Four people have been taken to hospital after a school bus carrying 43 school pupils and a driver overturned in a field in County Down on Monday. Photographs on social media showed children in uniform walking from the blue doubledecker bus, which had a shattered windscreen. The Northern Ireland ambulance service (NIAS) indicated most of…
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The government has yet to respond in detail to the latest, shocking findings about the poor performance of for-profit social care providers, and what a report from Oxford University calls the “astounding pace” of children’s home privatisation. But the revelation that almost all the residential care settings forced to close by regulators in the 12…
It’s becoming a common experience for Americans going to the grocery store: your bag of chips seems lighter, your favorite drink comes in a slimmer bottle, and you’re running out of laundry detergent more quickly than usual. And yet things are staying the same price. On Monday two Democratic lawmakers launched an attempt to get…
Keir Starmer has urged all sides to pull back from the brink in the Middle East as he addressed the House of Commons on the anniversary of the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel. With Israel yet to decide how to respond to Iran’s unprecedented missile strike last week, the prime minister said he…
The former Metropolitan police officer David Carrick has been charged with eight sexual offences against two women. Prosecutors announced on Monday that Carrick, 49, would face charges of rape, indecent assault and coercive control concerning two women, dating back to more than three decades ago when he was a teenager. The first set of charges…
Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell says Cleverly and Cameron would never have agreed this deal Andrew Mitchell, the shadow foreign secretary, says it is astonishing the government is giving away a military asset to a country than never had it before. He quotes approvingly what the Times said about the deal in an editorial. It…
A battleground county in north-eastern Pennsylvania will have ballot drop boxes this fall after its county manager faced pressure and reversed her decision to eliminate them. The announcement on Friday came less than a month after Romilda Crocamo, the county manager in Luzerne county, said she was getting rid of the county’s four drop boxes…
A rescue deal for the UK arm of TGI Fridays has been struck, with two private equity groups to buy 51 restaurants – although a further 35 outlets are to close with the loss of more than 1,000 jobs. Calveton UK and Breal Capital, which own upmarket restaurants including Le Pont de la Tour, Quaglino’s…
Tim Bradley quite rightly wonders why heat pumps are so expensive in the UK (Letters, 1 October). He can’t be alone. The simple answer surely must be price gouging, partly due to the heat pump grant. I received two quotes from the same supplier for the same house, one with a £5,000 grant and another…
