Waitrose opens first new supermarket in eight years in north London

The upmarket grocer will open the store on Thursday and another supermarket in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester , next month. It also plans four smaller stores next year, including a supermarket in Oakham, Rutland, and…

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Our national debt is a crisis but at least we got a good dance track out of it

As Chancellor, the late Alistair Darling had just told the House that his pre-Budget statement was being “made against a background of economic uncertainty not seen for generations” and that they had gathered in…

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Elon Musk’s flying car should fill us with wonder, not culture war cynicism

Its owner will start from his garage or hangar, travel streets or roads at will, cross streams or lakes that lie in his path, rise in the air and fly over a hill, a valley, or woods, to another road, all at his pleasure.…

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The AI endgame? Intelligence for the rich, slavery for the rest

But in a world where “intelligence” is directly correlated with how much money you can spend on compute, will it be erased entirely, asks Lewis Liu OpenAI recently bulk-published 700 mathematics papers in one go.…

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With Jackdaw approved, what’s next for the North Sea?

The Conservatives were halfway through their ill-fated final term of three. Kwasi Kwarteng was the business secretary, with equally ill-fated aspirations for higher office. And the Department for Energy Security and Net…

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Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world

The vulnerability in the programming language, which became public on Tuesday, sparked warnings from national security agencies in Washington and London. It means millions of websites will need to be fixed. One internet…

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Meta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy case

"Facebook's wrongdoing – ⁠over the course of ​years and systematically broadcast to the public – goes to the heart of Facebook's core business practices," Judge Francis Mathew wrote in his order after the verdict. Mathew…

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The 'trillion pound' oil fund the government believes Britain could have built

A selection of energy exporting countries, mainly in the Gulf, but also including Norway, over the years have amassed multi-trillion funds using oil and gas revenues to create epic national piggy banks. It has been a…

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Guidance: Measurement unit codes for Data Elements 2/3 and 4/4 of the Customs Declaration Service

Get emails about this page Documents Measurement unit codes for Data Elements 2/3 and 4/4 of the Customs Declaration Service ODS , 6.04 KB This file is in an OpenDocument format This file may not be suitable for users of…

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Guidance: CDS Declaration Completion Instructions for Exports

Get emails about this page Documents General Notes on Reading Data Element Completion Rules HTML Navigate the CDS Declaration Completion Instructions for Exports HTML Data Element Completion Rules HTML Group 1: Message…

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