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Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:56:45 GMTTeacher union threatens strike action if government fails to offer ‘inflation plus’ pay rise
‘We can no longer stand by while you run both education and educators into the ground’
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:53:55 GMTState pension to rise 10 per cent next year with return of triple lock despite warnings on pay
Government defends restoring triple lock while insisting public sector workers receive below-inflation pay rises
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:52:07 GMTWoman, 66, told she ‘doesn’t qualify’ for state pension due to National Insurance loophole
Mother missed out on National Insurance payments while raising five children
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:50:42 GMTThree arrested after boxer Amir Khan robbed at gunpoint
The 35-year-old had his £70,000 watch stolen during the incident in east London in April.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:48:02 GMTGates to Glastonbury officially opened by festival’s founder Michael Eavis
The festival is returning for its 50th anniversary after a three-year hiatus due to Covid-19.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:42:17 GMTThree ex-officers banned from policing over racist, sexist WhatsApp chats
One joked he was ‘out raping’, misconduct files show
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:39:55 GMTUK weather: Britons brace for 28C temperatures but more rain is on the way
Most of the country will continue to enjoy clear and sunny spells throughout Wednesday
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:39:23 GMTBoris Johnson news – live: Brexit ‘will keep wages down’ as inflation soars
Real pay set to be £470 less per worker each year, economists say
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:26:54 GMTMissing boy, 13, found dead in River Taff after major emergency search operation
Teenager was with other children when he went missing
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:26:44 GMTMinistry of Defence spending ‘astounding’ £300,000 a year on focus groups and polls
But ministry will not say what it is asking
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:25:30 GMTChannel crossings resume following quiet weekend
A total of 49 people were brought to Dover on Tuesday.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:06:43 GMTBrexit will keep wages down and make UK poorer in decade ahead, study finds
Real pay set to be £470 lower per worker each year, say top economists
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:00:17 GMT Forty unemployed young people hired after Skill Up Step Up training
The young people are part of the first wave to benefit from the companies who pledged to our campaign
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:00:13 GMTStrictly’s Shirley Ballas: Talking about suicide might have saved my big brother
The dancer has backed The Last Photo project, which features the final photographs of people to have died by suicide, including her brother David.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:56:59 GMTLondon mayor calls for free NHS care for all UK residents to help ‘prevent another Windrush scandal’
Currently some migrants, mainly Black and Asian, can face being charged upfront fees for healthcare that is not deemed urgent or immediately necessary, or be charged retrospectively for urgent treatment.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:52:54 GMTSchool bans pupils from any physical contact including hugs in ‘no contact’ rule
The school has been accused of turning children into ‘robots’
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:46:01 GMTAngry commuter blocks bus too full to stop for new passengers during rail strike
Tempers were running high in the capital on the first of a series of transport strike days this week
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:34:47 GMTGovernment cannot allow ‘militant’ unions to ‘win argument’, Dominic Raab says
Deputy PM says government ‘cannot relent’ after first day of industrial action
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:18:07 GMTRiver sewage causes stink in by-election campaign as Lib Dem candidate’s son ‘falls ill after swimming’
Exclusive: Tiverton and Honiton hopeful Richard Foord said 12-year-old son left vomiting after taking dip in polluted River Culm
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:52:42 GMTBoy, 13, found dead in River Taff after major search operation
The teenager was with other children when he went missing.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:30:53 GMTWindrush claimant still waiting for payout after ‘complex’ case abandoned
Exclusive: Gloria Fletcher, 62, said she was ‘ballistic’ when she was told her claim is awaiting a new case worker after being ‘archived’
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:29:43 GMTParents ‘feel powerless’ as they’re locked out of their children’s devices
Adults believe their offspring will come to them if they’re bullied – but survey suggests otherwise
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:19:23 GMTInflation hits fresh 40-year high -OLD
UK inflation, the rate at which prices rise, climbed 9.1 per cent in the 12 months to May, a fresh 40 year high.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 05:00:10 GMTWindrush monument met with mixed reaction amid ongoing calls for compensation
Exclusive: ‘Windrush Day will continue to be bittersweet as the scandal is still present and the needs of the survivors have not been met’
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 03:48:33 GMTWhat the papers say – June 22
The war of words between unions, Labour and the Government over industrial action rages across Britain’s front pages.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 01:45:56 GMTDuke of York and ‘dubious’ peers ‘could be stripped of their titles’
