‘Rostering to the limits’: senior Virgin Australia pilots raise safety concerns over fatigue

Virgin Australia, Industrial relations, Airline industry, Business, Australia news Business | The Guardian ​Exclusive: Correspondence from pilots seen by Guardian Australia pleads for changes to the roster system to address fatigueFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSenior pilots at Virgin Australia have…

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Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans

Deep-sea mining, Environment, Norway, Mining, Mining, Arctic Business | The Guardian ​WWF says the government has breached the law ‘without adequately assessing the consequences’One of the world’s biggest environmental groups is suing the Norwegian government for opening up its seabed for deep-sea mining, claiming that Norway has failed to properly investigate the consequences of this move.WWF-Norway…

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Tech titan Mike Lynch testifies at fraud trial that Autonomy was ‘not perfect’

Autonomy, Technology, Business, Hewlett-Packard, San Francisco, UK news, US news Business | The Guardian ​UK founder, accused of inflating sales and misleading regulators, takes stand and says he wasn’t fully responsible for firm’s decisionsThe British entrepreneur Mike Lynch took the stand on Thursday in a San Francisco federal courthouse as a key witness in his own…

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UK’s Environment Agency chief admits regulator buries freedom of information requests

Environment Agency, UK news, Environment, Water industry, Rivers Business | The Guardian ​Speaking at the UK River Summit, Philip Duffy said officials do not want to reveal the true ‘embarrassing’ environmental pictureThe head of the Environment Agency has admitted that freedom of information requests have been buried by the regulator because the truth about the environment…

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