Five youths on trial over fatal attack on Keon Lincoln outside his home in broad daylightA 15-year-old boy was shot while on the ground by another child aged 14 and stabbed eight times by other young people in a 30-second attack in broad daylight, a ju…
‘Economically illiterate’: PM’s Tory conference speech gets frosty reception
Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’Business leaders rounded on Boris Johnson for lacking a coherent economic plan after he delivered a boosterish conference speech that made barely a men…
Surrey teenager died after reading about suicide on school iPad
Frances-Rose Thomas, 15, had been accessing suicide-related material for months before taking her own lifeA 15-year-old autistic girl took her own life after an “enormous and systemic failure” by her special needs school left her with unfiltered access…
Nurses in England to be balloted on possible strike action over pay
Royal College of Nursing says 92% of its members in England believe 3% pay offer is unacceptableThe prospect of nurses in England striking for the first time has drawn nearer after their union decided to ballot members on taking industrial action over …
Covid ‘still running rampant’ worldwide, warns creator of Oxford vaccine
Prof Sarah Gilbert says failure to provide jabs to poor countries risks more deaths and dangerous new variants of virusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCoronavirus is “still running rampant” worldwide and the failure to ensur…
Does the UK have a wage problem?
Business leaders have hit back at Boris Johnson over claims they allowed Britain to become a low-wage and low-skilled economyBritain’s businesses stand accused of allowing the UK to become a low-wage, low-skilled and low-productivity economy bedevilled…
Police had contact with suspect in Tewkesbury knife attack
Gloucestershire force refers itself to IOPC after Matthew Boorman killed and two others injured in Walton CardiffThe only suspect in a “horrific” stabbing attack near Tewkesbury that left one man dead and another in a critical condition had been contac…
Omni Energy predicts it will be 13th UK provider to go bust
Firm tells customers it will switch them to another supplier unless they objectThe UK household electricity company Omni Energy has said it expects to become the 13th energy supplier to go bust this year, unless the gas price crisis eases before winter…
England’s Covid travel red list to be cut to a dozen countries
Ministers planning to take Brazil, Mexico and South Africa off list but decision to axe PCR test requirement hangs in balanceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMinisters will slash England’s travel red list to about a dozen cou…
Levelling up isn’t about north or south, or city or town. It’s about restoring local pride | Neil O’Brien
Parts of the country have suffered for decades, now we have an opportunity to unite the countryNeil O’Brien is MP for Harborough and parliamentary undersecretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and CommunitiesBoris Johnson put levelling up at the he…