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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were all smiles despite the rainy weather as they joined the Earl and Countess of Wessex and Princess Beatrice at a Buckingham Palace garden party today. Kate stood under an umbrella and wore a mint green dress as she chatted with guests in the palace grounds.
Celebrities flock to the French Riviera to showcase their style
Details of drunkenness, fighting and late night parties at the heart of government have been laid bare in a damning report by Sue Gray - who said "senior leadership" must bear responsibility. The long-awaited report, which also details karaoke, wine spillages, aides being sick and others being rude to security staff and cleaners, reveals behaviour in Downing Street during 2020 and 2021 when COVID-19 restrictions were in place across the country. In one message after a "bring your own booze" party to which 200 people were invited in May 2020, Martin Reynolds, the prime minister's principal private secretary, said: "We seem to have got away with [it]."
The prime minister’s shamelessness is contagious, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
The singer drew in a whole new audience for his turn on kids' TV.
Prince Edward and the Sophie, Countess of Wessex, have been visited locations in Newport, on Pan.
Lady Poole, who will chair the inquiry, has set out 12 areas she will investigate during her inquiry into the pandemic.
In my childhood memories my mum is hitching up her sari to snip a cutting from a stranger’s garden, or watching Gardeners World. Now crocuses, tulips and daisies are my portal to her, writes Chitra Ramaswamy
Retailers have been accused of raising profit margins since the cut in fuel duty.
Offshore Energies UK, which represents the offshore oil and gas industry, said the tax would undermine investor confidence.
Former PM says he will back new Liberal leader and downplays loss, saying party ‘will regroup’
DOLLOW, Somalia (Reuters) -Hacked-off thorn branches encircle two mounds of earth heaped over the tiny bodies of Halima Hassan Abdullahi's twin granddaughters. "She is malnourished and her two babies died of hunger," Abdullahi said at the Kaxareey camp which sprang up in January and now houses 13,000 people. With global focus on Ukraine, aid agencies and the United Nations are desperate to attract attention to a calamity they say is shaping up to be comparable to Somalia's 2011 famine.
HOMEOWNERS in Dorset are being warned of issues surrounding structural repairs.
Sue Gray's Partygate report “lays bare the rot” Boris Johnson has spread in Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer has suggested. Responding to the prime minister's statement and apology in the House of Commons, the Labour leader suggested the government has treated the British people with “utter contempt”. “That report lays bare the rot that under this prime minister has spread in No 10,” Mr Starmer said.
There are no plans for Royal Navy warships to be involved in efforts to break the blockade.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told prime minister it was time to “pack his bags”
The footballer wants to see more progress in the teaching of the history and experiences of black, Asian and ethnic minority communities.
Eleven newborn babies died in a hospital fire in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, the president of the country said late Wednesday.
The MP's Standards Committee are also calling for lobbying rules to be tightened so MPs can't take part in proceedings that would benefit someone they are receiving money from. The Chair of the committee Chris Bryant has called the new measures "robust" and says they will "uphold and strengthen" standards in parliament. The report comes after the case of former MP Owen Paterson, which triggered a row over MPs second jobs.
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