Report finds exhausted detainees including young and elderly forced to sleep on tent floors or bus seatsMigrants crossing the Channel in small boats are spending their first night on UK soil in crowded, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, a damning indep…
Eight candidates for the next UK city of culture announced
Areas will receive £40,000 grants to support the next step of their applications to succeed CoventryArmagh City, Bradford, County Durham and Stirling are among the eight places in the UK longlisted to become the next city of culture, after a record of …
NHS aims to give 35m flu jabs amid warnings of up to 60,000 deaths
Service aims to immunise more than half the population amid fears of particularly deadly flu seasonThe NHS is to embark on the most ambitious programme of flu jabs in its history amid warnings of up to 60,000 deaths.The health service aims to immunise …
England’s last ‘red list’ restrictions confound South Americans
Lingering quarantine rules anger would-be travellers from seven targeted countriesEngland’s decision to maintain strict Covid travel rules for seven South American and Caribbean countries has prompted further fury and confusion in the nations which rem…
Wales draws up emergency Covid plan to stop NHS being overwhelmed
‘Urgent’ plan could mean restrictions – but government says most likely scenario is country will remain at alert level 0Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Welsh government has drawn up a “Covid urgent” plan designed to deal…
‘English football will sell itself to anyone’: human rights groups on Saudi-Newcastle deal
Condemnation of £300m takeover led by group founded by murdered journalist Jamal KhashoggiNewcastle United has sold its name and reputation to a brutal government run by a brutal ruler, the organisation founded by the murdered journalist Jamal Khashogg…
Calls for investigation after court finds Dubai ruler hacked ex-wife’s phone
MPs and human rights groups ask parliament to look into how Sheikh Mohammed deployed sophisticated spywareMPs and human rights groups have called on ministers and parliament to investigate how the ruler of Dubai was able deploy sophisticated spyware to…
Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic
Exclusive: Report from planning exercise in 2016 alerted government of need to stockpile PPE and set up contact tracing systemCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSenior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus …
University defends ‘academic freedoms’ after calls to sack professor
Campaigners call for Kathleen Stock to be fired from University of Sussex over views on gender identificationA university has said it will not tolerate threats to “academic freedoms” after a professor faced calls to be sacked over her views on gender i…
Steve Bell on Boris Johnson’s conference performance – cartoon
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