Visit suggests announcement of UK-EU solution on Northern Ireland could come as early as Friday Rishi Sunak arrived in Belfast on Thursday night, in a sign that a deal on the Northern Ireland protocol is imminent. The foreign secretary, James Cleverly, will also travel to Brussels on Friday for talks […]
SNP scraps conference on first minister’s proposal to use next general election as ‘de facto referendum’ Senior figures in the Scottish National party believe Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation could delay their effort to stage another independence referendum by at least five years. The party’s national executive committee confirmed on Thursday […]
Strikes to begin on 16 March after union rejects offers from train operators and Network Rail The RMT union has announced further national strikes and wider action on the railways after rejecting offers from both train operators and Network Rail last week. The union’s 40,000 members across Network Rail and […]
Spend increases by 40% to $14m after dismissing 11,000 employees Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has said in a filing that it is increasing its spend on the personal security of chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg by $4m (£3.3m) to $14m, at a moment when the company has […]
Force says ‘individual vulnerabilities’ put Bulley, 45, in highest category since start of investigation into her disappearance Nicola Bulley was vulnerable and graded as a “high-risk” missing person the day she disappeared, owing to “some significant issues with alcohol”. In a press conference on Wednesday morning, Lancashire constabulary said Bulley, […]
The explosion, called a kilonova, created a rapidly expanding fireball of luminous matter before collapsing to form a black hole Astronomers have observed what might be the “perfect explosion”, a colossal and utterly spherical blast triggered by the merger of two very dense stellar remnants called neutron stars shortly before […]
Family members tell TMZ the actor, who rose to fame and sex symbol status in the 1960s, died after a short illness • A life in pictures• Peter Bradshaw on Raquel Welch: a strong and powerful personality with a rarely-tapped gift for comedy The actor Raquel Welch has died. She […]
Former party leader hits back after Keir Starmer says he would not be allowed to stand for Labour in next election Jeremy Corbyn has accused Keir Starmer of a “flagrant attack” on democracy by barring him from standing as a Labour candidate, as allies said he was likely to run […]
Scottish National party leader says she no longer has stamina to carry on in pressured and demanding role UK politics live – latest news updates Nicola Sturgeon has resigned as Scotland’s first minister in a surprise decision that has thrown the Scottish National party into turmoil, triggering its first leadership […]
Man, 49, from Manchester and woman, 20, from Oldham held after reports messages being sent to Wyre council members Two people have been arrested on suspicion of sending malicious communications to local councillors over the disappearance of Nicola Bulley, police have said. Lancashire police received reports over the weekend of […]