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Rolls-Royce Is Back On Track After Cutting Costs

ROLLS-ROYCE has swung from an annual loss of £1.5billion to a pre-tax profit of £2.4billion.

List Of Prison Deaths To Be Published On Weekly Basis

Details of deaths in Britain's prisons will now be published weekly in a "truly momentous" improvement in openness and transparency.

Women 'Bearing Brunt' Of Spike In Anti-Muslim Hatred

The number of Islamophobic incidents reported to an organisation monitoring anti-Muslim sentiment and abuse in the UK more than tripled in the four months since the Hamas attacks in Israel last year.

Navalny's Death 'From Natural Causes'

THE death certificate of Russian politician Alexei Navalny claims he died of natural causes, it emerged yesterday.

Horizon Scandal Victims To Have Names Cleared At Last

Hundreds of sub-postmasters wronged in the Post Office scandal will have their names cleared under new legislation unveiled by the government. The new law will come into effect by the end of July and follows prime minister Rishi Sunak's announcement earlier this year that convictions would be quashed.

Chippies At Risk As Putin Abandons Fishing Agreement

Cod and haddock targeted as boats barred from Barents Sea

Hoyle Fights To Save Job As Starmer Denies Threat Claim

Sixty-seven MPs sign no-confidence motion in speaker

Just Why Didn't Police Stop Antisemitic Slur Beamed On Big Ben?

PRO-Palestine activists beamed a "genocidal" phrase on to Big Ben as police stood by.

Israel Looks For 'Right People' To Run Gaza As Chaos Grows

Israeli officials said yesterday they wanted to use local administrators without links to Hamas or the Palestinian Authority to run Gaza, and would set up small-scale trials of the scheme as soon as "the right people step up to the plate".

Truss Attacks Biden And 'Wokenomics' In Speech To US Rightwingers

Liz Truss made a fresh bid for political relevance yesterday by addressing a far-right conference in America, railing against Joe Biden, transgender rights and leftwing-run deep states.

Russia Still Looking To Take All Of Ukraine, Officials Say

But Moscow 'not producing enough' arms to meet objectives

US Citizen Held In Russia Over Donation To Ukraine

Ksenia Karelina had been looking forward to spending New Year's Eve with her family. Though she'd long ago chosen to settle in the USA, she'd kept in touch with her relatives back in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Instead, it appears that the 32-year-old dual citizen is confined in a Russian jail cell on charges of high treason – all for allegedly sending $51.80 to a Ukrainian charity.

King Meets Sunak For First Time Since Cancer Diagnosis

The monarch has resumed his weekly audiences with the PM

Does Britain Still Possess A Credible Nuclear Deterrent?

The news that one of the UK's proud arsenal of nuclear-capable missiles fell harmlessly into the Atlantic during testing comes as a further embarrassment to the Ministry of Defence.

UK Sanctions Officials Who Ran Navalny's Prison Camp

Britain has sanctioned the leaders of the "Polar Wolf" penal colony in Russia where opposition leader Alexei Navalny died.

Tories Would Have Retained Starmer As Top Prosecutor

The Tories have dubbed him "Sir Softy" on crime but the Conservatives would have reappointed Keir Starmer as the country's top prosecutor, a new biography reveals.

Speaker Under Pressure After Walkout Over Gaza

Chaos broke out in the House of Commons last night as furious MPs walked out in protest at the speaker's handling of the Gaza ceasefire debate. Dozens also signed a vote of no confidence against him.

Brexit Has Cost Food Companies Exporting To EU An Extra £170m

Food businesses sending products to the EU have had to fork out an extra £170m in export costs because of Brexit red tape, with the changes described as being "catastrophic" for some exporters.

High Emissions Put Beijing 'Way Off On Its Climate Goals Track'

China is off track on all of its core 2025 climate targets, despite the fact that clean energy is now the biggest driver of the country's economic growth, analysis has found.

Putin Still Intent On Total Victory After Army's Recent Gains, Say Western Officials

Vladimir Putin remains intent on defeating and dominating Ukraine two years after launching an invasion that has caused more than half a million casualties, western officials have said.

Palestinian Death Toll Has Reached 29,000

GAZA’S health ministry says more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

Search Engines And Social Media Still Rife With Scams

Social media platforms and search engines are still littered with scam adverts as an epidemic” of fraud grips the UK, a watchdog has warned. Which? found blatant” fraudulent advertising, from copycats of major retail brands to investment scams and ads using the identities of celebrities, despite them having no connection with the product or service.

Ban Smartphones In School? Eton Has A Better Answer

I think I've now worked out what's wrong with the government's new guidelines on "banning" mobile phones from schools - they're actually not guidelines at all. Or, at best, they are drawn so widely as to be virtually meaningless.

Ukraine Digs In After Retreat To Repel New Russian Push

Ukraine’s military has said its troops have taken up new defensive positions in the east after retreating from the captured key town of Avdiivka, and were repelling Russian attempts to develop the offensive thrust.

Israel To Attack Rafah Unless Hostages Freed Next Month

Israel has said it will begin an assault on Rafah if Hamas does not release the remaining hostages it holds in Gaza by the beginning of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan expected to be on 10 March. The threatened assault comes as the EU warned that such an offensive would create a humanitarian disaster.

Sunak's GB News Spot To Be Investigated By Watchdog

Rishi Sunak's appearance on GB News has been put under investigation by the broadcast watchdog after receiving hundreds of complaints.

Starmer Under Pressure To Support A Ceasefire In Gaza

Sir Keir Starmer is under growing pressure to back an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as left-wing organisation Momentum relaunches a mass email campaign targeting MPs ahead of a crunch Commons vote this week.

Houthis Attack UK-Flagged Cargo Ship In The Red Sea

A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has damaged a UK registered ship travelling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, forcing the crew to abandon the ship.

A Decade Of Struggle How Protest Proved Pivotal For Ukraine

Ten years ago Oleksandr Plekhanov took part in protests against Ukraine's corrupt then-president, Viktor Yanukovych. He was one of tens of thousands of demonstrators who had gathered in the Maidan, Kyiv's central independence square. The pro-European movement began after Yanukovych dumped an association agreement with the EU and accepted a bailout from Russia.

Climate Protester Decries Tory 'Assault On The Rights Of Juries'

The woman at the centre of an attempt by the government's senior law officer to remove one of the last remaining legal defences available to climate protesters says the move is an assault on the rights of juries to acquit defendants.