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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
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  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
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    UK tests microwave weapon to disable drone swarms

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  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
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    Timber construction is cheaper, faster and greener, but has struggled to gain traction in England

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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
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    From the outset there were doubts that Jingye Group could turn round the business where so many others had failed

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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
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    The future is not in the Scunthorpe blast furnaces that ministers have rescued

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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
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    Ministers have intervened to keep the country’s last two blast furnaces open — for now

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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
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    US vice-president says Trump administration is ‘working very hard’ with Starmer government on tariffs

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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
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    Labour must spell out what UK growth will pay for

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