Hospitals across Florida are coming back online after evacuating patients, closing facilities and canceling surgeries ahead of Hurricane Milton. The category 3 hurricane made landfall near Sarasota, Florida, on Wednesday evening and was expected to be one of the most powerful in Florida’s history. At least 10 storm-related deaths have been reported and the death…

The co-founder of the £4bn British tech firm Darktrace, Poppy Gustafsson, has been appointed as the government’s new investment minister. Darktrace, the listed cybersecurity company, was this month sold to a US private equity firm and Gustafsson stepped down as chief executive. She will become a peer. Ministers had been trying to appoint someone to…

Police investigating the deaths of hundreds of patients at the scandal-hit Gosport War Memorial hospital have identified 24 suspects. An independent police investigation was launched into the community hospital in Hampshire after a panel found that hundreds of patients had their lives shortened through the use of opioids. In 2018, the Gosport Independent Panel report…

Robert Jenrick rejects claim Tory MPs put him in final two for leadership ballot by mistake Robert Jenrick is now taking questions after his speech. Q: Kemi Badenoch is ahead with the members. What do you have that she doesn’t? Jenrick says he thinks he has consistently focused on the issues that matter to people…

The steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta is being prosecuted by Companies House for failing to file accounts for more than 70 companies listed in Britain. Gupta, who was once described as “the saviour of steel” when he began rescuing failing British steelworks in 2017, is facing enforcement action from the UK’s business register for the late…

Heritage campaigners have protested about a proposal from Netflix to erect a plaque commemorating its hit show One Day on a historic tenement in Edinburgh. Netflix has applied to Edinburgh city council for permission to fit the red plaque at the foot of steps on Vennel, a path beside the city’s medieval wall which offers…

Religious hate crimes in England and Wales have soared by 25% to record levels, coinciding with the Israel-Hamas conflict, government statistics show. The increase, from 8,370 to 10,484 offences reported to police forces in the year to March, was driven by a rise in offences against Jewish people and to a lesser extent Muslims, the…

The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to 53-year-old South Korean novelist Han Kang for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Her works include The Vegetarian, The White Book, Human Acts and Greek Lessons. “I was able to talk to Han Kang on the phone,”…