Commons spending watchdog says out of 20 projects, 13 were running late by a cumulative total of 21 years The Ministry of Defence’s system of procurement is “broken” and is repeatedly wasting billions in taxpayers’ money, according to a scathing assessment by a watchdog committee of MPs. The Public Accounts […]
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Police say four-year-old recovered after they broke into a house about 1am and a man is in custody Cleo Smith live updates: Western Australia police speak after missing four-year-old girl found alive Follow live updates of all today’s other news Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing […]
Adams, who defeated Republican and founder of the Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa, will become city’s second Black mayor Former police officer Eric Adams will be the next mayor of New York City, after the Democrat defeated Curtis Sliwa in Tuesday’s election. Adams was on course to easily beat Sliwa, the […]
Study reveals scale of impact that poverty, racism and discrimination has on women and babies Thousands of babies in England are being born prematurely, smaller than expected or stillborn because of “alarming” and “devastating” socioeconomic and racial inequalities across the country, a landmark study has suggested. Both are known risk […]
UK was braced for immediate measures but French president says ‘talks need to continue’ France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, has shelved his threat to clog up UK exports and ban its fishers from landing catches at French ports from midnight in a dispute over access to British fishing waters, as his […]
Historic declaration at Cop26 commits countries to ending major cause of CO2 emissions World leaders have agreed a deal that aims to halt and reverse global deforestation over the next decade as part of a multibillion-dollar package to tackle human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Xi Jinping, Jair Bolsonaro and Joe Biden […]
UK experts say accusing Giuffre of seeking a ‘payday’ at prince’s expense is risky Prince Andrew’s attacks on Virginia Giuffre’s character in an attempt to get her sexual assault lawsuit against him thrown out may fail and risk doing further damage to his reputation, British lawyers have said. Having initially […]
Potentially fatal, hemlock water dropwort smells and looks like parsnip Plants that look and smell like parsnips but are highly poisonous and potentially deadly have been washed up on beaches in Cumbria after the recent stormy weather. Coastguards have warned people to avoid the plants called hemlock water dropwort (Oenanthe […]
Number of injuries not yet known but rail services are suspended in the area Emergency services have scrambled to respond to a collision of two trains near Salisbury on Sunday night, in a critical incident that left one train carriage derailed. About 50 firefighters from Dorset and Wiltshire, Hampshire and […]
Manufacturing, construction, tech and logistics workers are most confident about finding a new role Almost a quarter of workers are actively planning to change employers in the next few months, a report has claimed, as part of a “great resignation” prompted by a high number of vacancies and burnout caused […]