2024 is going to be a more important year than ever for industry CEOs and business owners to measure their carbon footprint and implement carbon mitigation strategies. The message to owners of all sizes of business, whatever sector they operate in, is to make this the year they start their journeys to net zero.
Customers with electric vehicles will have better access to charging points to support their journeys when ScotRail introduces charges from 8 January 2024. The train operator is reminding electric vehicle owners that a charging tariff will be applied to all charging points across the ScotRail parking network.
Researchers developed a process to convert coal into nanoscale carbon dots, ideal for constructing atomically thin electronic devices like transistors and memristors. Coal-derived carbon layers function as excellent insulators in two-dimensional devices, enhancing device speed and reducing energy consumption.
OK Caithness does not have any empty shopping malls but we do have plenty of empty shops. If China's people are changing what they do with shopping centres maybe we can change our town centres.
New frigates unable to be manned unless two existing warships are taken out of service. The Royal Navy has so few sailors that it has to decommission two warships to staff its new class of frigates, The Telegraph can reveal.
Child Benefit claims can be made online for the first time. New parents can now claim Child Benefit online for the first time since it was launched 47 years ago, helping millions of families with the cost of raising their children, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced.
Organisations that support victims of crime have been awarded a total of £405,451 from a fund financed by penalties imposed on offenders who received a court fine. Eight organisations - including Victim Support Scotland, Dumbarton District Women's Aid, Migrant Help, The Moira Fund, The Manda Centre, Survivors of Human Trafficking in Scotland (SOHTiS), Action Against Stalking and Dundee Women’s Aid – will share the funding to provide practical help directly to victims.
Post-Christmas returns fall slightly, but £1.4bn worth of items are still winging back to retailers. ‘Takeback Tuesday' returns decreased by around 6% yesterday compared to last year, says ParcelHero.
As at 630am on 3 January 2024 some routes still disrupted. Edin Inverness affected.
Alan, who won a Daily Mirror Pride of Britain award last year for his campaign, accused the Post Office of "arrogance and ignorance" in refusing to believe subpostmasters. Post Office workers wrongly accused in the IT scandal are still waiting for payouts, four years after winning their case.
We know the importance of staying hydrated, especially in hot weather. But even for something as simple as a drink of water, conflicting advice and urban myths abound.
ScotRail is steaming into 2024 with scores of vacancies set to be filled as part of its biggest recruitment drive in years. The train operator has already recruited more than 200 new members of staff since August, with the human resources team working hard to keep the business on track to fill vacancies.
80% of new cars and 70% of new vans sold in Great Britain will now be zero emission by 2030, increasing to 100% by 2035. the zero emission vehicle mandate, the government's pathway towards all new cars and vans being zero emission by 2035, is now law.
ive million more UK households could feel the effects of recent interest rate increases in coming years. Roughly the same number have already been forced to remortgage since the recent spate of rate rises began in 2021, according to the Bank of England's latest Financial Stability Report.
Midwinter. War in the Middle East.
Attacks on international cargo ships in the Red Sea from Houthi-controlled Yemen have seen several cargo vessels hit by missiles and drones in recent days. In response, global shipping companies and cargo owners - including some of the world's largest container lines such as Maersk, as well as energy giant BP - have diverted ships from the Red Sea.
Over the past year 35 crofters and their families have received grant funding totalling over £1 million to build and improve their homes. The Croft House Grant scheme supports crofters with measures to improve their homes, or build new ones - allowing them to maximise the full potential of their crofts, and live and work in remote and rural areas.
With less than a month to go to the Self Assessment deadline, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is urging nearly 5.7 million customers to file their tax return for the 2022 to 2023 tax year. HMRC data shows almost 6.5 million customers have already beaten the Self Assessment clock by filing their tax return, including 49,317 customers who used the New Year holiday to get a head start on their tax obligations: 25,593 customers filed their tax return on New Years Eve, with the most popular time being between 12:00 and 12:59, when 2,677 customers filed 127 customers saw in the New Year by filing their tax return between 00:00 and 00:59 on 1 January 23,724 customers filed on New Year's Day, with the most filing between 15:00 and 15:59, when 2,354 customers filed The deadline to file a tax return for the 2022 to 2023 tax year and pay any tax owed is 31 January 2024.
For the unassuming former sub-postmaster who was instrumental in exposing one of the biggest miscarriages of justice the UK has ever seen, seeing his life portrayed on the screen in a prime time national TV drama feels "a bit strange". Alan Bates had no desire to find himself in the limelight when he began, then drove the campaign to expose the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.
British film, TV and video game producers will benefit from new, more generous tax credits that start today (1 January 2024). New and improved tax credit system for film, TV and video game production companies starts from today (1 January 2024) An extra £42,500 in relief for children's TV, animated TV and animated film production.
