A powerful group of northern Tory MPs are being scrutinised by the parliamentary expenses watchdog after a Sky News investigation into the way they use public money. The investigation found nearly two dozen MPs received political donations from a private donor to help them with campaigning – weeks after they joined the Northern Research Group
Month: July 2023
The search for a missing two-year-old boy in the French Alps has been called off, police have said. The boy, named only as Emile, was last seen walking down the street near his grandparents’ house by two witnesses on Saturday afternoon, according to authorities. They live in a remote mountain village with only two dozen
Huw Edwards has been accused of sending inappropriate messages to BBC employees. The newsreader was named yesterday as the presenter who had been suspended for allegedly paying £35,000 to a teenager in exchange for sexually explicit images. According to Newsnight, one current BBC staff member claims they were contacted on social media by Edwards, and
Thousands of children with special educational needs or disabilities are missing out on the education they are entitled to because of huge delays in the system designed to support them. A record half a million pupils now have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) – a legal document setting out a child or young
A US dentist accused of the fatal poisoning of his wife searched the internet for “how to make murder look like a heart attack” weeks before she died, a court has heard. James Craig, 45, also sought answers to the question “is arsenic detectable in an autopsy?” at around the same time, it is alleged.
Elon Musk has launched his long-awaited artificial intelligence start-up xAI in a bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT. The Twitter owner has brought in a team of engineers from other tech firms he is hoping to challenge in the artificial intelligence sphere. Musk has warned for months about AI’s potential for “civilisational destruction”, arguing
Friends and colleagues of Huw Edwards have reacted with shock to the statement released by his wife. Vicky Flind named her husband as the BBC presenter facing a series of claims, including that he paid a teenager for explicit images. Ms Flind said the presenter was “suffering from serious mental health issues” and is now
Artificial intelligence produces misinformation when asked to answer medical questions, but there is scope for it to be fine tuned to assist doctors, a new study has found. Researchers at Google tested the performance of a large language model, similar to that which powers ChatGPT, on its responses to multiple choice polls and commonly asked
The UK is not an “Amazon” delivery service for weapons to Ukraine, Britain’s defence secretary has said. Ben Wallace added that Kyiv might be wise to let its supporters “see gratitude”. In a blunt intervention, the minister said his “counsel” to the Ukrainians was to keep in mind that they need to persuade some doubting
The Illegal Migration Bill is heading back to the House of Lords later after MPs voted against almost all of the changes previously proposed by peers. The controversial legislation bans people from claiming asylum if they arrived in the UK illegally, and puts a legal duty on the Home Office to remove them. Tonight the
The BBC presenter who allegedly paid a teenager more than £35,000 for sexually explicit pictures has been named as Huw Edwards. He was named by his wife Vicky Flind in a statement issued on his behalf. Huw Edwards – latest: BBC presenter ‘suffering serious mental health issues’ She said her husband was “suffering from serious
The Bank of England says it expects the proportion of income UK households spend on mortgage payments to remain below levels seen during the financial crisis. Its latest Financial Stability Report declared that squeezed households were proving resilient in the face of challenges posed by rising living costs and interest rate hikes to tackle high
After just 15 minutes on the streets of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighbourhood, an encounter that was everything. It was illustrative of a crisis out of control, it was reflective of a profound personal struggle, it was instructive of the power of addiction, and it was deeply, deeply sad. “I really didn’t have anybody taking me seriously,”
The BBC is facing increasing pressure after fresh allegations were made against an unnamed presenter. The star was suspended over the weekend after The Sun claimed that he had paid tens of thousands of pounds to a young person in exchange for sexually explicit photographs. But on Tuesday, three other allegations emerged, with BBC host
The G7 is set to sign a long-term security arrangement with Ukraine, which Rishi Sunak has said will potentially “return peace to Europe”. The accord marks the first time so many countries have agreed a comprehensive, multi-year security arrangement of such a nature with another country, No 10 said. The G7 declaration, which is expected
A new economic organisation, set up by Liz Truss, will launch on Wednesday, with a report claiming the average British person is £10,000 worse off than people in the US. The Growth Commission, made up of economists brought together by the former prime minister, said its work would focus on highlighting the issue of low
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