King hails efforts to rescue Rayan Awram, aged five, who was trapped for four days after falling into the well in his village of Ighara A five-year-old boy in Morocco who was trapped for four days in a deep well, and whose plight captivated residents of the north African kingdom, […]
Year: 2022
BP, like its competitors, looks like becoming a ‘cash machine’ again this week as it surfs the wave of soaring gas prices Millions of British homes are preparing for a cost of living crisis prompted by the global gas supply crunch, but the high market prices mean big revenues for […]
Sajid Javid has joined Rishi Sunak in rejecting slur on Keir Starmer as two more MPs call for PM to go Boris Johnson’s attempts to rally his dilapidated top team floundered on Friday after a second cabinet minister distanced himself from the prime minister and two more Conservative MPs called […]
Government forced to publish messages between disgraced Tory MP and then health secretary The government has been forced to publish documents that reveal how the disgraced former Conservative MP Owen Paterson directly lobbied a senior minister for a healthcare firm that was paying him to be a consultant. Paterson contacted […]
Protesters led by Women’s Equality party want government to launch full inquiry into police misogyny Mock “appeals for information” posters highlighting misogynistic, racist and homophobic comments made by police officers in Charing Cross police station have been erected in London to increase pressure on the government to launch an inquiry […]
Robert Hooper said of altercation he had ‘felt threatened, and an Englishman’s home is his castle’ A farmer who used his forklift tractor to flip and push a Vauxhall Corsa car off his land after a row with the driver over blocking access has been cleared by a jury of […]
Proposed laws require tech firms to prevent publication of harmful content or face substantial fines Joining digital pile-ons, sending threatening social media posts and deliberately posting hoax bomb threats are among the new criminal offences that could result in jail sentences under proposed online safety laws. Tech firms will also […]
Policy chief Munira Mirza was first to go, followed shortly by Jack Doyle, Dan Rosenfield and Martin Reynolds Four of Boris Johnson’s key staff have quit as the fallout from the Downing Street party scandal continued to shake his hold on government. Johnson’s longstanding policy chief Munira Mirza was the […]
Officials say they have evidence of plot to mock up scenes of attack using corpses, Turkish-made drones and actors playing mourners US officials claim they have evidence of a Russian plan to make a “very graphic” fake video of a Ukrainian attack as a pretext for an invasion. The alleged […]
Price cap in England, Scotland and Wales likely to rise again, as Bank of England expects inflation to hit 7% Rishi Sunak has warned households suffering from Britain’s worsening cost of living crisis to brace themselves for further increases in energy costs later this year, as critics said his £9bn […]