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Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Plans for a major datacentre at Drax’s North Yorkshire power station have come under renewed environmental scrutiny after campaigners estimated that the facility could be responsible for around 8.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year if it operates at its proposed scale. The analysis suggests the planned project could generate almost twice the annual carbon emissions...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Online fashion retailer Asos has launched an investigation after thousands of customers received a disturbing mobile notification claiming that hackers had gained full access to the company’s data. The unexpected alert, which appeared directly on users’ phones, triggered immediate concern among shoppers and sent the company’s shares sharply lower as questions grew over whether a significant cyberattack had...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Meta is facing a new regulatory investigation in the United Kingdom over the safety checks carried out before the launch of Instagram Instants, a disappearing-image feature that has drawn scrutiny from Ofcom under the country’s Online Safety Act. The UK communications regulator is examining whether Meta carried out an adequate risk assessment before introducing the Snapchat-style feature and...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The loss of parks, playgrounds and other green spaces around London’s Euston station has emerged as a potentially decisive issue in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, with residents expressing growing frustration over years of construction, redevelopment and uncertainty about what will replace the land that has disappeared. The constituency is preparing for a closely watched political contest...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has rejected suggestions that her party is proposing to build a British version of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system, despite Conservative communications repeatedly using the comparison to explain its planned “Britannia Shield” programme. The dispute has emerged during the Conservative party conference, where the party has placed national defence and the protection of...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. British events company Informa has agreed to buy rival events organiser Clarion from private equity giant Blackstone in a deal valued at £2.24bn, bringing a wide range of major trade exhibitions, defence fairs, entertainment conventions and specialist gatherings under the FTSE 100 group's expanding global portfolio. The acquisition represents a significant expansion for Informa, which is seeking to...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Jeffrey Archer, the bestselling British novelist and former Conservative politician whose extraordinary career moved between Westminster, international literary success and one of the country's most notorious political scandals, has died aged 86. Archer died suddenly but peacefully at his home on Monday, according to his publisher, HarperCollins. He reportedly died between writing sessions, just one day before the...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Buckingham Palace has made clear that King Charles will not provide private financial support for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s legal challenge against Thames Valley police, as the former Duke of York prepares to contest the legality of search warrants connected to his arrest earlier this year. The warning comes ahead of a private High Court hearing on Thursday, where Andrew’s...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Some memories fade with time. Others remain remarkably vivid, attached to a particular smell, sound or unexpected moment. For one former student in Manchester, the memory that refuses to disappear is not of a university lecture, a first romance or a memorable night out, but of thousands of cockroaches living alongside her in a shared student house. The...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A growing movement against the rapid development of artificial intelligence is moving beyond online criticism and public demonstrations, with campaigners increasingly turning to direct action to challenge technology companies and their executives. In London, a small group linked to the anti-AI organisation Pull The Plug recently gathered to plan an attempt to disrupt a technology industry dinner attended...