Poland and Czech Republic witness large hail and torrential rains. Parts of Europe are being hit by severe storms, triggered by the contrasting weather across the continent. While Eastern Europe is in the grip of a heatwave, the western part is suffering a dismal June with temperatures well below average. It has also been wet […]
Boris Johnson secured 114 votes in the first ballot of the Conservative Party leadership contest on Thursday, more than 70 votes ahead of the second candidate, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. But, Jo Tanner, a former adviser to Boris Johnson, has revealed the moment Mr Johnson deliberately fell into a river to generate publicity. Ms Tanner […]
Britain’s oldest person, 112-year-old Grace Jones, has died. Her daughter told BBC News the supercentenarian, nicknamed Amazing Grace, died at her home in Worcestershire on Friday. Paying tribute to her “gracious” mother, Deirdre McCarthy, 81, said: “I never dreamt when I was a little girl that my mother would be the talking point of the […]
Ben Brandon, representing the US, formally opened the case on Friday, a day after an extradition request was signed off by Home Secretary Sajid Javid. Mr Brandon said: “This is related to one of the largest compromises of confidential information in the history of the United States.” A full five-day extradition hearing will take place […]
Princess Diana and Prince Charles married in their spectacular royal wedding in 1981. However, the Prince and Princess of Wales’ infamously turbulent marriage went on to be rocked by scandal and infidelities. Royal biographer Penny Junor, in her 2017 book “The Duchess: The Untold Story” charts the downfall of the marriage of Charles and Diana, which […]
The images show the heir to the throne in his 30s, doing some of the heavy lifting involved at first in creating his Gloucestershire rural idyll. In one, he is shown with secateurs in one hand and a cutting of a shrub in the other, dressed casually in an opened-necked checked shirt and belted chinos. Others […]
On the second anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, thousands of residents are still living in buildings built with similar combustible cladding. Some 328 buildings are said to still have aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding two years on from the disaster that left 72 people dead. According to figures from the Building Safety Programme (BSP) […]
For once, Ireland is not getting the worst of the weather – although things still look bad for the coming week. While the UK is being battered by torrential rains resulting in some flood warnings, Ireland will escape the worst of the storms. Met Éireann said it was monitoring the situation closely but does not […]
LONDON • Mr Boris Johnson, who has pledged to deliver Brexit come Oct 31, surged closer to power yesterday, winning by far the most support from Conservative lawmakers in the first round of the contest to replace Prime Minister Theresa May. Three years since voting 52-48 per cent to leave the European Union, Britain is […]
In 2009 Mr Corbyn, then a backbench MP, caused outrage by referring to his “friends” from Hamas and Hezbollah. Both groups are registered as terrorist groups by the UK and US governments. Ms Lenarz is the founder and executive director of the Human Security Centre, a foreign policy think tank. Speaking to Express.co.uk she said: […]