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Hundreds of healthcare support staff will stage a 48-hour strike from Wednesday in an escalating dispute over pay. Unison said its members at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Foundation Trust will walk out and mount picket lines outside hospitals. The union said it will be the first time healthcare support staff in London have gone on strike independently of national […]
Conservative MPs will take part in the first round of voting as they select a successor to Rishi Sunak. The first ballot in the Tory leadership contest will take place on Wednesday afternoon, which will begin the process of narrowing the list of the current six candidates. An announcement on the result of the first […]
A long-awaited report into the deaths of 72 people in a fire at Grenfell Tower is due to be published more than seven years after the blaze. The lengthy document – the final report of the inquiry into the 2017 disaster – is expected to lay out in detail its findings around the actions of […]
Steve Bruce is back in management with Sky Bet League One Blackpool. Bruce has signed a two-year contract to replace Neil Critchley, who was sacked on August 21 after opening the current campaign with successive defeats. The 63-year-old former Manchester United defender left his most recent role at West Brom in October 2022, just eight […]
Singer Sir Elton John has been left with “only limited vision” after a “severe eye infection”. The 77-year-old revealed he was healing from the infection in one eye, but said his recovery would take “some time”. In a post on Instagram, Sir Elton said: “Over the summer, I’ve been dealing with a severe eye infection […]
A coroner has warned that a common way of giving anaesthetic to patients poses a risk of future deaths, after a woman was administered too much local anaesthetic by mistake and died three months later. Dr Rachel Gibson, who had severe osteoarthritis, had hip replacement surgery at Spire Lea Hospital in Cambridge on April 12, […]
Two ballistic missiles have blasted a military training facility and nearby hospital in Ukraine, killing at least 49 people and wounding more than 200 others, Ukrainian officials said. It is one of the deadliest Russian strikes since the war began. The strike hit the central-eastern city of Poltava, the capital of the region of the […]
The mother of Baby P, who died after months of abuse, is back behind bars two years after being freed from jail. Tracey Connelly was recalled to prison for breaching her licence conditions in a move authorised by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood. Connelly left prison in July 2022 after the Parole Board ruled she was […]
The mayor of a French coastal town being used in a rescue operation says 13 migrants are dead after their boat ripped apart on Tuesday during an attempted crossing of the English Channel. Dozens of people plunged into the treacherous waters of the busy channel. “Unfortunately, the bottom of the boat ripped open,” said Olivier […]
Rachel Reeves has ignored calls to reverse her decision to cut winter fuel payments, amid warnings pensioners are “frightened” about how they will keep warm. The Chancellor defended the move as she repeatedly told MPs that increases to the basic state pension mean that people will be “£900 better off” than a year ago, adding […]