Corbyn jitters, Trident and Tory extinction
There are jitters in the Corbyn camp as close of polling approaches. One old hand in another campaign team thinks it could be a victory of less than 2 per cent, whoever gets it.
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There are jitters in the Corbyn camp as close of polling approaches. One old hand in another campaign team thinks it could be a victory of less than 2 per cent, whoever gets it.
Today, the Met Office announced that in conjunction with the Irish national meteorological service, it will start naming wind storms that affect the UK and Ireland. But how will it work?
Syrian refugee women and girls are suffering harassment, sexual exploitation and domestic abuse in exile in Lebanon and Jordan, and that abuse is increasing.
The government is prepared to take military action in Syria if it can win a majority in the Commons, but with the Labour leadership frontrunner and SNP sceptical, victory is not assured.
First Minister Peter Robinson says there can be no “business as usual” in Northern Ireland amid crisis talks over the future of power sharing.
The Sturgeonator v Jezza, the stillettoes v the vest – it should be quite a scrap.
Former Hurricane Kilo, now Typhoon Kilo, spinning around in the Pacific Ocean, has achieved what can be considered no mean feat for a powerful storm of tropical origin.
With the calendar page flipping over into September, today marks the beginning of meteorological autumn. But just how bad was summer this year?
Some 275,000 payments, including salaries, are delayed before the bank holiday weekend because of a glitch in HSBC’s IT systems.
More Eritreans filed for asylum in the UK in the year to June than any other nation. They face “systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations” at home, says the UN.
Once again, a bank holiday weekend lies ahead (except in Scotland) and most of us will be hoping that the relentless rain of the past week will ease.
Three unions suspend planned strikes on London Underground, with Unite calling the move a “gesture of goodwill”.
British Home Secretary Theresa May signs a deal with her French counterpart in Calais and announces enhanced security measures to counter attempts by migrants to enter the UK illegally.
It has emerged that before Kids Company received a £3m emergency bailout from the government, the charity’s chairman Alan Yentob had agreed to step down as part of a restructuring process.
Does bigger always equal better? Or should we beware a Google with ever sprawling tentacles?