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Road safety charity IAM RoadSmart is calling for restrictions to be imposed on new drivers Young drivers are responsible for more than a third of dangerous driving endorsements, new research has found. Road safety charity IAM RoadSmart, which conducted the analysis of DVLA data, called for restrictions to be imposed on new drivers through graduated driving licensing (GDL). It […]

The eight year old was taken to hospital but died from his injuries An eight-year-old boy has died after falling from the window of a house in Nottingham, police said. Nottinghamshire Police said it was called at 7.15pm on Wednesday to Costock Avenue in Sherwood by East Midlands Ambulance Service. Paramedics had gone to the scene after […]

The ‘work-to-rule’ action could see opening hours cut, and services reduced Pharmacists are to be balloted over potential “work-to-rule” action amid a row over funding. Action could see pharmacies opening for shorter hours or potentially providing fewer services. Pharmacy leaders said the ability to provide safe care was being put at risk by a decline in funding. The […]

Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the UK Government of sending “mixed messages” over its support for Israel and “undermining” the country’s right to self-defence. Israel’s prime minister criticised the new Labour administration for suspending around 30 arms exports to Israel amid concerns they could be used in violations of international humanitarian law in the Gaza conflict. […]

The UK is enjoying “summer’s last hurrah” before heavy rainfall is expected to drench the country over the weekend, the Met Office has said. On Wednesday, temperatures hit 25.5C in Inverness, which is 14C above average for this time of year, according to the forecaster. Warm and bright conditions are expected to continue into Thursday […]

The public vastly overestimates how much asylum seekers account for in UK immigration, leading to “skewed perceptions” that make the debate on migration “unbalanced”, according to new research. A survey found that, on average, respondents thought those seeking asylum represent 37% of total immigration when actually they accounted for only around 7% in the year […]

Lawyers for some of the men accused of raping an unconscious French woman who had been drugged by her husband asked her on Wednesday about her habits, personality and sex life, even questioning whether she was truly unconscious during the encounters. Gisele Pelicot’s testimony came a day after her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, testified that for […]

Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case. A new indictment charged the jailed ex-movie mogul with committing a criminal sex act, accusing him of forcing oral sex on a woman at some point between April 29 2006 […]

Russia’s ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office over an “unprecedented and unfounded public campaign of aggression against the UK”, the Government has said. A Foreign Office spokesperson accused Russia of making “malicious and completely baseless accusations” against Foreign Office staff after Moscow alleged six British diplomats had been engaged in spying and sabotage last week. […]

Decisions to restrict hospital visits during the pandemic in Northern Ireland were taken as “the least worst option”, the former chief nursing officer (CNO) for the region has said. Professor Charlotte McArdle also said vacancy levels in nursing immediately before the pandemic were at their highest levels in recent years. She told the UK Covid-19 […]