Around 1.7 million Basques were urged to vote in elections today for the government in Spain’s most turbulent region.

The world’s two oldest commercial nuclear power stations are to close tomorrow.

NUCLEAR material could have been stolen from Sellafield and used to make bombs without the knowledge of the British Nuclear Group, according to a European Commission report.

The British Nuclear Group, which runs the controversial Sellafield plant, was today formally warned over the way it records and reports on radioactive material held at the site.

Sellafield nuclear plant cannot account for 30kg of plutonium which has “gone missing” from its site, it was reported today.