Iran has developed long-range missiles capable of reaching major European cities, Israel has warned. Iran targeted Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands before the Government gave the US permission to strike missile sites targeting the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, but it is not clear exactly when the two intermediate-range ballistic missiles were fired. The […]
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More than 8,000 meningitis B vaccines have been handed out since the outbreak in Kent while the number of cases is up to 34 from 29. Hundreds of students and other eligible people queued to receive vaccines and antibiotics on Saturday, and more are expected to be waiting outside the clinics when they reopen on […]
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Israeli soldiers work at the scene after Iranian missile barrages struck the southern city of Dimona on Saturday REUTERS At least five people are believed to have died and another 100 injured after Iran’s latest ballistic missile attack in southern Israel. The airstrikes have displaced hundreds of people across the cities of Dimona and Arad, […]
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Nick Candy visited the central American country last week (Lucy North/PA) PA Wire Reform UK’s treasurer met internationally sanctioned individuals on a gold mining related visit to Nicaragua, it has been reported. Billionaire property tycoon Nick Candy visited the Central American country last week and was greeted with a message from co-president Rosario Murillo, who […]
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A teenage construction worker in London plunged six storeys to his death in what was described as a wholly preventable accident at a building site. Renols Lleshi, 19, was removing scaffolding from a rooftop garden of a 12-storey block of flats in Acton, west London in the summer of 2023. He stepped onto what he […]
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Follow live updates and results from UFC London, below. Kurtis Campbell vs Danny Silva Round one Silva presses forward as Campbell switches stances and tries not to get pushed back too far. A few body kicks by Campbell, who is circling to his left – away from the southpaw power hand of Silva. Campbell with […]
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British UFC fighter Melissa Mullins was in “tears of joy” as she took to the scales on Friday, only for her opponent to fail to make weight. Mullins, born in Oxford but fighting out of Coventry, was due to face Luana Carolina in the opening bout of UFC London on Saturday, but that contest was […]
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Parts of the UK enjoyed breathtaking views of the Northern Lights overnight – and more is forecast for Saturday. The natural light show, known as the aurora borealis, is one of nature’s “most spectacular displays”, according to the Met Office. Pictures from Friday night featured waves of mostly green and purple light at Bamburgh in […]
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An aspiring footballer has died aged 16 and his friend is in a coma after an electric bike allegedly burst into flames in a London home. Tommy Ballay-Dean, known as Junior, died at his friend Shauny Halsey’s home in Southwark, south London, on Wednesday after a blaze broke out. The pair had just returned to […]
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It hit me on the way to a lunch date, somewhere between Karlsplatz and Stephansplatz, in the central first district of Vienna. This is brilliant. That quiet, almost smug realisation that public transport in Vienna is in a completely different league to anything back in the UK. The U-Bahn – Vienna’s underground train system – […]
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