Tag: UK News

Health trusts in Northern Ireland have spent more than £40m on taxis for patients since 2019, with almost £7m being spent on taxis instead of ambulances. The high cost is due to a reduction in the ambulance service’s volunteer driver programme, as many drivers have been unable to participate since the pandemic. Questions have been… Continue reading Health trusts spend £40m on patient taxis in five years

Glastonbury Festival, a staple event in the UK music calendar, has booked a K-Pop band as its headliners. Seventeen, a boy band with 13 members, is the first of its genre to play on the Pyramid Stage. While K-pop is successful worldwide, it has yet to make a significant impact in the UK. However, acts… Continue reading Seventeen: The K-pop band making Glastonbury history

A hunt operation in Tenerife for a missing teenage boy from England has lingered on for the seventh day. Jay Slater, a 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, was last seen a week ago after he attended a music festival on the Spanish island. Special teams of dogs have been searching for the British youth who… Continue reading Jay Slater: Week-long search for man missing in Tenerife continues

London homeowner Charles Reeves returned from working abroad to find his family home had been transformed into a cannabis farm. Criminals had posed as tenants, arranged by an estate agent, and dumped 10 tonnes of soil in the house to grow cannabis. Rental scams linked to cannabis farms are said to be rising in the UK,… Continue reading 'Cannabis crooks dumped tonnes of soil in my bedroom'

Most of England is expected to experience a yellow heat-health alert, with daytime temperatures set to reach 30C (86F). The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued alerts that come into force from 08:00 BST on Monday and will continue until Thursday afternoon in eight regions. These warnings indicate that weather conditions could pose risks… Continue reading UK weather: Heat-health alerts as temperatures to near heatwave

Protests erupted in four cities in the Republic of Ireland after a serving soldier was given a suspended sentence for attacking a woman on a Limerick street. Cathal Crotty, 22, punched 24-year-old Natasha O’Brien six times after she asked him to stop shouting homophobic abuse. He later boasted about the incident on social media. Ms… Continue reading Natasha O'Brien: Protests over sentence for assault by soldier

Several puppies have been saved by firefighters who battled a huge fire that broke out at a shop and flats in Great Yarmouth. The Norfolk Fire Service had to send nine crews swamped by the flames that were caused by the fire that broke out around 05:00 BST in Northgate Street. As at the time… Continue reading Puppies given oxygen masks after fire in Great Yarmouth

Several Reform UK candidates have made offensive comments online about women in the past, according to BBC investigations. The revelations include disparaging comments against the murdered MP Jo Cox, former Prime Minister Theresa May, and a black reality TV contestant. These remarks were posted between 2011 and 2023. All the candidates involved have been approached… Continue reading Reform UK candidates' offensive remarks uncovered by BBC

The family of Staff Sgt John McKelvie has accused the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of failing the soldier, who died during a training exercise. An inquest into the incident, which occurred at Catterick Garrison in January 2019, concluded that a lack of supervision by chain of command and inadequate safety enforcement contributed to Sgt McKelvie’s… Continue reading MoD 'failed' Sgt John McKelvie over training crash death – family

Various political leaders have criticised Nigel Farage’s recent comments stating that the West provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Rishi Sunak, the UK’s Prime Minister, called Farage’s comments “completely wrong and only plays into Putin’s hands,” whilst Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described them as “disgraceful,” and Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey called Farage “an… Continue reading Sunak and Starmer hit out at Farage over Putin and Ukraine claims