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Soaring numbers of people sought help for the illness in England over the pandemic – with referrals almost doubling, as services became even harder to access.
Matt Hancock resigned from his job this evening – almost 48 hours after the publication of a picture of him kissing a close aide, in breach of his own covid rules.
Jon Snow
London’s elevated six lane Westway races past Grenfell, and in the hundreds of times I had driven past in both directions, I had never given it a thought. A bland landmark. Never wondered who lived there, nor with what this tall building was clad.
An earthquake on New Zealand’s South Island has led to a tsunami which has struck coastal areas and led to evacuations on the Chatham islands some 400 miles away.
Alex Thomson
How much longer does the English political establishment go on not only not getting it – but demonstrating with toe-curling embarrassment that they simply don’t get it.
Alex Thomson
More insults raining down on the SNP tonight with the Labour hopeful in Glasgow South calling the party a “cult”. Curious for any person defending a 10,000+ “safe seat” to say that because it sounds like he feels threatened. He is, of course.
Tories outperform election expectations, Mr Cameron may be able to govern without coalition partners – at the head of a minority administration or with a wafer-thin overall majority.
A leading climate scientist says the CIA approached him to ask for information on how to disrupt the weather.
NBC News anchor Brian Williams apologises for incorrectly recalling a story about being shot at in a helicopter during the Iraq war. But surely the internet would be sympathetic? Yeah, maybe not.
Alex Thomson
On his way up and down Ben Nevis, Alex Thomson encounters a range of views on Scottish independence from a Spanish woman, a Frenchman, a Belgian and a group of Canadians.
Imran Khan and Tahir ul-Qadri want a “popular coup” against Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif. But their experiment in democracy has encountered several basic glitches.
British actor and director Richard Attenborough, who starred The Great Escape and Jurassic Park, and directed the film Gandhi, dies at the age of 90. Channel 4 News looks back on his words of wisdom.
Hundreds of flights are cancelled and hundreds of thousands are urged to evacuate, as a powerful typhoon hits south west Japan.
No-one has died due to radiation released after the Fukushima nuclear crisis and this is unlikely to change, the UN says. But the mental health impact for the nuclear evacuees is a different story.
Rutland in the Midlands is hit by the UK’s biggest earthquake this year, prompting a wave of jokes about the “earth moving”. But how does this seismic activity compare with other great British quakes?