Housing Secretary Michael Gove has apologised for the government's response over the last five years to the Grenfell tragedy, which he says had sometimes been "too slow" and "insensitive".
As protests broke out across India over a ruling party official's controversial remarks about the Prophet Mohammed, an image of a woman being pulled away by a police officer was shared thousands of times in social media posts that claim it shows a Muslim Indian journalist being arrested at a demonstration. But the claim is false; the photo shows the arrest of a student leader during a protest on June 12. The photo -- which shows a woman in a hijab being taken away by a police officer -- was shar
‘As stated in yesterday’s congressional hearings, you don’t ask for a pardon if you are innocent. And, you don’t decline to appeal if you know you are right,’ said Heard’s spokesperson
Ekin-Su branded Jay ‘muggy’ during the heated conversation.
It's massive, really heavy, and now scientists think it ate chunks of other planets to get as big as it is. The theory comes from an international team of astronomers led by Yamila Miguel from the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and is set out in an article in Astronomy & Astrophysics. It follows news last year that NASA scientists are baffled by the discovery that the planet's Great Red Spot is accelerating.
The club said it was “disappointed” to learn Oli McBurnie and Rhian Brewster have been charged.
With votes still being counted, the Liberal Democrats claimed to have snatched the Devon seat held with a 24,000 majority by the Tories in 2019.
President-elect Gustavo Petro, who has vowed to lift up Colombia’s poor and disenfranchised, has won the support of an influential party of the establishment as he tries to build a majority coalition in Congress
Sir Keir Starmer has been out on a victory lap in Wakefield after his Labour's candidate Simon Lightwood took the seat from the Conservatives in Thursday's by-election. The Labour leader said the result put his party on track to win the next general election, saying: "The Tory Party is absolutely imploding, they know they're out of ideas and they're out of touch and if they had any decency, they'd get out the way for the next Labour government.".
<p>A dad has slammed council bosses for failing to act after being forced to live next door to a rat-infested abandoned house - which has been left to rot for over 20 YEARS.<br></p><p>David Nicholls, 59, says he feels like he is living next to a "rat hotel" after hearing the rodents under his floorboards and seeing them scurry across his garden. </p><p>The dad-of-two moved into his terraced home on Murray Avenue, in Abington, Northampton with his wife and two kids in 1998.</p><p>His next door neighbour had moved out the year before and since then he says the property has been neglected to the point it has become a serious health hazard. </p><p>The unsightly boarded-up house has smashed windows, messy overgrown gardens and the interior piled high with boxes and bags. </p><p>He is now calling on West Northamptonshire Council to take enforcement action allowing them to take over the property and put it back into use as housing. </p><p>He said: "I moved into the house in 1998, the guy next door left in 1997 and up until a few years ago you would only see him once every five years or so. </p><p>"He'd spend a night there, light a bonfire and then he was off again, the house has just been abandoned and left to rot.</p><p>"The council knows the property is empty. They keep saying it is working with the owner but nothing's changing. <br></p><p>A West Northamptonshire Council spokesperson said: "The council continues to investigate, and progress action in line with the latest findings from the local government ombudsman.</p><p>"The council is not the owner of the property, and is not responsible for the property.</p><p>"WNC confirms that where possible it will take enforcement action to secure improvements to the property and the neighbourhood when the law allows.”<br></p>
Amber Heard must officially pay Johnny Depp $10.35m (£8.43m) for damaging his reputation after the judge in their defamation trial filed a written order. On Friday, Judge Penney Azcarate made the jury's award official by entering a judgment order into the court record after a brief hearing in Virginia. The jury ruled in Depp's favour on all three of his claims relating to specific statements in the piece and found he should receive $10m (£8.14m) in compensatory damages.
Police have been tackling dangerous driving behaviours, with nearly 270 speeding offences identified on the Isle of Wight last month.
MEMBERS of the Armed Forces will be eligible for a free hot breakfast in Tesco cafes across Glasgow.
Conor McGregor leaves Dublin court as dangerous driving case postponed
ANALYSIS: Insiders say a second no-confidence vote among MPs would now produce a very different result from the first
People are struggling to confirm if they or their children are vaccinated against polio, it emerged on Thursday. Health officials urged the public on Wednesday to ensure their polio vaccines were up to date after an outbreak of the virus was detected in UK sewage samples. But some parents said they were pushed from one authority to another trying to get answers. It also emerged that permission from a GP must be granted to allow patients to access their own, or their children’s, medical records v
Glastonbury festival warned punters to avoid watching Michael Eavis’ performance because the area was “very busy.”
There have been over 800 cases of monkeypox in the UK
FIREFIGHTERS are dealing with a blaze at a block of flats in Glasgow's East End.
"A constant characteristic of Des Morgan’s letters to the Advertiser is this: He constantly misses the point to bolster some threadbare, pro establishment talking point."
PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) -Late-stage data on an experimental COVID-19 vaccine from Sanofi and GSK has showed the shot confers protection against the Omicron variant of the virus, the companies said on Friday. The so-called bivalent vaccine targets the Beta variant - first identified in South Africa - as well as the original Wuhan strain of the virus. In a trial involving 13,000 adults, the vaccine demonstrated an efficacy rate of 64.7% against symptomatic COVID, and 72% efficacy against infections specifically caused by the Omicron variant.
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