Armed with our reporting, he was able to argue that some of the council’s deals were unlawful because they breached rules that prohibited local authorities from borrowing money just to reinvest it for profit.

When John Kent first asked the auditor to issue a public interest report for the accounts of Thurrock Council, he didn’t know the extent of its disastrous investment strategy.

One of the ‘anti-Net Zero brigade’’s favorite myths is that the UK is only responsible for 1% of the world’s emissions. What should we bother lowering our emissions when China, the US and India emit so much more?

However, a mother has recently appealed a decision where a judge has ruled that her children should have four days of contact per month with her abusive ex-partner. Her appeal was largely unsuccessful.

The ‘child-focused court’ system is designed to centre children’s voices and avoid drawn-out, adversarial proceedings where the child’s voice can get lost.

Similar swarms of agents from OpenAI have tried to hack government websites in the US, Canada and Australia, key online resources for developers like HuggingFace and RubyGem, as well as the UN.

The researchers traced the agents back to Tencent, one of the largest businesses in the world, although they can’t say yet if the activity was on behalf of a customer or the company itself.

The agents have been trying to access data from Amap, a Chinese maps and navigation app, to find out how many people were travelling to certain spots. And it looks like the incident was part of a new model being put through its paces.

Why are parents revolting against iPads in schools? Our latest investigation examines the phenomenon at Eton and state schools across the country.

Much of that cost is borne by the NHS because of health issues caused by farms’ ammonia emissions. Ammonia reacts to form airborne particles that enter the bloodstream and cause or compound asthma, lung conditions, heart disease and other chronic illness.

We can reveal that air pollution from factory farms cost England and Wales over £130m in public money in 2024.