About 5,000 people have been evacuated from near the volcano on La Palma Island but no injuries reported A volcano has erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma, sending lava shooting into the air and streaming in rivers towards houses in two villages from the Cumbre Vieja national […]
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Exclusive: shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves tells how party would ‘start to end the unfairness’ in tax system Labour has announced plans to raise almost £500m by closing a tax loophole enjoyed by a small number of private equity fund managers. The shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said the proposal was one […]
Unison says thousands of ‘exhausted’ health workers are on brink of quitting for better paid jobs NHS staff have voted overwhelmingly to oppose the government’s 3% pay rise as Britain’s biggest health union warned thousands of workers are “fed up of being taken for granted”. Publishing the results of a […]
No cause for alarm now, says Kwasi Kwarteng as energy discussions are likened to early Covid crisis talks The government was scrambling on Saturday night to reassure Britons that rising gas prices would not plunge the country into an energy crisis, as ministers held a series of emergency meetings with […]
England’s deputy medical chief asked for data to be withheld unless British vaccine guinea pigs allowed to travel abroad • Coronavirus – latest updates• See all our coronavirus coverage England’s deputy chief medical officer asked ministers to withhold all UK clinical trial data from the EU if European countries continued […]
The four-person crew thanked mission control as they splashed down in the Atlantic Four space tourists ended their trailblazing trip to orbit on Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered […]
As France accuses the US and Australia of ‘lies and duplicity’, new UK foreign secretary faces major diplomatic incident on her first official overseas trip Liz Truss is heading for a furious diplomatic confrontation with France on her first trip abroad as foreign secretary, as anger mounts in Paris over […]
The company’s vice-president of global affairs said the paper had not presented the whole picture on the ‘difficult issues’ Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice-president of global affairs, has slammed the Wall Street Journal for reporting that the social media giant was aware of negative impacts of some of its products. Related: […]
Government announces re-opening of high schools for boys but makes no mention of girls The Taliban have effectively banned girls from secondary education in Afghanistan, by ordering high schools to re-open only for boys. Girls were not mentioned in Friday’s announcement, which means boys will be back at their desks […]
Exclusive: SPI-B scientists warn of lack of independent advice at a time when social norms are replacing laws Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Senior scientific advisers have publicly accused the government of sidelining behavioural experts and appearing unwilling to listen to “uncomfortable truths” on vaccine passports […]