Games schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverage Sign up for the Guardian’s daily Olympic briefing In pictures: the best images from day eight in Tokyo Get in touch! Email Jonathan, tweet or comment below 3.56am BST Swimming: Both Team GB and Australia have enjoyed record breaking meets […]
Year: 2021
Companies will offer credit and price reductions in government push to boost vaccination rates Cheap taxi rides and discounts from the biggest takeaway companies are to be deployed by the government in a desperate effort to boost Covid vaccination rates among the young, amid growing legal and political pressure on […]
Strategy chief issues stark message to UK opposition leader, but adds that waning support for Boris Johnson provides opportunity Millions of voters who Labour must win back if it is to regain power have little idea what the party stands for or why it would improve their lives, according to […]
In a message on Instagram, prime minister’s wife also reveals she had miscarriage at start of the year Boris Johnson and his wife, Carrie, are expecting their second child, as the prime minister’s wife revealed she had a miscarriage at the start of this year. The couple, who married in […]
Six dead from wildfires raging across Turkey, Italy and Greece as temperatures hit 40C Holidaymakers have been evacuated from beaches by rescue boats in Turkey after wildfires threatened hotels in the Aegean resort of Bodrum. Coastguard vessels were joined by private boats and yachts to bring the tourists to safety, […]
Games schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverage ‘Rainbow Olympics’: Tokyo hailed as turning point Sign up for the Guardian’s daily Olympic briefing In pictures: the best images from day seven in Tokyo Email Jonathan, tweet or comment below the line 3.51am BST Swimming – Great Britain have […]
Department says House panel has ‘sufficient reasons’ for requesting returns as Nancy Pelosi hails ‘victory for the rule of law’ The US Department of Justice on Friday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand Donald Trump’s tax returns to a House committee, saying the panel had “invoked sufficient reasons” for […]
Exclusive: two ministers and Keir Starmer among those accepting gifts from gambling, drinks and sports firms Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage MPs enjoyed a bonanza of free tickets this summer worth more than £100,000 from gambling, drinks and sporting companies as they took advantage of the […]
Unsettled weather forecast across England and Wales with ‘torrential thundery downpours’ in the east The Met Office has issued weather and flood warnings as Storm Evert moved eastwards across Britain with thunderstorms forecast for the weekend. Yellow wind warnings are in place for coastal areas in south-east England and East […]
Transport secretary Grant Shapps ‘acted irrationally and unlawfully’ when he approved the £1.7bn project, judge rules Campaigners including archaeologists, environmental groups and druids have won a high court battle to prevent a controversial road project that includes a tunnel near Stonehenge. The £1.7bn scheme to overhaul eight miles of the […]