Category: News
Rolls-Royce wins its biggest ever MoD deal with £9bn nuclear submarine contract
The British engineering company Rolls-Royce has struck its biggest ever deal with the Ministry of Defence with a £9bn contract to make nuclear submarine reactors [more…]
Storm Éowyn: danger to life threat from 100mph winds – live updates
Northern Ireland as Storm Éowyn is likely to damage buildings, uproot trees and cause power cuts, the Met Office said. Train operator ScotRail suspended all [more…]
Storm Éowyn poses danger to life in parts of UK and Ireland with 100mph winds
Flights have been delayed, roads closed and ferry services cancelled as 100mph (160km/h) winds pose a danger to life in parts of the UK on [more…]
Women paying up to £11,000 for a hysterectomy amid NHS delays
Women in Britain are paying up to £11,154 for a hysterectomy in a private hospital, amid huge delays for NHS gynaecological care, research reveals. The [more…]
Kemi Badenoch co-wrote report saying Prevent scheme could ‘alienate communities’
Kemi Badenoch, who criticised a Labour manifesto that warned the UK’s Prevent programme could alienate communities, co-authored a report which expressed concern that the same [more…]
Jamaican city gripped by violence after police shooting of gang boss
Schools and businesses in a Jamaican city have been closed and taxis and buses stopped running after the police shooting of a powerful gang boss [more…]
Canada’s top court to hear challenge to controversial Quebec secularism law
Canada’s top court has agreed to hear a challenge to Quebec’s controversial secularism law, paving the way for a fierce debate over provincial powers and [more…]
‘We were betrayed’: families of apartheid victims sue South African government
Lukhanyo Calata’s first memory of his father was the funeral. His mother sobbing, the earth beneath his feet shaking from the number of people gathered [more…]
Family of jailed dissident urge Lammy to prioritise case as he visits Egypt
The family of the jailed British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd El Fattah have urged the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, to prioritise the dissident’s release above [more…]
Legal challenges to infrastructure projects to be blocked in push for growth
Campaigners will be blocked from “excessive” legal challenges to planning decisions for major infrastructure projects including airports, railways and nuclear power stations as part of [more…]
