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The boss of British Gas owner Centrica is to step down next year after the utility firm reported a loss of £446m. Iain Conn will leave the UK’s largest gas supplier in 2020, having failed to stem outflows of hundreds of thousands of customers per year. The Centrica chief executive came …

The UK will miss its net-zero greenhouse gas target by decades if Boris Johnson allows fracking to go ahead, Jeremy Corbyn has warned. The Labour leader called on the prime minister to impose an immediate ban on the recovery of shale gas as Labour released figures suggesting that full exploitation of the …

Police in Hong Kong fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters after hundreds of thousands of people staged a pro-democracy march as unrest in the city continues. Demonstrators hurled eggs and sprayed graffiti at the Liaison Office, which represents China‘s Communist Party-led central government within the city.  Some members of …