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NB Power files for 2.5% hike in power rates

NB Power is looking to increase power rates for New Brunswickers. The power utility has filed a request with the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board looking to introduce an average rate hike of 2.5 per cent. NB Power says it has requested a 2.9-per-cent increase for residential customers, an increase that will amount to an extra $5 a month […]

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Kremlin rejects suggestion it arrested American as a diplomatic pawn

The Kremlin has rejected suggestions it could have seized Paul Whelan, the former United States Marine arrested in Moscow on spying charges, as a political hostage. “Russia never uses people as pawns in a diplomatic game,” the press secretary for Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters Wednesday, the Kremlin’s first comments on the case of Paul Whelan, who is currently […]

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Katie Price slapped with driving ban despite begging judge to let her off because mum only has 'three years to live'

The 40-year-old today admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance while with two of her children after breaching a ban for speeding. It comes just two days after she denied being drunk at the wheel of her £75k pink Range Rover when it crashed in Woolwich, South East London, in October last year. She was given a £1,295 total fine and banned […]

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