Men detained under Terrorism Act after incident outside hospital that also injured taxi driver Three men have been arrested under terror legislation after a passenger was killed when the taxi he was in exploded outside Liverpool Women’s hospital. The men – aged 29, 26 and 21 – were detained in […]
Year: 2021
Exclusive: handover delays across England are also causing permanent harm to those needing urgent care People are dying in the back of ambulances and up to 160,000 more a year are coming to harm because they are stuck outside hospitals unable to be offloaded to A&E, a bombshell report has […]
Cop26 president says nations will have to ‘explain to climate-vulnerable countries why they did what they did’ India and China will “have to explain themselves to poor nations” after watering down the Glasgow climate pact, warned the Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, adding that their actions had left him “deeply frustrated”. […]
Exclusive: Oxfordshire-based Emergex gets go-ahead for trials in Switzerland for skin patch vaccine Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage An Oxfordshire-based company will soon start clinical trials of a second-generation vaccine against Covid-19, an easy-to-administer skin patch that uses T-cells to kill infected cells and could offer […]
Living Wage Foundation’s minimum rate rises by 40p to £9.90 an hour, largely due to higher fuel costs and rents More than 300,000 workers in the UK will get a pay rise from Monday as the charity behind the voluntary real living wage raises the minimum hourly rate amid growing […]
Glasgow climate pact adopted despite last-minute intervention by India to water down language on phasing out dirtiest fossil fuel Cop26: the goal of 1.5C of climate heating is alive, but only just Countries have agreed a deal on the climate crisis that its backers said would keep within reach the […]
Exclusive: boosters to be offered five months after second dose as part of major change to vaccination rollout programme Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The government is to allow people to have their Covid booster jab after five months, a month sooner than under the current […]
• I’ll be your throttle, he told Arcuri as mayor • Diaries could reopen misconduct inquiry Extraordinary details of how Boris Johnson allegedly overruled the advice of staff to promote the business interests of his former lover Jennifer Arcuri and win her affections are revealed in previously unpublished diary extracts […]
Starmer’s party is 1 point ahead in new poll, following Tory sleaze and second-job rows Labour has recorded its first poll lead over the Conservatives for almost a year in the wake of the row over Tory sleaze and second jobs, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer. […]
Richard Ratcliffe walks away with head held high and huge support after 21-day hunger strike Surrounded by brightly painted pebbles, posters and paintings calling for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release, Richard Ratcliffe brought his 21-day hunger strike to an end on Saturday, clinging on to hope his actions have made a difference […]