revealed. Following Sunday’s sofa chat in which the Prime Minister revealed the choice over Brexit is a binary one between some version of her negotiated deal and not leaving at all, she could have laid the groundwork for cancelling Brexit to become the “de facto Brexit default”. Peston said: “The point is that she has no power to prevent a no-deal Brexit on...