The U-turn may help to end wave of strikes, though funding it could require cuts to key services Steve Barclay has privately conceded he will have to increase his pay offer to NHS staff, in a U-turn that may help to end the growing wave of strikes. However, the Treasury […]
Month: January 2023
Presley was rushed to hospital on Thursday night after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest Lisa Marie Presley, singer and the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, has died at the age of 54, after suddenly being hospitalised on Thursday. Her 77-year-old mother confirmed Presley’s death later on Thursday night. […]
Oil company drove some of the leading science of the era only to publicly dismiss global heating The oil giant Exxon privately “predicted global warming correctly and skilfully” only to then spend decades publicly rubbishing such science in order to protect its core business, new research has found. A trove […]
Tech investor Christopher Harborne’s gift to former PM’s personal office is one of biggest ever recorded to individual UK politician Boris Johnson has received a donation of £1m from a Thai-based British businessman who had previously given millions of pounds to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, the newly released register of […]
Connor Chapman has been remanded in custody and will appear in court on Friday Police investigating the shooting of Elle Edwards in Wallasey on Christmas Eve have charged Connor Chapman, 22, with her murder. Chapman, of Houghton Road, Woodchurch, has also been charged with two counts of attempted murder and […]
Report shows 3.2m people disconnected last year as they ran out of credit ‘I’m already sitting in the dark most of the time’: disabled yet pursued over gas bill Ministers are being urged to stop the forced installation of prepayment meters after revelations that 3.2 million people – the equivalent […]
Beck rose to fame with the Yardbirds before fronting the Jeff Beck Group and making forays into the jazz-fusion sound he pioneered Jeff Beck, the celebrated guitarist who played with the Yardbirds and led the Jeff Beck Group, has died aged 78, his representative has confirmed. Beck died on Tuesday […]
Officials from 14 health unions want to hold direct talks with ministers to agree pay rises for NHS staff The system for setting NHS staff pay is under threat after health unions refused to submit evidence to the two bodies that advise ministers on how big annual increases should be. […]
James Webb space telescope brings insight into birth of stars at ‘cosmic noon’ with image of NGC 346 cluster Scientists have been given an unprecedented glimpse into the birth of stars and the early stages of the universe, after a new image showing a cluster more than 10bn years ago […]
German-born model rose to fame in the 1980s and later starred in George Michael’s Freedom! ’90 video Tatjana Patitz, one of the original 90s supermodels, has died aged 56. Patitz shot to fame in January 1990, when she appeared alongside Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington wearing […]