Om leefbaar te blijven in de alsmaar hetere zomers moeten steden vergroenen. Ecologen zoeken in Den Haag naar de weerbaarste planten. „We bekijken onder de microscoop meestal twintig sprieten per soort.”

Na twee maximale boetes van beide 8,5 miljoen euro in januari moeten de Tata's nu voor de strafrechter verschijnen. De strafzaak is een vervolg op de aangifte door advocaat Bénédicte Ficq namens 800+ omwonenden, waarop het OM een jarenlang onderzoek uit liet voeren door de Inspectie Leefomgeving en Transport, milieurecherche Politie Den Haag en de Dienst Centraal Milieubeheer Rijnmond. En in navolging van dat onderzoek schrijft het OM nu:

"Het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) heeft besloten Tata Steel IJmuiden B.V. te dagvaarden. Het OM verdenkt het bedrijf van meerdere strafbare feiten, waaronder het opzettelijk en wederrechtelijk in de lucht brengen van schadelijke stoffen, met mogelijke nadelige gevolgen voor de openbare gezondheid. Ook wordt Tata Steel verdacht van het schenden van haar zorgplicht, onder meer door onvoldoende onderhoud uit te voeren, het handelen zonder vergunning en het niet melden van een aantal incidenten met rauwe kooks (een product dat ontstaat na verhitting van steenkool)."

Ook schrijft het OM dat het onderzoekt of het leidinggevenden individueel kan gaan vervolgen:

"Naast de vervolging van Tata Steel als rechtspersoon, wordt er op dit moment nog nader onderzoek gedaan. Daarin wordt gekeken of er mensen met een leidinggevende rol mogelijk persoonlijk strafbaar zijn. Het OM heeft besloten om het bedrijf nu al te dagvaarden om voortgang in de strafzaak te houden. Het kan nog enige tijd in beslag nemen voordat het OM verdere mededelingen kan doen over het tweede deel van het onderzoek naar mogelijk betrokken personen."

De eerste regiezitting tegen DE FAUSTISCHE GEEST vindt plaats op aanstaande 20 november.

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Lib Dems tell Reform UK leader ‘the game is up’ as political rivals vow to boycott ‘stunt’ Clacton byelection

• Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns

For anyone involved in British politics, an invitation to be interviewed on Radio 4’s Today programme is the ultimate badge of seriousness. There are probably hundreds of MPs who have never made it onto the programme because they have not been deemed important enough.

But, as if to prove the point that the Clacton byelection really is a “farce” (see 7.59am), this morning Today had an interview with Count Binface, the serial joke byelection candidate who may turn out to be Nigel Farage’s main opposition in Clacton.

Probably not, but then you know my job is to celebrate and defend the wonders of British democracy.

And look at this, eh? The fact that you are interviewing me on the Today Programme, because all the other parties aren’t standing, says more about them than it does about me.

I don’t believe that single-handedly will tackle homophobia, racism or indeed any hate crime. But I do strongly believe that returning power back to people’s hands is a huge part of the role we should all be playing as elected public servants – and it’s how we build trust again.

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The standup on bad gigs at motorway service station hotels, her nan’s reviews and the pressure to be ‘prize pig’ at the Edinburgh fringe

Who did you admire when you were starting out?
I loved Lee Evans because of how he ran around on stage. I want to be more like him but I just physically can’t. I try to sometimes; I’ll move my arms. Now I understand why he was so sweaty!

Best heckle?
I was doing a gig and this woman was quite drunk and talking really loudly. I said, “Hello, what’s going on here?” And she went, “Don’t worry about me, love. You’re losing them as it is.” And I was like, OK. Well, that’s brilliant.

Lindsey Santoro: It Was Like That When I Got Here is at Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, 19-30 August

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Labour party chair says Reform UK leader must cooperate with authorities instead of trying to distract public with byelection

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The revelation that a £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers concerned it may have been laundered money has been described as “astonishing and deeply serious”.

Responding to the Guardian story, Anna Turley, the chair of the Labour party, called on Farage to “come clean and cooperate” with the NCA.

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ANKARA (ANP) - De voorlopige overeenkomst die de Verenigde Staten en Iran hadden gesloten is "voorbij", zegt president Donald Trump. Het is volgens hem "tijdverspilling" om met dat "stelletje leugenaars" te praten. Trump reageerde boos op de nieuwe vijandelijkheden tussen de beide landen. De VS voerden luchtaanvallen uit nadat Iran volgens de VS schepen in de Straat van Hormuz had bestookt.

