Month: September 2024

The Scottish Government has backed a deal which will see the city step in after the state of Victoria in Australia backed out Glasgow is set to host a scaled down version of the Commonwealth Games in 2026 after the Scottish Government backed the deal. The city last hosted the international sporting event in 2014 and has stepped in after the planned 2026 hosts backed out. The state of Victoria […]

Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson is to make her West End debut in a revival of a Greek tragedy. Elektra, an adaptation of a Sophocles play translated by poet Anne Carson, will be directed by Daniel Fish and staged at Theatre Royal Brighton in January before it moves to London’s Duke Of York’s Theatre for an 11 week-season. Larson said: “I couldn’t be more excited to perform in this Greek drama, […]

More strikes by junior doctors are not off the table in the future, a leading medic has said. It comes as junior doctors in England voted to accept a Government pay deal worth 22.3% on average over two years, bringing their long-running dispute to an end. The British Medical Association’s (BMA) junior doctors committee in England has accepted the Government’s pay offer, with 66% of junior doctors voting in favour […]

The daughter of a BBC commentator had been tied to a chair in an incident which saw her and her sister shot with a crossbow and their mother suffer multiple injuries in a stabbing, a court has heard. Kyle Clifford was remanded in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to appear at the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday afternoon following the incident in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on July 9. He has […]

He's been given a six-month suspended sentence Disgraced former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has been spared jail after admitting accessing indecent images of children as young as seven. The 63-year-old previously admitted three charges of “making” indecent photographs after he was sent 41 illegal images by convicted paedophile Alex Williams over WhatsApp. At Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, Edwards held his hands together and leaned forward throughout his sentencing hearing […]

Violence has “no part to play at all in politics”, Sir Keir Starmer has said after an apparent assassination attempt on former US president Donald Trump. Mr Trump, the Republican Party nominee for the presidency in the coming November election, was playing golf at his club in West Palm Beach, Florida, when a man was discovered pointing an assault rifle into the course. The FBI is now investigating “what appears […]

Nearly four in five (78%) students say money worries are causing them significant stress. This has led to six in 10 (60%) students avoiding social activities with friends, and nearly half (46%) being so anxious they avoid checking their bank balance altogether, according to credit information service Experian. Nearly quarter (23%) of students are ignoring communications from their bank entirely. Nearly three-quarters (72%) of students have relied on credit cards […]

The Government is being urged to “boldly commit” to rewilding 30% of land and seas by 2030, as polling shows high levels of support for the approach. Charity Rewilding Britain is also urging the new Labour Government to expand nature-based jobs and businesses, boost access to nature for people to benefit health and well-being, empower communities to lead the way with rewilding, and create a “game-changing” shift in rewilding funding […]

Warm weather is set to sweep parts of the UK next week despite a fog warning in the west on Monday. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning that fog could disrupt traffic during the morning rush-hour in the west and North West of England, and in Wales. Forecasters said it could be the first widespread fog of the autumn that develops overnight and lasts until morning. The warning […]