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Media playback is unsupported on your device Snow, more snow and Santa Claus. Utter the word “Lapland” and you might imagine a place where it’s Christmas all year round. But due to its location, largely within the Arctic Circle, Lapland has extreme

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]How Swedes take advantage of 24-hour sunlight in the land of near-endless summer. Source: BBC News

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Aberdeen could be the city worst hit by falling economic output due to a “hard” Brexit, experts have predicted.A new report from the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, said all cities would see a

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The government’s £3bn clean air strategy does not go “far enough or fast enough”, campaigners have said. Moves including scrapping new diesel and petrol cars from 2040 and £255m for councils to tackle air pollution locally have been welcomed.

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The European Commission has accepted a UK government plan to free Royal Bank of Scotland from an obligation to sell its Williams & Glyn division.The sale of about 300 branches was a condition of the £45.5bn bailout of RBS in 2008 during the financial crisis.RBS

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Foxconn, the Taiwanese firm that works closely with technology firm, Apple, plans to build a multi-billion dollar plant in Wisconsin, US media are reporting.US President Donald Trump, who put boosting US manufacturing at the heart of his election campaign, is expected

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UK economic growth edged slightly higher in the three months to June, as a stronger service sector offset weaker manufacturing and construction.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy expanded by 0.3% in the quarter, up from 0.2% in the previous

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