Category: UK News

Prince Harry and singer Elton John made a surprise appearance at London’s High Court on Monday as they and five others began a lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail paper over years of alleged phone-tapping and privacy breaches. Harry, the younger son of King Charles, has brought a lawsuit against Associated Newspapers (ANL), along with John – one of the biggest selling artists of all time – his husband David Furnish, and actors Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost. The prince, who flew in from his California home, sat…

Jeremy Corbyn is expected to be officially blocked from standing as a Labour MP at the next general election in an extraordinary meeting of senior party officials tomorrow. Sir Keir Starmer will demand the move at a meeting of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), at least a year before a general election is expected. Mr Corbyn has sat as an independent since October 2020, due to his failure to apologise for comments downplaying anti-Semitism in the party during his time as leader between 2015 and 2020. A vote to block…

A serial rapist whose victims were as young as seven-years-old has been jailed for 25 years. Christopher Manning, 38, from Grantham, went on ‘a campaign of rape’ over a 23 year period. One of his victims was only seven-years-old when, in 1998, she woke to find Manning in her bed raping her. The sexual abuse continued, taking place regularly until she was 21-years-old. The serial paedophile also repeatedly raped and sexually abused a vulnerable boy for a decade, between 2004 – when the child was seven-years-old – and 2014, when…

Healthcare unions representing nurses and ambulance workers in England agreed a final pay offer with the British government on Thursday, potentially bringing an end to some strikes affecting the state-run National Health Service. “The Government and the NHS Staff Council – which brings together NHS employers and unions representing the Agenda for Change workforce – have completed negotiations and reached a final offer,” a joint statement released by the government and the staff council said. “Both sides believe it represents a fair and reasonable settlement.” The offer still needs to…

So long a letter yet so short a tenure for Chief Matthew A. Daniel led Labour Party UK Chapter administration.  It is now a news bullet point that the dissolution letter signed by the party national chairman – Barr. Julius Abure – takes immediate effect, and that a Constituted Caretaker Committee will take over the leadership and administration devoir of the Chapter ASASP. Per contra, no official reasons were highlighted in the termination legate addressed to the Chairman Labour Party UK Chapter. Conspicuously, the unceremoniously ending of the executive committee…