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The world’s largest crane completed its biggest ever lift today, hoisting a 575 ton steel cylinder into place at Hinkley Point. The super-crane, called the SGC-250 but nicknamed Big Carl, lifted the first of three massive steel rings which form a cylinder around the nuclear reactor being built near Bridgwater, Somerset. The crane stands at 656ft … Read more
Investors in FTSE 100 companies had a tough year as more than half of those firms cut, deferred or cancelled over £37billion of dividend payments in response to the Covid crisis, new research shows. But while dividend cuts have been the story of 2020, the outlook for 2021 is more positive, according to analysts – especially … Read more
The first large-scale offshore wind farm is coming to the US and it could be the most powerful in the world. Vineyard Wind recently announced it will be placing more than 60 of General Electric’s 856-foot Haliade-X turbines some 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, a popular island destination in Massachusetts. When activated … Read more
The mother of Britain’s biggest family has revealed the huge number of Christmas presents she has for her children this year as she described herself as a ‘demon wrapper’. Sue, 44, and husband Noel Radford, 48, from Lancashire, who welcomed their first child thirty years ago, and gave birth to their 22nd child – daughter … Read more
World’s largest solar telescope in Hawaii releases its first image of 10,000-mile wide sunspot that could fit the entire Earth inside The Inouye Solar Telescope captured its first image of a sunspot The image achieved a spatial resolution about 2.5 times higher than others The sunspot measures 10,000 miles across and its center is is 7,500F … Read more
Deaths due to dementia and Alzheimer’s have fallen by the largest amount in 20 years, official figures have revealed. An Office for National Statistics report into the fatalities, published for the first time, shows they dropped by four per cent in 2019 in England and Wales – or 3,054 – from 69,478 to 66,424. The … Read more
The Undoing finale delivered a ratings bonanza for HBO on Sunday night. The David E. Kelley-created series, which stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, was the most watched night of viewing for an HBO original series since the season 2 finale of the previous Kelley-Kidman collaboration, Big Little Lies. Three million viewers tuned in, per … Read more
Great British Bake Off finale draws the largest EVER audience in its three year Channel 4 history with an eye-popping 10.3m viewers tuning in The episode saw Peter Sawkins be crowned the winner of the 2020 Great British Bake Off as he became the show’s youngest ever champion The accounting and finance student, 20, impressed … Read more
Queensland has won the 2020 State of Origin series after beating out New South Wales 20-14 in a gruelling game three decider that went right down to the wire. The match was the largest sporting event anywhere in the world since the coronavirus pandemic took hold with 52,000 fans packed into Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium. Although … Read more
A record ‘baby boom’ of some 4,000 new pups will join England’s largest seal colony this year, the National Trust had predicted. In fact, the colony at the Blakeney National Nature Reserve in Norfolk has grown to such an extent that the rangers are having to rethink the way they count new pups. The first grey … Read more