内容摘要：Contractor Suez said staff sickness combined with the peak summer holiday period had created "exceptional circumstances" which it was "working hard to resolve".

Contractor Suez said staff sickness combined with the peak summer holiday period had created "exceptional circumstances" which it was "working hard to resolve".

In 1867, after buying Alaska from Russia, US Secretary of State William H Seward led negotiations to buy Greenland from Denmark, but failed to reach any agreement.In 1946, the US offered to pay $100m (equivalent to $1.2bn; £970m today) for the territory, judging that it was vital for national security, but the Danish government refused.

Trump also tried to buy Greenland during his first presidential term.Both Denmark and the Greenlandic government rejected the 2019 proposal, saying: "Greenland is not for sale."The debate over the territory's independence has been "put on steroids by Trump", according to Masaana Egede, editor of the newspaper Sermitsiaq.

According to recent polls, almost 80% of Greenlanders back independence from Denmark.found that 85% of Greenlanders rejected the idea of becoming part of the US, versus 6% who wanted it. The rest were undecided.

When BBC correspondent Fergal Keane visited the island in January,

: "Greenland belongs to Greenlanders. So, Trump can visit but that's it."Yet fundamental questions were being raised about freedom of speech, how we treat each other and how you define a woman. The need for clarity had become overwhelming.

In terms of equality law, the Supreme Court ruling provided that.For women's groups there is sheer relief that biological facts will now drive decisions.

But for many trans people there is distress. Even though they still have protections under the Equality Act, for many it does not feel like that. They worry that harassment will increase.Activist Charlie Craggs, who is a trans woman, told the BBC it was really sad that this tiny community of less than 1% of the population was being "thrown under the bus".