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SUFFOLK PUNCH
The government is giving the go-ahead to a new nuclear power plant, but it's being coy about what this means for British jobs.

SPIDEY SENSE
Just days after Ukraine's drone attack on Russia's bomber fleet, the MoD asked industry for an uncrewed air vehicle launch system.

TANKS BUT NO TANKS
The British Army's £250m Vehicle Storage and Support Programme was all developing smoothly – but now the government wants to shift the equipment.

COUNSEL OF REPAIR
The MoD rewarded Serco for its role in the shocking state of armed forces family housing by, er, giving it a new contract to run forces recruitment.

HUNGER GAMES
Mastercard users may be surprised to learn that a member of its management team is on the board of the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

ROADS TO RUIN
National Highways is paying consultancy McKinsey £43m over three years to be the body's, er, "efficiency programme delivery partner".

TEST CASH DUMMIES
Yet another eminent medical professor has excoriated Matt Hancock's Covid testing programme at the Covid public inquiry.

US-EYE
While falling out with Elon Musk, ordering the National Guard into LA and trying to destroy Harvard, Donald Trump has been waging a literal culture war.

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