Willie Collum wants to “alleviate the unsustainable burden on match officials” when he replaces Crawford Allan as the Scottish FA’s new head of refereeing. The 45-year-old will take up his duties in early July after resigning as a local authority education officer. Collum will end almost 30 years of refereeing – 20 of which were […]
Some Palestinians embark on a journey to discover the fate of the houses taken from their families in the 1948 Nakba. Meet some of the Palestinians who have returned to the homes of their parents and grandparents, now in present-day Israel. Halima Khaddash is an old woman living in a refugee camp in Ramallah whose […]
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Voters headed to the polls Tuesday for primaries in Maryland, West Virginia and Nebraska. Sarah K. Elfreth is projected to defeat former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and 20 other Democrats to win the primary in Maryland’s 3rd District, according to the Associated Press. Angela Alsobrooks’s projected victory in Maryland’s Democratic primary for Senate sets […]
More than 40% of public-service spending was already on health, IFS research economist Max Warner said. And to keep increasing the budget, other areas of government spending would have to be cut. “Whichever party takes office after the next election, budgets for the next fiscal year and the choice of how much to give to […]
It said that the index showed that generally the UK farming sector is at “its most productive since records began” and that domestic production of all food in the UK is at around 60% of consumption. But it said that the UK fruit and vegetable sector is “significantly lagging behind” meat, dairy and grains. It […]
Mr Blinken arrived by sleeper train, rolling into Kyiv after a nine-hour journey from the Polish border. He touched down on Monday in the south-eastern Polish town of Rzeszów, whose airport is now a major logistical hub bringing defence supplies and humanitarian aid into Ukraine. The airfield’s perimeter bristles with US Patriot missile defence batteries […]
There have been desperate scenes in Rafah since the IDF said last Monday that it was beginning a “precise operation against Hamas” in eastern Rafah. On Saturday, flyers were dropped ordering residents to evacuate more eastern neighbourhoods, including those close to the city centre. Unrwa’s deputy Gaza director Scott Anderson, who is based in western […]
Amy, 31, from Suffolk, who gave birth to her son in July 2021, said the worst part was “not being listened to”. Amy says she has been left with diagnosed postnatal depression, anxiety and PTSD, and is currently taking antidepressants, having “never ever struggled with mental health before”. She describes herself as “physically disfigured” after […]
“When I left for work on Monday, I could still get through the water-logged street with my car. By the afternoon, the army was rescuing people with a truck,” says Porto Alegre resident Magda Moura. That was the day that the floods which have devastated parts of southern Brazil cut off the building she lived […]