Month: August 2024

Sir Keir Starmer has said he discussed his plans to reset relations with France and the European Union as a whole during talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. The Prime Minister held talks with Mr Macron at the Elysee Palace after meeting some of Team GB’s Paralympic athletes on Thursday morning. Sir Keir said of his meeting with the French president: “We discussed the situation in Ukraine, as […]

Noni Madueke, Morgan Gibbs-White, Tino Livramento and Angel Gomes received their maiden senior England call-ups, but Kyle Walker was conspicuous by his absence from interim boss Lee Carsley’s first squad. The 50-year-old has temporarily stepped up from his role as England Under-21s boss after Gareth Southgate left following July’s Euro 2024 final defeat to Spain. Walker served as vice-captain in Germany and was an eye-catching omission from a squad for […]

Complaints about financial products jumped by around 70% between April and June, compared with the same period a year earlier, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Consumers raised 74,645 cases with the resolution service about financial products between April 1 and June 30 this year, compared with 43,953 complaints reported in the same period last year. Professional representatives, who tend to take a chunk of any payout, now account […]

A third of people in England who have experienced a severe allergic reaction to food are not carrying live-saving adrenaline pens, analysis shows. Prescriptions for adrenaline auto injectors (AAIs) – devices given to those who are at risk of life-threatening reaction (anaphylaxis) – are also less common for people living in more deprived areas of the country, researchers from Imperial College London found. The study, published in the journal The […]

A spike in searches for homes near Jeremy Clarkson’s new pub has been recorded by property website Rightmove. The pub in Asthall, near Burford in Oxfordshire, reopened to the public on August 23 after being renamed The Farmer’s Dog. Hundreds of people queued to wait for the doors to open on the first day of trading. Rightmove said that August 24, the day after the pub’s opening, saw the highest […]

Beavers need to be back in the wild to help tackle the climate and nature crises, wildlife experts have said as they called for a “bold approach” to bring back the keystone species. The Wildlife Trusts has published a report calling for licences to release the semi-aquatic mammals into the wild, rather than only in fenced enclosures, in England and Wales, and government funding to support their return. The network […]

The Met Office has revealed the storm names for the 2024/25 season. The new storms list – first launched in 2015 – for each year generally runs from early September until late August the following year, coinciding with the beginning of autumn. James, Lewis and Mavis are all included in the new list in honour of figures from the Met Office’s 170-year history. The forecaster said James is named after […]

Nearly three in 10 teachers in England personally provided food to pupils in the summer term out of concern for their welfare, a survey has suggested. More teachers have been forced to bring in food for children in their school than last year – especially in the most deprived areas of England, according to the poll conducted for charity FareShare. The survey, carried out by the Teacher Tapp app, suggests […]

UK children are facing a “happiness recession”, a charity has said after its analysis pointed to lower life satisfaction than youngsters in other European countries. It also found that girls and teenagers from poorer backgrounds feel worst off. The Children’s Society’s latest Good Childhood Report collated data from various research in recent years which it said presents a “deeply worrying picture” on the wellbeing of teenagers in the UK. A […]