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Daisy BodkinBBC Radio Wiltshire Positive Community Action Karen Knight makes warm and nutritious meals from her own kitchen A community group has vowed to continue tackling food poverty after cooking 8,000 free meals for vulnerable people. Wiltshire’s Positive Community Action (PCA) was set up to address deprivation and social isolation across the Marlborough and Pewsey…
Saltend: Major UK rare earths refinery scrapped in favour of US
Plans for a groundbreaking rare earths refinery in East Yorkshire have been abandoned, after the company behind the project decided to seek investment in the United States instead. Pensana has spent the past seven years developing a rare earths mine in Angola. The $268m (£185m) project, one of the largest of its kind in the…
Higher tax helped government finance reach record January surplus
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