In this issue

May 17, 2023

Alarm as ministers target housing standards to cut asylum hotels bill

Exclusive Braverman in bid to axe regulations in private sector properties

3 mins

Kyiv's new defences repel heavy assault

Ukraine said yesterday it had neutralised the Kremlin’s most potent hypersonic weapon , shooting down all six Kinzhal missiles launched at Kyiv during a sweeping and “exceptionally intense” night time attack.

4 mins

Home Office pushing for use of facial recognition tech in everyday policing

Ministers are calling for facial recognition technology to be “embedded” in every day policing, including potentially linking it to the body worn cameras officers use as they patrol Britain’s streets.

3 mins

'We Can All Watch Together': Cannes Opens With A Passionate Case For Cinema-Going"

The jury president of the Cannes film festival yesterday made a passionate case for the importance of cinema in a post-pandemic world where audiences prefer to gorge their entertainment online.

3 mins

Rishi Sunak PM And Dutch Leader Seek Coalition To Supply F-16s

Rishi Sunak has agreed with the Dutch leader, Mark Rutte, to seek an "international coalition" to offer support in procuring F-16 jets for Ukraine, Downing Street said yesterday.

2 mins

Greggs wins right to late night opening for Leicester Square store

A row over Greggs' right to sell sausage rolls and pizzas to London commuters in the early hours has been resolved after the food chain agreed to cool its plans to sell \"hot\" items such as chicken goujons and potato wedges.

2 mins

Night of fire Trail of arson strikes fear in Wimborne

'Shocking, isn't it?\" said hairdresser Jackie Shearing, gazing at the burnt-out shell of a hatchback wedged in a passageway close to the centre of Wimborne Minster.

2 mins

University of Oxford severs ties with Sacklers over opioid links

The University of Oxford is cutting its ties with the Sackler family, whose wealth came from addictive opioid drugs - removing their name from buildings, galleries and positions funded through their donations.

2 mins

Children in England leapfrog to fourth place in literacy league table

England's nine and 10-year-olds have taken fourth place in an international literacy study comparing the reading ability of children of the same age in 43 countries, up from joint eighth place last time assessments took place.

2 mins

Farming Downing Street food summit decried as 'PR stunt'

Rishi Sunak's Downing Street food summit has been described as \"empty\" by industry representatives, who rounded on the prime minister for failing to discuss soaring inflation or set out measures to safeguard British food production.

3 mins

Speaker at NatCon echoes far-right antisemitic attacks in condemning 'globalists'

One of the main speakers at a conference attended by two cabinet ministers and a series of other Conservative MPs has blamed \"globalists\" for the world's political problems, repeatedly using a term associated with the far right and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

3 mins

Tenants 'Landlords can get away with anything'

The government promised to ban no-fault evictions in its 2019 election manifesto and a renters reform bill was included in the December 2019 Queen's speech, but it did not materialise until this week.

2 mins

Gucci coup Show seals Seoul's status as fashion powerhouse

Baggy jeans, luxury handbags, K-pop heart-throbs and a 14th-century palace starred in a lavish Gucci catwalk show that highlighted Seoul's status as a centre of pop culture and a key battleground for luxury brands.

1 min

Rock of ages: 'slow, quiet and gentle' film of life in Cornish field is up for prize

It is a rock documentary but there is no pounding music, no terrible behaviour, no bombastic main character.

2 mins

Mirror blackmailed by reporter as it tried to cover up phone hacking, court hears

A leading Mirror journalist allegedly blackmailed the company as it attempted to cover up phone hacking, the high court heard yesterday.

2 mins

Harry in fresh legal challenge to Home Office over personal security detail

A decision not to allow Prince Harry to pay for police protection while he is in the UK is unlawful, his lawyers claimed yesterday, as he launched a second legal challenge against the Home Office over his security arrangements.

2 mins

"This is my home' The people paying for extra space to beat the squeeze in north London

Last Sunday morning at the Space Station self-storage depot in Cricklewood, northwest London, Merlin, 49, a care worker, was on her weekly visit to her unit - a space not much larger than a broom cupboard.

3 mins

Hotter pollen-laden bees finding raises global heating concern

Carrying pollen is a workout that significantly increases the body temperature of bumblebees, researchers have found, raising questions about how they will be affected by the climate crisis.

1 min

Gang jailed for faking passports and selling them to criminals

The ringleaders of a gang that specialised in supplying fake passports to high-level criminals, allowing them to evade arrest and identification, were jailed yesterday.

2 mins

Bombs shake Khartoum as war between Sudan's army and paramilitary intensifies

Airstrikes and artillery fire shook much of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and its neighbouring cities yesterday as fighting between the country's warring factions intensified sharply.

3 mins

Journalists around world urge China to release Hong Kong media mogul

More than 100 journalists and editors have signed an open letter calling for the immediate release of Jimmy Lai, a British media mogul detained in Hong Kong on national security charges.

2 mins

Censorship Libraries targeted in run-up to Tiananmen anniversary

Books about Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong protest movements and other subjects deemed politically sensitive by China have been removed from public libraries in the former British colony as the 34th anniversary of the massacre in the centre of Beijing approaches.

2 mins

FBI accused of failures but report finds no plot against Trump

The special counsel John Durham found no evidence that the US justice department and the FBI conspired in a deep-state plot to investigate Donald Trump's ties to Russia in 2016, though the report released on Monday found that the FBI's handling of key aspects of the case was deficient.

2 mins

Group attacks Brigitte Macron's nephew at family chocolate shop

The French president's Macron, has denounced to have been a politically motivated attack on her great-nephew, who was beaten up outside her family's shop.

1 min

Pompeii dig finds remains of pair buried by quake as eruption began

The remains of two people believed to have been killed by an earthquake that accompanied the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been found in the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.

1 min

'Did the pope know? Country divided by 'shameful' claims that John Paul II covered up abuse

With under six months to go before a parliamentary election that is expected to be closely fought, a surprise figure has entered the Polish political field, despite the fact he died in 2005 : Pope John Paul II.

4 mins

UK employers' payroll numbers fall for first time in two years

The number of workers on employers’ payrolls dropped for the first time in two years last month amid signs the flat lining economy has begun to take a toll on Britain’s labour market.

2 mins

Martínez lands deadly blow and guides Inter into final

For Internazionale , the road to Istanbul was paved with bad intentions. The exuberance and colour of their first-leg victory gave way to something darker and grittier here: not so much a semi-final as a turf war, the sort of game that is to be endured rather than enjoyed.

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