British Isles

Smuggling and selling Class A drugs

18 Nov 2021
Border Force stopped a lorry on its way to Kent through the Channel Tunnel carrying cocaine with a street value of £33m concealed in a 418kg load of frozen onion rings. Lorry driver…

COP26: life changes

18 Nov 2021
It is predicted new electric vehicles could cost the same as petrol or diesel cars within five years, causing a growing second-hand market where these vehicles are cheaper. Dozens of regions and car…

Alarm over thousands of extra non-Covid deaths

18 Nov 2021
Nearly 10,000 more people than usual have died in the past four months from non-Covid reasons. Fears are growing that NHS delays at the height of the pandemic left large numbers of people…

Elderly care users face costs cap

18 Nov 2021
Sir Andrew Dilnot created the social care reform that prevents people losing homes to pay for care. But proposed changes made to how the cap works means 60% of older people who need…

Seeds of prayer: Brexit and climate change

11 Nov 2021
Brexit is having both expected and unexpected impacts on trade in agricultural and food products, and is blamed even when other factors may be at play (current fisheries dispute, lorry drivers shortage, increased…

Ambulance waits risk lives

11 Nov 2021
Richard Webber from the College of Paramedics said that members with thirty years’ service have never experienced anything like this. Lives are at risk because patients face unacceptably long waits for 999 emergency…

Anti-Semitism a ‘present danger’ at universities

11 Nov 2021
Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi said Oxford University should explain to Jewish students why it took a total of £12.3 million from the Mosley family, as anti-Semitism is not simply a historic debate. The…

Church land to be transformed for net-zero

11 Nov 2021
A new project is planning to regenerate 15 percent of the UK's church land in a bid to cut carbon emissions. According to a Christian conservation charity, A Rocha, approximately 500,000 acres of…

Politics and corruption

11 Nov 2021
After speaking on climate change Boris Johnson told the media he ‘genuinely believes the UK is not a corrupt country’. But sleaze accusations continue. MPs' second jobs are under scrutiny after Owen Paterson…

Covid gene doubling death risk

11 Nov 2021
British scientists have identified a gene that doubles the risk of dying from Covid-19, opening up possibilities for targeted medicine and providing new insights into why some people are more susceptible to the…