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Brexit rules see 100,000 export orders for trees axed as Northern Ireland cancels deliveries from Britain Rules state plants cannot be imported into Northern Ireland with soil on roots Problem with list of plants prohibited from being imported from third countries The Woodland Trust in the country has cancelled an order for 22,000 trees Northern … Read more
A Dutch court today ordered the government to lift a Covid curfew that sparked the Netherlands’ worst rioting for decades – saying authorities had misused emergency powers meant for more perilous crises such as a dyke breach. The 9pm curfew was the first to be imposed in the Netherlands since the Nazi occupation in World … Read more
Myanmar’s junta on Saturday suspended laws constraining security forces from detaining suspects or searching private property without court approval and ordered the arrest of well-known backers of mass protests against this month’s coup. A series of announcements came on the eighth day of country-wide demonstrations against the February 1 takeover and detention of elected leader … Read more
Boris Johnson has ordered a probe into attempts by far-left activists to ‘hijack’ movements such as Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion. Bosses behind the investigation say they will look at the impact of ‘progressive extremism’ on cause groups – something described as a current ‘blind spot’ by those leading the probe. As well as … Read more
Rolls-Royce hoping to prevent further rounds of job losses by shutting its factories for first time ever this summer The aerospace giant will close plants in its jet engine division for two weeks to save cash on salaries, energy and other costs Dates for the two-week shutdown have not been decided yet by chief executive … Read more
President Joe Biden will take an axe to Donald Trump’s immigration policies when he signs executive order Tuesday rescinding a series of his predecessor’s landmark moves. Among the most high-profile moves will be starting the process to end a ‘public charge’ rule put in place which let immigration authorities deny green cards to immigrants who were ‘public … Read more
Boris orders Tory MPs to ABSTAIN in Labour vote demanding even tougher border crackdown to stop mutant Covid strains Labour wants the Government to introduce hotel quarantine for all UK arrivals Currently the policy only applies to people arriving in UK from ‘red list’ countries Labour will try to force vote on the issue but … Read more
The UK Government has ordered an extra 40million doses of Valneva’s coronavirus vaccine, taking its total to 100million doses. Still in clinical trials, the two-dose jab isn’t expected to be delivered until the second half of 2021 but it is already being manufactured in Livingston, Scotland. It’s likely that most or all adults in Britain … Read more
President Joe Biden tied his climate initiatives to job growth on Wednesday, touting the economic growth behind his measures to increase conservation as the oil and gas industry complained about lost employment. ‘Today is climate day at the White House, which means today is jobs day at the White House,’ Biden said in the State Dining … Read more
Tucker Carlson says Joe Biden’s executive orders promoting racial ‘equity’ would ‘disgust’ Martin Luther King Jr, will lead to Republican voters being treated as ‘jihadis’ and the Democrats forcing millions to agree with their views. ‘Vote the wrong way, and you are a jihadi. You thought you were an American citizen with rights and just a different … Read more