Leading Brexiters and remainers, including Michael Gove and David Lammy, met for two-day ‘private discussion’ with diplomats and business leaders An extraordinary cross-party summit bringing together leading leavers and remainers – including Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet – has been held in high secrecy to […]
Month: February 2023
Canadian prime minister says he has spoken to US president Joe Biden about the object A US warplane shot down an unidentified object over North American airspace, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday. It was the second day in a row in which the US military shot down […]
As death toll in Syria and Turkey passes 28,000, rescuers say unrest paused search operations Rescuers in southern Turkey have warned that efforts to find survivors after the earthquake have been hampered by outbreaks of violence, as the death toll in Syria and Turkey passed 28,000. German rescuers and the […]
The chair’s future at the corporation is in doubt after a damning Commons report on his role in the Boris Johnson loan affair Senior figures within the BBC believe its chairman, Richard Sharp, has seriously undermined the corporation’s impartiality after a damning parliamentary report accused him of failing to publicly […]
Fresh from Grammys triumph, the star towered over the British music industry’s annual bash, where 60% of winners were male • Comment: the trouble with the Brits• The night in pictures Harry Styles has swept the board at this year’s Brit awards, winning all four of his categories. The 29-year-old […]
Three people arrested as eyewitnesses say police van set on fire and counter-protesters surrounded Disturbances have broken out in Knowsley near Liverpool after several hundred far-right demonstrators protested against asylum seekers who have been housed in a local hotel by the Home Office. Merseyside police said three people had been […]
Exclusive: plan for one- and two-year-olds would cost billions and is among options being looked at The Treasury is considering a proposal to massively expand free childcare to one- and two-year-olds in England in a move that would cost billions at the spring budget. Department for Education officials have submitted […]
Hundreds of thousands more people have been left homeless in often sub-zero winter conditions Turkey and Syria earthquake – latest news updates A second convoy of aid trucks has crossed into stricken north-western Syria from Turkey, as rescuers continued to pull survivors – including a newborn baby – from the […]
No one hurt in ‘unplanned’ explosion of 250kg device found in Norfolk town, police say A 250kg second world war bomb has exploded unexpectedly in Great Yarmouth, police have said. Emergency services and agencies declared a major incident following the discovery of the large unexploded device at a river crossing […]
Paul Ansell says family going through ‘unprecedented hell’ as search widens for missing woman The partner of missing Nicola Bulley says he is “100% convinced” she is not in the River Wyre. Bulley has been missing for 14 days and a specialist underwater team searching the river suspended the operation […]