Association of Convenience Stores urges chancellor to provide more financial support for small shops Thousands of corner shops will be forced to close due to surging energy costs unless the government steps in with emergency support, a trade body has said. The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has written to […]
Move could see synchronised strikes in autumn as new prime minister takes office Britain is facing a wave of coordinated industrial action by striking unions this autumn in protest at the escalating cost of living crisis, the Observer can reveal. A series of motions tabled by the country’s biggest unions […]
Two men, aged 36 and 33, had been arrested on suspicion of murder after nine-year-old was shot in her home Police have released on bail two men arrested on suspicion of murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was shot dead in her home in Liverpool. A 36-year-old man from Huyton was […]
Party would insulate broadcaster from political pressure, says shadow culture secretary, as Liz Truss prepares to wage war on it Labour has pledged to strengthen the BBC’s political independence and retain it as a publicly-owned, public service broadcaster at the heart of British life, amid signs that a Tory government […]
Dramatic move shows Mark Zuckerberg ‘desperate to avoid being questioned over cover-up’, says Observer journalist who exposed scandal Facebook has dramatically agreed to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for allowing Cambridge Analytica access to the private data of tens of millions of users, four years after the Observer exposed the […]
A Ukrainian woman posed as a Rothschild to gain access to the Florida resort, heightening fears over security lapses A second foreign national is being investigated by US authorities for gaining access to Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida resort which is at the center of an FBI probe over missing classified […]
Experts say 80% price cap increase will plunge people into destitution and cause avoidable deaths Millions of households are bracing for a winter catastrophe of rising energy bills that experts say will plunge people into destitution and cause an increase in avoidable deaths without urgent government support. After Britain’s energy […]
Exclusive: London mayor claims ‘bias’ behind Tom Winsor inquiry finding ex-commissioner treated unfairly An official inquiry will find that the mayor of London wrongly ousted Cressida Dick as commissioner of the Metropolitan police, the Guardian has learned. The findings come from a special commission conducted by Sir Tom Winsor, the […]
Extensively redacted affidavit used to justify the search of the ex-president’s Florida resort was unsealed on Friday The FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this month after speaking to a significant number of witnesses and finding probable cause that national defense information and evidence of obstruction existed at […]
The boys, thought to be brothers, were on holiday at the Eiserbachsee in Simmerath, near Aachen German police say they are investigating the death of two British boys who drowned in a lake in western Germany on Thursday evening. The boys, aged seven and nine, were pulled from the Eiserbachsee […]