No 10 confirms single person council tax discount won’t be cut in budget Last night Genevieve Holl-Allen in the Telegraph said the government would not be getting rid of the council tax discount for single people in the budget. Earlier this month, at PMQs and again in a briefing with reporters, Keir Starmer refused to […]
PA Media Dentistry is one of the strands being looked at as part of this new cross-border approach The NHS and politics are never far apart. Health is the almost perennial chart-topper when it comes to lists of voters’ concerns. In Wales, given the NHS was a Welsh invention, and given the current length of […]
A spate of allegations of sexual misconduct has rocked the film industry in India’s southern state of Kerala, triggering a flood of police cases and leading to calls for a broader reckoning within what is known as Mollywood. The latest wave of the #MeToo movement, which first took off in 2017, erupted after the findings of […]
Getty Images Violet Charlesworth in Highland dress A new BBC Sounds series, Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley, examines the story of an English-born fraudster who was obsessed with Scotland. A car crashes at a dangerous bend on a clifftop road in Anglesey, North Wales, on a moonlit night in January 1909. The vehicle’s two passengers […]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Kalel Mullings’ teammates used to tease him because he didn’t look that fast. Mullings, a former linebacker, stands 6 feet 2 and weighs 233 pounds. If Michigan’s skill-position players lined up at the goal line and ran a 100-yard sprint, he probably wouldn’t win. He entered this season in the shadow […]
Fiona lost her baby Aliona following a series of issues with her maternity care Many of the maternity failings at scandal-hit hospitals are becoming more widespread, England’s NHS regulator says. Investigations into units in Shrewsbury and Telford and East Kent found poor care may have contributed to babies dying or having life-changing injuries. But the […]
Getty Images Peter Jay, the former economics editor of the BBC, has died aged 87. At various times, Jay was also economics editor of the Times newspaper, presenter of ITV’s Weekend World, British Ambassador to Washington, launch chairman of TV-am and chief of staff to Robert Maxwell. In a statement, his family said: “Peter Jay’s […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced a proposal to keep the government running until Dec. 20. Win McNamee/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images/Getty Images North America House Speaker Mike Johnson announced a temporary agreement that would keep the government funded until Dec. 20. The measure does not include any part […]
Reuters The foreign secretary has said climate change is a more pervasive and fundamental threat than terrorism. In his maiden speech, 100 days after taking office, David Lammy said the climate issue, along with a decline in nature, would be “central to all the Foreign Office does”. He also announced the government would launch a […]
Horschel then won the tournament for the second time in four years with an eagle at the par-five 18th. “If someone had of said you’re going to turn up at Wentworth this week and shoot 20 under par, I’d take that – all I can do is keep showing up and trying to play the […]