The union, which represents some 465,000 health workers, said that after “independent legal advice”, the elected members of its council had decided to “move this year’s meeting to a fully virtual event”. The RCN Congress was due to be held in Liverpool across three days from September 18. The union said that “as a matter …
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The driver of a cargo vessel suspected of colliding with the boat has been arrested, officials said. The boat sank on Friday evening in a large body of water in the eastern district of Brahmanbari, 51 miles east of the capital, Dhaka. No passengers were believed to be missing after nearly 24 hours of search …
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The agreement will see the Scottish Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater become government ministers – the first time any Green representative has held political office in a government in the UK. First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon announced the plans for the parties to work together, having agreed a “transformative” policy programme. …
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Further flights leaving from the airport would be able to carry evacuees but would also be transporting UK diplomatic staff and military personnel as the operation winds down. It comes as British ambassador to Afghanistan Sir Laurie Bristow said it was “time to close this phase” of the evacuation effort. In a video posted on …
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Greenland’s icecap has just witnessed its first rainfall on record. More than 12-billion tons of water is melting off the icesheet every day this summer. Six times the rate just a decade ago. This weekend the country is hosting its first ever motorsport event, the newly created Extreme E challenge, which uses electric SUVs to …
Civilian evacuations from Afghanistan will finish on Saturday, the head of the UK armed forces has said as troops prepared to head home following a “heartbreaking” effort. General Sir Nick Carter, the Chief of the Defence Staff, said Operation Pitting – the effort to evacuate UK nationals and eligible Afghans from Kabul airport – had …
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Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise spoke to a student station in Norwich in 1973, with the footage being unearthed for a BBC documentary. Morecambe jokingly told the interviewer he liked the “opening and the finish” of Monty Python, but “it’s the bit in the middle I don’t like”. His comedy partner Wise added: “At times …
Sister events Reading and Leeds – known for their mix of rap, rock and pop – are going ahead this weekend after both were cancelled last year due to the pandemic. Stormzy, 28, was the main performer at the sold-out Reading event on Friday night, delighting fans with a set including some of his biggest …
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Consumer group Which? used cash machine data from Link and found 8,000 ATMs have disappeared in the past 18 months – a fall of around 13% – with the vast majority going during the first lockdown. Separately, analysts found that from the first national lockdown in March 2020 until the end of restrictions in July …
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More than 3.8 million first doses have been delivered since the first grab-a-jab weekend at the end of June – more than 400,000 a week, NHS England said. It has enabled people to turn up and get vaccinated at festivals, mosques, town halls, football grounds and other sites without prior booking. Analysis of one weekend …
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