About 45,000 people in Northern Ireland, along with thousands more in England and Wales, were left without power overnight. On Monday morning, Northern Ireland Electricity Networks said that "the severity and prolonged duration of Storm Isha has caused widespread damage to the electricity network" ...
LONDON, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Highlands, Northern Ireland and Wales woke to wintry scenes on Friday, with ongoing snowfall in many parts of Britain causing power cuts, school closures, and travel disruption. The Met Office said snowfall would continue to affect parts of Scotland, Northern I...
To begin restoring power to the region 75 large mobile generators were brought from as far away as the West Country and Northern Ireland and hooked up to the substation, allowing 22,000 customers to be reconnected. Once partial power was restored, the next challenge lay in repairing and recon...
Storm Barra has left at least 59,000 people without power in Ireland - and is now battering the UK with 80mph winds, rain and snow. In Northern Ireland, another 7,500 homes and businesses have been disconnected from the grid, according to NI Electricity. Parts...
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“multiple sovereignty,” which starts when the opposition rules people nominally subject to the government and ends when it defeats, succumbs to, or cuts a deal with the government (Tilly, 1978, pp. 189–222). By other, convergent definitions it is a “revolutionary political crisis” (...
Northern Ireland Electricity has issued an update saying some 17,000 customers are still without power across the North. It has advised that efforts to restore power may be further hampered with the onset of Storm Jocelyn. However, the supplier said i...
We have evolved our land management approach to introduce the concept of 'eco- cuts'. To keep the fauna and flora on solar projects as natural as possible and to maintain it as a wildlife haven, grass is only cut where necessary. Where possible, hedges are cut on a rotational basis, so...
“Sunday Bloody Sunday’ reflected the horrors of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.R.E.M.’s influentialDocumentalbum included a number of songs taking issue with the government of President Ronald Reagan, such as “Exhuming McCarthy.’’ Hip-hop artists also spoke of their dissatisfaction with ...
Scotland will continue to face the threat of power cuts and travel disruption as high winds and heavy rain from Storm Kathleen persist into Sunday. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has 18 regional flood alerts and 43 flood warnings in place in Scotland. They have been in ...