PM says he is comfortable with full uplift on state pensions, which cost the taxpayer £124bn this year Rishi Sunak has pledged to stick to the pension triple lock despite signs the guarantee to older people will cost the Treasury an extra £10bn next year – £2.5bn more than estimated […]
Month: August 2023
Fishing vessel with 100 asylum seekers was travelling from Senegal to Spain’s Canary Islands More than 60 people are believed to have died after the boat they were travelling on from Senegal was found off Cape Verde, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday. At least 63 asylum […]
England manager takes side to second successive major final ‘We’re still growing and getting better,’ she says after 3-1 win The England manager, Sarina Wiegman, was almost lost for words after she guided the Lionesses to their first World Cup final with a 3-1 win against Australia, asking: “Am I […]
Sixteen freight carriages run off rails, tearing up eight kilometres of train track and leaving engineering marvel inaugurated in 2016 unable to take passengers Train passengers between north and southernmost Switzerland will have to skip the world’s longest train tunnel and go back to the longer scenic route for months, […]
Bar Council chair says Conservatives ‘crossed line’ with dossier that led to threats against immigration solicitor ‘An activist blob’: Tory party attacks on lawyers – a timeline Political attacks on “lefty lawyers” risk coarsening political debate and could lead to the abuse of more legal professionals, the head of Britain’s […]
Exclusive: No action taken despite 2007 discovery of searchable male DNA profile on rape victim’s top that did not match Malkinson’s Rape, DNA and injustice: a timeline of the Andrew Malkinson case Police and prosecutors in the Andrew Malkinson case knew there was another man’s DNA on the victim’s clothes […]
Republican says no one has produced evidence of fraud in court of law despite ex-president’s vow to present ‘irrefutable’ proof Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, insisted on Tuesday that the 2020 presidential election in his state “was not stolen” in an apparent defense of the latest criminal indictment of Donald […]
Thousands of images from second world war include bomb damage to Old Trafford and troops at leisure Black-and-white aerial photographs offering a bird’s eye view of England as it changed during the second world war are being made available to the public for the first time. The 3,600 images include […]
Health secretary suggested patients could go directly to diagnostic test or clinician to ease ‘bottleneck’ in NHS system Patients with cancer symptoms could bypass their GP in the future and go straight for a scan, the health secretary has suggested, in the latest “radical” attempt by the government to cut […]
Trio detained in February after counter-terrorism investigation are accused of working for Moscow’s security services, BBC reports Three Bulgarian nationals suspected of spying for Russia while living in the UK have been arrested and charged, police have said. The defendants were among five people detained in February after a long-running […]