What Should I Be Today? is an original art toy-inspired character illustration series. Marco appears in different costumes based on animals and symbolic themes, with each illustration designed to showcase a unique personality through playful situations and storytelling.

A campaign group has written to the UK health minister to force him to clarify data used by the government in Parliament to justify its controversial £330 million investment in a data-sharing system supported by Palantir. The Register understands that the UK's regulator for the use of statistics in the public sector is assessing how the government is using data to justify its use of Palantir technology. The move follows an investigation challenging claims by NHS England that as of June, 139 trusts used the Federated Data Platform (FDP), with 137 reporting benefits. An Inpatient Care Coordination Solution (CCS) tool based on the FDP had resulted in 111,589 additional patients undergoing procedures in operating theatres, it said. However, a Freedom of Information request from campaign group Foxglove later found that nearly a third of NHS trusts using Palantir's health data platform were performing fewer patient procedures than before it went live. Foxglove also said Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust accounted for 84 percent of the reported fall in outpatient waiting lists, while only 16 trusts were using the tool provided by the US firm. Writing to James Murray, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Foxglove noted that NHS England had said in documentation that it was inappropriate to "draw conclusions about cause and effect as other variables have not been controlled for" in its published FDP data. Foxglove said: "The claim that Palantir's FDP has delivered a large number of additional operations has been widely repeated." In June, health minister Preet Kaur Gill said in a written response to Parliament: "Since March 2024, more than 100,000 additional patients have been supported to undergo procedures in theatres partly by increasing theatre utilisation." The minister made a similar claim to the Health Select Committee later that month, and at no point did she mention NHS England's admission that this claim cannot be substantiated, Foxglove pointed out. Writing for Foxglove, advocacy director Donald Campbell asked why a "clarification had not been made to Parliament or in other public ministerial statements." The Office for Statistics Regulation, the regulatory arm of the UK Statistics Authority, said it was assessing the information around NHS England's claims about the FDP's performance. In a statement to the Health Service Journal, an NHS England spokesperson said: "We have received correspondence from the Office for Statistics Regulation and will be responding in due course. "The published benefits have always been a comparison of performance before and after the adoption of the NHS federated data platform, and we regularly review the published information and provide updates where needed." The UK government said the £330 million FDP was vital to improving NHS productivity and recovering from the long waiting lists for elective care caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Palantir's work with the NHS began began with a £1 deal in 2020, which later led to a total of £60 million in contracts awarded without competition during the pandemic. In April, the government confirmed it was reviewing the use of a break clause in the current contract to end work with Palantir in February next year. However, then-junior health minister Zubir Ahmed defended the program, saying: "The NHS England Programme Team work with trusts and integrated care boards to understand their plans to maximize the benefits of the NHS FDP." In June, a cross-party committee of MPs said the government should ditch Palantir from its FDP contract because of vendor lock-in and the need to develop sovereign technology. ®

Gianni Infantino heeft gereageerd op Argentinië-Egypte (3-2), een wedstrijd met een afgekeurde goal voor Egypte, een penalty voor Argentinië, een rode kaart voor Egypte en de VAR die niet ging kijken naar een mogelijke overtreding voorafgaand aan het winnende doelpunt. Hoewel er veel gesproken wordt over de al dan niet partijdige arbitrage dit WK, bezweert de FIFA-voorzitter maar alvast dat er van politieke inmenging ditmaal geen sprake is. “Om alle geruchten voor te zijn: Javier Milei heeft me niet gebeld voor deze wedstrijd hoor, deze krijgen ze gewoon van het huis.”

Infantino vindt het “vervelend” dat er, sinds het telefoontje van Donald Trump over de schorsing van Folarin Balogun, wordt geïnsinueerd dat hij nu door allerlei wereldleiders gebeld zou worden over het verloop van het WK. “Helemaal niks van waar. Dat zijn allemaal wilde complottheorieën, daar moet je niet naar luisteren. Het is niet zo dat we onder druk gezet worden om Argentinië en Messi ver te laten komen dit WK. Als het wel gebeurt, dan moet je weten: dat hebben we helemaal zelf besloten.”

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Officials said drones targeted industrial facilities, while unverified reports claimed multiple oil refineries were damaged across Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his military struck oil refineries in the Saratov region and republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.

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