Category: United Kingdom

Four young children who were stabbed to death in a park in Annecy, in southeastern France, are now in stable condition, authorities told the BBC. The children, between the ages of one and three, are being treated at the hospital. Police overpowered and arrested the man he stabbed after he entered a playground to carry...

The wives of two cyclists who lost their lives in 2020 are suing the driver who rear-ended and ran them over for more than £200,000 in damages, after the judge suspended their two-year prison sentence despite pleading guilty in court. Andy Coles, 56, and Damien Natale, 52, were enjoying a bike ride on the A40...

Revealing his resignation, Mr Johnson said: “I have written to my Association in Uxbridge and South Ruislip today to say I am resigning immediately and calling an immediate by-election. “It is very sad to leave Parliament, at least for now, but most of all I am bewildered and appalled that a committee chaired and led...

The NHS is fighting to provide safe and effective care for all cancer patients, say leading doctors. The Royal College of Radiologists is warning that the UK’s four nations are facing “chronic understaffing”, with patients waiting too long for vital tests and treatment. Half of all cancer units now report frequent delays for both radiotherapy...

Emergency services were called to St Kentigern’s Academy on Tuesday afternoon. The 14-year-old schoolboy was taken to hospital for treatment, but died a short time later. The 14-year-old boy who died after a “playground incident” at a school in West Lothian has been locally named as Hamdan Aslam. Emergency services were called to St Kentigern’s...

Rather than order a National Audit Office review into Teesworks, Michael Gove has commissioned what Labor describes as a “hand-picked” panel to investigate a scheme that has led to allegations of “industrial-scale corruption”. The government has blocked the release of documents that would show the decision-making behind a controversial investigation into the Teesside redevelopment. Conservative...

Rishi Sunak is wrong to believe that his promise to solve the small boat crisis can win back former Conservative voters, says polling guru Professor John Curtice. Professor Curtice says the Conservatives were wrong to focus so heavily on the issue of Channel migrants because it reminds people of Brexit’s “dramatic failure” to control immigration....

“False humanitarianism” is holding back plans to tackle small boat crossings, the interior minister has said. Suella Braverman told MPs that the abuse of the UK asylum system was “stuffing the pockets of people traffickers” and “turning our seas into graveyards”. It follows a decision by the Court of Appeal which ruled that the government’s...

RMT members have said they will strike again on June 2 in a longstanding dispute over wages, jobs and working conditions. The strike will cause 20,000 train managers, caterers and station staff to walk off the job. It means there will be three rail strikes within four days with Aslef train drivers leaving on May...