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‘A great blow to Uganda’: surgeon John Baptist Mukasa dies of Covid

Posted on Aug 09, 2021

K ennedy Owuor first fell over in his hotel room in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, before headaches followed. He initially brushed the symptom


UK set to ‘hoard’ up to 210m doses of Covid vaccine, research suggests

Posted on Aug 09, 2021

The UK is on course to “hoard” up to 210m spare coronavirus vaccines by the end of the year, research suggests, as ministers were accused of leaving poorer countri


SFO launches investigation into Gavin Woodhouse over suspected fraud

Posted on Aug 09, 2021

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched an investigation into entrepreneur Gavin Woodhouse, whose business dealings were revealed by an undercover investigation by


UK couple completes challenge to take part in 101 Olympic sports

Posted on Aug 09, 2021

Charlotte Nichols and Stuart Bates did not set off at a blistering pace when they began a marathon in Dorset on Sunday – but they have a very good excuse. The 26-mil


Kindness and control freakery: life inside the Tokyo Olympic experience

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

Crouched behind a bush in the shadow of the vast Tokyo Big Sight building, the bearded American man from the small Ukrainian magazine said: “I’m writing an article abo


Galal Yafai wins Team GB’s first boxing gold medal of Tokyo Olympics

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

Galal Yafai claimed flyweight boxing gold for Great Britain after a split decision win over Carlo Paalam of the Philippines. The 28-year-old floored his opponent in


The UK riots, 10 years on: ‘Young people were watching their futures disappear before their eyes’

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

T he video opens on a scene of hazy, unspecified danger. A group of people are milling about on a street corner that could be anywhere, their iden


Alok Sharma is trying to save the world. Should he be able to fly to do it?

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

The starkest warning yet on how close the global climate is to the point of no return will be delivered to the world on Monday morning, when the Intergovernmental Pane


Tell us: how much have you spent on UK holiday accommodation this summer?

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

Due to frequent changes to the green and amber travel lists, and quarantine restrictions for those who are not fully vaccinated, 62% of British people intend to spend


25 of the most characterful and affordable places to stay in France

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

BRITTANY Hotel Sainte Barbe, Le Conquet On rocks overlooking the beach in the cheerful town of Le Conquet, the Sainte Barbe isn’t your usual seaside hotel. Tran


E10 fuel: Check before you fill up – it can damage older cars

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

About 600,000 owners of older vehicles need to check whether a new E10 unleaded petrol will damage their engine as the fuel is rolled out across the UK as part of an a


Saving for a sunny day: Britons reveal what they’ve been saving for through lockdown

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

Whisper it, but there’s a sense that the worst of the pandemic is over. Restrictions are easing, social groups are tentatively re-emerging – and expanding – and


UK agrees to consider providing safe haven for Afghan journalists

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

The foreign secretary has agreed to consider allowing Afghan journalists who worked for the British to flee to the UK if their lives are endangered by the resurgence o


Carlyle ups bid for inhaler firm Vectura, trumping tobacco giant Philip Morris

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

US private equity firm Carlyle has made an improved £958m takeover offer for British inhaler maker Vectura, trumping an earlier bid from tobacco company Philip Morris


UK government spends more than £163,000 on union flags in two years

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

Robert Jenrick criticised BBC presenters for daring to gently mock the size of his, Grant Shapps has a little plastic replica one on his bookshelf, while Matt Hancock


Why are government experts holding off vaccinating under-16s in the UK?

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

T he Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) announced this week that everyone in the UK aged 16 and 17 should be offered the Covid


The support group at the heart of Belarus’s sporting resistance

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

W hen Belarusian officials tried to muzzle sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya and bundle her on a flight back to Minsk, a special organisation defen


Six EU states overtake UK Covid vaccination rates as Britain’s rollout slows

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

Six EU states have now fully inoculated a larger share of their total populations with a coronavirus vaccine than the UK, after the bloc’s dire initial rollout took


UK condemns 10-year sentence for dual national in Iran as tensions rise

Posted on Aug 07, 2021

The UK government has hit out at reports that a British-Iranian labour rights activist has been given a sentence of 10 years in Tehran for participating in an outlawed


It's Priti pricey! Home Secretary Priti Patel picks up £3,200 outfit for a policing event - including a £2,300 navy satin shirt dress from luxury womenswear designer Laura Green and matching £900 navy pillbox hat

Posted on Aug 01, 2021

With one of the toughest jobs in politics, Priti Patel can be forgiven for taking some time off for some retail therapy. But the Home Secretary looked especially ple


What did Maggie Thatcher really think of her great friend Ronald Reagan? GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT examines a startling revelation about the 20th Century's most powerful double act – in a major biography examining Churchill's legacy

Posted on Aug 01, 2021

While on the campaign trail at a Kent funfair before the 1950 election, a 24-year-old Margaret Roberts – later to become Britain's first female Prime Minister – stoppe


'Together but apart': Matt Hancock and Gina Coladangelo are not yet living as a couple but are building their relationship away from the public gaze, friends say

Posted on Aug 01, 2021

Matt Hancock and his lover Gina Coladangelo are ‘together, apart’ as they try to build a relationship out of the public gaze, say friends. The former Health Secretar


MPs: Guarantee British tourists the 'traffic lights' won't change while they are away - as millions of summer holidays risk being thrown into chaos

Posted on Aug 01, 2021

British holidaymakers should be given a 'guarantee' that the traffic light rules that apply when they touch down abroad will be the same for their return, MPs have sai


Proposal for UK to build a jail in Albania to house foreign offenders and free up cells here is 'welcomed' by British ministers and the Balkan country's justice secretary

Posted on Aug 01, 2021

Ministers have held talks over building a new prison in Albania to house foreign offenders in British jails, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The proposal was ‘welcome