The machine digging HS2's longest tunnel has completed its 10-mile journey under the Chiltern Hills, almost three years after it started. Dubbed Florence - after the nurse Florence Nightingale - the machine was greeted with fireworks and cheers from hundreds of HS2 workers on Tuesday. Florence was launched in May …...Read More
HS2: 10-mile long tunnel under Chiltern Hills completed almost three years after setting off
Rishi Sunak struggling to maintain voter coalition that delivered 2019 victory, according to Sky News voter panel
Rishi Sunak is failing to hold together the voting coalition that delivered Boris Johnson a decisive victory in the 2019 general election, according to The Voters Panel on Sky News - launched today. A profound unhappiness with the state of the country and exhaustion at years of Tory chaos means …...Read More
Ministers 'pandering to far right' by not calling out Islamophobia, says ex-government adviser
Ministers are "pandering to the far right" by not calling Lee Anderson's remarks Islamophobic, a former government adviser on the issue has told Sky News. Imam Qari Asim, who was the last person to hold the post of independent Islamophobia adviser to the government, said it had been "disappointing" to …...Read More
Calls grow for Sunak to appoint independent Islamophobia adviser amid Lee Anderson row
Calls are growing for the prime minister to appoint a new independent Islamophobia adviser amid the ongoing row over Lee Anderson. The Ashfield MP was suspended from the Conservative Party last weekend after he refused to apologise for claiming "Islamists" had taken "control" of London and that Labour mayor Sadiq …...Read More
Actor hired as Willy Wonka for cancelled event called it a place 'where dreams went to die'
An actor who was hired to play Willy Wonka at a "shambles" of an event has described the experience as "where dreams went to die" - as a young "Oompa Loompa" was left disappointed he "didn't even get a Freddo". Willy's Chocolate Experience was brought to a halt on Saturday …...Read More
BBC apologises to family at centre of Huw Edwards scandal
The BBC has apologised to the family involved in the Huw Edwards scandal over the way it handled their complaint. The BBC faced accusations it did not respond quickly enough to complaints from the family of a young person, after it took seven weeks for allegations of inappropriate behaviour to …...Read More
Murder investigation launched after 'despicable' attack at London railway station
Police have launched a murder investigation after a person was found fatally injured outside a railway station in east London. A member of staff at Harold Wood Station, which lies on the London Underground's Elizabeth Line and the Great Eastern Main Line, called police just after 4.30am on Tuesday. They …...Read More
Rishi Sunak braced for another by-election after ex-Tory MP Scott Benton suspended from Commons
Former Tory MP Scott Benton has been suspended from the Commons for 35 days over his role in a lobbying sting - creating another headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. MPs approved the suspension of Mr Benton on Tuesday evening without the need for a vote - known as going …...Read More
Freddie Mercury's house on sale for £30m
The former home of music legend Freddie Mercury is up for sale - on the market for offers in excess of £30m. Garden Lodge in Kensington, west London, is set in a quiet enclave in the borough, and used to be described by Mercury as "his country house in central …...Read More
'Dead duck' Post Office should be sold to Amazon for £1, says campaigner Alan Bates
Post Office victims champion Alan Bates has called for the Post Office to be sold to the likes of Amazon for £1 as he described it as "a dead duck". Appearing before MPs on the Business and Trade Committee, Mr Bates called for the Post Office to be removed from …...Read More
