This month is Pride month. While everyone celebrates the historic achievements and advancements made by the LGBTQ community, let’s spare a thought for the queer students who are struggling in schools and colleges everywhere. While the Pride movement rightly celebrates the milestone that was the removal of Section 28, weContinue Reading
After the first meeting of world leaders in two years, Mr Johnson said “the world was looking to us to reject some of the selfish, nationalistic approaches that marred the initial global response to the pandemic and to channel all our diplomatic, economic and scientific might to defeating Covid forContinue Reading
Meg Hillier, Labour MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch in London, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee that has scrutinised public spending during the pandemic, is also made a dame, while veteran Labour MP for Rochdale, Tony Lloyd, is knighted for his public service.Continue Reading
“The sheer volume of clothing produced by these websites is shocking – we should see many of these items, which go for rock-bottom prices, as akin to other short-lived plastics. The nature of fast fashion trends means they are not designed to have long lives in our wardrobes,” said theContinue Reading
She said: “The defendant’s failure to consider any other research agency, by reference to experience, expertise, availability or capacity, would lead a fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility, or a real danger, that the decision-maker was biased.” The government acted unlawfully when it awardedContinue Reading
Speaking to assembled workers, the prince said: “The development of technology like electric vehicles, or green hydrogen for that matter for heavy transport, is vital for maintaining the health of our world for future generations, something I’m only too aware of today having recently become a grandfather for the fifthContinue Reading
These include living at a designated address, taking part in probation supervision, wearing an electronic tag, taking part in lie detector tests and having to disclose what vehicles he uses and who he speaks to, with particular limits on contact with children.Continue Reading
In a video message the Prince of Wales, patron of the Normandy Memorial Trust, said it was important the memory of these “remarkable individuals should be preserved for future generations as an example of personal courage and sacrifice, for the benefit of the wider national and, indeed, international community”.Continue Reading
A couple escaped with minor injuries as a passing lorry shed its load of slabs on to their car windscreen, bonnet and roof.Neil and Alison Collins were heading to the Norfolk coast in their new Tesla car to celebrate Mrs Collins’ birthday when the incident happened on 26 April inContinue Reading
Meanwhile, Dr Adam Kucharski, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M) that advises the government, said there were a “number of concerning signs” following the earlier finding that vaccine first doses aren’t as effective against the Delta variant and that people infected with the variant couldContinue Reading
