Hugh Jenkins, who has died aged 90, was one of the City of London’s most powerful investors as director-general of the National Coal Board’s pension funds and chairman of the Prudential’s investment arm.
Paddling pools that were closed for being too slippery have been treated with a rough textured coating that could hurt children’s feet, a councillor has warned.
Half of Pakistan's pupils will be shut out of schools for a week as the nation takes crisis measures to lessen the effect of a series of heatwaves, officials said Thursday.Some 26 million students will be out of lessons from Saturday in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, which has ordered schools to close for the summer break one week early because of the soaring temperatures.