Paul Reid
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SNP Cabinet Secretary says Jackdaw gas field approval was 'the right decision'
Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has called Jackdaw's approval the right decision — while warning Scotland receives no financial benefit from production in its own waters.
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Tech tycoons must not be allowed to ‘let rip’ with AI, minister warns
The Budget will include hundreds of millions of pounds of investment in artificial intelligence.
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Government urged to approve Rosebank oil and gas field after Jackdaw go-ahead
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch called for Labour to repeal its ban on all new oil and gas licences.
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Why Armed Forces accommodation needs to be a priority
The need for Britain to bolster its defence capabilities has never been more apparent. The war in Ukraine and the stop-start conflicts in the Middle East means no country can turn a blind eye to defence, not least nations in Western Europe. Especially as US President Donald Trump has indicated that America will no longer underwrite the security of its allies.
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UK government services hit by worldwide cyber security threat
Cybersecurity chiefs warned UK organisations that a ‘critical security issue’ had been discovered in the programming language PHP
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Government is right for many reasons to allow Jackdaw gas drilling to go ahead
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Jackdaw was the easy call. Rosebank will define this government's North Sea legacy
Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh has approved the Jackdaw gasfield on a legal technicality, but the harder call — Rosebank, seven times the carbon and majority export-bound — now looms over Labour's North Sea policy.
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Shamed top US-based neurosurgeon jailed for sex assault at city nightclub
A shamed top neurosurgeon who carried out a 'predatory' sex attack on a woman at a nightclub was jailed today for two years.
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Miatta Fahnbulleh: 'I don't have the luxury of sitting on the fence' on North Sea gas
Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh approved the Jackdaw gas field in Aberdeen on Wednesday, arguing homegrown gas beats carbon-heavy imports. She told The Herald there will be no delay on the larger Rosebank decision but admitted jobs are not being created fast enough.
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Jackdaw gas field approved as Government seeks to improve energy security
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the decision would ‘protect hundreds of jobs and help keep millions of homes warm this winter’.
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Controlling Darlington man who made wife's life hell harassed her after break-up
A man subjected his partner, now his wife, to years of “horrific abuse” while drinking heavily and taking crack cocaine.
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Court round-up: Driver jailed over boy's death and man sentenced for stabbing
A driver who killed a five-year-old boy, a man jailed for a fatal stabbing, a former police staff member convicted of child sexual offences and a man who rammed a tractor into a house are among the latest cases heard in the courts.
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How a bitter feud between two rivals ended with a stolen tractor rammed into house
Middlesbrough feud ends with Nathan Blagg jailed for seven years and two months after ramming a stolen tractor into a terraced house linked to Luke…
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Darlington burglar avoids jail after arriving late at court because he missed bus
A Darlington burglar who risked arrest by turning up late for court avoided jail with a suspended sentence.
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Man rammed rival’s house with tractor in feud over family graves
Recorder Paul Reid said ‘the house essentially had to be rebuilt’ after the tractor crash
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Man rammed tractor into home of rival who urinated on his dad's grave in bitter feud
Nathan Blagg has been jailed for seven years and two months after driving a stolen tractor into a Middlesbrough home linked to his rival on May 9,…
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Man jailed for ramming house with tractor after graves of relatives desecrated
A man who drove a tractor and hay baler into a house targeted the property after a rival desecrated the graves of his father and brother, a court heard.
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Man rammed tractor into home of rival who urinated on his dad's grave in bitter feud
Nathan Blagg has been jailed for seven years and two months after driving a stolen tractor into a Middlesbrough home linked to his rival on May 9,…