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Hellenic Cables subsidiary declared provision winner of tender to replace power line connecting Zakynthos with gridThe current line has been in operation since 1980, and is now deemed as outdated.Other international tenders have been declared for power line connections for other Ionian islands, with upgrades and modernization of power supply to the Ionian islands reaching roughly 100 million euros.
Google Warns Of Serious New Chrome Hack Attack Targeting Windows & AndroidWindows users are advised to install the Chrome update as a matter of some urgency. You can do this by heading for the Help|About option in the Chrome menu, forcing an update check, and automatically downloading and installing it as required. Remember that you will not be protected until you restart your browser.Hopefully, your copy of Google Chrome for both Windows and Android should have been updated by now. If you tend to keep a desktop browser open for days or weeks on end without shutting down your computer, this doesn't mean an automatic update will actually be protecting you. Restarting your browser will activate that protection or kickstart a download if not already waiting to be installed. The same advice applies to users of other web browsers that use the Chromium engine under the hood. Microsoft Edge is the biggest of these by user number.
Johnsons ‘intend to hold Chequers wedding party’ before PM departsBoris and Carrie Johnson are reportedly ploughing on with plans for a wedding party at Chequers as the Prime Minister shifts to a caretaker role in his final days in office.The pair married in a low-key, private ceremony at Westminster Cathedral last year.A small group of family and friends attended the wedding, organised in strict secrecy, which was followed by a reception in the gardens of 10 Downing Street.It was known Mr and Mrs Johnson planned to have a larger celebration in 2022, when coronavirus restrictions were likely to be relaxed.They were said to have sent save-the-date cards to family and friends for the celebration on July 30.One Tory source said: “It beggars belief that even after all the criticism Johnson has faced regarding integrity and probity, one of the reasons he is staying is to have his wedding party at Chequers.“It’s a national asset not his personal home. The Johnsons should do the decent thing and find a different venue. And Boris should do the decent thing and leave No 10 immediately”.A second insider told the paper: “It’s crass if it goes ahead.”
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Wallpapergate: Leaked £200,000 invoice reveals Boris Johnson’s No 11 flat renovation included £7,000 rug and £3,675 trolleyExclusive: Items ordered by Boris Johnson and wife Carrie from Lulu Lytle include £2,260 worth of ‘gold wallpaper’ and a £500 table clothThe Independent has obtained a leaked copy of the invoice for the renovation of the Prime Minister’s Downing Street flat which shows it cost more than £200,000.Items ordered by Mr Johnson and wife Carrie from upmarket interior designer Lulu Lytle include a £3,675 drinks trolley said to be like the one owned in Paris by ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev and £2,260 worth of the ‘gold’ wallpaper that Mr Johnson privately complained his wife had purchased.Two sofas cost more than £15,000; £3,000 was spent on a ‘paint effect’ for the flat hallway; and the cheapest item is a £500 kitchen table cloth.The estimate for building works, which involved sanding the floorboards, painting and decorating, and installing new furnishings and fittings came to £30,000.
Boris Johnson accused of misleading Parliament over meeting with Alexander LebedevThe Prime Minister admitted on Wednesday for the first time that he had met the Russian oligarch and former KGB agent at an Italian palazzo in April 2018, with no officials present.Mr Johnson, foreign secretary at the time, said he thought he had subsequently mentioned the meeting to officials – but on Thursday it emerged that it was not documented in the department’s transparency records for that month.Alexander Lebedev served at the Soviet Embassy in London in the 1980s and built a fortune in Russia in banking and airline companies. He bought the Independent and Evening Standard newspapers in 2010 before shifting ownership to Lord Lebedev, his son.Responding to an urgent question in the Commons, Vicky Ford, the foreign office minister, told MPs that after meeting Alexander Lebedev, Mr Johnson reported it to officials “as required”.However, within minutes she corrected herself after being passed a note and claimed the Prime Minister “says that he thinks he mentioned this meeting to officials”.Labour’s Chris Bryant, the chairman of the Commons standards committee, told MPs that either Ms Ford “has misled us inadvertently” or otherwise Mr Johnson “did so perhaps more deliberately previously” as there was no official record of the meeting.Mr Bryant told The Telegraph the omission of the Alexander Lebedev meeting from the official record was “very serious” and called for an investigation into the full circumstances.“When you are foreign secretary, you are acting on behalf of the country at all times. The idea that you would swan off and not tell your civil servants is extraordinary,” he said.Likening it to Neville Chamberlain “trying to have a secret meeting with the Italians” in the run-up to the Second World War, he said: “This should be looked into. They should come clean about it.”The Commons intelligence and security committee is conducting an investigation over the appointment of Lord Lebedev to the House of Lords.Evgeny Lebedev, who has dual Russian and British nationality, has denied posing a security risk to the nation.
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