In this issue

May 22, 2023

Pressure on PM to launch inquiry into Braverman's speeding row

Sunak flies back from G7 summit into storm over home secretary's actions

4 mins

Nobel prize winners call for release of jailed Belarus dissident

More than 100 Nobel laureates, including Kazuo Ishiguro, Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee, have called for the release of the Nobel peace prize winner Ales Bialiatski and said they \"stand with the fearless people of Belarus who continue to fight for their human rights\"

1 min

Labour pledges focus on prevention of suicide as part of 'renewed NHS'

A Labour government would reverse the rise in the number of deaths from suicide as part of a health plan to  replace pain and anxiety with a “hope of a renewed NHS”, Keir Starmer will pledge

2 mins

Sixty days on a ledge: teacher aiming for record stay on tiny rock

A science teacher has found an unusual way of exorcising the loneliness of the repeated lockdowns during the Covid crisis. He plans to spend two months living alone on Rockall, a barren islet deep in the Atlantic

2 mins

UK arms sales double to record £8.5bn amid war and growing global tensions

British arms exports doubled during 2022 to a record £8.5bn according to the only publicly available official figures, reflecting escalating geopolitical uncertainties and the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine

2 mins

Bureaucracy leaves paralysed Swedish woman stranded in UK

A Swedish woman left paralysed after a catastrophic bike accident has been stranded in hospital in the UK for more than a year after efforts to repatriate her failed owing to Stockholm bureaucracy

2 mins

Labour NEC accused of meddling after vetoing planned local coalitions

Labour faces accusations of overcentralised meddling after the party's national executive vetoed planned coalitions with the Liberal Democrats or Greens in a series of formerly Conservative-held local authorities

2 mins

Schofield battles to save career as search for This Morning replacement begins

Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary have been announced as temporary presenters of ITV's This Morning as its former host Phillip Schofield battles to save his television career

2 mins

'Glaring' lack of trauma help for young survivors of Manchester attack

Nearly one in three children and young people caught up in the Manchester Arena attack have not received any professional help, a study has found

2 mins

England's first not-for-profit fertility clinic closes within a year of opening

The first not-for-profit fertility clinic in England has shut within a year of opening and has been sold to a private provider, in what one of its founders called \"a tragedy for women\"

2 mins

'We have the shelf': Rushdie leads tributes to fiction's master stylist

Salman Rushdie has led tributes to Martin Amis and his inimitable writing voice after the celebrated author died on Saturday, aged 73

2 mins

Teaching unions urge ministers to reopen pay talks as review body proposes 6.5% rise

Education ministers union leaders have urged to return to the negotiat-review ing table for formal talks on pay and funding as an independent body is to recommend a 6.5% pay rise for teachers in England

2 mins

Inequality warning as wealthy buyers force up land prices in Scotland

Land ownership in Scotland is at risk of becoming more elitist and unequal because wealthy corporations and forestry companies are driving up land prices, a study has warned

1 min

Crowning 'farce' How Met held 14 at protest seminar

'I felt that they knew by the time they had taken us to the station in the van that they had the wrong people,\" said Lauren, 26, a medical writer in the wash-up pharmaceutical industry

3 mins

Zelenskiy secures more US arms as he rebuts claims of Bakhmut's capture

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has secured fresh military aid from the US during a day of frantic diplomatic activity at the G7 summit, as Russia claimed a battlefield victory in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut

2 mins

G7 summit Kyiv seizes the chance to reach beyond the west for support

Normally G7 summits are about battling for the free world comma by comma, as diplomats parse lengthy communiques of ephemeral significance long into the night. Words, after all, constitute much of a diplomat's work

2 mins

PM's party leaves left trailing in Greek elections

Greece's general election has failed to produce a winner despite the centre-right party of the incumbent prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis clinching 41% of the vote with more than 70% of ballots counted

2 mins

Facebook to be fined £648m for mishandling user information

Facebook is to be fined more than €746m (£648m) and ordered to suspend data transfers to the US as an Irish regulator prepares to punish the social media network for its handling of user information

2 mins

Anger over Co-op stance on welfare for chickens

Feathers are flying at the Co-operative Group after thousands of its members voted to improve welfare for chickens reared for meat at the annual meeting on Saturday - but were partly overruled by the company's directors, who said they wanted to keep prices down

1 min

Murray quits French Open with focus on Wimbledon

Andy Murray has withdrawn from this year's French Open. The second grand slam of the year begins next week, but after struggling to find his best form on clay recently the Scot will prioritise a busy grass-court schedule in the build-up to Wimbledon

2 mins

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