A forensic scientist with the Metropolitan Police will stand trial next month, facing charges of misconduct in a public office. Ursula Collins has been accused of eight offences, including failure to create and store evidence in accordance with Met Police required procedure, failure to
Newly revealed secret internal research by Facebook has found that its Instagram app makes its younger users, particularly teenage girls, feel worse about their bodies. We would like to hear from parents about how Instagram has affected their children’s body image and mental health. We’d also like
Investigators searching for missing university chef Claudia Lawrence have begun a search operation in gravel pits about eight miles from her home in York. Ms Lawrence went missing 12 years ago and no body has ever been found, although police believe she was murdered. North
Britain’s biggest retailers are warning their stock levels have fallen to the lowest since 1983 amid a sharp drop in imports and pandemic staff shortages across the economy. The Confederation of British Industry’s monthly survey of big retail and wholesale firms found that stock
Cabinet ministers have been accused of undermining Covid advice and putting MPs’ and parliamentary staff’s safety at risk by declining to wear masks, as they packed the Commons chamber full to debate Afghanistan’s takeover by the Taliban. Just two government frontbenchers chose
1. Scotland’s Covid restrictions ease but ‘virus still with us’ Covid is “still here” so the Scottish government is reluctant to call today “freedom day”, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf says. But for those living in Scotland, the day where almost all remaining
Vital UN climate talks are at risk of failure because Boris Johnson is “missing in action” while his climate spokesperson talks about freezing bread, Keir Starmer has warned. The Labour leader said there is already “dystopia” all around caused by climate breakdown, but Johnson’s
Dominic Cummings personally called a former colleague on the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and asked if his company would work for the government on its response to the Covid pandemic, leading to the award of a £580,000 Cabinet Office contract with no
A murder investigation has been launched after a man was stabbed to death in Essex. Four people, including a 42-year-old woman, two men aged 41 and 45, and a 15-year-old boy, have been arrested following the attack. Police were called to reports of an injured man Northlands
Food prices could rise by about 5% by the autumn – and turkeys and pigs in blankets could be in short supply this Christmas – as shortages of delivery drivers, abattoir staff and other workers drive up pay and other costs. Industry
A London hospital has celebrated the NHS’s 73rd birthday with a special performance of a new piece of classical music composed by a six-year-old boy in tribute to health workers and scientists. Apollo Premadasa first emailed St Bart’s hospital in the City of London
The deterioration in relations with the EU, partly driven by the Northern Ireland “sausage war”, has come as a surprise to those, who campaigned to leave the bloc five years ago, the government has admitted. The Brexit minister, David Frost, said they had dreamed of
