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IN THE DARK
In the wake of last month's massive blackout across Spain, Portugal and parts of France, there are calls to review the resilience of the UK's own electricity grid.

ROOT OF THE PROBLEM
Yorkshire Water's accounts reveal that it has paid its parent company £9bn in dividends, including gross interest costs, since privatisation.

NOTHING TO SEA...
The government has excused freeports from annual reviews of security, just after the Eye exposed the dubious company running security at Teesside.

EASY MONEY
Premier Inn has become the latest target of easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou's courts campaign to seek monopoly control over the word "easy".

NUTS AND BOLT
Ride-hailing app Bolt has found a sly way round a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that drivers should be paid for all the time they're working.

DICKS-ON OF DOCK GREEN
Female Metropolitan Police officers continue to suffer sexual harassment from colleagues who face minor consequences, misconduct hearings have shown.

OUT OF CONTROL
Surrey Police failed to help after a man discovered his mother had been subjected to years of coercive abuse by her husband.

BEST RESULTS
Two Wyldecrest park home sites belonging to self-styled "gypsy billionaire" Alfie Best have seen constructive action at last.

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