
NI Water could see £25m spike in electricity bill due to energy price rise - BBC News
Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon says it could affect NI Water's ability to deliver services.

UK travel red list could relaunch with 12 new countries added after Covid surges - Birmingham Live
The Transport Secretary says countries could once again be added to the red list which has been empty and inactive for several weeks

This cult teen brand is quitting social media amid growing safety concerns - CNN International
Trendy soaps brand Lush Cosmetics is quitting Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat on Friday in a radical move to draw attention to how those platforms are damaging people's mental health.

Man's four-hour journey home took twelve after he was dumped waiting in the cold - Mirror.co.uk
Ellis Thomas, from Caernarfon, north Wales, had spent the day with his partner browsing the Christmas markets in Cardiff, around 128 miles south, before catching the 3.23pm train home on Wednesday

Bulb: Britain's seventh biggest energy supplier collapses into administration - ITV News
Bulb said it would be placed into special administration – a process designed to protect customers when a large energy supplier can no longer trade.

Stalker bombarded neighbour with explicit texts after seeing number on parcel - Metro
The harassment began when Jehad Khan accepted a package for her when she wasn't home in Salford.

Popeyes Opens Its First Location in London - The New York Times
On Saturday, curious customers waited for hours at an East London shopping mall to get a taste of the Louisiana-based restaurant’s fried chicken.

Major reforms to NHS workforce planning and tech agenda - GOV.UK
Recruitment, training and retention of NHS staff and digital transformation will be put at the heart of the NHS in England.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: WFH isn't working... Remote staff will suffer from lack of human contact - Daily Mail
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: On my desktop, as I write, there's a faded black-and-white photo taken in the editor's office at London's Evening Standard, circa 1980.

LIVE: Palestine Action activists claim 'arrests being made' after activists scale factory roof - North Wales Live
Protesters have claimed to have 'occupied' the Wrexham factory with reports of road closures in place

Saudi Aramco's $15 Billion Oil Deal With India's Largest Company Fails - OilPrice.com
Saudi Aramco and India's Reliance Industries have scrapped plans for the Saudi oil giant to invest around $15 billion in buying 20 percent in Reliance's oil-to-chemicals business due to shifting priorities of the Indian oil to telecoms conglomerate