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It comes after a parliamentary committee urged Housing and Planning Secretary Steve Reed to block the plans, saying they would harm the UK’s security and economic resilience. The new deadline for Mr Reed to take the decision is December 10. The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) wrote to the minister on Monday…
Experts said the figure should serve as a “wake-up call”. Some 256,777 complaints were made to the NHS in 2024/25, up from 241,922 a year earlier. The figure is a 6.1% increase year-on-year and the highest since data collection started in 2014/15. There were 113,780 complaints about hospital and community health services, an increase of…
As the festival of lights draws near, Hindu communities across the globe prepare to mark Diwali 2025 with fervour and devotion. In nations such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, the celebration holds special meaning for diaspora communities seeking to uphold traditions far from home. Here’s a complete guide to Diwali 2025, including…
TikTok has launched Shop Local in the United Kingdom, a support scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The competition promotes the sale of homegrown goods to British consumers, with packages to help local businesses set up and start selling on the platform.
British surveillance aircraft had been conducting flights over Gaza since December 2023, with the UK Government saying they were “tasked solely to locate hostages”. On Thursday, the MoD announced that the flights had ended with the agreement of a US-brokered peace plan on Monday that brought the release of the remaining 20 living hostages. The…
Border Security Commander Martin Hewitt, who has been in post for a year, rejected the idea it was a “fool’s errand” to go after smuggling gangs and told MPs he was convinced the plan in place “will deliver”. Speaking to the Commons’ Home Affairs Committee on Thursday, Mr Hewitt said: “I more than anybody, find…
Sir Ken McCallum said it would be “reckless” to ignore the potential for AI to cause harm. In a speech at the Security Service’s Thames House headquarters, he insisted he was not “forecasting Hollywood movie scenarios” but the intelligence agencies had to consider the risks. He said: “MI5 has spent more than a century doing…
THIS is the moment a killer was arrested on a canal path after knifing his girlfriend 27 times then claiming: “She must have stabbed herself”. Rebekah Campbell, 32, was attacked by Michael Ormandy, 34, at her home in Huyton, Merseyside. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! Footage showed Michael Ormandy being arrested on…
Data from a freedom of information request found the country had the highest rate of violent injuries to school staff in Britain. The figures, obtained by Channel 4 News FactCheck, showed that that between March 2014 and March 2024 there were 490 reports of serious injuries to school staff in Scotland caused by violence. The…
Richard Deakin, who concedes he was ‘quite angry’, was flying out of London Luton Airport for a four-night visit to a friend in Málaga, Spain, when the incident occurred. The incident has gone viral(Image: Kennedy News and Media) A livid holidaymaker has accused easyJet of ‘picking on’ him — as he claimed the airline insisted…