The average UK house price came close to reaching a record high last month as falling mortgage rates helped to boost confidence among buyers, according to Halifax. The UK’s largest mortgage lender said the average price hit £293,399 in September, just short of the record £293,507 reached in June 2022. Prices have now risen for […]
Scotland’s health boards have paid up to £837 an hour for locum psychiatrists to help cope with a deepening staff shortage crisis in mental health services. They have been charged more than £130m by dozens of private health care companies to provide temporary psychiatrists over the past five years, including one firm now owned by […]
Reports of antisemitic incidents in the US have reached a record high since last year’s Hamas attack in Israel, according to a preliminary report from the Anti-Defamation League Center for Extremism (ADL). The group found more than 10,000 incidents from 7 October 2023 to 24 September of this year, more than a 200% increase compared […]
A policewoman has been killed and 10 others injured in a shooting in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, local authorities said. The gunman was shot dead at the scene after what police described as a “suspected terror attack” at the city’s central bus station. The victim has been named as Shira Chaya Suslik, 19, […]
Superstar Derrick White cannot wait to help another market of impassioned fans “see us up close” when the two most recent champions, his Boston Celtics and Denver Nuggets, perform in next week’s NBA Abu Dhabi Games 2024 presented by ADQ. Matches between the Celtics and Nuggets on Friday, October 4 and Sunday, October 6 are […]
Former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell has said the position of top civil servant is “massively underpaid”. He is involved in the recruitment process for the £200,000-a-year role, following Simon Case’s decision to step down on health grounds. Lord O’Donnell, who held the post between 2005 and 2011, told the BBC the “incredibly demanding job” should […]
At least 70 people including children have been killed after an armed gang attacked a small town in Haiti. Sixteen people were seriously injured, according to the UN, as Gran Grif gang members rampaged through Pont-Sondé in the central Artibonite region about 71km (44 miles) north-west of the capital Port-au-Prince. Video footage shows groups of […]
A failure by Rachel Reeves to back a “windfall of wealth taxes” in her budget risks fuelling the rise of the populist right, a former Labour cabinet minister has warned. Liam Byrne, a senior figure in the New Labour government and chair of the Commons business and trade committee, said that the rise of Reform […]
The Premier League have rejected Manchester City’s request to postpone their first two games of next season to help the players recover after their FIFA Club World Cup campaign in the United States, Pep Guardiola said on Friday. City and Chelsea are the two English clubs who have qualified for the expanded month-long Club World […]
BBC News Nafsika, a teacher at the school, has been trained to carry out the hearing checks Children and young people in England with special educational needs, including severe autism, are to be offered NHS eyesight, dental and ear checks in their schools from next year. Students with learning disabilities can struggle to say when […]