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  • NewsReuters

    Nature loss could slow UK growth 12% by the 2030s, report says

    Nature loss could pose a greater risk to Britain's economy than the COVID-19 pandemic and wipe 300 billion pounds ($373.83 billion) off UK economic growth if measures are not taken to slow it, the first such study shows. Biodiversity loss and environmental degradation create major risks for the UK economy and financial sector and could slow growth by as much as 12% in the 2030s, Green Finance Institute (GFI) said in the scenario analysis. GFI is a forum for public-private collaboration in gree

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  • OpinionThe Telegraph

    Letters: Britain can no longer afford to be complacent about readiness for war

    SIR – The concerns of General Sir Patrick Sanders, head of the Army, and Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, Chief of the Defence Staff, about our military preparedness (report, April 24) demand an urgent response.

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  • NewsThe Guardian

    Rwanda flights will deport asylum seekers ‘indefinitely’, says Cleverly

    Home secretary visits Lampedusa in Italy as National Audit Office says scheme could surpass £580m by 2030

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  • NewsThe Guardian

    Ruth Perry family furious as Ofsted single-word ratings are retained

    Teaching unions share family’s disappointment after government says system has ‘significant benefits’

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Child alcohol consumption at record levels among ‘generation lockdown’

    The number of children in England drinking alcohol has soared in “generation lockdown” to reach record levels, international research shows.

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  • NewsPA Media: Video

    Young girls in the UK drinking, smoking and vaping more than boys

    Girls in the UK are drinking, smoking and vaping more than boys, while the country is "top of the charts" globally for child alcohol use, a major report has found. In one of the largest studies of its kind, the World Health Organisation (WHO) examined data from 280,000 children aged 11, 13 and 15 from 44 countries who were asked about their use of cigarettes, vapes and alcohol.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Riot police arrest students as Palestine protests spread to colleges in Texas and California

    Protests relating to the Israel-Hamas war have been growing at campuses across the country

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