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North Sea merger sparks regulator’s fear of price hikes

A multi-billion pound deal in the North Sea could increase costs and reduce the quality of service for oil and gas producers, the competition regulator fears. The £2.6 billion merger of Maersk Drilling and Noble could allow the firms to exercise too ...

22 Apr 2022 at 13:55

Music

Drill rapper Digga D scores chart success with Noughty By Nature

Drill rapper Digga D has scored his first number one record with Noughty By Nature. The 21-year-old London artist, real name Rhys Angelo Emile Herbert, reached the top of the charts with his third mixtape in the latest moment of success for the ...

22 Apr 2022 at 19:25

National News

Coveney confirms Russia will move planned military drills away from Ireland's EEZ

Ireland’s foreign affairs minister has said that Russia is to move its planned military drills outside the country’s exclusive economic zone. Simon Coveney said today (January 29) he has received assurances from his Russian counterpart that ...

29 Jan 2022 at 21:34

National News

Coveney confirms Russia will move planned military drills away from Ireland's EEZ

29 Jan 2022 at 21:33

World

Russia to hold sweeping joint war games with China and others

Russia said on Monday that it will launch sweeping war games drills in the country’s east which will involve forces from China – a show of increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West over ...

29 Aug 2022 at 12:54

Meta told to reinstate drill music video posts removed at request of Met Police

Meta’s oversight board has overturned a decision by Instagram to remove a clip of drill music that was originally taken down at the request of the Metropolitan Police. The Oversight Board, which is able to make binding decisions ...

22 Nov 2022 at 16:55

World

Exploding fire extinguisher kills student during drill at school in Thailand

A fire extinguisher has exploded and killed a student during a fire drill held outdoors in sweltering heat at a high school in Thailand’s capital, police said. Five other students were injured. The carbon dioxide canister was ...

23 Jun 2023 at 15:41

World

North Korea threatens ‘unprecedented’ response to South-US drills

North Korea has threatened to take “unprecedently” strong action against its rivals, soon after South Korea announced a series of planned military drills with the United States to hone their joint response to the North’s ...

17 Feb 2023 at 08:17

World

Russia to test missile in drills with China and South Africa

Russia, China and South Africa are set to begin naval drills off South Africa’s Indian Ocean coast on Friday in a demonstration of the three countries’ close ties amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s tense ...

17 Feb 2023 at 14:16

World

US and Philippines hold largest military exercises after China drills

The United States and the Philippines are holding their largest combat exercises in decades, including a boat-sinking rocket assault in waters across the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait that is likely to ...

11 Apr 2023 at 07:28

Scotland

North Sea workers airlifted off rig after anchors come loose during Storm Babet

More than half the staff manning a North Sea drilling platform have been airlifted to other sites after several of its anchors came loose during Storm Babet. Coastguard helicopters were called upon to move 45 ...

21 Oct 2023 at 22:47

Scotland

Drilling rigs ‘migrating’ away from North Sea, trade body says

Drilling rigs and other equipment are “migrating” away from the North Sea and other European fields for opportunities elsewhere in the world, a trade group has said. The North Sea chapter of the ...

06 Feb 2023 at 10:34

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