Industry leaders have warned that Rishi Sunak’s plan to encourage supermarkets to cap their prices of everyday staples won’t make a difference to shoppers.With food price inflation in the UK reaching a staggering 19.1% in the year to March – the highest rate in Western Europe – the prime minister is understandably eager to bring the figure to a sustainable level.Downing Street is understood to be...
A trio of drug dealers has been put behind bars thanks to footage from the CCTV system at one of their homes.“Incriminating footage” of Usman Yousuf, Mohammed Majeed and Azaan Tariq gave detectives an insight into their criminal enterprise in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.It shows Yousuf arriving at his home with Majeed and leaving with a large blue holdall which would later be dropped off at a...
It was October last year when Scope, the disability equality charity, warned that the government is failing disabled people during the cost of living crisis.Scope warned that the government’s one-off payments for people on disability benefits did not “touch the sides” and put people in a “life-or-death situation”.Petitions were also launched calling for more significant support, and it was...
The Cardiff riot following the death of two teenagers in an apparent road accident continues to raise questions over what sparked the violence and the police officer’s role in the incident.The Maverick Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said on Friday that it was investigating four different factors over the crash that saw friends Harvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, killed in a collision in...
Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 16 years ago have ended their new search of a Portuguese reservoir.The German-led investigation began on Tuesday after they requested access to the Barragem do Arade reservoir, with teams using diggers and divers to carry out the search.German authorities have yet to reveal why they have begun searching the site. Still, it is believed to...
The High Court trial between Prince Harry and the Daily Mirror publisher over phone hacking claims is in its third week.Today, 25 May, Paul Vickers gave evidence for the defendants. Vickers — formerly the company secretary and the group legal director — said in his witness statement he had become known as the ‘angel of death’ in the newsrooms of the publishing company’s titles after...
Several thousand massive rocks have been shipped from Scotland to an English village to stop the coastline and road from falling into the sea.Around 13,500 tons of stone were transported to a beach in the seaside section of Blue Anchor in West Somerset to stop coastal erosion.The £3.8m permanent scheme will support the walls, mudstone cliff, and a section of the B3191 road.Workers will move the...
Residents in the Ely area of Cardiff have doomed the violence on their streets on Monday night as “repellent” and “terrible”.The rioting happened after two teenage boys died in a crash, South Wales police said.The two boys were named narrowly.On Tuesday as friends Harvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16.They were reportedly killed in a crash requiring an electric bike.Up to 12 police officers...
Riots broke out in Cardiff on Monday evening in a significant incident that saw police officers come under attack.The disorder occurred in Ely in the Welsh capital, shortly after 6 pm, and two police cars were set on fire.Two teenage boys died in a ram before the rampage broke out, South Wales Police said, but the relation between their deaths and the rioting remains unclear.Some of those...
Less than a year ago, Rishi Sunak pledged to fine patients £10 if they missed an NHS meeting.Sunak, who at that extremity in August was a crusade in the first Conservative leadership contest of 2022, said the NHS endures 15 million missed meetings at GPs and hospitals annually.“It’s not valuing our doctors correctly,” he told a hustings held by The Telegraph. “But it’s also, more chiefly...