Rachael Maskell, Labour MP for York Central, is seeking to address the gap in the law via her Removal of Titles Bill.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 01:45:12 GMTGlastonbury fans set to experience weather of ‘two halves’
The annual music festival kicks off today after a three-year break due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 01:45:09 GMTCharles to meet survivors and perpetrators of Rwanda genocide before CHOGM
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting brings together leaders from 54 nations.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:02:13 GMTFamily of couple murdered by soldier neighbour fear their young children won’t remember ‘wonderful’ parents
Collin Reeves, 35, stabbed Stephen Chapple, 36, and Jennifer Chapple, 33, in a frenzied attack in their home
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:03:31 GMTOne in four first-time buyers is paying stamp duty, study says
The HomeOwners Alliance said there was a risk first-time buyers become ‘a taxation cash cow’
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:01:00 GMTEnergy supplier collapses likely to cost around £2.7bn, report finds
Failures of energy companies were caused by high prices, but were made more likely by regulator Ofgem, the National Audit Office said.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:01:00 GMTChildren in care ‘moving between placements a thousand times every week’
Young people with experience of being in care will gather in Parliament on Wednesday to demand radical reform of the children’s social care system.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:01:00 GMTAround one in four first-time buyers paying stamp duty
There is a real risk of first-time buyers becoming a ‘taxation cash cow’, according to the HomeOwners Alliance.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:01:00 GMTDisabled households pushed into debt by rising cost of living, charity warns
Government cost-of-living support will only offer temporary relief for disabled people and their family carers, according to the charity Sense.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:01:00 GMTChineke! Junior Orchestra to mark 250 years since landmark legal slavery case
The Chineke! Junior Orchestra is made up of ethnically diverse musicians aged between 11 and 22.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:01:00 GMTYoungsters who should have got child support ‘failed’ by ministers
Thousands of children are still not getting the money they need from non-resident parents, committee chairwoman warns.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:01:00 GMT‘Mass exodus’ of GPs could put patients at risk, medics warn
Figures show that almost 19,000 GPs are planning to leave the profession.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:01:00 GMTDreams and courage of Windrush generation honoured with new statue
The monument will be revealed at Waterloo Station on Wednesday to mark Windrush Day.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:01:00 GMTModerna unveils plans for research and manufacturing centre in the UK
It is hoped British patients will be able to benefit from new developments in mRNA technology.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:01:00 GMTWorld’s first IVF baby calls out ‘postcode lottery’ of care
A new poll suggests the public are broadly supportive of providing IVF care on the NHS.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:53:29 GMTEuropean decisions halting Rwanda deportations could be ignored under Raab plans
The Deputy Prime Minister wants the successor to the Human Rights Act to assert British courts do not always need to follow case law from Strasbourg.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:46:22 GMTPCSO left with serious injuries after ‘targeted attack’ in Esher
The off-duty officer was stabbed in Esher on Tuesday afternoon, Surrey Police said.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:28:01 GMTArthur Scargill joins striking rail workers on picket line
Arthur Scargill was former prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s nemesis
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:13:54 GMTHeatwave to end in thunder and rain as Glastonbury-goers warned to pack wellies
Met Office Meteorologist Alex Burkill told the PA news agency that Wednesday will see highs of 28C to 29C.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:07:15 GMTDominic Raab denies assault on Human Rights Act is ‘racist’ and risks fresh Brexit clash
Deputy prime minister accuses critics of lacking ’common sense’ and inflating risk of clash
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 21:45:54 GMTMan arrested after woman and child ‘stabbed to death’ in north London
Emergency services found a woman and child with stab wounds
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 21:43:26 GMTYorkshire helicopter crash victims named by police
Ian Macdonald, 66, and Admarsu Birhan, 16, died in the crash, police confirmed
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 21:18:26 GMT13th floor blaze in block of flats under control
The London Fire Brigade says one of its 64-metre turntable ladders helped to combat the blaze in a 15-storey block of flats.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:14:18 GMT‘They’re keeping me here like a criminal’: Asylum seekers still locked up after failed Rwanda flight
Ministers accused of subjecting vulnerable people to ‘cruel experiment’
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 21:05:49 GMTPatrick Stewart urges MSPs to support bid to legalise assisted suicide
The Star Trek and X-Men star said terminally ill people should not be forced to end their lives in pain.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 20:59:18 GMTBulgarian PM appeals for support ahead of no-confidence vote
Bulgarian lawmakers have started debating a no-confidence motion against the minority government, on the eve of the vote that could well topple centrist Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, elected just months ago on pledges to fight corruption
