Govt set to announce £3bn Royal Mail float

[ad_1] Chief Medical Officer Prof Chris Whitty said the latest patient, who is being treated in London, was a known contact of a previously confirmed UK case and had been infected in France. “Experts at Public Health England continue to work hard tracing patient contacts from the UK cases. They successfully identified this individual and…

[ad_1] LONDON — What does Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour have in common with the London-based environmental law charity ClientEarth? Quite a lot, as it happens. Mr. Gilmour sold his guitar collection for $21.5 million at Christie’s New York in June — and donated every penny to ClientEarth to help it fight climate change. For a…

[ad_1] When Facebook announced details earlier this year of a global digital currency called Libra — backed by a roll call of other corporate giants — I declared myself a sceptic on the grounds that behind its libertarian sales pitch, the concept was really ‘a power-grab for cash balances and personal data out of the conventional…

[ad_1] Properties in the centre of Bath that are flooding or filling with gas will face a two-hour wait for an emergency callout under proposed new anti-terrorism measures. Moving bollards will be used to restrict access | Inset: The Guildhall in Bath Tradespeople and utility companies would need to give advance notice before they can…