TL;DREngland banned plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds in October 2020 under Boris Johnson.The Plastic Packaging Tax, effective 1 April 2022, charged around GBP 210 per tonne of packaging with...
The North West Hydrogen Alliance was born in 2018 when four organisations pooled the assets they each controlled: gas pipes, chemical plants, waste sites, and engineering research. Its core argument...
Five years of planning collapsed in a single weekend. When TSB flicked the switch to move customer accounts from Lloyds Banking Group to its new Proteo4UK system on 21-22 April...
3D printing, also called additive manufacturing, builds solid objects by depositing or solidifying feedstock layer by layer from a digital 3D model. It is the opposite of subtractive manufacturing, which...
The Moorside nuclear power station was a proposed 3.8 gigawatt plant near Sellafield in Cumbria. Toshiba, its owner, cancelled the scheme after failing to find a buyer and dissolved the...
In July 2018, the United States imposed its first round of tariffs on goods from the People's Republic under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, citing what the...
On 9 August 2019, a lightning strike hit a transmission circuit near Eaton Socon. Within seconds, 1.1 GW of embedded generation disconnected from the grid. System frequency fell to 48.8...
When the UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020, the technology sector absorbed a set of structural shocks that most other industries did not. Free movement ended, taking...
Over the weekend of 21-22 April 2018, TSB Bank tried to move its data from the legacy Lloyds Banking Group systems it had relied on since the 2013 split to...
Metro Bank, founded in 2010 as the first new high-street bank in the UK in over a century, fell to the bottom of the Competition and Markets Authority's service quality...
In August 2023, a group led by Iwatani Corporation and Toyota Tsusho Corporation began commercial operation of Japan’s first plant that turns waste plastic into hydrogen. The facility sits in...
In early 2024, EDF's chief executive declared that work on the Hinkley Point C station in Somerset and the Sizewell C development in Suffolk was progressing well. The statement landed...
