Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti voted Love Island winners

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Admin

Turkish actor and Italian business owner, both 27, share £50,000 prize after poll among viewers

Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti have been crowned the winners of Love Island 2022, winning the £50,000 prize money after a public vote.

Cülcüloğlu, a Turkish actor from Essex, 27, and Italian business owner, Sanclimenti, also 27, arrived in the Love Island villa early on in the series as bombshell contestants and won over viewers with their fiery but passionate relationship.

Fundraiser for east London gay bar hits £100,000 target after surge in donations

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Admin

Friends of the Joiners Arms intend to create the UK’s first community-run LGBTQ+ venue to replace pub on Hackney Road

A fundraiser to replace a famed east London gay bar that was shut down by developers has hit its target of £100,000 and secured its future with more than 24 hours to go before its deadline.

The Friends of the Joiners Arms (Fotja) campaign group confirmed that it had pulled off the feat – raising more than £30,000 since the weekend for what would be the UK’s first community-run LGBTQ+ venue.

British MPs plan visit to Taiwan as tension with China simmers

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Admin

Exclusive: Tom Tugendhat likely to lead trip later this year as London’s relationship with Beijing deteriorates

Britain’s House of Commons foreign affairs committee is planning a visit to Taiwan later this year – probably in November or early December – despite rising tensions in the region, the Guardian has learned.

Sources say the trip – which was originally scheduled for early this year but was postponed due to one member of the delegation testing positive for Covid – was intended to show Britain’s support for the democratically run island, which China considers its own.

Portrait of tyrant Thomas Picton moved to side room in Welsh museum

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Admin

Exhibition includes two specially commissioned works reframing story of former Trinidad governor

For more than a century, the portrait of Thomas Picton hung in a prominent position at the National Museum Cardiff, the image’s description hailing him as a military hero rather than a tyrant and a torturer, before it was removed from view in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.

From Monday the two-metre-tall portrait of Lt Gen Picton is back on display in the Welsh capital – but in a very different context.

Righter than right: Tories’ hardline drift may lose the public

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Admin

Polls suggest leadership race may be going further than even Conservatives might want on immigration, economy and climate

It is a thread running through the Conservative leadership campaign, as shown through the apparent desire to be toughest on asylum seekers, the biggest advocate of tax cuts, sceptical about net zero measures: this is a party that feels like it has shifted decisively to the right.

Some argue the arms race of populist policies from Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak exemplifies a new Conservatism, one fundamentally altered by Brexit and Boris Johnson, which has gradually absorbed the priorities of those who used to support Ukip.

New register of overseas owners of UK properties ‘riddled with flaws’

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Admin

Critics warn of loopholes as UK government tries to stop ‘oligarchs attempting to hide ill-gotten gains’

The business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has promised that legislation coming into force on Monday will have an “immediate dissuasive effect on oligarchs attempting to hide their ill-gotten gains, ensuring that the UK is a place for legitimate business only”.

However, a string of lawyers, tax experts, MPs, accountants and transparency campaigners are warning that the long-awaited register of overseas entities, which was sped through parliament after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is “riddled with flaws and loopholes” and will have no impact on forcing corrupt oligarchs to reveal which UK mansions they own.

Blooming Essex garden points to future of horticulture in a heating UK

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Admin

RHS Hyde Hall has made a virtue of its position in the driest county in England by embracing adaptable plants

It has not been artificially watered for 22 years, yet this garden, on an exposed slope in Essex, the driest county in the UK, is bursting with bloom.

A dry bed at the Royal Horticultural Society Hyde Hall dominated by cool greys and pale greens, and full of Mediterranean, Australian and African shrubs and flowers, could this be the future British garden?

York and North Yorkshire to get mayor under £540m devolution deal

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Admin

Elected leader would take office in 2024 alongside return of powers from Westminster as part of levelling-up agenda

York and North Yorkshire are to elect a mayor and receive £540m of government investment over 30 years in a landmark devolution deal to be signed on Monday.

The agreement will create a new combined authority across the region led by a directly elected mayor, who will have the power to spend the money on local priorities such as transport, education and housing.

More than one in eight UK households fear they have no way of making more cuts

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Admin

As energy bills soar, survey shows almost half of homes are worried about paying rent or mortgage

More than one in eight UK households fear they have no further way to make cuts to afford a sharp increase in annual energy bills this autumn.

More than a quarter of households earning less than £20,000 worry they will be unable to cope with higher bills, with families in Yorkshire, the south-west and Northern Ireland the least confident about covering their costs, according to the latest rebuilding Britain index of 20,000 people by Legal & General.

Call the Midwife voted best show in last 25 years by RadioTimes.com readers

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Admin

Winner took 25% of the vote, with Doctor Who in second place and Line of Duty and Sherlock tying in third

Call the Midwife has been voted the best show of the last 25 years in a poll.

The BBC period drama, which is loosely based on real events, follows a group of midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s as they cope with the pressures of their everyday lives as well as the changing times they are living through.

‘Sad … proud’: disappointment in Germany over loss to Lionesses

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Admin

After stunning run ends with defeat at Wembley, German team receives praise for inspiring nation and winning new fans

Germany reacted with disappointment after being beaten by England in a nail-biting and historic final at Wembley.

“A hundred and twenty minutes of pure passion and pure struggle weren’t enough today,” tweeted the official account of the German team, after their 2-1 defeat. “Respect and congratulations to the Lionesses.”

Home Office contractor gives children hotel food containing worms

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Admin

Family accommodated in a Midlands hotel were sick after eating meal provided by Serco

Children at a Home Office hotel unwittingly ate worms that were in food provided to them by government contractors, the Guardian has learned.

