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David Boothroyd, cabinet member for Finance and Council Reform, said: “I want to reassure residents that we are doing everything possible to respond effectively to the cyber security incident and to keep delivering our services.

“Our priority is to support and protect the most vulnerable in our community, despite the disruption that is being caused.”

“We acted quickly to secure our systems, and we are working towards restoring council services as safely and swiftly as possible, but this will take time. We remain committed to transparency and will continue to provide updates as our recovery progresses,” he added.

Kensington and Chelsea Council said it may take “months” for services to return to normal.

Council leader Elizabeth Campbell said the authority would carry out a review “when the time is right”.

Hammersmith and Fulham Council, the third authority to be impacted, said there is no evidence to date that its systems have been compromised.

Westminster City Council is urging residents to be extra cautious with unexpected calls, emails or texts and to follow official guidance from the National Cyber Security Centre.

January 01, 2026 (MLN): The Oil and Gas Development
Company Limited (PSX:OGDC), operator of the Nashpa Exploration License with a
65% stake, in partnership with Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) holding 30% and
Government Holdings (Private) Limited (GHPL) with 5%, has made a notable oil
and gas discovery at the Baragzai X-01 (Slant) exploratory well in the Datta
Formation, District Kohat.

During the cased-hole Drill Stem Test (DST-02) in the
Jurassic-age Datta Formation, the well produced 4,100 barrels of oil per day
(BOPD) and 10.5 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (MMSCFD) at 32/64”
choke size, with a wellhead flowing pressure of 3,880 psig.

The Baragzai X-01 (Slant) well, which began drilling on
December 30, 2024, reached a total depth of 5,170 meters into the Kingriali
Formation, according to the company’s statement issued today.

Approximately 187 meters of the Datta Formation were
encountered.

Strong hydrocarbon shows during drilling, petrophysical
evaluations from open-hole wireline logs, and fracture indications from image
logs prompted the cased-hole drill stem test.

Earlier, successful cased-hole testing (CHDST-01) in the
Triassic-age Kingriali Formation had already indicated hydrocarbon potential.

This discovery is expected to contribute to closing the
energy supply demand gap using indigenous resources and will strengthen the
hydrocarbon reserves of OGDCL, its joint venture partners, and Pakistan.

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Explaining the uses of AI, Prof Sloan said a farmer growing plants in fields needed to check for pests.

“Go back even 10 years, you would have had to manually go around and actually look at all of those plants,” he said.

“Now what you can do, is you can take a machine… you can scan individually, you can compare what you’re seeing very quickly to what a healthy plant looks like.”

He said it was the same with animals, adding: “A cow can tell you by the way it walks, the way it sits, how it spends its time, whether it’s OK or not OK.”

It took time and experience for a person to check them, he said, but with cameras, “we can spot them, we can see them, and we can act really quickly to keep the animals healthy”.