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Paul Greengrass: ‘What are we gonna do in our country? It’s split down the middle’ James Mottram © Provided by The Independent I think I was in a period of change,” says Paul Greengrass, reflecting on what led to his new post-civil war western News of the World. Between 2004 and 2017, the British-born director made three hugely successful Jason Bourne films, based on the Robert Ludlum espionage novels, with Matt Damon. There were other big-scale dramas too: Somali pir...

Plans unveiled for worlds biggest battery in the Hunter Valley FriFriday 5 An example of what the Kurri Kurri battery project could look like. ( Print text only Cancel Planning is underway for the worlds largest battery to be built in the NSW Hunter Valley, with the company behind it confident that it will be up and running in two years. Key points: The battery would store mainly solar-generated power There are concerns about the batterys impact on the habitat of an endangered bird, the regent ...

The right-wing Liberal/National coalition government has said it plans to build a gas-fired power plant of up to 1GW in Kurri Kurri through state-owned utility Snowy Hydro to make up for the 2GW of baseload generating capacity the area will lose when the nearby Liddell coal-fired power station is closed in 2023. But this gas facility may not be financially viable if the 1.2GW battery — which will be charged by local solar power — gets the go-ahead. The issue has a large political dimension....

Kitson And Counter-Revolution! ‘Kitson and Counter-Revolution’ was first featured by News Line on 30th April 2015. We are producing it once again because the British state is now preparing to use Kitson methods against the working class in the UK, Ireland and elsewhere. THIS week it emerged that retired British general Sir Frank Kitson is to be sued by the widow of a Catholic worker murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1973. Eugene ‘Paddy’ Heenan was a building worker who was killed w...

5 February 2021 CEP.Energy, a company chaired by former NSW Labor premier Morris Iemma, has announced plans to build what it says will be the “world’s biggest battery” – 1,200MW – at the industrial centre of Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley, right where the Morrison government wants to build its own gas-fired generator. The CEP plans follow on from the announcement last October that the company would build a network of industrial-scale rooftop solar and battery storage installations, ...

Who will bounce back from poor 2020 campaigns? A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size A new AFL season is upon us, and with that is an opportunity for a swathe of players to put a horror 2020 season behind them. Some of these players fell out of favour during the COVID-impacted season, while some were cut down by injuries. Let’s take a look at the host of names who are ready to make an impact in 2021. Adelaid...

CHANNEL 5 has revealed more top names will be joining the line-up of its outdoor ‘5 on the Farm Festival,’ taking place this August Bank Holiday. Ben Fogle, presenter of hit Channel 5 series New Lives in the Wild, is confirmed for the three-day festival taking place at Barnsley’s Cannon Hall Farm, which is set to be one of the biggest celebrations of rural and outdoors life to ever come to South Yorkshire. Ben will be joined by top UK dog trainer Graeme Hall, of Dogs Behaving Very B...

At Bridgton Hospital, COVID-19 ‘part of everything we do’ The pandemic has not only stretched the small hospitals patient care capacity to the limit, it also has an posed an immense physical and emotional challenge for staff, say the hospital president and the head of nursing. Share Bridgton Hospital’s Director of Nursing and Patient Services Jill Rollins administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Mike Hann, a respiratory therapy manager. Contributed / Central Maine Healthcare BRIDGTON — At...

Wrights Food Group chairman Peter Wright (left) welcomes Ian Dobbie into the business as managing director. Want Stoke-on-Trent news emailed to you direct from our journalists? Sign up to our newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how w...

Peter Wright spoke to House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee   Mr Wright is the Editor Emeritus at DMG Media, which owns the Daily Mail Gary Shipton, from JPI media, also called on tech firms to pay more to publishers It comes after the UKs competitions watchdog launched probe into algorithms In Australia, Google has threatened to remove its search engines over new rules