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The country has come up with an ambitious plan to become the engine room of the new green economy.

ELKINS — City officials shared details on how professionals are dealing with the local drug problem during a recent public meeting. The Regional Task Force

Plus: Reform UK’s future; mobiles in museums; prisoners in the Forces; EV ownership; lardy cakes; and having a wedding party close to home

SIR – The Prime Minister’s announcement last week of £75 billion in new defence funding (“War footing as Sunak ramps up defence spending”, report, April 24) was welcome, if overdue. The British electorate now has a clear choice on whether to put defence of the realm at the top of its priorities. However, Con Coughlin (Comment, April 25) was right to highlight the urgent need for a comprehensive defence review. A balance must be restored between machines and manpo...

Police took a man into custody following the discovery of a womans body in Ajax.

SIR – My wife had an accident and injured her hand, which was competently treated at A&E. The wound needs re-dressing every two days, yet when she contacted our local GP on March 26, she was told that the next available nurse appointment was on April 16.

The three-day Seafood Festival is returning to The White Horse in Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk, in 2024.

SIR – In resigning as deputy chairmen of the Conservative Party over Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill (report, telegraph.co.uk, January 16), Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith highlighted the obvious: voters have not stopped being Conservative – it is the Conservative Party itself that has done so. In the past decade, the rate at which it has cynically betrayed its core voters has soared. Such betrayals now happen weekly. The few dozen MPs left with proper Conservative values wo...

SIR – As the head of the Scheherazade Foundation, a British NGO that has been working to return treasures from the British Museum to their rightful owners, I am utterly flummoxed by the apparent diplomatic incompetence of Rishi Sunak’s team (“Sunak cancels on Greek leader over row about future of Elgin Marbles”, report, November 28).

Andy Burnham, former MP, now Mayor of Manchester and lifelong Evertonian, has written a very strong letter to Alison Brittain, Chair of The Premier League