NewsOpinionColumnists BACK in 1989, when I started working as a single-handed GP in Huddersfield, the writing was already on the wall for practices such as mine. It was argued that if we joined into groups this would deliver better care for patients and use NHS resources more efficiently. Saturday, 7th …
Read More »
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex returned to the UK this week, for a last waltz of official engagements before slipping their bonds as royals and starting a new life in the wild. On Thursday night they clung together under an umbrella outside London’s Mansion House, an enraptured couple dappled …
Read More »
The brother and nephew of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman have been arrested over a plot to oust the king and his son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, a brother of King Salman, and the monarch’s nephew Prince Mohammed bin Nayef were accused of treason. They were …
Read More »
A Royal Mail worker in Greater Manchester is in self isolation amid coronavirus concerns. The worker is self isolating ‘as a precaution’ after developing flu like symptoms following a trip to Italy. They are not understood to have tested positive for Covid-19. Royal Mail would not confirm the colleagues’ role …
Read More »
The future of a disused former Royal Mail building in Brownhills looks to be finally sorted as a proposal to convert it into flats was approved. A new two storey block of eight apartments, with 10 parking spaces, will be built on land behind businesses on High Street and Church …
Read More »
Except Huddersfield. On Christmas Day. At a venue called Ivanhoe’s, in a market town in West Yorkshire, the Sex Pistols would play a benefit show for the Fire Brigades Union, which had recently called its members out on strike in pursuit of a 30 percent wage increase. This was a …
Read More »
A self-confessed drugs dealer who set up several bank accounts to run his drugs-supplying operation was today jailed for three years and three months at Derry Crown Court. Christopher Terence Langmead, 27, from Rainey Court in Magherafelt, deposited £166,143 into one of his accounts to run what Judge Philip Babington …
Read More »
A pedestrian who died in a collision with a Royal Mail lorry on the A30 near Exeter Airport this morning was a man aged in his 20s. Police confirmed this afternoon that the man’s next-of-kin have been informed and formal identification is yet to take place. Emergency services were called …
Read More »
The family of the grandfather in his 80s who died of coronavirus yesterday – the UK’s second fatality – fear he could have passed on the infection after he was left ‘coughing excessively’ on a ward for six hours. The man died at Milton Keynes Hospital after he was admitted on March 3 …
Read More »
Rain comes in stinging gusts and the snow-covered hills on the Argyll shore are only a faint blur. But the gloom which envelops the Ferguson Marine shipyard here in Port Glasgow has nothing to do with the weather. Two rotting ‘ghost’ ships haunt this stretch of the Lower Clyde. The …
Read More »