The Green Party have launched their general election campaign with a call for £100bn a year to be spent on tackling the climate “emergency”. Co-leader Sian Berry said: “Some things are even bigger than Brexit. This must be the climate election. The future won’t get another chance.” The party says […]
Labour has refused to endorse Chris Willamson as a general election candidate following his suspension from the party over an antisemitism row. Mr Williamson, who was MP for Derby North until parliament’s dissolution ahead of the 12 December election, is one of three outgoing MPs to be blocked from standing as […]
Boris Johnson has launched the Conservative Party’s election campaign, saying his Brexit deal “delivers everything I campaigned for”. Surrounded by supporters holding signs with messages including “Get Brexit Done”, he told activists he had “no choice” but to hold an election. Parliament is “paralysed” and “blocked”, he said in Birmingham. […]
A loggerhead turtle that was blown thousands of miles off route and ended up in Ireland, has been flown from Cork Airport to Gran Canaria. After three weeks of treatment and care by the Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium, the turtle was booked onto a Ryanair flight to the Canaries, where it […]
Six examiners on Benidorm’s Policía Local selection board are under investigation after one candidate spotted others cheating on a written exam. The six members of the selection board have now been requested to appear in court in January. It comes after Benidorm mayor Toni Pérez removed the six examiners and […]
The Forbes’ Rich List has revealed Spain’s top 100 earners are €1.5 billion better off than they were last year, the man at the top who has more wealth than the 43 who come after him combined, is fashion king Amancio Ortega, who this year has a staggering net worth […]
Three former members of the Catalan regional government who fled Spain after the unilateral independence declaration of October 2017 have said they will hand themselves over to local authorities as soon the European arrest warrants issued by Spain’s Supreme Court are received. Toni Comín and Lluís Puig fled to Belgium […]
John Bercow is an obsessive fan of Arsenal FC and tennis legend Roger Federer. His Tory critics claim that, in the Speaker’s chair, he was verbose and biased. His successor Sir Lindsay Hoyle, MP for the Lancashire town of Chorley, is a devotee of Warrington Wolves rugby league team, Bolton […]
Sources said No 10 was stalling on releasing the report, which has gained the standard security clearance. A former head of MI5, Lord Evans of Weardale, is among those calling for the document to be published. Foreign minister Christopher Pincher said the PM would release the report in “due course”. […]
The general election could be “a moment for seismic change”, when “a new and different politics” emerges, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has said. In a speech at the party’s campaign launch, she said she could do “a better job” than either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister. […]
Jeremy Corbyn has declared Labour stands for “the 99%” on Brexit as he tried to position himself between the “extreme” Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. He insisted his plan to renegotiate a divorce deal with the European Union and hold a referendum on it within six months of winning the keys […]
More than 1,700 health centres have begun a Valencian Community-wide campaign this week urging the elderly to get their flu jabs. The Department of Health has prepared 800,000 vaccines – 50,000 more than last year – to protect against seasonal viruses. From the 800,000, 500,000 jabs are for the general […]
