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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Tuesday 23rd November 2021
5. A wind farm is to become home to a state-of-the-art hydrogen storage facility which could eventually produce enough clean energy to help power the next generation of public transport.
The UK government has awarded the project, based at Whitelee Windfarm near Glasgow £9.4m which will go towards developing the country's largest electrolyser, which converts water into hydrogen.
4. The online bank Atom Bank has introduced a four-day work week for its 430 staff without cutting their pay.
Employees now work 34 hours over four days and get Monday or Friday off, when previously they clocked up 37.5 hours across the whole week.
3. Bulb Energy, which has 1.7 million customers, has announced that the firm will be put into administration.
It is the largest UK energy company to face difficulties following a sharp rise in wholesale gas prices this year.
2. Boris Johnson has urged people to return to the workplace for “sound evolutionary reasons” in a disjointed speech to the UK’s largest employer group.
The prime minister told the CBI annual conference on Monday that “Mother Nature does not like working from home”, adding to pressure from government officials and business leaders for staff to return to pre-pandemic working practices.
1. More than 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper in the six months before the sales event last year, a Which? investigation has found.
The consumer champion advised shoppers to make sure the discounts were "truly genuine" ahead of this year's sales.
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