Latest developments as Philippines reports record 26,458 cases and scientist says Omicron variant could become endemic in UKRequiring PCR tests for isolation funds in UK may fail legal test’See all our coronavirus coverageThe north-east and north-west …
BLM protesters cleared over toppling of Edward Colston statue
Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Sage Willoughby and Jake Skuse found not guilty over act of public dissent during Bristol protestThree men and a woman have been found not guilty of criminal damage after toppling the statue of the slave trader Edward Colst…
‘It was war’: school-run parents tackle petrol crisis traffic chaos
Residents set up traffic patrol to challenge drivers forming long polluting queues near London schoolBounds Green primary school sits on a road so busy it has a bridge for a pedestrian crossing. Even on a good day the air is acrid, suffused by mephitic…
Insulate Britain members block M25 and London’s Old Street roundabout
Climate activists superglue themselves to roads as part of 12th disruptive action in four weeksMembers of the environmental protest group Insulate Britain have blocked the M25 motorway and a busy central London roundabout, in the group’s 12th disruptiv…
Drivers clash with Insulate Britain activists blocking three London roads
Protesters stop traffic at Hanger Lane, the Blackwall tunnel and Wandsworth BridgeInsulate Britain activists have staged three morning roadblocks in central London, leading to dozens of arrests and confrontations with drivers stuck in heavy traffic at …
Met police tweets may encourage young people to carry knives, research finds
Force published about 2,100 seized knife images in a year, which experts say could be counterproductiveYoung people may be nudged into carrying knives by the police, research has found, as a new count showed the Metropolitan police circulated more than…
Old Truman Brewery in London to become office and shopping complex
Critics say it will price out businesses from site on Brick Lane, in the heart of the city’s Bangladeshi communityLocal councillors have defied months of campaigning, protests and thousands of objection letters to approve plans for an office block and …
Extinction Rebellion protesters break bail terms for City protest
Environmental demonstrators disobey orders to stay away from London financial district Dozens of Extinction Rebellion activists have carried out a mass act of non-violent civil disobedience by breaking bail conditions ordering them to stay away from th…
‘The nicest guys’: mother finds men who rescued son from Milton Keynes lake
Family praises brothers who stopped seven-year-old from drowning, after using Facebook to track them downA woman has spoken of her gratitude after she managed to track down the two men who saved her son from drowning.When seven-year-old Frankie Creek f…
BBC presenter Lisa Shaw died of Covid vaccine complications, coroner finds
Shaw died of a brain haemorrhage caused by a blood clot three weeks after her first AstraZeneca doseAn award-winning BBC radio presenter died as a result of complications from the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, a coroner has concluded.Lisa Shaw, who …