Jasper KingPublished Mar 18, 2024, 9:30am|Updated Mar 18, 2024, 9:39am A flight was forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger attempted suicide, it has been reported. The EVA Air BR67 flight was travelling from Bangkok to London on Friday when it was forced to make the emergency landing. The passenger was found in […]
Read MoreBritain’s most decorated female Olympian Dame Laura Kenny has announced her retirement from professional cycling. The 31-year-old made the announcement in a post on Instagram. She wrote: “Thank you cycling for everything you’ve given me – including a husband and our growing family! “Having people say I have inspired women and girls to get active […]
Read MoreGetty Images Dame Laura Kenny, Great Britain’s most successful female Olympian, has announced she is to retire from cycling immediately rather than attempt to qualify for this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris. Writing on her Instagram account, Kenny said: “Thank you cycling for everything you’ve given me – including a husband and our growing family! […]
Read MoreSadiq Khan will launch his campaign for a record third term as mayor of London by promising the “greatest council homebuilding drive in a generation”. Appearing at an event in London on Monday, alongside the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, with whom the mayor has had public policy clashes in recent months, Khan will promise to […]
Read MoreSadiq Khan who is launching his re-election campaign on Monday for a third term in City Hall PA Wire Sir Keir Starmer was joining Sadiq Khan on Monday as he launched his re-election campaign pledging to double his council homes target to 40,000 and trumpeting the prospect of a Labour government and mayor offering a […]
Read MoreSenior research fellow Richard Arm in his lab at Nottingham Trent University’s City Campus (Nottingham Trent University/PA) Researchers have created hyper-realistic models of diseased hearts and lungs – which can beat, bleed and breathe like the real organs – to help train surgeons to perform transplants. The team, led by senior research fellow Richard Arm […]
Read MoreTaoiseach Leo Varadkar and US President Joe Biden during the St Patrick’s Day Reception and Shamrock Ceremony in the the East Room of the White House, Washington DC, during his visit to the US for St Patrick’s Day (Niall Carson/PA) PA Wire Irish premier Leo Varadkar has told the US President it is possible “to […]
Read MoreWhen Gill Castle became pregnant with her first child in 2011, she was over the moon. She had a healthy, straightforward pregnancy, but her labour was traumatic. “I remember saying to my mum, I have gone into hospital perfectly healthy, a working police officer, and I have come out disabled, without my job,” Gill reflects. […]
Read MoreFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails An $11 billion acquisition that backfired on Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard more than a decade ago will be resurrected Monday during a trial that will explore whether […]
Read MoreWhat the papers say – March 18 PA Archive A defiant Prime Minister, Conservative leadership rows, health issues and royalty jostle for attention on the front pages of Monday’s newspapers. The Daily Telegraph focuses on Rishi Sunak, saying he has urged Tory MPs to stick with him and his economic plan after continued speculation about […]
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