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 20:31:24 GMTCharles and Camilla arrive in Rwanda as Commonwealth heads meet
Charles will represent the Queen at the global summit of prime ministers and presidents in Kigali.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 20:29:00 GMTCollin Reeves: Ex-soldier who murdered neighbours in parking row jailed for 38 years
The former soldier had used a ceremonial dagger to attack his neighbours in their own home
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 20:18:55 GMTMan arrested after woman and child die with stab wounds in north London
A 37-year-old man has been arrested following the incident in Barnet.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:56:25 GMTBlackford says lessons will be learned after MP’s ‘inappropriate’ behaviour
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford announced an external review of support for staff after MP Patrick Grady behaved inappropriately.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:50:25 GMTGranting abortion powers in Northern Ireland ‘constitutional sabotage’
It is ‘unacceptable’ there are women and girls unable to access services due to a political impasse at Stormont, Parliament is told
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:41:27 GMTWarning of ‘explosion’ if Labour sacks frontbenchers joining picket lines
A former adviser to Sir Keir Starmer says there has been ‘a lot of simmering resentment and irritation’ over the party’s current position.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:31:31 GMTAngela Rayner backs rail strike, saying ‘Workers have been left with no choice’
Labour’s deputy leader voices support as Keir Starmer is accused of ‘hiding’ from the dispute
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:08:38 GMTBoris Johnson warned against ‘race to bottom on pay’ as rail strikes hit millions of travellers
Prime minister says UK must ‘stay the course’ to prevent wage hikes fuelling inflation
Tue, 21 Dec 2021 13:32:15 GMTCourt of Appeal finds Channel boat crossings by asylum seekers not illegal as convictions quashed
Judges say Home Office and prosecutors misunderstood law and ‘legal heresy’ developed
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:37:18 GMTBlack man who died after Chelsea Bridge Taser incident was not holding screwdriver, watchdog confirms
Oladeji Adeyemi Omishore, 41, was not armed and dangerous contrary to initial reports
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:37:42 GMTGay and bisexual men at higher risk of monkeypox exposure to be offered vaccine
The NHS in England is to set out details about how eligible people can get vaccinated ‘shortly’.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:20:49 GMTEurovision winners Kalush Orchestra announced for Glastonbury 2022
They will be performing on Friday on Shangri-La’s Truth Stage.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:19:13 GMTFootball favourite Sir Kenny Dalglish honoured by University of St Andrews
The football star was spotted showing some of his kicking skills in the university grounds following the ceremony.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:12:28 GMT‘It’s been horrible’: Commuter chaos as Londoners brave rail and Tube strikes to get to work
Workers face packed buses and long waits for limited train services as biggest rail strike in 30 years kicks off
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:03:23 GMT‘The trauma is still there’: Horror over fire in high rise flats near Grenfell Tower
A resident said the blaze was sparked by an electric scooter that was charging
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:50:43 GMTMonkeypox: Who will be offered a vaccine and when will they receive it?
Some 793 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the UK so far.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:46:46 GMTResident of blazing flats says fire started in his flat by charging e-bike
Liiban Shakat said his friend was hospitalised with smoke inhalation after his e-bike allegedly caused a flat fire that forced 30 people to evacuate.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:21:41 GMTHealth chief pledges to rebuild trust after Independent Neurology Inquiry report
Dr Cathy Jack and Health Minister Robin Swann apologised to patients for system failings and missed opportunities around the work of Dr Michael Watt.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:15:35 GMTMet Office warns pollen levels will be very high all week across England
The forecaster said the UK is in the ‘peak’ of grass pollen season
Mon, 09 May 2022 16:54:17 GMTUkrainian mother with cancer unable to join son in UK despite having visa due to ‘bureaucratic nightmare’
Exclusive: Rodion Liashko is desperate to bring his parents to join him in Britain, but ‘no one wants to take responsibility’ for arranging the transfer of his bedbound mother
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:49:20 GMTSick Ukrainian mother blocked from UK due to ‘bureaucratic nightmare’ dies before reuniting with son
Rodion Liashko spent two months trying to get help from UK authorities to transfer his bedbound mother to Britain, but she passed away before action was taken
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:09:05 GMTTruss pledge to help detained British-Egyptian writer offers family hope
The family of a British-Egyptian writer on hunger strike for 81 days hope his ‘nightmare’ will soon end.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:06:57 GMTNew research shows a trusted Norman monk was behind Domesday Book
Exclusive: A scribe from Normandy helped William the Conqueror subjugate England
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:05:36 GMTWilliam reunites with Big Issue vendor on his 40th birthday
The duke went to see Dave Martin in Hammersmith, London.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:04:31 GMTMinimum pricing for alcohol ‘can protect heavy drinkers and reduce harm’
