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Met police chief blames Home Office failures after vetting ruling on rogue officers
Britain’s most senior police officer has blamed Home Office foot-dragging for a failure to change the rules to allow forces to sack officers who fail vetting procedures.
The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, said civil servants had known about the problem for more than 20 years, leaving the force …
Intense heatwave in southern Brazil forces schools to suspend return
historic floods last May that left more than 180 dead
in Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, the water rose to the ceiling of the Olindo Flores school in the city of São Leopoldo, destroying furniture, books and parts of its infrastructure.When classes resumed …
Coca-Cola says Trump tariffs could force it to increase use of plastic in US
How Ime Udoka resurrected the Houston Rockets from NBA poverty to contender
My grandmother, Hazel Jenkins, who has died aged 93, was a socialist with a deep commitment to the values of fairness and equality. Her belief in standing up for what was right inspired me to enter local politics.
From 2008 to 2018 she raised tens of thousands pounds for charities …
Regulator investigates Thames Water over delayed environmental schemes
Thames Water is being investigated by the water regulator for England and Wales, Ofwat, after it delayed environmental improvement schemes.
that the UK’s largest water company intentionally diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups towards other costs, including bonuses …UK economy on course for 1.5% expansion, NIESR predicts
The British economy is on course to expand by 1.5% this year after the budget gave a boost to public spending but could be blown off course if Donald Trump goes ahead with threatened tariffs, a leading economic thinktank has warned.
In a boost to Rachel Reeves after a bruising …
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Wednesday briefing: Inside the US president’s chaos machine
Good morning.
Few words can fully capture the first few weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. Dizzying? Unrelenting? Disorienting?
Trump’s team has described its strategy as “flooding the zone” – in essence, overwhelming the opposition, the media and the public with a torrent of executive orders, mass dismissals of federal staff …
She said no: marriages in China plummet to record low
Marriages in China plunged 20% to a record low in 2024 as young people resisted government efforts to convince them to settle down and have more babies.
Marriages in China dropped from 7.7m in 2023 to 6.1m last year, data from China’s civil affairs ministry showed. The figure was less …