Exclusive: Campaigners say calls to redraw rules are cynical attempt to secure ‘effective immunity’ for officers Police chiefs have formally asked the government to make it harder to investigate and prosecute officers after the fatal shooting of Chris Kaba led to a Scotland Yard sergeant being acquitted of murder, the […]
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Defra body, created to overhaul system amid public fury, may force firms to be run for public good rather than shareholder returns New water regulator must create environmental enforcer that is feared | Nils Pratley Water companies in England could be banned from making a profit under plans for a […]
IDF says strikes in Beirut in early October also killed the head of the militant group’s intelligence branch Israel has confirmed the killing of the presumed next leader of Hezbollah in an airstrike on southern Beirut earlier in October. In a statement on Tuesday evening, the Israeli military said strikes […]
Justin Welby says ancestor owned enslaved people in Jamaica and was paid compensation upon abolition Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has revealed that his ancestor owned enslaved people on a plantation in Jamaica and was compensated by the British government when slavery was abolished. Welby disclosed his ancestral links […]
Loans will be repaid using interest generated by $300bn of frozen Russian assets held in the west Britain is to lend Ukraine an additional £2.26bn and allow Kyiv to spend the money on weapons to fight off the Russian invasion as part of a wider $50bn (£38.5bn) loan programme expected […]
Fifteen other people treated in hospital after collision between services travelling in opposite directions to and from Shrewsbury A man died after two trains collided at low speed in Wales on Monday evening, police have said. A further 15 people were taken to hospital with injuries not believed to be […]
Martyn Blake shot Kaba, who was unarmed, in 2022, saying he feared Kaba would use car to kill officers What we now know about the 13 seconds before Chris Kaba was shot A Metropolitan police firearms officer who shot an unarmed suspect in the head has been acquitted of murder. […]
Sahel hospital evacuated despite Israel saying it would not attack it although at least four people died in nearby strikes Middle East crisis: live updates Israel has accused Hezbollah of keeping hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker under a hospital in the southern suburbs […]
Health secretary launches consultation on government’s move to transform NHS in England from ‘analogue to digital’ Wes Streeting is to unveil plans for portable medical records giving every NHS patient all their information stored digitally in one place on Monday, despite fears over breaching privacy and creating a target for […]
Hundreds evacuate after Israeli military says it will strike areas linked to Al-Qard Al-Hassan association, a US-sanctioned banking system See all our Middle East coverage Hundreds of Beirut residents fled their homes on Sunday night as blasts were heard across its southern suburbs after Israel’s military said it was preparing […]