READERS have reacted after pubs were forced to throw away up to 87m pints of beer in the UK since the start of the pandemic, according to an industry body. On February 8, The British Beer & Pub Association said the waste was the equivalent of £331m in sales, based on the average cost of a pint at £3.81. Emma McClarkin, the association s chief executive, warned there would be a wave of closures and job losses in the sector unless the Government provides further financial support. She has called for an extension to the VAT cut for the hospitality sector and a reduction to the UK s excessive beer duty.
Hull drug dealers jailed thanks to eagle-eyed police officers
Dovydas Malinauskas and Craig Wilkinson are now behind bars
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Two Hull drug dealers have been jailed to a combined 10 years in prison after eagle-eyed police officers saw them brazenly peddling their supplies on the street.
A Legacy of Contamination, How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare, Grist By Austyn Gaffney on Dec 15, 2020 This story was published in partnership with the Daily Yonder.
………………………………….The apparent mixing of fossil fuel and nuclear waste streams underscores the long relationship between the
Kingston and Oak Ridge facilities
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……….In 2017, a former chemist named Dan Nichols stumbled upon a news story that revealed the existence of the additional health problems TVA feared. High levels of uranium had been measured in the urine of a former cleanup worker named Craig Wilkinson. Like Thacker, Wilkinson had worked the night shift. After dredges piped the coal ash back onshore, Wilkinson used heavy equipment to scoop, flip, and dry the wet ash along the Ball Field.
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This story was published in partnership with Grist.
In 2009, App Thacker was hired to run a dredge along the Emory River in eastern Tennessee. Picture an industrialized fleet modeled after Huck Finn’s raft: Nicknamed Adelyn, Kylee, and Shirley, the blue, flat-bottomed boats used mechanical arms called cutterheads to dig up riverbeds and siphon the excavated sediment into shoreline canals. The largest dredge, a two-story behemoth called the Sandpiper, had pipes wide enough to swallow a push lawnmower. Smaller dredges like Thacker’s scuttled behind it, scooping up excess muck like fish skimming a whale’s corpse. They all had the same directive: Remove the thick grey sludge that clogged the Emory.