A blue Skoda taxi and a white Peugeot van collided on the A494 between Rhydymain and Dolgellau in mid Wales at around 8am this morning (Thursday). Emergency services rushed to the scene but the driver of the Skoda died at the...
It's official: European Parliament has ratified the EU-UK trade deal. Boris Johnson on Wednesday claimed that this was "the final step" in the long journey of the Brexit process. Unfortunately this is far from the truth: there is likely to be some...
Nearly 1 million emergency food parcels have been given to children during the pandemic, figures show, sparking concern that poorer families are “shouldering the burden” of the economic crisis caused by Covid-19. Ministers are being urged to “reset” the social security system as new...
Londoners may be subjected to local lockdown restrictions if new variants of Covid-19 continue to spread despite mass surge testing in parts of the capital, scientists have warned. The London boroughs of Lambeth, Wandsworth, Southwark and Barnet have set up additional testing facilities to...
David Cameron has admitted to friends that it was a mistake to use private text messages to lobby Rishi Sunak for Treasury support for his employer Greensill Capital. The former prime minister is at the centre of a growing storm over “multiple” approaches...
Police have arrested 26 people following clashes in London as thousands of demonstrators attended marches against a controversial government crackdown on protests. Scotland Yard said 10 officers were injured, none of them seriously, as violence flared during a stand-off between...
Up to six people or two households are now allowed to meet in outdoor spaces or in private gardens as England moves into the next phase of the government’s roadmap for easing lockdown. The change in rules – which also switches from a...
A primary school teacher who filmed himself sexually abusing his pupils has been recalled to prison just four months after being released. “Predatory paedophile” Nigel Leat captured on camera the attacks he carried out on five young girls over the...
Boris Johnson’s plan to increase the size of the UK’s nuclear weapons stockpile amounts to a violation of international law, campaigners and experts have warned. The government’s integrated defence review said the UK would be lifting the cap on its nuclear arsenal...
According to a report published in the journal eLife, the variant dubbed D614G is believed to be the most dominant in the world. The powerful strain is eight times more transmissible than the one that raised the alarm over a...
