In this issue

March 15, 2023

Hunt's £4bn childcare bid to get parents back to work

A £4bn expansion of free childcare for one and two-year -olds in England is expected to be announced in the budget today as part of a push to help people into work and boost growth.

2 mins

BBC pressured over pandemic by No 10 reports

BBC editors asked their journalists to avoid using the word “lockdown” in reporting at the start of the pandemic and be more critical of Labour after pressure from Downing Street, leaked email and WhatsApp messages show.

4 mins

HS2 delays will lead to extra costs, leaked document reveals

An internal Department for Transport briefing on the HS2 project has admitted delays to the high-speed railway will increase costs, appearing to undermine ministers’ claims.

3 mins

'Dreadful!' Losing your shirt is a racing ritual. But wearing jeans?

Looking across the packed stands of Cheltenham racecourse on day one of this year’s festival, it is fair to say the usual mix of tweed suits, blazers, flat caps and feather-topped country hats dominated.

2 mins

Air pollution making it harder for female fruit flies to find their mates

Air pollution is making it harder for fruit flies to mate because females cannot easily recognise a male's scent, a study has found.

2 mins

Diaries reveal anxiety and stress felt by junior doctors

NHS junior doctors suffer panic attacks and feelings of desperation because they get so stressed from the pressure they are under at work, new research has found.

2 mins

Rwanda deportation policy can go to appeal, judge rules

A court of appeal judge has ruled that a group of asylum seekers can bring a legal challenge against the Home Office for what they claim has been a failure to consider the dangers and risks of deporting them to Rwanda.

2 mins

Woman jailed for eight and a half years after lying about being raped and trafficked

A woman has been jailed for eight and a half years after being found guilty of lying about being raped and trafficked by an Asian grooming gang and making false rape claims against three other men.

2 mins

Aukus A personal chat - from a lifetime of experience

It's common for British and American leaders to try to show that the \"special relationship\" between their two countries extends to them, personally.

2 mins

New farmers' party poised to throw Dutch green reforms into disarray

A new party led by farmers fighting cuts to nitrogen emissions is likely to be the big winner in Dutch regional elections that could severely weaken the government and, analysts suggest, heralding a Europe-wide resistance to a green transition.

3 mins

Body swaps Collecting the Russian dead to bring fallen troops home

In a deserted village in northern Donetsk, a group of volunteers set about the grim task of extracting two decomposing Russian corpses from the cellar of a destroyed house.

3 mins

Crisis grows as 300,000 more people displaced by DRC conflict

More than 300,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were displaced by fighting between the M23 rebel group and the government last month.

2 mins

Tikrit Saddam's home town still bears legacy of dictator's regime

Perched on a cliff above P the Tigris River, Saddam Hussein's halfdestroyed palace looms over his home town of Tikrit, the deserted grounds bearing the traces of invaders come and gone.

4 mins

Mott bemoans England's fielding after whitewash in Bangladesh

Bangladesh inflicted on England the world champions' first Twenty20 series whitewash since 2016 after concluding a hugely positive run of matches by exacting fitting punishment for the tourists' chaotic and error-strewn performance.

2 mins

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