News Archive
26/3/2024
Sellafield Clean-up Skips Ahead After Triple First In Legacy Pond
It's a huge moment in one of the site's most challenging decommissioning programmes. Operators have removed the first zeolite skip from Sellafield's First Generation Magnox Storage Pond.
26/3/2024
What Is The Interim Storage Facility?
It's a key building on the Sellafield site that stores waste from one of our highest hazard legacy waste ponds. The challenge One of our biggest challenges at Sellafield is the need to take waste out of our legacy silos and ponds on the Sellafield site.
26/3/2024
Record Number Of Junior Doctors Take Up Posts
Applications for medical training posts in Scotland are at record levels with more junior doctors joining the NHS than ever before. Data from NHS Education for Scotland shows that 1,231 posts were advertised throughout 2023 and 94% (1,156) of these filled successfully.26/3/2024
North Highlands Team Headed For International Robot Challenge
NRS Dounreay and socio economic partners hosted the second FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge North Highland Tournament in March with local schools taking part. The North Highland tournament took place in March at ETEC on the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) North West and Hebrides Thurso Campus.
26/3/2024
£5bn To Tackle Housing Crisis Made Available By RBS
Royal Bank of Scotland, as part of NatWest Group, has unveiled a £5 billion lending package to bolster the social housing sector over the next three years. The ambition, spanning from January 2024 to the end of 2026, aims to support local housing authorities and associations in delivering and maintaining affordable homes as well as improve living conditions in existing properties, thus improving the availability and quality of social housing in Scotland.
26/3/2024
Highland And Islands MSP Rhoda Grant Refused A Meeting With Ministers As College Budgets In Scotland To Be Slashed
Highland and Islands MSP Rhoda Grant has hit out at a lack of engagement by the Scottish Government over planned cuts to UHI. Despite consistent requests for engagement and discussion with Scottish Ministers, there has been no commitment on holding talks.26/3/2024
UK Forces Airdrop Over 10 Tonnes Of Food Supplies To Civilians In Gaza
The Royal Air Force airdropped over 10 tonnes of food supplies into Gaza for the first time on Monday (25 March 2024), as part of international efforts to provide life-saving assistance to civilians. The aid, which consists of water, rice, cooking oil, flour, tinned goods and baby formula, will support the people of Gaza.
26/3/2024
Gad Develops Bespoke Benefits Modeller As Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Reforms Pension Benefits
GAD has built a pension benefit modeller to support the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as it undertakes a pension reform programme. The Government Actuary's Department (GAD) has supported the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) as it undertakes a pension reform programme.
26/3/2024
New Guidance To Improve Biodiversity Across Government Estate
The Government Property Agency (GPA) published its Biodiversity and Nature Recovery Annex today, detailing how it will protect the natural environment across its extensive estate. A new guidance document was launched on Monday, 25th March 2024, with the aim of tackling biodiversity loss.
26/3/2024
One-off Payments Of Up To £3,000 For Over 27,000 Health Workers
Those in frontline roles such as community nurses and physiotherapists will benefit, with organisations receiving funding for the payments in the coming months. Tens of thousands of staff at non-NHS organisations including community nurses, physiotherapists and cleaners will soon receive two one-off payments.
26/3/2024
Poverty And Income Inequality In Scotland 2020-23
This report presents three-year averaged estimates of the proportion of people, children, working-age adults and pensioners in Scotland living in poverty, and other statistics on household income and income inequality. These estimates are used to monitor progress in reducing poverty, child poverty and income inequality.
26/3/2024
Gaza Conflict - Snapshot Of A Population Being Starved Into Submission
Israel has banned the UN aid-coordinating agency, Unrwa, from accessing the population of northern Gaza where a major famine is now believed to be imminent. The country has accused UNWRA staff of involvement in the October 7 Hamas attack but has provided no evidence this was the case and the agency denies the allegations.
26/3/2024
Consumer Card Spending, Flow Of Spending Across The UK - 2019 To 2023
Analysis of consumer card spending trends covering where UK cardholders are spending money. This analysis shows consumer spending habits on a local level, by publishing a dataset showing where consumers originated from for merchants at every postal district across the UK.26/3/2024
Royal Navy Warships To Be Boosted With New Cutting-edge Launchers
UK security will be bolstered through a new contract worth £135 million that will equip the Royal Navy with new decoy launchers to counter missile and drone threats. £135 million contract for cutting-edge launchers for Royal Navy warships.
25/3/2024
UK Space Agency Announces New Headquarters And Regional Offices
The UK Space Agency is opening new headquarters at the Harwell Science Campus' Space Cluster in Oxfordshire, and offices in Scotland, Wales and the Midlands. The UK Space Agency is opening new headquarters in Harwell, Oxfordshire and regional offices in Scotland, Wales and the Midlands as it works to support the space sector across the UK.
25/3/2024
UK Firm Appointed To Build Australian AUKUS Submarines
The partnership between British firm BAE Systems and ASC Pty Ltd could be worth billions of pounds, in a major boost to the UK's defence industry. British firm BAE Systems will partner with ASC Pty Ltd to build Australia's nuclear-powered submarines, in a major moment for the AUKUS programme.
25/3/2024
First Ukrainian Pilots Graduate From RAF Flight Training
The first Ukrainian pilots to have undergone intensive training under the guidance of Royal Air Force instructors have graduated from flight school. The 10 pilots received basic flying, ground school and language training in the UK and will one day form the first line of defence in protecting Ukraine's skies from Putin's forces.
25/3/2024
Retail Sales Great Britain - February 2024 - Flat Sales
Retail sales volumes (quantity bought) were estimated to be flat (0.0%) in February 2024, following an increase of 3.6% in January 2024 (revised from an increase of 3.4%). Sales volumes in clothing and department stores grew because of new collections but falls in food stores and fuel retailers offset this growth.
25/3/2024
Restaurant Groups' Delivery Sales Rise 8% In February As Takeaways Drop Again
Britain's leading managed restaurant groups achieved year-on-year sales growth of 8% in delivery sales in February 2024, CGA by NIQ's new Hospitality at Home Tracker reveals. The inflation-beating increase means groups have generated growth in at-home sales for nine months in a row.
25/3/2024
