The deputy PM is to announce new rules to boost affordable homes as a £20bn shortfall in UK public finances is revealed • Angela Rayner: Labour’s radical housing plan will be smart, tailored and strategic A sweeping overhaul of planning rules to trigger the building of many more affordable homes […]
Year: 2024
New video apparently shows violent build-up to incident in which officer allegedly stamped on man during arrest The mayor of Greater Manchester urged people “not to rush to judgment” over the Manchester airport incident after new footage appeared to show a violent and frenetic lead-up. Protests erupted in Rochdale and […]
Israeli PM blames Hezbollah for deadly strike on football pitch amid daylong barrage from Lebanon Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah would “pay a hefty price” after a strike on a football pitch in a remote town in the occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people […]
Pramila Jayapal, progressive Seattle representative, says of ‘undeniable’ enthusiasm: ‘I have not seen anything like this’ Kamala Harris pledged to earn the votes of young people this election, as the vice-president and newly elevated presumptive Democratic nominee rides a gen Z-powered wave of online “Kamalove” . In a virtual address […]
Cyclist Anna Henderson squeezes out rival to come second as divers Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen make a splash Team GB was celebrating its best start to an Olympic Games in over four decades as Anna Henderson claimed silver in the women’s road race time trial and divers Yasmin […]
An armada of boats carrying athletes along the Seine, dangling dancers and parading drag queens – all under torrential rain The Paris Olympic Games opened on Friday night with a high-kitsch, riverside spectacle, as an armada of boats carried athletes along the Seine, dancers dangled from high poles, drag queens […]
Singer, who cancelled tour dates as a result of stiff person syndrome, makes comeback with Edith Piaf rendition Céline Dion made a triumphant return to the stage at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. The star, who has been diagnosed with the neurological disorder stiff person syndrome, sang Edith […]
Five highlights of an innovative, and very wet, Olympic opening ceremony in Paris The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games – the first ever to be organised outside a stadium – has unfurled on the Seine River against a spectacular backdrop of the capital’s most celebrated monuments. Here are […]
Arsonists used crude methods but disruption to opening of the Olympic Games in Paris was severe It was about 1.15am when the SNCF maintenance workers, carrying out repairs by moonlight, spotted the group of people a little further down the railway line near a signal box outside the sleepy village […]
Olympics opening ceremony creates sporting armada of world’s top athletes but locals bemoan lack of access “C’est Zizou!” went the cry as one of France’s most beloved sons appeared on the screen next to the Seine – and with a blaze of red white and blue, they were off. As […]