In this issue

August 15, 2022

Food banks turning people away as demand accelerates

Food banks are running out of supplies amid an “overwhelming” surge of new people falling into hardship during the cost of living crisis, with some charities forced to turn away families in need.

5 mins

Treasury ‘draws up plan to cut £400 from energy bills’

There is no guarantee that Tory leadership candidates Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss would introduce the scheme

3 mins

Labour unveils £29bn plan to freeze energy price cap

Keir Starmer says his plan to freeze the cap would be paid for in part by expanding the windfall tax on fuel companies

3 mins

Extreme heat and more wildfires ‘the new reality’

A firefighter contains a blaze that almost reached nearby homes in Sheffield last month

4 mins

‘Overrule nimbys’ on new reservoirs to tackle drought

Government ministers must be able to overrule opposition from local MPs, councillors and residents to new reservoirs in a bid to combat widespread drought, the infrastructure tsar has warned.

3 mins

Child migrants ‘vanishing’ from Home Office hotels

Campaigners warn unaccompanied asylum seekers as young as 11 are going missing

2 mins

Channel crossings in small boats this year pass 20,000

The Ministry of Defence says 14 small boats were detected between 12 and 13 August

1 min

Tory members prefer PM to Truss and Sunak, poll finds

Some party members are already nostalgic it seems, before Boris Johnson has even left

2 mins

Greece is the word for PM’s latest summer holiday jaunt

Three-line whippy: Boris Johnson is on his second foreign break in a fortnight

1 min

Johnson is a disgrace to the office of PM, says Sturgeon

Scotland’s first minister was speaking at a Fringe event on Saturday

3 mins

Pupils told to prepare for results day ‘disappointment’

Many A-level students will not gain entry to their preffered university, experts warned

3 mins

Help for young terror attack survivors ‘added to trauma’

The Glade of Light living memorial to the victims of the 2017 Manchester Arena attack

2 mins

‘Unacceptable’: Sadowitz’s Fringe show axed by venue

Jerry Sadowitz has expressed his displeasure at the cancellation of his Saturday show in Edinburgh

1 min

Trump’s reaction to the FBI search rallies both parties

The former US president suggested that the FBI could have planted evidence

2 mins

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