The Government has committed to launching an investigation into why drivers are being dazzled by other motorists’ headlights – and how to crackdown on the dangerous issue.
It comes after a recent study by the RAC found four in five motorists said glare from other vehicle’s lights is becoming a growing problem and has been getting worse in recent years.
The Department for Transport has now responded, saying it has recognised the ‘need for further evidence’ to understand why dazzling
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Kate Phillips: Handed over £11,500 and nine months later was still waiting for state pension top-ups to be processed
Frustrated savers are continuing to complain of state pension top-ups chaos as the Government readies a new online service for launch by early April.
The Department for Work and Pension and HMRC must put enough staff in place to make sure the whole system does not ‘fall over’ under a new surge of top-up purchases, warns former Pensions Minister Steve Webb.
― Government wants City firms to encourage wealthy clients to give money to charities.
― Market-based finance causing headaches for the Bank of England.
― Hunt warned not to cut taxes without spending review.
Good morning! I hope you all survived the arctic-like weather yesterday and are sufficiently warm enough to read today’s MFS U.K. newsletter.
To kick things off this morning we reveal that the Treasury is keen on getting more wealthy people to prop up struggling charities. We’ve
In the summer of 1984, after he finished his first U.S. Foreign Service assignment, in Yugoslavia, Jan Krc flew to Washington, D.C., for what he thought would be a couple of weeks’ training en route to his next post, in South Africa. He thought nothing of it when he was called in for a security debriefing early one morning at the U.S. Information Agency headquarters. There, in a nondescript conference room, he was met by two middle-aged men in suits.
The Government is planning to scrap the need for planning permission for property owners who want to convert a house into two flats.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the plan in the Autumn Statement as part of a package aimed at slashing red tape and increasing the number of new homes.
The new rule, known as a ‘permitted development right,’ will apply so long as the external appearance of the building does not change.
But the idea has already proved controversial.
Washington, DC, 20. Oktober 2023 – (ACN Newswire) – Die Government Blockchain Association (GBA) gibt die Veröffentlichung des Blockchain Maturity Model (BMM) Voting Supplement bekannt.
„Das Voting Supplement ist eine wichtige Ressource für Regierungen, Organisationen und Entwickler weltweit und bietet einen umfassenden Rahmen zur Gewährleistung der Privatsphäre, Sicherheit und Integrität von Abstimmungssystemen“, sagte Susan Eustis, Vorsitzende der GBA Voting Working Group. „Sein Anwendungsbereich geht über Regierungswahlen hinaus und macht ihn für Unternehmen, Verbände und andere Formen der Regierungsführung anwendbar, wodurch
Nach Angaben des Government Accountability Office (GAO) sind die Millionen an zurückgebliebenen Einwanderungsfällen auf den Personalmangel im Justizministerium (DOJ) zurückzuführen.
Das GAO berichtete am Donnerstag in einem Beitrag, dass das Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) des DOJ es jahrelang versäumt habe, einen strategischen Personalplan umzusetzen, was zu einem beträchtlichen Rückstand geführt habe, der durch die anhaltende Grenzkrise noch verstärkt wurde.
Das GAO warnte das EOIR bereits in einem Bericht aus dem Jahr 2017, dass es aufgrund des Fehlens eines
Experts were used as ‘human shields’ for the Government, whose officials ‘cherry-picked’ science to justify Covid-19 decision-making, Sir Patrick Vallance’s pandemic diaries claimed.
The Chief Scientific Adviser, who regularly addressed the nation alongside ministers during Covid press conferences, wrote that Downing Street sought to justify its actions by claiming they were ‘following the science’.
And he accused an unnamed official of ‘completely rewriting’ scientific advice on social distancing, the Covid-19 inquiry in London heard today.
Sir Patrick’s previously undisclosed contemporaneous
August 30, 2020, Joshua Tree, California, United StatesAurora Samperio/Zuma
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
By the time superintendent David Smith decided to close Joshua Tree national park on January 7, 2019, the list of problems was already long. Tire tracks wove through the wilderness mapping a path of destruction where rare plants had been crushed and trees toppled. Charred remains of illegal campfires dotted the
