US consumer safety officials announced recently they had ordered the recall of 2m Fisher-Price baby swings after they were linked to at least five infants’ deaths and posed a suffocation risk. The product, the Snuga Swing, was “doomed to fail” according to a commissioner with the US Product Safety Commission, which said infants should never…
North-west Europe is forecast to experience a burst of autumn warmth this week, thanks to warm air from southern Europe spreading northwards. This brief episode of warmer-than-average conditions will be driven by an amplified, or “wavy”, jet stream, which will allow warm air to push farther north. Daytime temperatures across much of France are forecast…
Badenoch’s comments ‘offensive’ and far removed from experience of families, says autism charity The Autism Centre of Excellence at Cambridge, a charity that works with Cambridge University’s Autism Research Centre, has put out a post on social media strongly criticising Kemi Badenoch for the comments about autism released earlier this month in an essay put…
The federal government is preparing to ban debit card fees, and instruct the consumer watchdog to investigate excessive card costs, as the unpopular system of transaction charges gets set for an overhaul. The proposed changes would mean consumers no longer pay a fee when using their debit card to buy their morning coffee or make…
A far-right Danish-Swedish politician who burned copies of the Qur’an in Sweden has gone on trial charged with incitement against an ethnic group. Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Danish political party Stram Kurs (Hard Line), is the first person to go on trial in Sweden in relation to Qur’an burnings. He refused to attend…
A woman sent her mother a picture of cattle in a field moments before she was trampled to death by a cow, an inquest has heard. Rebekah Morris, known as Becki, was killed while walking her dog, a chihuahua called Zero, in Littlethorpe, Leicestershire, on the evening of 9 July 2022. The jury inquest, which…
Bosses at two of Europe’s biggest car manufacturers have called an acceleration of Europe’s transition to electric vehicles as tensions continue in the EU over the race to ban the traditional combustion engine. Carlos Tavares, the chief executive of Stellantis, which owns the Peugeot, Vauxhall, Jeep and Citroën brands, and Martin Sanger, the sales chief…
The Post Office tried to use selective positive comments about the reliability of the Horizon IT system from a damning high court judgment to try to get police to review a decision not to launch criminal proceedings against a post office operator earlier this year, it has emerged. More than 550 post office operators –…
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Losses at the Evening Standard have topped more than £100m, highlighting the financial pressure on the title, which last month stopped daily publishing in the capital after almost 200 years. The Evening Standard, which has rebranded as the London Standard in a move to become a digital-first publication supported by a weekly print edition, reported…
