Investigation begins after the Guardian reports on complaints against senior figures at business organisation City of London police have launched an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct at the Confederation of British Industry in the wake of the Guardian’s reports of complaints against senior figures at the organisation. Britain’s most prominent […]
Month: April 2023
US president arrives in Northern Ireland on Tuesday before flying to Dublin in visit to help ‘keep the peace’ Joe Biden has landed in Northern Ireland ahead of a four-day visit to the island of Ireland to underpin his support for peace in the country and to celebrate his Irish […]
Death of Freddie Scappaticci, who always denied he was mole, puts question mark over inquiry into his alleged crimes The man said to be the British army’s most important agent inside the Provisional IRA has died, putting a question mark over the inquiry into his alleged crimes and the role […]
Benice Ryley plans to display new dolls despite police investigation into an alleged hate crime The landlady of a pub whose collection of golliwog dolls was confiscated by police has assembled replacements, which she plans to display in defiance of a continuing investigation. Last week four Essex police officers and […]
Durham crown court hears pair knew coins worth an estimated £766,000 came from Viking hoard Two amateur history enthusiasts have been accused of trying to sell ancient coins from a Viking hoard to representatives of a mystery American buyer who were in fact undercover police officers. Roger Pilling, 74, of […]
Callers wait so long that nearly one in five hang up, finds Liberal Democrat commissioned analysis Patients contacting NHS 111 in England are having to wait so long for medical help that they are abandoning millions of calls, with 3.6m ditched in the past 12 months, official figures reveal. The […]
Land Rover was monitoring a dissident republican parade commemorating the 1916 Rising The British and Irish governments have condemned petrol bomb attacks on police in Derry on the eve of Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland. A small crowd threw petrol bombs and other missiles at a police Land Rover […]
Disclosure already represents worst national security breach in years, and analysts suggest damage to US could get worse The recent leak of more than a hundred secret US defense documents could just be the “tip of the iceberg” of a trove of material that had started circulating long before it […]
Consumers reduce spending on groceries, clothes and eating out as they seek to balance budgets UK consumers cut back on groceries, clothes shopping and eating out last month but streaming and pay TV subscriptions jumped as cash-conscious viewers switched to nights in. The return of big hit series such as […]
Dismissal of Yoav Gallant triggered unprecedented surge of protest against plan to disempower judiciary As Israel faces a surge in violence on almost every front, the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has reversed his decision to fire the defence minister, Yoav Gallant, for warning that his judicial overhaul was harming the […]