Guardian audit since August 2020 shows 19 Conservative MPs and nine Labour were beneficiaries On 7 July, the Conservative MP for Blackpool South, Scott Benton, took his seat at Wembley to watch England take on Denmark in the semi-final of Euro 2020, courtesy of the Ladbrokes Coral owner, Entain – […]
Storms forced scorpions from their hiding places into many houses across the province of Aswan More than 500 people have been hospitalised by scorpion stings in southern Egypt after storms forced the creatures out of their hiding places and into houses, state-run media has reported. Over the weekend, the province […]
Joint statement says authorities are determined to make the route ‘unviable’ for migrants entering the UK from France UK and French authorities are determined “to prevent 100% of crossings” over the Channel and make the route “unviable” for migrants hoping to enter Britain from France, it was announced on Monday. […]
Men detained under Terrorism Act after incident outside hospital that also injured taxi driver Three men have been arrested under terror legislation after a passenger was killed when the taxi he was in exploded outside Liverpool Women’s hospital. The men – aged 29, 26 and 21 – were detained in […]
Exclusive: handover delays across England are also causing permanent harm to those needing urgent care People are dying in the back of ambulances and up to 160,000 more a year are coming to harm because they are stuck outside hospitals unable to be offloaded to A&E, a bombshell report has […]
Cop26 president says nations will have to ‘explain to climate-vulnerable countries why they did what they did’ India and China will “have to explain themselves to poor nations” after watering down the Glasgow climate pact, warned the Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, adding that their actions had left him “deeply frustrated”. […]
Exclusive: Oxfordshire-based Emergex gets go-ahead for trials in Switzerland for skin patch vaccine Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage An Oxfordshire-based company will soon start clinical trials of a second-generation vaccine against Covid-19, an easy-to-administer skin patch that uses T-cells to kill infected cells and could offer […]
Living Wage Foundation’s minimum rate rises by 40p to £9.90 an hour, largely due to higher fuel costs and rents More than 300,000 workers in the UK will get a pay rise from Monday as the charity behind the voluntary real living wage raises the minimum hourly rate amid growing […]
Glasgow climate pact adopted despite last-minute intervention by India to water down language on phasing out dirtiest fossil fuel Cop26: the goal of 1.5C of climate heating is alive, but only just Countries have agreed a deal on the climate crisis that its backers said would keep within reach the […]
Exclusive: boosters to be offered five months after second dose as part of major change to vaccination rollout programme Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The government is to allow people to have their Covid booster jab after five months, a month sooner than under the current […]