Wells charity helping key workers stay local turns 20

Japanese brewing giant Asahi has been hit by a cyber-attack that has caused a “systems failure” affecting the company’s shipping and customer service operations. Asahi said there had been no “confirmed leakage of personal information of customer data” and its European operations, including the UK, were not affected. But the company said that its order…

Firstly, because some producers are heavily exposed to disruption in the Middle East. ExxonMobil, for instance, has operations at Qatar’s Ras Laffan industrial hub, where production has been shut down since early March, and which has now been hit by Iranian missile attacks, causing “extensive damage”.

Plans to relax restrictions on new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea will be unveiled on Wednesday under the government’s North Sea Strategy. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce the publication of the strategy as part of her Budget speech, the BBC understands. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero will release a…

Aviation safety campaigners in the United States say they have evidence a plane that crashed in India last year had previously suffered a series of technical failures, including an in-flight fire. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed on 12 June, shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad en route to London, killing 260 people. The Foundation for…

Imogen FoulkesBern, Switzerland AFP via Getty Images So far President Karin Keller-Sutter has failed to reduce US tariffs on Swiss goods President Trump’s tariffs have caused shock worldwide, with governments scrambling to find a deal to placate him. Some have managed: the UK got in first, with a sweet deal of just 10%, the European…