Report finds that 98 domestic abuse victims in England and Wales died by suspected suicide in 2023-2024 UK police to charge more abusers with manslaughter Domestic abusers are driving their victims to suicide, police have warned as they admitted to past mistakes and pledged to investigate more “hidden” cases of […]
Chancellor will announce plans to fund 18,000 social homes before fraught spring statement on Wednesday Rachel Reeves will plough £2bn into affordable housing in a bid to “sweeten the pill” of the spending cuts being announced at this week’s spring statement. The chancellor made the surprise announcement of the new […]
Security leak triggers bipartisan anger after Atlantic reveals officials inadvertently broadcast highly sensitive military plans White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist A catastrophic security leak is triggering bipartisan outrage after the Atlantic revealed that senior Trump administration officials accidentally broadcast highly sensitive military plans through a […]
Two other substations available to supply airport with electricity, according to chief executive John Pettigrew There was enough power for Heathrow to remain open during the entire period it was shut down on Friday, the head of National Grid has said. Speaking for the first time since a fire forced […]
‘You can’t cut your way to growth,’ says PCS head as Reeves confirms move to cut administrative costs by 15% by 2030 Rachel Reeves’s planned cuts of £2bn to government departments will hit frontline services from jobcentres to HMRC phone lines and efforts to cut the asylum backlog, a union […]
Ismail Barhoum said to have died in attack on Khan Younis, which was based on extensive intelligence, Israel says An Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza has killed five people, including a Hamas political leader and Palestinian medics, Hamas has said, in an attack that Israel said had targeted […]
Labour MP and Lib Dem leader express concern social media companies could be let off hook just as benefits are cut Keir Starmer has been warned against “appeasing” Donald Trump as he considers reducing a major tax for US tech companies while cutting disability benefits and public sector jobs. His […]
Landlords are left with no choice to offset looming tax rises introduced by the chancellor, says trade body Londoners might not bat an eyelid at paying £5 for a pint but the national average is poised to rise above that watermark for the first time, with publicans blaming tax rises […]
One killed and seven wounded in attack as freed hostages and families of those still held in Gaza urge end to fighting Israel carried out a strike in Tyre, south Lebanon, on Saturday, killing one and wounding seven people and endangering the shaky truce that ended a year-long conflict against […]
Anger over detention of Ekrem Imamoğlu becomes a touchstone for opposing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan When demonstrators gathered at Istanbul’s city hall last week in outrage at the arrest of mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, 26-year-old Azra said she was initially too scared to defy a ban on gatherings. As protests grew […]