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Laura Kuenssberg has said the atmosphere at The Spectator magazine’s summer party, which took place in the wake of Boris Johnson’s resignation, was “very hot, very wild and very bizarre”. The 46-year-old journalist, who was recently announced as Andrew Marr’s successor on the BBC’s Sunday morning politics show, was among the attendees at the event in July. Guests at the event at the right-leaning magazine’s offices in Westminster included prominent […]

Construction firms working together on major building projects such as high-speed railway HS2 are being offered first-of-its-kind security advice from the cybersecurity industry and government on how to better protect themselves from cyber attacks. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published a best practice guide in collaboration with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI). The guide […]

Edinburgh’s rubbish-strewn streets and overflowing bins has been blamed on the city’s Labour-led council as a Scottish Government minister waded into the row. Waste workers in the capital walked out on Thursday August 18 in protest at a “derisory” and “pathetic” pay rise offer. The strike is scheduled to last until August 30, however, rubbish is already piling up in the city centre streets and black bags are rapidly piling […]

A young woman “looked like she had seen a ghost” moments after emerging from a bedroom where footballer Benjamin Mendy allegedly raped her three times, her friend has told a court. The friend said she had gone to look for the 20-year-old, who she regarded “like a sister”, after she had gone missing with Mendy for around 20 minutes during a party at the Manchester City star’s mansion in Cheshire. […]

A teenage pilot attempting to be the youngest to fly the globe solo has revealed the “hairy moment” he cheated death on an abandoned Pacific Ocean island. Mack Rutherford took off from Sofia, Bulgaria, on March 23 this year and flew to Italy and Greece, before navigating Asia, Africa, the US, and two oceans. The 17-year-old made his first return to England on Monday, touching down at London’s Biggin Hill […]

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are relocating to Windsor and now have four properties at their disposal. – Kensington Palace Apartment 1A Their central London home, Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace, used to belong to Princess Margaret, and will remain their official working residence. It was refurbished at a cost of £4.5 million to the taxpayer with a new roof and electrics, and the removal of asbestos. It has […]

The first of an eight-day workers strike at the UK’s biggest container port begins on Sunday. Around 1,900 members of Unite at Felixstowe will walk out in a dispute over pay in the first strike to hit the port since 1989. It is the latest outbreak of industrial action to hit a growing number of sectors of the economy. Workers including crane drivers, machine operators and stevedores are taking action […]

Barristers are voting on plans for an all-out strike next month as part of a row with the Government over jobs and pay. Members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) have been walking out on alternate weeks but are now being balloted on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike that would start on September 5. The ballot closes at midnight on Sunday, with the result expected on Monday. According to Ministry of […]

Tory leadership frontrunner Liz Truss has said there is “too much talk that there’s going to be a recession” as she insisted an economic slump is not inevitable. The Foreign Secretary suggested a “level of ambition” was needed to “change the orthodoxy” and avoid the outcome forecast by the Bank of England. Her optimism came after Conservative heavyweight Michael Gove warned that she was on a “holiday from reality” with […]