Conservative MPs warned the Prime Minister that children are becoming the ‘forgotten victims’ of the pandemic.
Survivors share their stories to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Nothing escapes the winds of change now sweeping through BP, not even the exploration team that for more than a century powered its profits by discovering billions of barrels of oil. Its geologists, engineers and scientists have been cut to less than 100 from a peak of more than 700 a few years ago, company sources told Reuters, part of a climate change-driven overhaul triggered last year by CEO Bernard Looney. Hundreds have left the oil exploration team in recent months, either transferred to help develop new low-carbon activities or laid off, current and former employees said.
The Met Office said the risk of flooding will return as temperatures rise.
Britain will team up with Egypt, Bangladesh, Malawi, Saint Lucia and the Netherlands to help communities around the world that are threatened by climate change to adapt and build resilience, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will say on Monday. Early warning systems for storms and investments in flood drainage and in drought-resistant crops could form part of the measures promoted by the new Adaptation Action Coalition, Johnson's Downing Street office says. Britain holds the rotating presidency of the G7 group of industrialised countries this year and Johnson said he would make the need for a resilient economy a priority within that framework.
The three-year contract to design and manufacture a prototype will support more than 100 jobs in Northern Ireland, the MoD said.
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The Bank has helped keep many large businesses afloat during the lockdown.
The £2 billion scheme has created more than 120,000 jobs for 16-24 year olds so far.
January 27 is Holocaust Memorial Day.
The NSPCC said worried friends and neighbours are increasingly contacting them with fears for children trapped in abusive homes during the pandemic.
The new system will be based around ultrafast lasers.
He spoke out after polls found a majority of voters thought Scotland was likely to be independent in the next 10 years.
Labour’s Opposition Day debates on Monday will focus on the Government’s ‘proposed increase in council tax’ and its plans for employment rights.
A record 491,970 people across the UK received their first dose of the vaccine on a single day.
Jonathan Hall QC said there has been a ‘steady drumbeat’ of terrorist attacks on prison officers.
An amber weather warning for snow is in place covering an area from Nottingham to Stoke-on-Trent.
The former health secretary thinks the public should be wearing air filtration masks in public spaces instead of cloth or surgical masks.
Ministers won't commit to reopening schools in England after Easter holidays. Stubbornly high Covid infection rate means no end in sight for home schooling for most pupils
Robert Rowland represented the South East of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 to December 2020.
London still lags behind all other regions in terms of the total number of jabs given, having delivered around 641,000 since December 8.
The hashtag ‘Narnia’ was trending on social media as people shared images of their snowy neighbourhoods.
The Health Secretary said the vaccination rollout is making ‘brilliant progress’ but Covid cases have been ‘incredibly high’.
Police warned those planning to demonstrate during the court appearance of those accused of toppling the statue of slaver Edward Colston risk a fine.