Exclusive: Major donor questioning ‘ability to continue support’ for party amid doubt over Birmingham to Manchester leg A prominent Conservative donor has threatened to stop supporting the party if Rishi Sunak scraps the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2, as ministers consider pulling the plug on the multibillion-pound project. Fears […]
Return of the largest asteroid sample ever to be recovered marks the culmination of a seven-year journey Sitting isolated in the arid landscape of the Utah desert, its orange and white parachute cast aside, the Osiris-Rex capsule was a picture of stillness. Yet all around, scientists were swinging into action, […]
Officers in Greater London’s police force have put down weapons in protest at colleague’s murder charge The Metropolitan police has called on the SAS to provide counter-terrorism support after firearms officers downed their weapons in protest at the charging of their colleague with murder. Suella Braverman ordered a review of […]
Governing body suppressed personal apology from judge in question following incident 18 months ago Gymnastics Ireland suppressed a personal apology letter to a young gymnast whose treatment at a medal ceremony sparked international outrage, and have refused to acknowledge or tackle systemic racism in the sport, her family say. Video […]
Michael Alford, 59, of Harlan county was moving a bag of potting soil when bees attacked him from inside the package A Kentucky man has died after a swarm of bees attacked him on his porch. On Monday, the 59-year-old man whom local reports identified as Michael Alford was moving […]
Celebrities lend their voices to ‘kick the Tories out’ as the party gathers in Bournemouth for the first time in three years The Liberal Democrats have kicked off their annual conference with a call for people to vote tactically in the general election to remove Conservative MPs, until proportional representation […]
Pool B: South Africa 8-13 Ireland No 1 side see off defending champions in physical encounter The Rugby World Cup still has five more weeks to run and this was only a pool game. It is almost impossible to conceive, even so, of a heavier-duty occasion than this impossibly physical […]
At least 70 police firearms officers are reconsidering carrying a gun after marksman to go on trial over death of Chris Kaba Dozens of Metropolitan police firearms officers are refusing to go out on armed patrols after one of their colleagues was charged with murder. More than 70 police marksmen […]
Sources say the PM wants to scrap the section to Manchester before the party’s annual gathering in the city next weekend Rishi Sunak is facing a huge backlash from senior Tories and business leaders amid signs he is ready to scrap the northern section of the HS2 high speed rail […]
Exclusive: Poll finds fewer than a quarter of people trust PM to tackle climate crisis after policy U-turn Only 22% of people trust Rishi Sunak to tackle the climate crisis after his announcement that he will weaken the UK’s net zero policies. An exclusive poll for the Guardian found that […]