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Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:59:49 GMTGovernment ‘cannot guarantee’ US and EU travellers won’t use fake vaccine certificates
‘I think it is highly unlikely,’ says foreign secretary on fraud possibility
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:48:00 GMTBrexit news live: NI could become ‘permanent casualty’, PM warned as Sunak told to apologise on Scotland visit
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Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:35:43 GMTGovernment ‘increasingly confident’ more countries will move to amber or green travel lists, says minister
‘The momentum forward is positive,’ says foreign secretary
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:18:03 GMTCovid: World won’t be vaccinated until 2024, says UK government as surplus jabs sent out
Foreign secretary asks allies to help vaccinate poorer countries by middle of 2022
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:00:59 GMTNorthern Ireland may become ‘permanent casualty’ of Brexit if dispute not solved
‘This is not something in my view that can just be allowed or should just be allowed to fester. I think that’s a real worry’
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:59:52 GMTVaccinated Britons report different coronavirus symptoms - including sneezing
The three recognised Covid symptoms by the NHS are a new, persistent cough, a high temperature and a loss of taste or smell
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 23:19:23 GMTHow climate crisis is already impacting ‘not prepared’ UK, according to Met Office
‘Climate change is happening here, it’s happening now and it’s happening to all of us’ says researcher
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:12:14 GMTThe X Factor ‘axed’ by ITV after 17 years
Programme last aired in 2018
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 06:57:22 GMTDominic Raab says he is ‘very unlikely’ to attend Beijing Winter Olympics
Foreign secretary cites ‘great sensitivities around Xinjiang’
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 06:07:58 GMTHillsborough’s 97th victim: Liverpool fan Andrew Devine dies 32 years after life-changing injuries in disaster
Andrew Devine ‘defied expectations that he would not survive for six months after the tragedy’
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 01:31:47 GMTOne in five teachers in more affluent areas say parents have pressured them over exam grades, survey shows
Geoff Barton, general secretary of the ASCL, said ‘grades are of course based on evidence of student performance rather than whose parents have the sharpest elbows’
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 01:23:13 GMTCouncillors in Newmarket pass vote of no confidence in local MP Matt Hancock
Mayor of Newmarket Michael Jefferys said he was ‘dismayed’ with Mr Hancock
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:46 GMTJust 1 in 15 state school pupils to get summer catch-up help under government plan
Labour blasts government for ‘staggering lack of ambition’
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:57:38 GMTVictoria Hall: Man arrested on suspicion of 1999 murder of teenage girl
Suffolk police did not share any information about the suspect’s age or where he was arrested
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:26:07 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
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 19:42:36 GMTGovernment warns public not to be ‘too optimistic’ as Covid cases rise again
No one knows where Covid case numbers ‘are going to go next’, says health secretary
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 19:14:18 GMT‘Home Office isn’t fit to run the Windrush Compensation Scheme,’ campaigners warn
‘The conduct of the compensation scheme is an expression of the fact that nothing has changed, fundamentally, in how the Home Office values Black and brown people’
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 19:13:04 GMTOnly 200 of the government’s promised 2,000 testing sites are up and running to tackle ‘pingdemic’
Delay makes scheme ‘entirely pointless’, says industry leader
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 22:44:20 GMTMoD ‘failed to protect female personnel’ from gendered abuse, inquiry finds
Findings show that convictions for serious sexual offences are between four and six times lower in the military than in civilian courts
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:45:32 GMTKen Clarke insists claim ‘no conclusive evidence’ blood products transmitted Aids was accurate
Thousands have died after receiving contaminated blood
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:41:03 GMTWales slate landscape granted Unesco World Heritage status
UN delegates voted to approve three-year-long bid after hearing how area “roofed the 19th century world”
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:44:06 GMTThe female key workers facing sexual harassment on the Covid frontline
‘Three other female staff members had been also been assaulted by the same man,’ says supermarket worker
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:18:21 GMTOfficial Secrets Act reform won’t see journalists jailed, Boris Johnson promises
