10 h. ago Jaguar Land Rover staff told to 'stay home' as systems shut down

Staff at the car manufacturing giant have been told 'not to come into work'

Politics

59 h. ago Disabled child, eight, is barred from summer camp after mother's gender

She had applied for her son, who has several severe physical defects, to go to charity Over The Wall's trip from July 6 to 8 at Strathallan School in Perthshire, Scotland.

Politics

9 d. ago Disabled mother humiliated by airline staff who told her to 'hurry' walking

Jo Winter, 50, was flying to Copenhagen with her daughter, Sally, who wanted to visit the city as she might spend time studying abroad there during her upcoming degree.

Politics

1 week ago Woman, 44, in coma in Majorca hospital after family find her hotel room covered in blood

A family on holiday in Majorca have launched a desperate appeal after staff told them Michaela Hadley, 44, had been taken to hospital

Society

1 week ago JD Vance booed during hamburger handout to national guard troops in DC

US vice-president, at Washington’s Union Station with Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth, defends use of troops in area with less crimeJD Vance was booed and heckled with chants of “Free DC!” during a photo op with national guard troops at Union Station in Washington on Wednesday afternoon.Handing out burgers to troops deployed last week by Donald Trump, at the station’s Shake Shack alongside the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, Vance told soldiers “we appreciate everything you’re doing” and asserted: “We brought some law and order back.” Meanwhile, a crowd of demonstrators protested outside. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Manager at care home told staff there was no cash to buy residents new underwear... because she had rinsed bank accounts of £55,000

Keeley Coleman used bank cards that belonged to two vulnerable residents and a 'pooled' card from seven others to buy a car, caravan and hot tub, Nottingham Crown Court heard.

Economics

2 w. ago ‘We thought with The Crown: “Is anyone going to watch this?”’ director Benjamin Caron on risk, realism – and royalty

A ‘safe pair of hands’ in high end TV, Caron now reunites with Vanessa Kirby for hyperactive Netflix thriller Night Always Comes about the terror of urban homelessnessIt’s quite a schlep from Buckingham Palace to the mean streets of working-class Portland, Oregon, but it is one that Midlands-born film-maker Benjamin Caron and actor Vanessa Kirby have undertaken with their new thriller Night Always Comes, adapted from the taut novel by Willy Vlautin. Caron and Kirby met nearly a decade ago when he directed episodes of The Crown, in which she played the young Princess Margaret from behind a cloud of cigarette smoke.Now Kirby stars as a former sex worker called Lynette, toiling in multiple jobs and living with her disabled brother (Zach Gottsagen) and their wrecked, wayward mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh). They have cobbled together the funds to buy their dilapidated house at a snip, only for Lynette’s mother to recklessly blow her half on a new car. Cue one manic night in which Lynette ...

Events

2 w. ago London hospital forced to evacuate 150 people after chlorine gas leak

Firefighters rushed to scene as patients and medical staff told to leave Guy’s Hospital in Southwark

Politics

2 w. ago Chemical explosion at major hospital sparks mass evacuation: Engineer 'accidentally mixed up chlorine and sulphuric acid' in basement

Firefighters rushed to St Guy's and Thomas' Hospital in central London this morning after the London Fire Brigade received a call at 8.49am.

Science

2 w. ago London hospital forced to evacuate 150 people after suspected chemical incident

Firefighters rush to scene as patients and medical staff told to leave Guy’s Hospital in Southwark

Science

2 w. ago Mass evacuation after chemical incident at major London hospital: Firefighters rush to scene as 150 patients and medical staff told to leave

Around 150 people have been evacuated from the basement and ground floor levels of Guy's Hospital in Southwark, southeast London, by firefighters and hospital staff.

Science

3 w. ago Popular airline slammed as staff told two disabled women 'we forgot about you'

Southwest Airlines is being criticised for failing to communicate changes to its five-hour delayed flight as two disabled women were left behind as the flight took off without them

Politics

3 w. ago DWP staff 'terrified' as another glass sheet falls from Welsh office

'Staff are terrified to go in yet are being told the building is safe'

Events

3 w. ago American Airlines 'banned black parents from taking disabled child's stroller past security but not white families'

The mom posted about her experience on TikTok, saying the airline discriminated and humiliated her family during a recent trip. 'No empathy. No compromise. Just refusal.'

Society

3 w. ago Suicidal girl, 14, died on children's mental health ward that had half its staff off work when inexperienced agency worker left her unsupervised, inquest told

Ruth Szymankiewicz was being treated for an eating disorder at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire but died on February 12, 2022.

Events

4 w. ago UK academics studying topics sensitive to China face harassment, survey finds

Exclusive: University staff report facing pressure to change teaching and are told that Chinese surveillance is rifeAcademics and students of Chinese studies in Britain are being subject to harassment, surveillance and pressure to self-censor as they seek to avoid disruption to funding, a survey of universities by a transparency group has concluded.The findings by UK-China Transparency coincide with new government guidance stating that universities may be breaching rules by having partnerships with foreign governments that require academic staff to pass ideological tests – for example, by hosting Confucius Institutes. Continue reading...

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