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U.S. tech giant Palantir has rejected concerns after the firm was awarded a contract worth hundreds of millions of pounds for a new NHS data platform. The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) will aim to make it easier for health and care organisations to work together and provide better services to patients. It was announced earlier this week that a group led by Palantir had secured the £330 million contract to provide the new shared software system. But concerns have been raised by MPs about how patient data will be used and Palantir’s involvement in the deal. Louis Mosley, Palantir’s…

Sometimes it is easy to be led by the scoreboard. This was a pulsating battle between two clubs energised by smart managerial appointments and there is a temptation to argue that the turning point came when Aston Villa somehow went in level at half-time, allowing Unai Emery to bend the game to his will with a double substitution that gave a previously rampant Tottenham Hotspur more questions to answer during the second half. It was proactive management from Emery, who was too cute to be fooled by Pau Torres hauling Villa level in the seventh minute of added time. Doing nothing would…

Polling from the UK’s largest anti-ULEZ and anti-fuel-tax group of motorists has shown that its membership is now more likely to vote Labour than Tory, for the first time in its history. The FairFuelUK cross-party pressure group, which has 1.7 million members across the UK, is currently dedicated to preventing what they perceive as unnecessary tax hikes stemming from a well-intentioned yet flawed ‘green’ agenda. The focus of the group, which is run by Howard Cox, now a candidate for the London mayoral elections next year, extends to opposing new taxes, city entry bans for drivers, and potential additional costs…

NISSAN TO INVEST £2BN IN SUNDERLAND ELECTRIC CAR PLANT – The Scheme could help preserve the jobs of about 6,000 workers Nissan and its partners have announced a £2bn plan to build three electric car models at its Sunderland factory. The Japanese firm will build electric Qashqai and Juke models at the plant alongside the next generation of the electric Leaf, which is already produced there. The scheme could help preserve the jobs of about 6,000 workers directly, and thousands more across the UK. Nissan said that alongside this, a major new battery plant known as a “gigafactory” will also…

BARCLAYS PLOTS 2,000 JOBS CUTS IN £1BN COST-CUTTING PLAN –  Redundancy plans likely to impact employees in legal, HR and compliance departments  Barclays is preparing to axe up to 2,000 jobs in a £1bn cost-cutting drive aimed at boosting the lender’s profits. The redundancy plans, which emerged on Thursday night, are likely to impact employees in departments such as legal, HR and compliance – rather than customer-facing branch staff or investment bankers. The shake-up will cement a push by Barclays chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan to strip costs from the business and satisfy City demands to boost its flagging share price.…

Trent Alexander-Arnold believes Liverpool can re-emerge as genuine challengers for the Premier League title this season and are aiming higher than securing a return to the Champions League. Jürgen Klopp’s side are a point and a place behind the leaders, Manchester City, going into Saturday’s visit to the Etihad Stadium having overhauled their midfield this summer with impressive results. Alexander-Arnold believes the quality of Liverpool’s new signings, combined with the determination of more established players to correct last season’s fifth-placed finish, has laid the foundations for a title challenge. “Our aim as a team is to win the league and that’s the…

West Midlands police is accused of carrying out poor investigations into crimes, leading to poor results for victims. His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) placed it in “Engage”, known colloquially as special measures. It will be seen as a sign of the crisis gripping policing. West Midlands police joins four other forces in special measures, including the country’s biggest, the Metropolitan police. The other forces judged to be failing and of concern are Devon and Cornwall, Wiltshire and Staffordshire. The third biggest force in England and Wales, Greater Manchester police, got out of special measures only last year, having being…

Ireland’s police chief has warned that far-right radicalisation will continue to disrupt the country after a night of arson, rioting and looting left parts of Dublin resembling a war zone. The capital was tense but calm on Friday as significant numbers of police remained on the streets and Dublin counted the cost of an anti-immigrant protest that turned into anarchy, leaving the political establishment shocked. The cleanup began as fresh details emerged of the stabbing attack outside a school that left three children and a carer injured, two of them critically, and the suspect, reportedly a naturalised Irish citizen in his 50s,…

Video assistant referees in England have been urged to speak out on “soft” penalties, by encouraging on-pitch officials to review their decision even if an error is not “clear and obvious”. The new advice from the referees’ chief, Howard Webb, follows a succession of controversial penalty incidents in the Premier League and Europe. It is understood that VAR officials were told on Wednesday by Webb, the chief refereeing officer of Professional Game Match Officials Limited, they should feel able to draw a referee’s attention to penalty decisions made after challenges that involve only minimal contact. Recent examples of such incidents…

NORTH KOREA ENDS MILITARY DEAL WITH SOUTH, VOWS TO DEPLOY NEW WEAPONS AT BORDER South Korea has suspended part of a 2018 military accord between the two Koreas  North Korea said it would deploy stronger armed forces and new weapons on its border with South Korea, a day after Seoul suspended part of a 2018 military accord between the two Koreas in a protest over Pyongyang’s launch of a spy satellite. North Korea’s defense ministry said in a statement carried by the KCNA news agency that it would restore all military measures it had halted under the deal with South…