Student last seen before Christmas leaving nightclub near Charing Cross stationPolice searching for missing 20-year-old Harvey Parker have recovered a body from the River Thames believed to be the student.The Metropolitan police was alerted to reports …
UK Border Force could strike over Channel refugee ‘pushback’ plan
Staff may take industrial action over Priti Patel’s ‘reprehensible’ plan to turn back refugees, says PCS unionBorder Force officials could strike over Priti Patel’s “morally reprehensible” plans to turn back dinghies in the Channel, a union has said.Th…
‘He was not in a gang’: lives and deaths of 30 London teenage homicide victims
Most of young people were victims of knife crime and were killed by other teenagers London has recorded its highest ever level of teenage homicides in a single year after two boys were killed on Thursday.A 15-year-old was stabbed to death in a park in …
Labour squares off against Gove with housing policy ahead of party conference – UK politics live
Latest updates: party plans to slash affordable rents and give first-time buyers exclusive rights to purchase new-build homes UK fuel and supply chain crisis updates– business liveLabour to give first-time buyers exclusive access to new propertiesGloba…
Woman killed as buses collide at Victoria station in London
Three other people treated for non-life-threatening injuries after collision, say emergency servicesA woman has been killed and three other people injured when two buses crashed in central London, police have said.The Metropolitan police were called to…
Further Covid lockdowns in UK are now unlikely, says Neil Ferguson
Epidemiologist who helped shape initial strategy warns prediction could change if virus ‘changes substantially’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageProf Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist whose initial modelling helped shape Brita…
Vaccinologist Barbie: Prof Sarah Gilbert honoured with a doll
Co-creator of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab hopes it will inspire young girls to enter Stem careersCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageProf Sarah Gilbert has had quite a year. The co-creator of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab has been m…
Coronavirus live news: thousands protest against German Covid measures; Fauci rules out new US lockdowns
Latest updates: UK reports 65 further deaths; US chief medical adviser says US won’t return to lockdowns despite rising Delta threatNHS in England urged to redistribute near-expiry vaccines as take-up slows among youngUber and Deliveroo discounts to lu…