Category: News
King and Prince William’s estates ‘making millions from charities and public services’
King Charles and Prince William’s property empires are taking millions of pounds from cash-strapped charities and public services including the NHS, state schools and prisons, [more…]
Labour challenges Badenoch to back billions for public services and tax rises
Labour has thrown down an immediate challenge to the new Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, to back Rachel Reeves’s budget plans for big increases in tax, [more…]
Robot retrieves radioactive fuel sample from Fukushima nuclear reactor site
A piece of the radioactive fuel left from the meltdown of Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been retrieved from the site using [more…]
Death toll rises as protesters rage against Mozambique election result
Silvio Jeremias was on his way home from his job at a petrol station on the night of 25 October, in Mozambique’s capital Maputo, when [more…]
Karaoke and Kong-rey: Taiwan sings through biggest typhoon in decades
The winds of typhoon Kong-rey howled through the streets of the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, on Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, inside a brick and glass building people [more…]
Supporters of Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales take about 20 soldiers hostage
Supporters of Bolivia’s ex-president Evo Morales stormed a barracks in the central Chapare region and took about 20 soldiers hostage, military sources said on Friday, [more…]
Man jailed for claiming he had fought for Wagner group in Ukraine
A builder has been jailed for claiming at a Viking re-enactment that he had fought for the Wagner group in Ukraine. Piotr Kucharski, 49, wore [more…]
Wandsworth escape accused says it was ‘foolish’ to jail him with his ‘skill set’
A former British soldier has told a jury he did not hand himself in after he escaped from prison because he was “finally demonstrating what [more…]
Crown court backlog in England and Wales ‘could hit 100,000 without radical overhaul’
The backlog of cases in crown courts in England and Wales could hit 100,000 unless radical action is taken to overhaul the criminal justice system, [more…]
Services for most-vulnerable people at risk after NICs rise, charities say
Services that support some of England’s most vulnerable people have warned that tax increases in the budget will lead to cuts and closures that could [more…]
