Category: United Kingdom

UK Foreign Secretary Johnson to Come to Moscow for High-Level Talks

Britain’s foreign secretary will soon travel to Russian Federation on a visit his office says will be consistent with the country’s “engage but beware” policy toward Moscow. U.K.’s Foreign Secretary will visit Moscow in a few weeks to hold talks on UK-Russia relationship, Syria and Ukraine, a foreign office statement said Saturday.

Boy dies after collapsing at school following suspected allergic reaction

Brigid Jones, Birmingham City Council’s cabinet member for children, families and schools, said on Twitter: “My thoughts are with the family of the young man who tragically died following an incident at school yesterday.” A post-mortem examination is scheduled to take place and police are working with the school and council to establish the circumstances of the boy’s death.

Family doctors bemoan pressures on GP services at Newport conference

DOCTORS’ leaders have welcomed an agreement that will bring GPs in Wales an extra A 27 million next year – but there remain a range of serious concerns about the future of the profession among those practising in it. Fears over unsustainable workloads, the demands and usefulness of the current quality monitoring system, who should control the purse strings for enhanced services, and the ongoing challenges of recruitment and retention, were among the topics debated at the annual conference of Welsh Local Medical Committees in Newport.

“I’m being chased by the police”: Teenage driver who…

The delivery driver sped off after the van she had been in crashed into a garden wall then ignored police when they signalled for her to pull over A teenager who sent a TEXT to a friend telling them “I’m being chased by the police” while leading cops on an 80mph pursuit has been spared jail. Delivery driver Charlotte Clowes, 19, sped off in a Ford Focus Transit van after it crashed into a garden wall.

County show returns to venue

THE Royal Lancashire Show is returning to one of its traditional sites this summer after last year’s event was held in Blackburn. The organiser has announced the event will be returning to Salesbury Hall which has hosted a number of successful shows in the past, the most recent being in 2015.

Barnard Castle museum to celebrate Art Fund support

A MUSEUM which was saved from closure in 2000 will host a special lunch event to celebrate 80 years of Art Fund support. The Bowes Museum, in Barnard Castle , which is set to celebrate its 125th anniversary this year, will host a celebration led by Chris Smith who helped secure its future as Secretary of State for Culture.

Back to her Yorkshire roots

WHEN Mary Fawcett Watko treads the boards in an American production of Calendar Girls she will be returning to her Yorkshire roots. Mary, who grew up in Guiseley, moved to the US half a century ago – but she has maintained her links with frequent visits to family back home.

Mayor set to enjoy a cuppa for Fairtrade Fortnight

Dudley’s Mayor – will be calling into the Fairtrade Break Coffee Morning at St Thomas’s Church Hall, Market Street, Stourbridge, on Saturday March 11 which is being organised as part of the annual campaign. The coffee morning, running from 10am to 12.30pm, is being organised by Stourbridge Fairtrade, who were instrumental in achieving Fairtrade status for Stourbridge in 2010.

Marco Silva is described as “intense” by his players

It would have been so easy to dismiss the Hull manager as a club puppet, brought in to oversee a fire sale ahead of near certain relegation. They were bottom of the Premier League when Silva took over Hull on January 5 and given even less chance of survival when they sold Robert Snodgrass and Jake Livermore during the transfer window.

Kyo-Shin-An Arts to Present Kammerraku Show at Tenri Cultural Institute This Month

A 2016 and 2013 CMA/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award Winner, KYO-SHIN-AN ARTS is a contemporary music organization dedicated to the integration of the Japanese instruments koto, shakuhachi and shamisen into Western classical composition. Kyo-Shin-An Arts’ award-winning concert series at the Tenri Cultural Institute in Manhattan features a blend of KSA commissions with World, American and NY premieres, traditional and contemporary music for Japanese instruments and Western repertoire.

Horrified Press Launches in the Briar Chapbook

Nathan Rowark, editor of Horrified Press in London England, has released “In the Briar,” a chapbook written by Florida author Cynthia Morrison. Morrison, a writer of horror fiction, was compelled to include Florida’s Cassadaga psychic community as well as the infamous urban legend of the “Devil’s Chair” of Lake Helen cemetery located in close proximity.

Want to become a councillor? Here’s your big chance

With the Scottish council elections taking place in less than three months, the countdown is on for anyone who is thinking about standing as a candidate. Voters will go to the polls on Thursday, May 4, to elect 22 councillors to serve the seven wards which make up the East Dunbartonshire area.

MP says hospital will ‘succeed’ despite remaining in special measures

Watford MP Richard Harrington says he remains “committed” to Watford General Hospital after it emerged yesterday that it would remain in special measures. England’s chief hospital inspector Mike Richards said West Hertfordshire Hospital Trust, which runs the hospital along with St Albans and Hemel Hempstead, still required improvement despite it making progress since 2015.

London Homeowners Are Desperately Slashing Prices

More London home sellers are having to cut the asking price of their homes, and they’re offering deeper discounts as political uncertainty and high values dampen demand. “Price cuts seen in prime central London in the immediate aftermath of Brexit are now filtering through to outer boroughs,” said Savills Plc residential research director Lucian Cook.

London Homeowners Are Desperately Slashing Prices

More London home sellers are having to cut the asking price of their homes, and they’re offering deeper discounts as political uncertainty and high values dampen demand. “Price cuts seen in prime central London in the immediate aftermath of Brexit are now filtering through to outer boroughs,” said Savills Plc residential research director Lucian Cook.