Gatwick's second runway survives its last legal challenge, on a carbon figure the airport supplied itself
The Court of Appeal refused permission to appeal the Gatwick northern-runway consent on Tuesday, calling every ground unarguable. The emissions number underpinning it is the developer's own.
England and Wales population growth is the slowest of any non-pandemic year since 1998
The population reached 62,009,993 in mid-2025, a rise of 0.364%. Working through the Office for National Statistics’ own 188-year series shows only one slower year since 1999 — 2020 — and before that you have to go back to 1998.
Sixty-seven days from outbreak to first injection: the registry file behind Oxford’s Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine trial
The protocol for the first human trial of a vaccine against the Ebola strain circulating in DR Congo is now public. It gives a cohort structure, a placebo ratio and a timetable that the announcements did not.
AstraZeneca’s core EPS rose 18%. Its reported EPS fell 2%, and a 15% tax rate did some of the work
AstraZeneca’s second-quarter core EPS rose 18% while reported EPS fell 2% at constant currency. Its own filing shows $1.5bn of add-backs and a tax rate below its full-year guidance.
Andy Burnham becomes UK prime minister, 32 days after he entered parliament
Andy Burnham became prime minister on Monday, 32 days after a by-election first made him an MP. He is Britain’s seventh since the Brexit vote.
Josh Kerr breaks the mile world record with 3:42.66, ending a 27-year mark
Josh Kerr ran 3:42.66 in London on Saturday to become the first man under 3:43 for the mile. He took 0.47 seconds off Hicham El Guerrouj’s record, which had stood since 1999.
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