Court documents contain admissions by officials that they were unable to control the situation at the Kent facility where 18,000 asylum seekers were illegally detained Racial abuse, physical assaults and no beds: life at Manston migrant centre Home Office officials have admitted that “we completely lost our grip” on the […]
Mossbourne academy accused of bullying and damaging children’s mental health as local authority asked to step in Parents have accused an academy school in east London of causing serious harm to children’s mental health, with teachers humiliating and “screaming” at pupils, and have urged the local authority to exercise extraordinary […]
Unmanned aerial systems seen over RAF bases in Suffolk and Norfolk but US air force does not know if they were hostile A number of unidentified drones have been spotted over three airbases in Britain, the US air force has confirmed. “Small unmanned aerial systems” were seen between 20 and […]
Former PM, whose daughter died when she was 11 days old, says debate is moving too fast and calls for commission on palliative care • Gordon Brown: We need better end-of-life care, not assisted dying The former prime minister Gordon Brown has declared his opposition to the legalisation of assisted […]
Chancellor understood to be determined to keep policy despite Treasury analysing ways to soften impact Rachel Reeves is holding firm against a U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers, despite the Treasury analysing ways of softening the impact. The chancellor is understood to be determined not to drop the policy even […]
Ukrainian president calls testing of nuclear-capable weapon on his country’s territory an ‘international crime’ Vladimir Putin has vowed to launch more strikes using an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile as Ukraine decried the testing of the nuclear-capable weapon on its territory as an “international crime”. Speaking at a defence conference on […]
Gus gained 3.5kg during his 20-day stopover before being released back into the Southern Ocean on Wednesday Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Gus, an emperor penguin who gained international fame after travelling about 3,000km from Antarctica to the West Australian coast, is on his […]
McGregor ordered to pay nearly €250,000 in damages to Nikita Hand after he was accused of 2018 assault A jury at a civil trial at Ireland’s high court has found that the Irish martial arts fighter Conor McGregor assaulted a woman who had accused him of raping her at a […]
President says missile was in reply to Kyiv’s strikes in Russia with western missiles, and appears to directly threaten US and UK Ukraine war – latest updates Vladimir Putin has said Russia fired an experimental ballistic missile at a military site in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday morning, […]
Ex-Florida attorney general is longtime Trump ally and was one of his lawyers during first impeachment trial Donald Trump announced that he would nominate for attorney general Pam Bondi, the former Florida state attorney general, hours after the former representative Matt Gaetz withdrew in the face of opposition from Senate […]