Northern irel

'The exposure is set to six seconds and that is to capture the lights. Then when they feel I am in the right spot they hit the flash and that is when it all lights up and freeze frames the action,' Fanning explained.  … [Read more...] about Some-fin very special! Incredible moment Australian champion Mick Fanning surfs underneath the majestic Northern Lights

The private equity firm said: "Cerberus and our affiliates take great pride in being good corporate citizens who are committed to compliance with the strongest ethical standards and all legislative and regulatory requirements. We reject any allegations by BBC Panorama to the contrary." … [Read more...] about Northern Rock: US firm ‘misled’ UK government on mortgages

The document now being considered by ministers states that "travellers from any country with a prevalence higher than NI using the UK government methodology will have somewhat increased risk of being infected". … [Read more...] about Coronavirus: Executive discuss NI’s quarantine regulations

At the time of the Brexit debate, “frictionless” was presented as a failsafe, a reassurance of pragmatic reality underpinning the sort of deal that would be made if Britain left the EU. The later proposal for a “hard” Brexit was a tactical ploy of Johnson’s in his leadership campaign against Jeremy Hunt. It is still conceivable that in coming weeks he will capitulate, as he did over Northern Ireland. If so, his present posturing is unforgivable treatment of those who, unlike him, do not live off the state and must pay a high price for his political antics and ever more uncertainty. … [Read more...] about The Tories’ latest Brexit plans expose frictionless trade as a fiction

Dr Gavin Mudd, associate professor at RMIT and chairman of the Mineral Policies Institute, suggested it was difficult to predict how Glencore’s rehabilitation plans would play out, partly because they had taken a unprecedented and welcome step of modelling for 1,000 years but also because very few mines in the NT had ever properly been closed. … [Read more...] about Glencore document suggests mine site could revert to NT before rehabilitation complete