Labour’s Harriet Harman to run for Commons Speaker
Harriet Harman told Today she will run to become the next Commons Speaker Harriet Harman has confirmed she will run to become the next Commons Speaker. The Labour MP and Mother of the House – the longest continuously-serving female MP – made the announcement after the current Speaker, John Bercow, said he would stand down […]
Trump’s NHS pledge, and online gambling fears
US President Donald Trump grabs the newspapers’ attention with his denial of interest in the NHS – even “on a silver platter”. By contrast, the Guardian reports that the Labour leader is using the issue to “pile pressure” on the Conservatives. The Daily Mirror argues that Mr Trump’s denial could be taken as confirmation the […]
The rebel spirit of British style
KTZ SS/2015 (Getty Images) British menswear is known for pushing boundaries. How does this radical tradition affect fashion today? Lindsay Baker takes a look. Flamboyant radicals and unkempt rebels have long been part of Britain’s sartorial history, from louche, pantaloon-clad dandies to anarchic punks in bondage trousers. In fact youthful disruption and rebellion are as […]
South Tyneside and Sunderland health trust hails AI cancer trial
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust The AI technology was able to find polyps which are sometimes missed by the human eye A hospital trust will continue to use AI technology after a trial found the software helped find bowel lesions which could become cancerous. South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (STSFT) has […]
EMF ‘blown away’ by blue plaque approval in Cinderford
Getty Images The pair are behind the hit 1990 single Unbelievable The hometown of nineties band EMF has agreed to honour the group with a blue plaque. The group, from Cinderford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, is best known for its hit single Unbelievable which was the UK’s 30th best selling single of 1990. […]
Spain clings to fragments of hope in time of disaster
Daniel Burguet was filmed rescuing trapped children during the Valencia floods Floods and torrential rain returned to the Valencia region on Wednesday night, but this time they were ready for it, and the areas hit two weeks ago escaped further disaster. More than 220 people died in this eastern coastal area at the end of […]
River trust says anaerobic digesters ‘aren’t regulated properly’
Calls have been made for better regulation over the use of anaerobic digesters in Wales following a series of pollution incidents. Incidents have seen the machines, which break down animal and food waste to produce gas for energy, fail and leak a slurry-like substance into rivers. The Welsh Government said it would review the machines’ […]
Truss backtracks on public worker pay plan after backlash
Liz Truss: “I never had any intention of changing the terms and conditions of teachers and nurses.” Liz Truss has scrapped a plan to link public sector pay to local living costs following a backlash from Tory MPs and opposition parties. The Tory leadership candidate had proposed regional pay boards, in a bid to save […]
Mexico earthquake and May’s UN speech
Hello. Here’s your morning briefing: Many dead as earthquake hits Mexico The epicentre of the earthquake – which follows another measuring 8.1 earlier this month that left 91 dead – was near Atencingo in Puebla state, about 120km (75 miles) from Mexico City. Phone lines are down in the capital and about two million people […]
Building a city from scratch
(Milla Kontkanen/Alamy) Oscar Niemeyer designed a metropolis where none had stood previously when he envisioned Brazil’s capital. Jonathan Glancey looks at the success rate of ‘new cities’. The view from high hotel windows along Brasilia’s Monumental Axis, or principal street, is surely one of the most surreal to be had of any major city. Laid […]