Gardaí and emergency services are currently at scene of an incident which occurred on the train line at Knocks Park, Ballisadare, Co. Sligo this afternoon at approximately 4p.m. One female pedestrian aged in her 40s, was fatally injured, and her body remains at the scene. A second female, aged inContinue Reading
T he Government is showing a “lack of compassion” in its harsh language about migrants, a Tory ex-minister has said. Lord Kamall, a Conservative former health minister who served in Boris Johnson’s government, urged ministers to tone down their harsh rhetoric about migrants crossing the channel. As the House ofContinue Reading
The Tory party moved the writs for by-elections in the west London seat and in the North Yorkshire constituency of Selby and Ainsty. Nigel Adams, a close ally of Mr Johnson, has quit as the local MP in this area. The by-elections are now set to take place between 21Continue Reading
A lawyer for the family of one of three men killed in a collision on the N7 in Dublin two years ago while fleeing gardaí has accused a coroner of treating the families of the deceased outrageously over her decision to grant an open-ended adjournment of an inquest into theirContinue Reading
Ministers and MPs are heading to Uxbridge and South Ruislip, where Mr Johnson quit as MP, to try to stop Labour seizing it by over-turning a Tory majority of more than 7,000. They are already highlighting the controversial extension of the Mayor’s ultra low emission zone to outer London boroughs.Continue Reading
R ishi Sunak will likely be challenged over Tory infighting in his weekly clash with Sir Keir Starmer, following his public spat with Boris Johnson over his predecessor’s resignation honours list. The Prime Minister will also move closer to two difficult by-elections, including in the seat vacated by Mr Johnson,Continue Reading
Former US president Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to federal charges alleging he hoarded classified documents detailing sensitive military secrets, and schemed to thwart government efforts to get them back. Mr Trump appeared before a judge in Miami’s federal court on Tuesday in a stunning moment in American historyContinue Reading
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
