New pro-EU Polish PM Donald Tusk fleshes out programme (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Germany is struggling to get people on-board with a green energy movement that involves banning high footprint domestic heating systems (e.g. gas boilers)-- thus forcing people to migrate to heat pumps. A low-income family who was interviewed said it would cost €45k to install a heat pump in their terraced home in Bremen....
The annual fee will rise by 6.6% - less than the BBC hoped for - based on September's rate of inflation.
Looks like UK is going the same way as a few states. Spare a thought for us. So messed up this increasing surveillance state.
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The culture secretary says an increase of £15 to the fee would add to cost of living pressures.
It’s the 50th anniversary year of the folk horror classic
Macaulay Culkin, who played the eight-year-old Kevin McCallister in Home Alone, has unveiled his Walk of Fame star on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.