News – World and UK

Thousands of Lebanese citizens have led from southern parts of the country, with highways and roads out of the port city of Sidon jammed with cars. Residents evacuated and headed towards the capital of Beirut in the biggest exodus since 2006. Data from fire-tracking satellites used by the United States showed the wide range of Israeli airstrikes that targeted southern Lebanon, an Associated Press analysis on Tuesday showed. Nasa’s Fire […]

Rising street crime is “corroding the fabric of our communities”, Yvette Cooper will warn as she outlines the Government’s “mission” for safer streets. The Home Secretary will focus on moves to introduce new powers to respond to antisocial behaviour, shoplifting and off-road bikes, with more neighbourhood police expected in communities. The Government plans to bring forward legislation next year to introduce “respect orders”, which are designed to ban persistent antisocial […]

A groundbreaking study will investigate Parkinson’s disease in unprecedented detail, with the aim of discovering a cure for the condition. The Landmark programme will look at what causes Parkinson’s, and what triggers the spread through the brain and then causes the sequences of symptoms. Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world and affects around 153,000 people in the UK. The condition is caused by a lack of […]

Police seizures of illegally modified electric bikes (e-bikes) soared in the past year amid concerns their speed and weight present a lethal threat to pedestrians, an investigation has found. Forces across the UK confiscated 937 e-bikes in the year to August 11, according to Freedom of Information (FoI) figures obtained by the PA news agency. That is compared with 511 during the previous 12 months. Under UK law, e-bike motors […]

Sir Keir Starmer will tell Britons there is “light at the end of this tunnel” but they must first join a “shared struggle” through tough short-term pressures. In his first Labour Party conference speech as Prime Minister, Sir Keir will say he wants to “build a new Britain” with faster economic growth, shorter hospital waiting lists and safer streets. But he will warn there are no easy answers and he […]

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has pledged to lift more than a million renters out of fuel poverty as part of the Government’s plans to boost energy efficiency standards by 2030. Labour’s warm homes plan aims to make properties across the country cheaper to run by installing new insulation and rolling out solar panels on rooftops. Mr Miliband said Labour intends to go “further and faster” than its manifesto pledge by […]

The Friedkin Group has reached agreement to purchase Farhad Moshiri’s majority stake in Everton. The group, led by the American billionaire Dan Friedkin, had entered a period of exclusivity to negotiate a possible purchase in June, before Everton in July said that no deal would be struck between the parties. John Textor, who has a 45 per cent share in Crystal Palace, had then appeared to be in the frame, […]

AFC Wimbledon and Newcastle’s Carabao Cup third-round meeting on Tuesday has been postponed due to “extensive overnight flooding” at the Cherry Red Records Stadium. Images show one particularly damaged corner of the pitch with a misshapen surface following heavy rainfall in the area. The walkways running around the ground were also flooded. The Dons’ stadium in London is now closed as a result, with a rescheduled date for the tie […]

Britain’s biggest building society will lend first-time buyers up to six times their income, increase the maximum amount that people can borrow and cut some mortgage rates from Tuesday. Nationwide Building Society will increase the maximum loan-to-income (LTI) ratio through its Helping Hand mortgage range from Tuesday. The mortgage will give people with a deposit as low as 5% the option of borrowing up to six times their income when […]