A Dutch visitor had a surprise when she touched down at Alicante-Elche airport when she was declared the 14 millionth passenger to be welcomed this year. The record milestone was marked by director of the airport Laura Navarro and representatives of airport operator Aena. The 14 million figure means that […]
Workers have begun to remove commemorative plaques bearing the names of Republicans killed by Francoist forces in Madrid between 1939 and 1944. The plaques were part of a memorial that was being built in La Almudena cemetery in the Spanish capital. Work on the memorial, which was approved under the […]
Former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine has urged Tory voters to back Lib Dem or independent candidates in next month’s poll. Lord Heseltine, who served under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, said Boris Johnson’s Brexit policy would be “utterly disastrous” for the country. He said the PM’s “get Brexit […]
Boris Johnson has defended his general election promise of 50,000 more nurses following Labour claims it is “deceitful”. The prime minister unveiled the pledge at the launch of the Conservatives’ election manifesto on Sunday. But Labour insist it includes 19,000 nurses who the government hopes to dissuade from leaving the […]
The Muslim Council of Britain has accused the Conservative Party of “denial, dismissal and deceit” over the issue of Islamophobia. The MCB said the party had a “blind spot for this type of racism” and had failed to take steps to tackle it. The group was responding to criticism of […]
Jeremy Corbyn has repeatedly refused to apologise to Jewish people in Britain after the chief rabbi criticised his handling of antisemitism cases. He faced a string of questions following Ephraim Mirvis‘s comments, calling the Labour leader’s claims to be tackling antisemitism a “mendacious fiction” and alleging “a new poison – sanctioned from the […]
A Bucharest court has ordered the arrest of five individuals who are suspected of trafficking 15 kilograms of cannabis with a market value of 280,000 euros. Romanian police caught the five as they tried to sell the drugs on Sunday and a court later ordered they be held for 30 […]
A man has been arrested after allegedly stabbing his wife to death yesterday on the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Colombian-born 29-year-old is suspected of murdering his partner from Leon, stabbing her in the neck during a row at an apartment in the […]
The Brexit Party has set out the policies on which it plans to fight the 2019 general election According to its leader, Nigel Farage, the 22-page document is not a manifesto but a “contract with the people”. But what are the promises that will grab the public’s attention, and, potentially win over […]
Wading through manifestos can be time consuming if you only want to see how political parties compare on a few issues. Here, we have created an interactive manifesto checker for you to screen out all that information you don’t need. The Greens, Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Conservatives have unveiled their manifestos. Type in the policy […]
Labour has promised to tackle “dodgy” landlords if it wins power in the general election. The party says it will introduce a charter of renters’ rights, which will include a new national “property MOT” to deal with what it says is the issue of squalid private rental housing. Labour leader […]
The Conservatives will “get Brexit done” and “forge a new Britain”, Boris Johnson has said as he launched the party’s election manifesto. He promised 50,000 more nurses in England and the creation of 50 million more GP appointments. Other pledges include tighter immigration controls and not to increase rates of […]
