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15/10/2023

Thousands of Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Marched in Central London on Saturday , Calling for an End to Israel's Military Action in the Gaza Strip Which Was...

20/12/2022

Today, The Bank of England has unveiled designs for new bank notes featuring His Majesty The King. They are expected to enter circulation in the UK by mid-2024.

Although the Monarch’s likeness has appeared on coins since the eighth century, bank notes are a much more recent invention. The British Sovereign has only been featured on British bank notes since 1960, making His Majesty just the second Monarch - and the first King - to appear on currency in this way.

24/10/2022

Sunak has become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Sunak belongs to the Conservative party and is of Indian origin.

He was elected after outgoing PM Liz Truss announced last week that she was resigning just a month and a half after taking office.

At the age of 42, he is also the youngest person to take the office in more than 200 years.

20/10/2022

Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned as UK prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party in a statement outside Downing Street

20/09/2022

Rescue workers in Japan have warned of mudslides and flooding after one of the biggest storms in recent decades battered the country.

08/09/2022

08/09/2022

A statement from His Majesty The King:

08/09/2022

Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.

08/09/2022

The Queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral after doctors became concerned for her health, says Buckingham Palace

05/09/2022

16/08/2022

An autumn booster of the vaccine will be offered to the following groups to extend their protection against getting seriously ill:

▶️ residents and staff in older adult care homes
▶️ frontline health and social care workers
▶️ everyone aged 50 and over
▶️ people aged 5-49 in a clinical risk group, including pregnant women
▶️ household contacts of immunosuppressed people aged 5-49
▶️ unpaid carers aged 16-49

The NHS will confirm details in due course on how and when eligible people will be able to book an appointment.

14/06/2022

A 70-year-old Indian woman was killed by an elephant in Odisha, India, while she was collecting water from a tube-well.

According to official data, as many as 3,300 people have been killed in attacks by wild elephants in India in the last seven years. Odisha has suffered the most deaths, with nearly 600 killed between 2014-2021.

05/06/2022

Happy Jubilee Weekend

17/05/2022

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Named in honour of The Queen, today Her Majesty and The Earl of Wessex visited Paddington Station ahead of the new line opening to passengers next week.

The Queen and The Earl met those who have been key to the Crossrail project, as well those who will be running the railway - including apprentices, drivers, and station staff.

04/05/2022

The London Eye was lit-up to mark Eid celebrations for the first time on Monday evening.

Muslims across the capital celebrated Eid al-Fitr for the first time without Covid-19 restrictions since the pandemic began.

Earlier in the week thousands of Londoners took part in an Iftar meal during Ramadan to break the end of the day's fast.

15/04/2022

At least 150 Palestinians are injured and over 400 arrested during an early dawn assault on Al-Aqsa by Israeli police.

15/04/2022

The Passion of Jesus is a powerful portrayal of Christ's journey to the cross and the Easter story.

Today, Londoners of all faiths gathered at Trafalgar Square to witness it in person again after two years.

30/03/2022

From 1 April, free COVID-19 testing will be available for people with symptoms if they are;

➡️ patients in hospital

➡️ eligible for treatments because they are at higher risk of getting seriously ill

➡️ living or working in high-risk settings such as care homes or the NHS.

24/03/2022

This Friday (25 March) new and stricter rules are coming into force surrounding using your mobile phone whilst driving. The previous law only related to 'interactive' activity with your phone i.e. texting or calling, however the new law now means that all those caught with a device in their hands will automatically face penalties of a £200 fine and six points on their licence. 🚗

20/03/2022

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan is struggling to hang on to power after at least a dozen legislators from his ruling party switched sides ahead of a vote of no-confidence against him.
Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has been leading a coalition government since 2018 with a thin majority in parliament. In recent days, allied parties have also publicly threatened to part ways over policy disputes, exacerbating the political troubles facing the former cricketing star.
Earlier this month, opposition parties jointly moved up the no-confidence motion to oust the prime minister, accusing him of misrule and mismanaging the economy and foreign policy. The vote is expected later this month or in early April.
Khan and his ministers reject the charges and accuse the opposition of bribing PTI legislators to encourage defections.
The dissidents and political opponents both have dismissed the bribery accusations as an attempt by the prime minister to cling to power.
On Friday, the government announced it will petition the Supreme Court as early as Monday to seek a ruling on whether the defecting lawmakers are eligible to retain their seats and cast a vote after switching sides.
Pakistan’s floor-crossing law states that parliamentarians who vote against their party could lose their seats. Khan’s advisers say they want the country’s top court to interpret the law to see whether it also applies before the defecting lawmakers cast votes.

17/03/2022

Traditional Kashmiri carpet weavers are turning to a 21st-century technology already embraced by French winemakers and other international purveyors to boost sales by reassuring buyers that they are buying authentic made-in-Kashmir carpets, not cheap imitations.
The technology, used to authenticate wine from Cabo Verde, watches made in Switzerland, Bashkir honey from Russia and Tushuri Guda cheese from Georgia, combines a digital QR code with geo-locational features to guarantee to buyers that a carpet was actually woven in Kashmir.
Carpets from the region are ranked among the finest in the world because of the fineness of the weaving and the quality of the wool and silk yarn.
Mahmood Ahmad Shah, director of Handloom & Handicrafts in Kashmir, says this is the first time the region’s pashmina or Kashmir silk carpets have received QR code-based geographical indications.
With QR code tagging, Shah expects to attract more clients, benefiting local artisans in Indian-administered Kashmir.

13/03/2022

The Ukrainian nuclear power plants at Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia, both now under the control of Russian forces, are being run and managed by their Ukrainian staff, Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom said Saturday, according to the RIA news agency.
Rosatom's statement said an external power supply was being restored to the defunct Chernobyl plant, site of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986, with the help of Russian specialists.
It also said activities to ensure safety at the plants were being carried out in coordination with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Ukraine had warned of an increased risk of a radiation leak from Chernobyl if its high-voltage power line, damaged in fighting, was not repaired.
The Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom said Friday that staff at Zaporizhzhia, Europe's biggest nuclear plant, were under strong psychological pressure from the Russians present.
The IAEA said this week that it had lost touch with remote systems monitoring nuclear material at Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia, and IAEA chief Rafael Grossi voiced concern that the staff might be working under undue pressure.

12/03/2022

Facebook said Thursday that because of the invasion of Ukraine, it has temporarily eased its rules regarding violent speech.
Moscow's internationally condemned invasion of its neighbor has provoked unprecedented sanctions from Western governments and businesses, but also a surge of online anger.
"As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as 'death to the Russian invaders,'" Facebook's parent company Meta said in a statement.
"We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians," it added.
Facebook made its statement after a Reuters report, citing the firm's emails to its content moderators, which said the policy applies to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine.
Facebook and other U.S. tech giants have moved to penalize Russia for the attack on Ukraine, and Moscow has also moved to block access to the leading social media network as well as Twitter.

11/03/2022

On Saturday, we received a report of man continuously staring at a woman on a train in Berkshire and blocking her exit.

He was identified from station CCTV and detected and arrested by our colleagues at Thames Valley Police four days later.

Yesterday, he was jailed for 22 weeks.

No one should be made to feel scared or uncomfortable whilst travelling.

If you witness or experience sexual harassment on the railway, you can report it to us by texting 61016. In an emergency, always dial 999.

09/03/2022

A man given a genetically modified pig heart has died two months after the operation, a US hospital has said.

The man died two months after operation, says the hospital that carried out the world-first surgery.

09/03/2022