Proposed reforms won’t ‘interrupt’ media from using confidential sources, says prime minister
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:50:12 GMTStruggling mental health of new mothers in pandemic ‘could cost extra £17.5 billion’
‘The impact of any restrictions on pregnant women and birthing people and their families are still not being explicitly considered,’ says expert
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:45:34 GMTEngland set to open border to EU and US travellers without quarantine
Boris Johnson says talks under way with US to let people travel ‘in a way they normally do’
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:34:15 GMTRegional dialects ‘could be lost in 45 years’ as southern pronunciations spread north
Words like as “backend” - used to describe autumn in the north - will completely disappear within 20 years
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:57:43 GMTManchester hospital fire: Patients evacuated after building ‘hit by lightning’
North West Ambulance Service says there were no casualties linked to blaze
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:33:12 GMTBoris Johnson news: Royal yacht could cost extra £50m, says minister as police in dark over crime plan
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Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:25:53 GMTBoodles heist: Woman jailed for swapping diamonds worth £4.2m for pebbles
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:11:16 GMTCabinet split grows over China’s role in UK’s electric car industry
The UK’s electric car supply chain is too vulnerable to Chinese influence, some senior Conservatives believe
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:09:27 GMTJoin the Green Party to save planet, says Boris Johnson’s climate spokesperson
‘There’s lots of ways they can get involved in politics,’ says COP26 summit spokesperson
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:50:39 GMTSocial media feuds are fuelling rise in London murders, says senior ex-police superintendent
The murder rate in London has dropped. but the number of teenagers killed has risen
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:19:22 GMTFully vaccinated travellers from US and EU will be exempt from quarantine rules, UK ministers decide
Restrictions on travel to Britain from other countries are set to be loosened
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:46:15 GMT57 million days of annual leave went unclaimed in 2020 — and this year could be just as bad
The average Briton failed to claim a week’s worth of annual leave last year, research finds
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:45:43 GMTOne in four 12–17-year-olds knows someone who has trespassed on a railway track, shocking research reveals
Thirty-five per cent of the 1,000 parents polled said they had never spoken to their children about the dangers of railway trespassing
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:05:31 GMTBoris Johnson says £250m royal yacht will let UK ‘show itself off to the world’
Successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia will ‘showcase what we have to offer,’ says prime minister
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 13:16:03 GMT‘We thought she was going to beat it’: Amy Winehouse’s stepmother on how the late singer fought her addiction
Exclusive: ‘Quiet periods can be quite dangerous for someone who has an addiction,’ Jane Winehouse tells Maya Oppenheim on the 10th anniversary of the musician’s death
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 13:10:52 GMTCritical call for Black people to donate blood as ‘number of sickle cell patients grows’
Medics say now is a chance to close gap in demand for donors and ‘help our friends, neighbours and communities battling this disease’
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:43:55 GMT‘I wish I’d had jab’: Father who refused vaccine dies of Covid
Football coach Matthew Keenan had told doctors and friends he wanted to ‘turn back time’
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:55:28 GMTApsana Begum trial: Labour MP accused of housing fraud is ‘very good person’ says John McDonnell
Begum could have been given ministerial position if Labour had won 2019 election, the Corbyn ally said
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:09:35 GMT‘A waste of money’: Londoners pour scorn on artificial hill installed beside Marble Arch
Westminster City Council suspends bookings to £2m installation on opening day, admitting some elements ‘are not ready for visitors’
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:06:21 GMTRNLI lifeboat crews suffer ‘vile abuse’ for rescuing migrants
Charity speaks out after accusations it is serving as ‘taxi service for illegal immigration’
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:27:43 GMTPrince Charles to unveil national memorial to fallen police officers
The memorial commemorates all police personnel who have lost their lives in the line of duty since the formation of the Bow Street Runners in 1749
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:00:54 GMTRule changes to end pingdemic ‘nailed on’ for 16 August, says Boris Johnson
‘Far, far too early’ to draw any conclusions about falling Covid cases, says prime minister