Ministers accepted urgency of need of those infected in 1970s and 1980s, who are dying at the rate of one every four days ‘My family was destroyed’: relatives of blood scandal victims get nothing Survivors of the contaminated blood scandal have been awarded interim government payments after a 40-year battle, […]
Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists A Saudi student at Leeds University who had returned home to the kingdom for a holiday has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for having a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissidents […]
Train driver was in process of reversing train out of danger when panicked passengers broke the windows to escape As many as 20 passengers have suffered burns, three of them seriously, after they jumped from a train when it was engulfed by a forest fire near Castellón in north-east Spain. […]
Investment is needed to help country recover from drought, say politicians and campaigners What are UK water company chief executives paid? Water company bosses should be stripped of their multimillion-pound bonuses until they fix leaks and build reservoirs, politicians and campaigners have said as the country is gripped by drought. […]
Unsealing the document could reveal the scope of the inquiry against Donald Trump, whose team is rattled by recent events The US Justice Department has asked a judge not to release the affidavit that gave the FBI probable cause to search Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, worsening distrust among top aides […]
Exclusive: Unions warn proposal to reduce payouts by a quarter as headcount shrinks could lead to industrial action Ministers are planning to reduce redundancy pay for civil servants while cutting 91,000 Whitehall jobs, setting up a bitter confrontation that unions warned may lead to legal and industrial action. The proposals […]
PM believed to be in Greece on second summer break in three weeks amid ‘zombie’ government accusations Politics live: latest updates Downing Street has admitted that Boris Johnson will not be working on his holiday unless he is needed urgently, after he faced criticism for taking a second break abroad […]
Supermarket Iceland is part of scheme to offer sums of £25 to £100 to buy everyday items A zero-interest loans scheme aimed at helping thousands of people who are struggling to put food on the table is being rolled out across the UK. The initiative, the result of a link-up […]
Keir Starmer says people won’t pay ‘a penny more’ and that plan would reduce inflation Keir Starmer has put a beefed-up £8bn windfall tax on energy company profits at the heart of a new plan to stop people having to pay “a penny more” on fuel bills this winter. The […]
As farms look further afield for labour, investigation finds Kent pickers saying they struggle to pay fees charged by unlicensed brokers Indonesian labourers picking berries on a farm that supplies Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Tesco say they have been saddled with debts of up to £5,000 by unlicensed […]