A four-year-old boy, not realising that his meal of fish and chips contained worms, began vomiting soon after he started to eat it. Paramedics were called and the boy was taken to hospital.

After 350 years, sea gives up lost jewels of Spanish shipwreck

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Admin

Marine archaeologists stunned by priceless cache long hidden beneath the Bahamas’ shark-infested waters

It was a Spanish galleon laden with treasures so sumptuous that its sinking in the Bahamas in 1656 sparked repeated salvage attempts over the next 350 years. So when another expedition was launched recently, few thought that there could be anything left – but exquisite, jewel-encrusted pendants and gold chains are among spectacular finds that have now been recovered, having lain untouched on the seabed for hundreds of years.

The Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders) went down on the western side of the Little Bahama Bank, over 70km offshore, but the newly discovered treasures were found across a vast debris trail spanning more than 13km.

Teacher sick days soar as poor conditions take toll on mental health

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Admin

Increased workloads, class sizes, low pay and Covid legacy are leading to more absences and an exodus of staff

Teachers have spent at least 1.5 million days off work owing to stress and mental health issues, new figures have revealed, amid continued concerns over the increasing pressures they are facing in the classroom.

With long-running concerns about workloads and growing class sizes, new data seen by the Observer suggests that the number of days lost to mental health issues in some council-controlled schools in England and Wales has increased by 7% from the previous year. It is also up by almost a fifth compared to three years ago.

Wagatha Christie: big-budget drama joins race to bring libel trial to screen

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Admin

Poldark creator among writers and film-makers lining up to reconstruct spat between Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney

A big-budget drama featuring major characters in the Wagatha Christie case is to join the slew of documentaries already in production, as the race to bring to the small screen the rancorous details of the high court battle that ended on Friday hots up.

The row between two high-profile footballers’ wives, which ended last week when the judge ruled in favour of Coleen Rooney, is to be turned into television serial by one of Britain’s leading screenwriters. Debbie Horsfield, who adapted Poldark for the 2015-19 BBC series, is to write a drama chronicling the notorious public row between Rebekah Vardy, wife of leading Leicester goal scorer Jamie Vardy, and Coleen Rooney, wife of Wayne, the renowned former England player and, until last month, manager of Derby County.

Court-appointed expert can be named in ‘parental alienation’ case

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Admin

Observer victory after judge rules in transparency battle in family courts in England and Wales

A judge has ruled that a court-appointed expert can be named after their qualifications and conduct were challenged by a mother who claimed key evidence they provided led her children to be removed from her care against their wishes.

The case raises questions about the regulation and use of psychological experts appointed to the family courts, in particular when allegations of “parental alienation” are made – meaning a child has unjustly rejected one parent due to manipulation by the other. The Observer won an application to name the expert in the case after making a series of submissions to the family court.

Women’s Euros final set for a female flypast and a full house at Wembley

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Admin

Famous fans get behind England for a gripping contest against Germany that is expected to set records

An all-female RAF flypast will grace the skies above Wembley on Sunday in celebration of a women’s football team that this weekend received good-luck messages from the prime minister, the leader of the opposition and the royal family before the Women’s Euro 2022 final against Germany.

“Your passion for the game, your tenacity in tricky spots and above all your astounding talent on the pitch have already created a summer of fantastic memories for millions of us,” Boris Johnson wrote in a letter to the England team.

Pregnant woman shocked after GP ‘gave her anti-abortion leaflet’

Posted on July 30, 2022 by Admin

Woman was reportedly handed information from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children at London clinic

A pregnant woman who told her GP she was considering having an abortion says she was left “shocked and traumatised” after being given a leaflet for an anti-abortion group.

The woman, 38, says she was seeking treatment for a bladder problem on 19 July when a doctor at All Saints Medical Centre in Plumstead, south-east London, asked whether she was pregnant.

MPs demand end to repayment clauses in contracts of overseas health workers

Posted on July 30, 2022 by Admin

Employment conditions can tie staff to roles for up to five years and impose fees of £14,000 for an early return home

• Trapped and destitute: how foreign nurses’ dreams turned sour

The NHS must halt the use of “repayment clauses” in contracts for international healthcare workers, MPs have said.

Members of the Commons health and social care committee came to this finding after an Observer investigation in March revealed how some workers were being forced to pay thousands of pounds if they wish to quit their jobs before their agreed contract ends. Widely used in both the private health and social care sector and in the NHS, the clauses are designed to help with retention of workers and recouping costs associated with overseas recruitment.

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Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti voted Love Island winners

Fundraiser for east London gay bar hits £100,000 target after surge in donations

British MPs plan visit to Taiwan as tension with China simmers

Portrait of tyrant Thomas Picton moved to side room in Welsh museum

Righter than right: Tories’ hardline drift may lose the public

New register of overseas owners of UK properties ‘riddled with flaws’

Blooming Essex garden points to future of horticulture in a heating UK

York and North Yorkshire to get mayor under £540m devolution deal

More than one in eight UK households fear they have no way of making more cuts

Call the Midwife voted best show in last 25 years by RadioTimes.com readers

‘Sad … proud’: disappointment in Germany over loss to Lionesses

Home Office contractor gives children hotel food containing worms

After 350 years, sea gives up lost jewels of Spanish shipwreck

Teacher sick days soar as poor conditions take toll on mental health

Court-appointed expert can be named in ‘parental alienation’ case

Women’s Euros final set for a female flypast and a full house at Wembley

Pregnant woman shocked after GP ‘gave her anti-abortion leaflet’

MPs demand end to repayment clauses in contracts of overseas health workers