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British Steels Scunthorpe site costing £1.3m a day to run
The report highlighted £15m was spent on advisers between 12 April 2025 and 31 January 2026, and £359m to British Steel for operating activities, such as paying for raw materials and payroll, while £3m was spent on legal and other costs at the North Lincolnshire plant.
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Is there a Windows PC alternative to the Mac Mini? This one I tested is so close (yet so far)
pros and cons Pros A genuinely whisper-quiet Windows 11 Pro mini PC. Comes with a three-year warranty, beating the competition that mostly offers a year. Easy to upgrade the RAM and M.2 storage drive. Cons No USB-C ports limit external expansion possibilities. Only single RAM and M.2 slots, so any upgrading means having to throw…
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Europes hollow Iran war outrage
Watching European capitals scramble to calibrate their response to the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, one is reminded of a recurring scene in a very bad play — one that has run, with minor variations, since Suez. Europe blusters. Europe convenes. Europe issues a communique. And then Europe does nothing. The pattern is so familiar…
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US revives railgun tests as Iran war bleeds air defenses
Missile salvos from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific are exposing the limits of interceptor-based defenses, and the US Navy’s renewed testing of its electromagnetic railgun suggests a possible answer. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that the US Navy has resumed live-fire testing of its prototype electromagnetic railgun (EMRG) after years of apparent…
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Kpop Demon Hunters wins two Oscars – what made it so viral?
“The worst of what I came from, patterns I’m ashamed of,” Rumi sings in What It Sounds Like – at one level, it is a reference to the marks on her skin, which give away her part-demon heritage, but what resonates is the scars she is trying to overcome.
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2 monks brawl during temple ceremony in Hong Kong, leaving 1 injured
Two monks have clashed during a religious ceremony at a historical Buddhist monastery in Hong Kong, leaving one injured and the other in police custody. Police officers were called to Chuk Lam Sim Yuen in Tsuen Wan at around 9.40am on Saturday after a report about a fight involving two monks, a force spokesman said….
