Patrick Matthews and Emma Fernandez have run the cafes at Parliament Hill Lido, Queen's Park and Highgate Wood for several years, but were told just before Christmas they had been unsuccessful in a retendering process. The corporation, the governing body that runs London's Square Mile, has responsibility for managing green spaces such as Hampstead Heath, which it runs as a registered charity.
They specifically highlight "vibrations and shocks" the "extremely fragile" embroidered cloth will face on its road journey to London, The Telegraph reported. Experts say potholes on roads in both countries could generate enough vibrations to rip apart the 1,000-year-old fabric.
The site in question is the subject of a legal challenge raised by tech justice non-profit Foxglove in collaboration with environmental charity Global Action Plan, who claimed the government was wrong to grant planning permission for the project without conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) first. The project, known as the West London Technology Park (WLTP) development, is being overseen by developer Greystoke, which wants to transform the former landfill site (located within an area of green belt land) into a hyperscale datacentre.
The British government has conceded it should not have approved a campus near London's M25 orbital motorway and that the decision should be quashed, following a legal challenge by campaign group Foxglove. The non-profit filed its challenge last year after the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government overturned Buckinghamshire Council's rejection of the Woodlands Park site near Iver. The local authority had blocked the project on grounds it would significantly alter the area's character and appearance.
The Trump administration has since poured billions of dollars into immigration enforcement, and in March, Trump issued an executive order requiring the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that states have "access to appropriate systems for verifying the citizenship or immigration status of individuals registering to vote or who are already registered." In May, DHS began encouraging states to check their voter rolls against immigration data with the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, run by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). SAVE now has access to data from across the federal government, not just on immigrants but on citizens as well.
Opponents of a huge new Chinese embassy next to the Tower of London say they will soon begin legal action in an attempt to block the scheme. On Tuesday, the government approved China's proposal to redevelop the former Royal Mint site into a vast 215,300 sq ft (20,000 sq m) UK headquarters, despite opposition from politicians and campaigners. About 200 people live in Royal Mint Court, a complex of flats on the site,
The outcome of a trial over Missouri's abortion regulations could ripple far beyond the state, potentially creating new availability for women in the Midwest and South who can't access abortion close to home. As a judge weighs the constitutionality of a litany of state restrictions on abortion, the stakes are clear for Missouri women: The decision could hamper access for nearly everyone in the state - or greatly broaden it in ways not seen in decades.
Donald Trump has said it would be a complete mess if the US supreme court were to strike down his global trade tariffs. In a lengthy post on social media, the US president said WE'RE SCREWED if the supreme court rules against the tariffs, before the decision, which could come as soon as Wednesday. It is a crucial legal test of his controversial economic strategy and his power.
The Trump administration secretly reimposed a policy limiting Congress members' access to immigration detention facilities a day after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, attorneys for several congressional Democrats said Monday in asking a federal judge to intervene. Three Democratic members of Congress from Minnesota were blocked from visiting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Minneapolis on Saturday, three days after an ICE officer shot and killed U.S. citizen Renee Good in the city.
Rollins asked Walz and Frey to provide the USDA with justification for all federal spending from 20 January 2025 to the present within 30 days. She is also requiring that all federal payments to the state moving forward require the same justification. We're communicating with state partners to understand the impacts of such a blanket cut to funding meant for residents most in need, Brian Feintech, a spokesperson for the city of Minneapolis, told the Guardian in a written statement in response to Rollins' letter.
Your decision to withdraw at the last moment-explicitly in response to the Center's recent renaming, which honors President Trump's extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure-is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,
As the first anniversary of congestion pricing approaches on Jan. 5, a federal judge has delayed a ruling on the controversial toll program until next month. The judge set oral arguments for Jan. 28 in the legal battle over the tolls into Manhattan south of 61st Street, according to an article in Bloomberg. The lawsuit centers around the MTA suing President Donald Trump's administration because it is seeking to end the toll program in the city.
Massachusetts will no longer require prospective foster parents to affirm the sexual orientation and gender identity of the children they foster, following legal challenges and criticism from religious groups. The change comes after the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a federal lawsuit in September on behalf of two Massachusetts families, who claimed the requirement conflicted with their religious beliefs, according to a Fox News report.
Reddit has launched a challenge in Australia's highest court against the nation's landmark social media ban for children. The online forum is among 10 social media platforms which must bar Australians aged under 16 from having accounts, under a new law which began on Wednesday. The ban, which is being watched closely around the world, was justified by campaigners and the government as necessary to protect children from harmful content and algorithms.
A federal judge has ordered the National Guard to leave Los Angeles and return to Gov. Gavin Newsom's control in a stern rebuke of the Trump administration 's contention that it can leave troops in the city indefinitely. The order handed down today goes into effect at noon on Monday. "It is profoundly un-American to suggest that people peacefully exercising their fundamental right to protest constitute a risk justifying the federalization of military forces," U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer wrote in the opinion.
Under a joint proposal with seven Republican-led states that challenged the program, the department would not enroll any new borrowers in the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan, deny any pending applications and place borrowers currently in the plan into legally compliant repayment plans. The program, introduced in 2023 under then-President Joe Biden's administration, was hit with legal challenges from several GOP-led states, including Missouri, and has been blocked by the courts.
Lawmakers passed the All-Electric Buildings Act, which requires most new buildings to have only electric appliances, in 2023 as a step toward reducing pollution from the state's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and advancing New York's legally mandated emissions targets. It was set to take effect in January. Delaying the law's implementation past then would cause the state "irreparable harm," lawyers argued in an Oct. 1 brief. They'd spent two years successfully defending the law against industry opponents.
Any and all Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums, or Contracts, signed by Order of the now infamous and unauthorized AUTOPEN,' within the Administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., are hereby null, void, and of no further force or effect, the president wrote. Trump included in his post anyone who received a pardon from Biden, which would include his son Hunter Biden.
About 42 million lower-income Americans, or 1 in 8, rely on SNAP to help buy groceries. The average monthly benefit is about $190 per person, or a little over $6 a day. Rollins has cited information provided by the 28 other states those with Republican governors plus North Carolina, saying it shows that 186,000 deceased people are receiving SNAP benefits and that 500,000 are getting benefits more than once.
Today marks the beginning of our legal challenge to one of the most extreme attacks on civil liberties in recent British history a measure condemned across the political spectrum as an affront to our democracy and an unjustifiable drain on counterterror resources that should be focused on actual threats to the public, Ammori said at the beginning of the hearing.
That 2015 hunt was found constitutional under the rational basis test, and this hunt is significantly more conservative than that hunt in 2015, both in the number of bears that could be harvested, as well as the timing, when it's a little less likely for more female bears to be killed.
However, in its ruling, ACP has refused planning permission on three grounds and two of the reasons for refusal relate to the light-bellied Brent goose, a winter migrant from high-Arctic Canada. Most fly here between October and April. ACP has issued a refusal as the scheme would materially contravene a number of policies in the Dublin City Development Plan for the protection of European sites from a conservation point of view.
Founded in 1994 and housed at the US Department of Treasury, the CDFI Fund, with modest federal allocations ($324 million in fiscal year 2025, the fund's highest core funding ever), has helped spur a network of community lending institutions. Not long ago, due to their ability to support businesses during the pandemic in low-income communities, CDFIs had garnered record support, including $12 billion in one-time funding to support lending by CDFIs and other banks and credit unions owned by and operating in communities of color.