The Government said there are no plans to introduce a minimum price in England, but it is keeping the issue under review.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:42:31 GMTNicola Sturgeon to lay out plans for referendum next week
It is understood the announcement is expected on June 28, provided the cross-party group that sets parliamentary business agrees to it.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:19:38 GMTTributes paid after pilot and German exchange student killed in helicopter crash
Ian Macdonald, 66, and German exchange student Admarsu Birhan, 16, died in the crash in the village of Burton in Lonsdale, North Yorkshire.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:18:56 GMTMajority of voters think rail strikes ‘justified’ and Boris Johnson not doing enough to prevent them
However second poll finds just 37 per cent ‘supportive’ of industrial action
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:18:40 GMT‘More pigeons than people’: Empty train stations across the UK as rail strike cripples services
Deserted platforms and packed double-deckers on the first day of train strike
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:10:10 GMTTory elections key to Boris Johnson’s hopes of avoiding fresh no-confidence vote to be held next month
Exclusive: New 1922 Committee to be chosen on 13 July – sparking likely battle over whether to change leadership rules
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:03:36 GMTPeople pulling out own teeth due to lack of NHS dental care, ministers warned
MPs debate NHS dentistry and share extreme examples of patients taking care into their own hands.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:57:04 GMTPartnership not provocation needed for NI Protocol negotiations, warns Coveney
The Ireland foreign minister was addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:48:00 GMTQueen awarded Canterbury Cross by archbishop for ‘unstinting’ service to church
The monarch is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England and received the special award in person at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:41:13 GMTMarks and Spencer condemns Michael Gove over ‘bewildering’ probe into Marble Arch store revamp
Retailer accuses government of ‘political grandstanding’ over review of Art Deco store demolition plans following carbon footprint concerns
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:34:09 GMTRail union boss slams Tory MP for ‘talking nonsense’ in live TV clash over train strike
‘Working people are being ripped off,’ RMT head Mick Lynch argues
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:32:56 GMTLabour accuses Government of ‘siding with the water companies’ over sewage
Defra minister Lord Benyon told peers in the House of Lords the ‘level of storm overflows into our rivers is totally unacceptable’.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:26:22 GMTInflation set to draw extra 35,000 families into benefit cap, charity warns
Benefit cap costs average household £50 a week
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:16:48 GMTIreland could be ‘semi-detached’ from single market over Protocol Bill, warns Ahern
Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern was speaking to the Institute of International and European Affairs.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:13:51 GMTDoctor struck off for ‘repeated dishonesty’ over death of child in 1995
Medical tribunal finds consultant paediatric anaesthetist Dr Robert Taylor dishonestly misled police and a public inquiry.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:13:35 GMTDoctor struck off for ‘repeated dishonesty’ over death of child in 1995
Medical tribunal finds consultant paediatric anaesthetist Dr Robert Taylor dishonestly misled police and a public inquiry
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:07:54 GMTUK ‘steadfast’ in backing Ukraine as officials say Russia mass mobilisation near
The Prime Minister told Cabinet any concessions to Russian president Vladimir Putin would be a ‘disaster’.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:58:47 GMTSystems and processes failed neurologist’s patients, inquiry finds
The work of the Belfast-based neurologist Dr Michael Watt was at the centre of Northern Ireland’s largest ever recall of patients.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:41:36 GMTWilliam writes personal thank you for 40th birthday messages
The second in line to the throne, who was born on June 21 1982, is celebrating his milestone on Tuesday.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:41:06 GMTPub boss faces ‘up to 25%’ slump in trade due to rail strikes
Clive Watson, founder of City Pub Group, said it is ‘barely worth opening’ some sites near train stations.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:29:56 GMTBoris Johnson: Lord Geidt ‘believes Carrie job claim ripe for investigation’
Ethics adviser who quit in fury thinks allegation ‘could be a matter for his successor’
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:17:54 GMTLegacy Bill must be amended to achieve support of victims, MPs told
Former police chief Jon Boutcher said there was a concern that planned reviews of unsolved Troubles killings would prove ‘superficial’.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:06:50 GMTBoris Johnson news – live: No 10 fails to deny PM discussed two top jobs for Carrie
Latest claim follows reports prime minister tried to hire Carrie as his chief of staff when he was foreign secretary in 2018
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:46:09 GMTCouple stabbed to death by neighbour were ‘wonderful parents’, say family
Stephen and Jennifer Chapple were killed at their home in Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset, on November 21 last year.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:37:32 GMTBlack man who died after Chelsea Bridge taser incident was not holding screwdriver, watchdog confirms
Oladeji Adeyemi Omishore, 41, was not armed and dangerous contrary to initial reports.