Day: July 28, 2024
Kemi Badenoch launches Tory leadership bid as nominations set to close
July 28, 2024Kemi Badenoch has thrown her hat in the ring and Suella Braverman has bowed out as nominations are set to close in the Conservative Party leadership race. Ms Badenoch, an early favourite with bookmakers, joins Dame Priti Patel, Mel Stride, Tom Tugendhat, James Cleverly and Robert Jenrick to compete for the top job. Under rules […]
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Delta Aquariid meteor shower to light up the night sky
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GPs threaten to ‘bring NHS to a standstill’ with possible strike
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Murder investigation launched after man, 20, stabbed to death in park
July 28, 2024Jasper KingPublished Jul 28, 2024, 4:35pm|Updated Jul 28, 2024, 6:52pm A 20-year-old man has been stabbed to death in a park in east London. Police were called to a fight in Plashet Park, Newham, at 7.38pm on Saturday. The man died at the scene despite the best efforts of emergency services. Two other teenage males […]
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Man arrested after fatal house fire in east London
July 28, 2024Jasper KingPublished Jul 28, 2024, 3:12pm|Updated Jul 28, 2024, 6:53pm A man in his 70s died in a house fire in east London that police are treating as suspicious. Police were called to Oval Road North, Dagenham, at around 5.40pm on Saturday, to reports of the house fire. The man’s body was found when police […]
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UK is ‘broke and broken,’ new government says as it prepares to tackle shortfall in public finances
July 28, 2024Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Britain’s new left-leaning government said Sunday that the nation is “broke and broken,” blaming the situation on its predecessors ahead of a major speech on the state of the public finances that is […]
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Watch: Police clash with Tommy Robinson supporters as nine arrested
July 28, 202400:59 Nine people were arrested at a Tommy Robinson march in central London yesterday (27 July), after protesters clashed with members of two other groups also participating in demonstrations. Marches from Trans Pride and Stand Up To Racism nearby saw one of Robinson’s supporters arrested for “assaulting a steward”, while another allegedly “snapped a Palestinian […]
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Tory leadership race will be part contest and part post-mortem
July 28, 2024Conservative leadership contests always start with much handshaking and hat doffing, but it never takes long for the muckraking and kneecapping to commence. Mel Stride managed as much – albeit in a characteristically courteous manner – when he popped up on Friday to announce his campaign. Asked about another candidate’s apparent volte-face on the European […]
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Former F1 boss Jordan in legal fight with HSBC over ‘flawed’ bond deal
July 28, 2024Eddie Jordan, the former Formula One team-owner, has launched a multimillion pound legal fight against HSBC over its alleged mis-selling of a complex bond in which he invested. Sky News has learnt that Mr Jordan, who became one of Grand Prix motor racing’s most flamboyant and successful figures during a stint at the helm of […]
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‘The marginal artist par excellence’: the pain, politics and playfulness of David Medalla
July 28, 2024The photographs on the museum wall show a frail, elderly man, posed in different ways against a tangle of bedsheets. He’s in his early 80s, and the suffering in his face is obvious. But the portraits are also whimsical: the man half-hides his face in a pile of flowers, or wears a crown and a […]
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