Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned after growing pressure over an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh. She had referred herself to the prime minister’s standards adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, after questions…
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UK: Chagos deal on hold to allow Trump to assess it
The UK’s planned handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius should be considered by incoming US President Donald Trump before it goes ahead, Downing Street has said. Efforts were made…
UK: Parking charges to increase for town’s polluting cars
Higher polluting vehicles will cost more to park in a county town, a local authority has proposed. Those with the highest carbon dioxide emissions would see charges more than double…
UK: Burst pipe collapses road and disrupts supplies
Residents have been left with little or no water after a pipe burst and part of a road collapsed. Twenty properties on Kidmore Road in Caversham Heights, Berkshire, have been…
UK: Two arrested after Charles Darwin grave spray-painted
Two women have been arrested after climate protestors spray-painted over the grave of Charles Darwin inside Westminster Abbey. Climate protest group Just Stop Oil (JSO) said two activists used spray…
UK: Temperature drops to -18.9C in Highland village
Temperatures in a hamlet in northern Scotland dropped to -18.9C (-2F) in the early hours of Saturday – the UK’s coldest January night in 15 years. It is the coldest…
Japan: Crime boss admits to conspiring to sell nuclear material to Iran
A apanese crime boss has pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell nuclear material from Myanmar to Iran along with drug trafficking and weapons offences, authorities in the United States have…
Police officer dies in North Yorkshire collision
A North Yorkshire police officer has died after she was struck by a lorry while helping at the scene of an earlier road accident. PC Rosie Prior was standing on…
UK: PM should sack Siddiq over corruption claims- Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch has called for the PM to sack Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq after she was named in an investigation into claims her family embezzled up to £3.9bn from infrastructure…
UK: Teenager stabbed during targeted street attack
Detectives want to trace three men after 18-year-old man was stabbed on an Edinburgh street. Police Scotland said the teenager was found seriously injured on Bath Street, Portobello, at about…