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…
Two young female journalists who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for reporting on the death of Mahsa Amini have been cleared of charges of collaborating with the United States government but will still spend up to five more years behind bars, the Iranian authorities have announced. Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi were arrested in…
Three US-based professors, including two UK-born academics, have been awarded this year’s Nobel prize in economics, for showing how the political and economic systems introduced by colonisers can determine whether a country is rich or poor today. The explanation put forward by Turkish-American Daron Acemoğlu, Sheffield-born Simon Johnson and Briton James A Robinson, suggests that…
The New York Sun owner, Dovid Efune, has begun exclusive talks to buy the Daily and Sunday Telegraph for £550m, the Guardian understands . Efune, a former editor of the New York-based Jewish publication, the Algemeiner Journal, made the highest bid to buy the newspapers last month and has beaten three rivals to become the…
Don’t worry about Labour’s workers’ rights bill, Starmer tells investors Keir Starmer then tells international investors they shouldn’t be worried about Labour’s employment rights bill, introduced last week. Let me be clear, they are “pro-growth”, Starmer insists. Workers with more security at work, with higher wages, is a better growth model for this country, he…
Salford Lads Club, the youth centre immortalised by the Smiths on the sleeve of their third studio album The Queen Is Dead, is under threat of closure. The rising costs of maintaining and running the Grade II-listed building, as well as a drop in grant funding, have left it with a shortfall of about £250,000.…
