February 2023

That’s according to Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn has said Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to bar him from standing as a Labour candidate at the next election is a “flagrant attack” on democracy. Former Labour leader Mr Corbyn, who currently sits as an independent MP, hit out at his successor – describing the move as a […]

A 19-month-old girl has become the first child in the UK to receive a revolutionary gene therapy for a fatal disorder. Teddi Shaw suffers from deadly metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) but has been given the chance of a normal life thanks to one of the world’s most expensive drugs. The therapy, Libmeldy, has been approved on

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan must make a “concrete” pay offer for teachers in talks to avert further strikes going ahead in schools in England, union leaders have said Ms Keegan will meet with the leaders of unions representing teachers and headteachers on Wednesday in a bid to resolve an ongoing pay dispute which threatens more

British police forces are “shot through” with Chinese cameras, drones and other surveillance equipment, a watchdog has warned. Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Fraser Sampson said the findings of a survey carried out by his office (the OBSCC) also suggested bodies using the equipment were “generally aware that there are security and ethical concerns about

That’s according to a statement from Virgin Orbit A dislodged fuel filter caused last month’s failure of the first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the UK, Virgin Orbit has said. This caused an engine to overheat, leading to the malfunction of components and the premature shutdown of the LauncherOne rocket’s thrust, according to

She was found by members of the public as she lay wounded on a path in Linear Park, in Culcheth Two 15-year-olds have been charged with the murder of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey, who was found dead in a Cheshire park. Cheshire Police said the 15-year-old girl, from Warrington, and the 15-year-old boy, from Leigh, had

UK inflation has eased back for the third straight month to 10.1% in January as lower air fares and fuel costs helped slow rises in the cost of living, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation dropped sharply from 10.5% in December in a bigger-than-expected fall.

Waitrose is to invest £100 million in cutting prices on hundreds of its own-brand products amid intense competition in the sector as consumers battle record inflation. The upmarket grocer is reducing the prices of almost a third of its lowest-priced Essential Waitrose range by an average 14%, while almost a quarter of the cuts, which

London is the world’s slowest and second-most expensive city to drive in, according to new research. It took an average of 36 minutes and 20 seconds to travel 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in the centre of the capital in 2022, geolocation technology specialist TomTom said. That was one minutes and 50 seconds slower than 2021

UK inflation is expected to be shown easing back for the third month running in December, when the latest official figures are released on Wednesday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is set to show that the rate of consumer prices index (CPI) inflation fell to 10.3% last month from 10.5% in December, thanks to