WorldBarcelona strips first 3,000 tourist flats of licences as 2028 ban begins to bite
Owners have until the end of the year to return the properties to the residential market or face fines of up to €600,000
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Eleanor Whitcombe
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ScienceGene variant common in Orkney protects against age-related hearing loss, Edinburgh study finds
Carriers of the variant, found in one in 14 Orcadians but one in 400 mainland Britons, had hearing equivalent to people 15 years younger in tests of 2,300 islanders
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ScienceNorth Sea marine heatwaves now last three times longer than in the 1980s, UEA study finds
Analysis of 45 years of satellite and buoy data shows periods of abnormal warmth off the British coast have grown from an average of nine days to 28, with cod and sandeel stocks among the casualties
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WorldParis opens first stretch of orbital metro as suburbs get a line that skips the centre
Line 15 South carried 410,000 passengers in its first weekend, linking 16 suburban stations without touching the city proper
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WorldDutch unveil €24bn plan to raise dykes for a sea one metre higher by 2100
The Delta Programme's 20-year blueprint would strengthen 1,500km of coast and river defences, and shut the Eastern Scheldt barrier up to 30 times a year
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ScienceSussex physicists keep a quantum bit stable for 12 minutes, smashing previous record
Trapped-ion team’s result, more than 20 times the previous best, removes one of the main obstacles to building a quantum computer that can hold information long enough to use it
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