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Vet prescription fees to be capped in overhaul to veterinarian sector costs in UK | BBC News
Written prescription fees will be capped at £21 and practices will have to publish price lists of services in a major shake up to the UK’s veterinarian sector.
The Competition and Markets Authority also said a price comparison website would be introduced to help boost competition and drive down prices faced by consumers.
The measures come after an in-depth investigation by the watchdog, which found prices had been rising at nearly twice the rate of inflation.
The British Veterinary Association said the measures “will help pet owners make more informed choices” but said vet practices had not been immune to rising prices.
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Heatwave conditions that have left Spain, France and the UK sweltering for days are set to shift to the east, with forecasters in Germany and the Czech Republic now warning of extreme conditions.
In France, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced that the health alert level is being raised to its highest, to boost hospital staffing and protect the vulnerable.
United Nations climate change chief Simon Stiell has said “Europe’s savage heatwave has the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it”, and he has called for “a faster shift to renewables, protecting forests and boosting climate resilience”.
00:00-2:40 – How the heatwave is hitting Europe
2:40-7:47 – How to stay safe during the heatwave
7:47-11:31 – How the heatwave has impacted the UK
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Global fertility rates are at record lows globally, and governments around the world are urging couples to grow their families.
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Europe confronts climate emergency as temperatures hit record highs in UK and France | BBC News
France has recorded its hottest day since records began in 1947, breaking a record set a day earlier, as an early summer heatwave grips western Europe. France’s national temperature indicator – an average of day and night temperatures across dozens of locations – hit 30C, up from 29.8C a day earlier.
In the UK a red heat alert is in place for large areas of England, with a temperature of 36.1C recorded in Hampshire, the highest ever recorded in June. Forecasters predict temperatures could soon hit 38C.
The heatwave has caused deaths and serious disruption, particularly in France, Spain and Italy and is spreading to other parts of western Europe, with a new orange alert for dangerous weather in place for parts of the Netherlands.
Temperatures are expected to peak in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany in the next few days, with the heatwave also forecast to affect eastern Europe, where severe heat warnings have been issued in Poland, Croatia and Hungary.
Climate change is driving up temperatures around the world – but particularly in Europe – which some experts believe is heating up twice as fast as the global average.
Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Helena Wilkinson and Justin Rowlatt.
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The US economy backs Elon Musk’s vision for sending people to Mars, the moon and beyond with SpaceX. Elon Musk’s rocket, telecommunications and artificial intelligence company SpaceX has listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a value of $2.2 trillion; making him the world’s first trillionaire in the process.
Other AI companies, including Open AI and Anthropic have plans to follow suit but what does that mean for the US economy and global financial stability?
In this episode, Justin speaks to Ryan Mac – an investigative technology reporter for the New York Times who has extensive experience covering Elon Musk and other leaders in the AI field.
SpaceX’s public valuation has made millionaires of many of its past and current employees and generated around $85 billion for the company; money that Elon Musk says is essential to fulfil the company’s plans to build bases on the Moon, put data centres into orbit and send human beings to Mars.
But what happens if those plans remain unfulfilled?
As more companies offer shares to investors and the general public, Justin and Ryan explore whether America is gambling on the promise of AI? And is the US economy becoming dangerously reliant on one industry?
00:00 Intro
00:55 What does it mean to be a trillionaire?
01:41 SpaceX’s stock market debut
05:21 Why investors rushed to buy SpaceX shares
10:09 Why Elon Musk divides opinion
12:08 The promises Musk has and hasn’t delivered
22:03 What happens if the AI boom slows down?
27:20 Outro
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