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Food banks have said they will have to shrink the size of the parcels they give to struggling families owing to declining stock levels caused by the HGV crisis, supply shortages and a collapse in public donations. A combination of declining food bank stocks and an expected explosion in demand for charity support after universal credit is cut this week has led some to prepare emergency measures to eke out food supplies further, including making parcels smaller and offering less variety. Several reported they were already spending hundreds of pounds a month to replenish storerooms depleted by a fall-off in deliveries…

Birmingham has announced what it calls a “transformative” transport plan that will see the car-centric city becoming a super-sized low-traffic neighbourhood. City officials hope that closing roads to through motor traffic, introducing a fleet of zero-emission cross-city buses and building additional protected cycleways will create a more liveable city. With HS2 infrastructure rising from the ground and Birmingham hosting the Commonwealth Games next year, the Labour-controlled council believes removing through car journeys will be essential for the city to prosper. “We’re one of the original motor cities,” said Birmingham city council’s transport lead, Waseem Zaffar. But like other UK cities, Birmingham suffers from an…

The global energy crisis forced one German electricity producer to shut down its power plant last week after it ran out of hard coal. Steag GmbH, which operates six large-scale hard coal plants in Germany, was forced to close its Bergkamen A plant located in the western part of the country due to shortages, a Steag spokesperson told Bloomberg. This is not the first time the Bergkamen A plant has been forced to halt. According to court filings, the plant was put on pause four times in September for as many as six days at a time due to external factors, according to Bloomberg. Three other German coal plants were…

Kylian Mbappé has said he informed Paris Saint-Germain in July that he wanted to leave so that the Ligue 1 club could earn some money from the transfer and had time to find a replacement. PSG turned down several bids from Real Madrid for Mbappé, who can leave as a free agent at the end of this season as his contract expires next June. “I asked to leave, because from the moment I did not want to extend [my contract], I wanted the club to have a transfer fee to find a quality replacement,” the 22-year-old told RMC Sport in an interview that will…

BT has today secured a major breakthrough, which could lead to more affordable prices for some of the fastest broadband plans on the market. Superfast broadband could be about to get much, much more affordable. That’s because BT-owned Openreach, which owns most of the broadband infrastructure across the UK, has confirmed plans to slash the wholesale prices charged to third-party firms that rely on its full-fibre internet cables. With these savings now being passed onto providers that rely on Openreach, including the likes of Sky, EE, Vodafone, TalkTalk, and others, it could see monthly prices drop for customers across the…

It was essential that Spurs completed this job properly and they managed to, scoring five times and offering enough of a diversion that those scarred by their no-show in the north London derby could crack a smile. But victory over Mura, however it came, was always going to be a minimum requirement and anyone seeking answers to their current predicament had no business here. An evening that began as a procession had become a slog as the hour mark approached and Tottenham only pulled clear after Nuno Espírito Santo turned to his cavalry. Harry Kane’s 59th-minute introduction as part of a triple…

Apple has apologized to a security researcher who detailed his “frustrating” experiences dealing with the company, after he disclosed bugs in the iOS operating system. Apple has been criticized for the alleged mishandling of security vulnerability alerts notified through its bug bounty program. Researchers claim that this is symptomatic of the company’s bug bounty program being riddled with complications, ranging from poor communication to unresolved payment issues. In security researcher Denis Tokarev’s post, he claims to have reported four zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. Zero-days refer to new bugs or security flaws in the system for which there…

Northwell Health, the largest health care provider in New York state, is denying some benefits to employees it’s firing because they refuse to comply with the state’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health care workers. Those terminated lose all employer contributions to their retirement plans for this year unless they’re older than 62. They are also denied payouts of any of their remaining paid time off (PTO), according to a FAQ sheet recently emailed to the workers and obtained by The Epoch Times. “Withholding vacation payouts is unethical and will place even more financial strain on employees terminated from their jobs as they…

Two U.S. service members have filed a lawsuit against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to bring an end to his requirement that all troops must receive a COVID-19 vaccine. As part of that, they have called for exemptions based on natural immunity. Army Staff Sgt. Dan Robert, an infantryman at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Hollie Mulvihill, an air traffic controller at Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Colorado on Aug. 17. The filing names Austin as a defendant alongside Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, and Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner of the…

ALMOST 1.5 million Brits have been left without energy providers, after nine energy firms collapsed due to rising gas prices. Gas prices LIVE: Warning as NINE energy firms collapse – 1.5M Britons face soaring bills ALMOST 1.5 million Brits have been left without energy providers, after nine energy firms collapsed due to rising gas prices. These customers will be transferred to new energy companies such as British Gas and EDF, who charge customers substantially more over a year. With the annual price gap set to rise to £1,277 from October for an average household, British Gas and EDF are set…