Exclusive: Shadow health secretary discusses plans for waiting lists and patient safety if Labour wins election NHS managers who silence and scapegoat whistleblowers will be banned from working in the service, the shadow health secretary has said, as part of a determined drive by Labour to eradicate a culture of […]
Month: June 2024
Water quality testing by campaigners shows levels up to 27 times acceptable limit for bathing as rowers told to take precautions Harmful E coli bacteria have been found at very high levels at Henley, days before elite rowers compete in the international regatta there. Water quality testing in the Henley […]
Trump and Biden square off in first presidential debate as each looks to break through in a deadlocked race Biden v Trump: the first presidential debate of 2024, explained When was the last time two US presidents faced each other in an election? Several hundred protesters have taken over a […]
Early onset ischaemic stroke more likely to affect adolescents with low cognitive function, study finds Teenagers with lower levels of mental ability may be three times more likely to experience a stroke before the age of 50, research suggests. The association held true even after accounting for a range of […]
Andrew Parker, who is canvassing in Clacton, also described Islam as ‘a cult’ and suggested asylum seekers should be shot A Reform UK activist in the constituency where Nigel Farage is standing has been secretly filmed making extremely racist comments about Rishi Sunak, as well as using Islamophobic and other […]
The Labour leader said placing bets on the future of the country showed the ‘wrong instinct’ Five things we learned from the final Sunak-Starmer debate before polling Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have clashed over their responses to the Westminster gambling scandal, as it emerged the Metropolitan police is to […]
Luis Arce said the country’s democracy was at stake after army troops seized control of La Paz’s political heart and military police storm palace Bolivia’s President Luis Arce appears to have seen off an attempt to topple his leftwing government after a dramatic afternoon in which heavily armed troops, seemingly […]
CPS says woman had epileptic seizure at wheel and had no prior diagnosis of medical condition A woman who crashed her Land Rover into a preparatory school and killed two eight-year-old girls will not be charged after it was found she had an epileptic seizure at the wheel. Nuria Sajjad […]
Southgate’s England topped group C with five points Winner of last-16 game will play Italy or Switzerland England will play Slovakia in the last 16 of Euro 2024. The two teams will meet in Gelsenkirchen on Sunday for a place in the quarter-finals, where Switzerland or Italy awaits. Gareth Southgate’s […]
Introduction of new syllabus may be reason number of girls taking subject more than halved in eight years, academics say The number of girls in England studying for a GCSE in computing has more than halved in less than a decade, prompting warnings about the “dominance of men in shaping […]