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Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:54:46 GMTLabour ready to back vaccine passports for sports events, says Keir Starmer
Party’s backing could save Boris Johnson from humiliating defeat in Commons
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:06:35 GMTBoris Johnson news – live: PM ends isolation, as doctors mull striking over ‘bitterly disappointing’ pay rise
Latest developments as they happen
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:06:08 GMTGovernment refuses to rule out ban on unvaccinated students returning to university
Boris Johnson said to be ‘raging’ about low rates of vaccination among young people
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:02:27 GMTPassengers rescued from submerged bus by volunteers in rubber dinghy during flash floods
Locals wear bin bags over feet to wade through water
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:30:14 GMTChange ‘absurd’ rules so MPs can accuse each other of lying, says John Bercow
Follows Labour MP Dawn Butler’s ban for saying Boris Johnson had lied ‘over and over’
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:15:35 GMTUK government seeks to ditch China’s state-owned nuclear power firm
Ministers exploring ways of removing CGN from future projects, Whitehall source confirms
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 21:34:34 GMTScottish veteran climber dies in avalanche on K2 mountain while ‘doing what he loved most’
He is said to have ‘lived his life with the courage of his convictions’
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 21:33:05 GMTGovernment has not tried to assess impact of universal credit cut on poverty or inequality, ministers admit
DWP says it is too hard to work out impact of its policy
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 21:26:34 GMTLoch Lomond: Two adults and child die in water in Scotland
Five people have died after getting into trouble in the water since Friday
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 19:07:52 GMTFormer Tory councillor got £120m ‘VIP lane’ government contract for face shields now lying unused
The shields could not be used at all last year during the peak of the first and second waves of the pandemic
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 18:35:01 GMTSadiq Khan’s party tells him to halt ‘polluting’ Silvertown Tunnel in overwhelming vote
London Labour’s regional conference passes motion calling on Mayor to cancel PFI project
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 18:24:27 GMTMan dies in hospital days after being handcuffed by police
Footage recorded by police’s body cameras will be reviewed
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:55:47 GMTMan arrested after pedestrians hit by car on Blackpool promenade
Police are appealing for the pedestrians to get in touch
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:40:00 GMTUK weather: The latest Met Office forecast
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Sun, 25 Jul 2021 16:29:09 GMT‘There is a lack of trust in police if you are a mother of Black boys’: Woman whose son was shot dead says officers interrogated her after he died
Exclusive: ‘They have reduced his memorial to two black bin liners left at the roadside in their efforts to dehumanise,’ Angella Kelson says in first media interview
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:08:03 GMT‘We were built on immigration’: Kent coast reacts after record-breaking week for asylum seekers arriving in UK
A total of 8,452 migrants have reached the UK’s shores this year, already exceeding 2020’s total of 8,410
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:54:58 GMTFunfair ride collapse caused by ‘misuse of equipment’ by teenagers, amusement park says
Behaviour by several teenagers on the ride caused the incident and will be investigated by the PSNI, Planet Fun has said
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:31:06 GMTCovid vaccines ‘thrown away as not enough people coming forward’
‘It is a shame because poorer countries are desperate for them,’ one anonymous vaccinator says
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 08:23:32 GMTLabour recruiting staff on insecure contracts while making mass redundancies
Exclusive: Party denies using ‘fire and rehire’ tactics previously criticised by Keir Starmer
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:42:55 GMTRicky Gervais lobbies for ban on all animal experiments after calls for breeding centre to close
Fellow actor Peter Egan calls for inflicting suffering on laboratory animals to be made illegal
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:06:52 GMTSajid Javid deletes tweet and apologises for saying people had been ‘cowering’ from Covid
Health Secretary admits to ‘poor choice of words’
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 11:45:05 GMTFamily ‘distraught’ after dying elderly woman had wedding rings stolen in hospital
This is the second incidence of rings being stolen from the fingers of hospitalised elderly women in Essex
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 11:03:43 GMTJoey Barton charged with assault after woman suffered head injury
The football manager’s club, Bristol Rovers, is yet to release a statement
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 08:06:14 GMTUK government orders councils to display EU flag as condition of receiving Covid high street cash
Government accused of ‘absurd hypocrisy’ for taking Brussels cash with strings
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 09:03:30 GMTSajid Javid told to apologise for saying people have been ‘cowering’ from Covid-19
Health Secretary told he owes shielding clinically vulnerable people an apology