Exclusive: Truss oversaw cut in funds to tackle water pollution, since when raw sewage discharge has risen The Tory leadership frontrunner, Liz Truss, was responsible for cutting millions of pounds of funding earmarked for tackling water pollution during her time as environment secretary, the Guardian can reveal. Truss, who was […]
Month: August 2022
Relatives of Oladeji Omishore say 41-year-old was ‘clearly in distress’ and Met actions contributed to his death The Metropolitan police were wrong to Taser a man on Chelsea Bridge and their “excessive and unnecessary force” contributed to his death, his family have said. The family of Oladeji Omishore, 41, used […]
The photos, taken in July, capture unprecedented views of the biggest planet’s storms, moon and surrounding rings The world’s newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before, auroras and all. Scientists released the shots Monday of the solar system’s biggest planet. Continue reading…
TBI recommends English schools focus on aspects such as critical thinking and creativity to ready pupils for jobs in digital world GCSEs and A-levels should be scrapped in favour of a system that better prepares school-leavers for the workplace, a report has suggested. The study conducted by the Tony Blair […]
Ex-president seeks to prevent bureau from reading seized documents until court official weighs in Donald Trump on Monday filed suit against the US government over the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home, seeking to temporarily stop the bureau reading seized materials until a special court official can be appointed to […]
Vulnerable people left alone in rooms for 24 hours a day and denied showers for a week as number of vacancies grows to 165,000 ‘They don’t have time to talk’: residents feel impact of care staffing crisis Thousands of vulnerable people are suffering inadequate care as severe staffing shortages in […]
Kyiv denies any involvement in death of daughter of ultranationalist Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin Ukraine is bracing itself for an intensification of Russian missile attacks to coincide with its independence day on Wednesday in the aftermath of the car-bomb killing of the daughter of an ultranationalist Russian ideologue. The country’s […]
Six weeks on from her disappearance, police say they are carefully studying 40,000 hours of CCTV footage Timeline of missing nurse’s disappearance Six weeks on from the disappearance of Owami Davies, the Metropolitan police says it still has 40,000 hours of footage from CCTV cameras and other devices to go […]
Seoul police have been asked to confirm whether a Korean-born New Zealand woman believed to be related to the dead children was in the country A woman believed to be a family member of the two children whose remains were found in suitcases in New Zealand is in South Korea, […]
Royal College of Psychiatrists calls for action to ensure patients are seen when they are at greatest risk of suicide Nearly 38,000 vital follow-up appointments with mental health patients were missed at the time when they were most at risk of suicide, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said. The […]