18-year-old Briton beats Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 Victor came through qualifying and did not lose a set There are so many basic milestones that Emma Raducanu has not yet recorded in a professional tennis career that only began in full three months ago. She has never been a direct entrant […]
Month: September 2021
Exclusive: NHS leaders understood to have been briefed on plans to vaccinate children, beginning from 22 September • Coronavirus – latest updates • See all our coronavirus coverage Plans for Covid vaccinations for 12- to 15-year-olds across the UK are to be announced by the government this week, with a […]
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and George W Bush join mourners in ceremonies in New York, Pennsylvania and at Pentagon Some wept. Some held photos of loved ones At 8.46am, precisely two decades after a passenger plane became a new and deadly weapon here, all fell silent in remembrance. Families of […]
Partners and spouses are being kept apart by Home Office delays in processing revised versions of entry permits to Britain A British woman has told how she had to separate her six-year-old son from his French father because post-Brexit rules prohibited her spouse from returning with her to the UK […]
Home secretary reportedly brokered meeting between Tory donor and British Airways without officials present Labour has accused the home secretary of being “reckless” and a “serial offender” in breaching the ministerial code after allegations she brokered a meeting between a billionaire Tory donor and British Airways. The Sunday Mirror reported […]
Exclusive: UK’s top family doctor says medic shortage means GPs are unable to cope with demand Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage GPs in England are “finding it increasingly hard to guarantee safe care” for millions of patients as a shortage of medics means they are unable […]
A US court document showed paperwork was filed at Royal Lodge and a response is due by 17 September Prince Andrew has been served with an affidavit for a lawsuit say lawyers for Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the royal when she was […]
Some Afghan families were all but wiped out by massacres and airstrikes, provoking survivors to take up arms against the west The men of Zangabad village, Panjwai district lined up on the eve of 11 September to count and remember their dead, the dozens of relatives who they say were […]
Villagers report school students mong those killed amid fighting with government troops near Gangaw township Fifteen to 20 villagers, including several teenagers, have been killed in some of Myanmar’s deadliest fighting since July between government troops and resistance forces, a villager and reports by independent media said. The fighting near […]
Inquiry into Jess Barnard was mistake made while clearing complaints backlog, party says Labour has apologised for briefly placing the chair of its youth wing, Jess Barnard, under investigation for “hostile or prejudiced” behaviour, saying this was an error that happened amid an attempt to clear a backlog of complaints. […]