Day: 7 May 2026

Queen Elizabeth Trust launched to strengthen communities across the United Kingdom

Stuart Mitchell

A new UK-wide independent charity, the Queen Elizabeth Trust, has been established on the occasion of the centenary of Queen Elizabeth II’s birth to honour her lifelong commitment to public service.  His Majesty The King has accepted the Royal Patronage of the Trust, which will bring the late Queen’s values to life for present and future generations.  The Trust is one of three related memorial projects—alongside a national memorial in St James’s Park and a digital memorial—to honour her legacy at local, national, and global levels. These plans are being…

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New WWF Report Examines Market-Based Solutions to Invasive Species

Stuart Mitchell

New framework helps assess when commercial use can deliver environmental and economic benefits Invasive species, introduced accidentally or purposefully outside their original range, can wreak havoc in their new environments, contributing to 60% of global wildlife extinctions and costing $423 billion per year. A new report from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) explores how, when eradication is not possible, developing commercial uses for these pests can help manage their populations and provide environmental and economic benefits to local communities. It presents a first-of-its-kind framework to help businesses and ecologists evaluate the…

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Octopus Energy and Prosperity Group unveil world’s largest Zero Bills site

Stuart Mitchell

Octopus Energy, the UK’s largest energy supplier, and Prosperity Group have teamed up to deliver the world’s largest Zero Bills site to date, where residents won’t pay a penny for their home energy for at least 10 years. The first of the 300 Zero Bills homes at the record-breaking site in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, are due to be completed in 2028, with residents expected to move in later that year. Launched in 2022, Octopus’ Zero Bills is a world-first energy tariff that allows customers to move into homes packed with cutting-edge…

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FIFA World Cup drives global media inflation to 4.4%, WFA Outlook

Stuart Mitchell

Global media price inflation looks set to increase to 4.4% for 2026, thanks largely to the impact of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to the latest wave of Outlook, WFA’s biannual poll of media price inflation forecasts.  This means that average global media inflation will be significantly higher than the +4% rise seen in 2025, although some markets such as China will see a decrease (down to 2.9% from 3.4% in 2025). Major sporting events have historically created strong inflationary impacts on media markets, and forecasts for 2026 are…

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Human Appeal’s Qurbani campaign part of the World’s largest annual global feeding effort

Stuart Mitchell

One of the UK’s leading humanitarian aid charities, Human Appeal, announced that it will deliver its annual Qurbani food distribution programme across Africa, South Asia and the Middle East and the UK during the major festival of Eid ul-Adha, having provided over 3.5 million Qurbani meals last year. Human Appeal has been successfully running the programme for over 35 years and will see food such as beef, lamb and mutton distributed to vulnerable families worldwide. Eid Ul Adha or Qurbani witnesses one of the largest annual feeding campaigns in the…

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