Sunak insists Rwanda is safe country to be sent to after court rules in favour of charities and 10 asylum seekers The bitter legal battle over the government’s flagship immigration policy is set to reach new heights after Downing Street insisted it would fight to overturn a ruling that sending […]
Month: June 2023
NHS England could have 12,500 extra doctors and nurses a year by 2028 under the service’s first long-term workforce plan Thousands more doctors and nurses will be trained in England every year as part of a government push to plug the huge workforce gaps that plague almost all NHS services. […]
Police fire teargas at rioters as 6,000 march through Nanterre to protest against shooting of 17-year-old Violence has erupted for a third consecutive night in France as Emmanuel Macron struggles to contain mounting anger after the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy of north African descent during a traffic […]
German man says he first contacted Scotland Yard about suspect Christian Brückner in 2008 The man who tipped off police about Christian Brückner, the main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has said his initial approach to the Metropolitan police in the year after she disappeared was ignored and […]
Unsafe buildings force thousands of children into temporary spaces or remote learning Pupils across England are being taught in church and village halls, temporary classrooms and remotely at home, as crumbling school buildings are ordered to shut because of to safety concerns, an investigation has revealed. In some cases, where […]
Minister tells Guardian government has ‘no grasp’ of cost involved in preventing possible collapse The government has “no true grasp on the costs” involved in preventing a collapse of Thames Water, with estimates presented to ministers and regulators suggesting the company could be facing a hole of £10bn in its […]
Fees for accessing UK seabeds help boost profits to £443m while King Charles says some of surplus will go towards public good The crown estate has generated record profits of almost half a billion pounds from Britain’s offshore windfarms, as talks continue over how much of the windfall should be […]
Exclusive: Extraordinary levels of absence fuelled by anxiety, illness and cost of living crisis ‘His safe space is at home’: parents on why their children are absent from school One in 10 GCSE-year pupils have been absent from school in England each day this year, up 70% since before the […]
The sound comes from the merging of supermassive black holes across the universe, according to scientists Astronomers have detected a rumbling “cosmic bass note” of gravitational waves thought to be produced by the slow-motion mergers of supermassive black holes across the universe. The observations are the first detections of low-frequency […]
Pieces of mangled craft brought ashore in Newfoundland, Canada, after five killed on voyage to Titanic wreck Presumed human remains have been recovered from within the wreckage of the Titan, the submersible that imploded on a voyage to the Titanic earlier this month, the US Coast Guard reported on Wednesday. […]