T he creative industries will get a £77 million funding boost under Government plans to help the sector go “from strength to strength”. The investment is part of the Government’s aim to grow the sector – which Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer described as the UK’s “global advert for the world”Continue Reading
T he UK may not have been “very well prepared at all” to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the lead lawyer to the official Covid-19 Inquiry said as public hearings began. Hugo Keith KC said on Tuesday that the nation was “taken by surprise” by “significant aspects” of the diseaseContinue Reading
A woman who had to say a final goodbye to her father through a window as he died of coronavirus in a care home has shared their story as the Covid-19 Inquiry got underway on Tuesday. The long-awaited probe into the UK’s handling of the pandemic began in west LondonContinue Reading
Updated at 10:31 Three people have been found dead in Nottingham in what police described as an “horrific and tragic incident”. A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two people were found dead in the street in Ilkeston Road just after 4am on Tuesday. A thirdContinue Reading
P arliament must consider overhauling the “out-of-date” law used to jail a mother-of-three who illegally obtained abortion tablets to end her pregnancy during lockdown, a senior Tory has said. Caroline Nokes, chairwoman of the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, joined women’s rights groups in calling for reform to the 1861Continue Reading
A Labour MP has accused the Foreign Secretary of being a “Chinese stooge” over a possible trip to the country after his ministerial colleague was sanctioned by Beijing. James Cleverly asked Chris Bryant to withdraw the “discourteous” and inaccurate” comment during an angry exchange before the Commons Foreign Affairs SelectContinue Reading
B oris Johnson hit back at Rishi Sunak in a full-blown row over peerages as he formally resigned as an MP. In a dramatic escalation of the Tory civil war, the ex-PM on Monday accused his successor Mr Sunak of talking “rubbish”. Earlier, the current Prime Minister had publicly confrontedContinue Reading
A man who carried out a “shocking, brutal and cowardly sexual assault” on an “unsuspecting woman” walking her dog in a Cork park has been jailed for six years. Vadim Veste (28), of Clancy Street, Fermoy, Co Cork, a dual Moldovan-Romanian national, pleaded guilty before the Central Criminal Court toContinue Reading
L abour has called on the Government to publish the School Teachers’ Review Body’s (STRB) pay recommendations amid plans by education unions for renewed strike action. Education Secretary Gillian Keegan told MPs she takes the body’s recommendations “very seriously” as Labour pressed her on the issue in the Commons. ShadowContinue Reading
The Minister for Finance has said the upcoming budget will be “prudent”. Michael McGrath was speaking to reporters before the National Economic Dialogue which is an integral part of the annual budgetary procedure, providing a platform for discussion on a wide range of issues from key stakeholders. Addressing the currentContinue Reading
