[ad_1] As King Charles and Queen Camilla pay tribute to Pope Francis today, they will reflect on their recent private visit. Pope Francis died on Easter Monday aged 88, the Vatican announced today. The pontiff spent his final weeks in hospital with an infection that developed into pneumonia in both lungs. The Conclave – where cardinals gather…
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[ad_1] Pressure was mounting on the Post Office to face criminal action last night after secret recordings proved its bosses covered up the Horizon IT scandal. They revealed that the company and Fujitsu knew their faulty computer system could alter sub-postmasters’ accounts more than ten years ago, despite denying this for years. More than 900…
[ad_1] By Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail Published: 17:50 EDT, 19 March 2024 | Updated: 18:00 EDT, 19 March 2024 The death of Queen Elizabeth sent the royal postage bill soaring to £1.2 million, an increase of £100,000. All sympathy letters, cards and gifts must receive a reply. The Coronation and two sick royals have…
[ad_1] Newspapers and publishers have today united to urge MPs to investigate the Government’s ‘disgraceful’ obstruction of legitimate Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. Boris Johnson has said he supports press freedom in Britain but an investigation has revealed that his Government operates a secretive taxpayer-funded ‘Clearing House’ allegedly stifling disclosure of data. Today civil servants…
[ad_1] A top aide to Boris Johnson is today caught up in a conflict of interest row over claims he helped broker a deal for China’s new embassy on behalf of the Government while being paid by two of the companies involved. Lord Udny-Lister helped the Foreign Office lead talks with China over its £255million…
[ad_1] The British Army officer leading Boris Johnson’s effort to deliver hundreds of thousands of coronavirus vaccines per day pledged to use combat techniques to get them to the needy as fast as possible. Brigadier Phil Prosser, Commander of Military Support to the Vaccine Delivery Programme, said his team would use ‘our extensive operational and…
[ad_1] T ony Blair has said the entire country needs to be placed under a ramped-up Covid-19 vaccination programme with up to five million jabs a week. His comments on Sunday come as the NHS prepares to roll out the newly approved Oxford University and AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses available for distribution across the…
[ad_1] Boris Johnson’s new Brexit trade agreement means Britain and the EU will have a ‘special relationship’ and ‘ugly’ politics will end, Michael Gove has said. The Cabinet minister said the deal allows for a ‘new pattern of friendly co-operation’ between the two ‘sovereign equals’. He added that he hoped the Brexit trade agreement will…
[ad_1] Furious anti-lockdown Tory MPs last night accused Boris Johnson of allowing himself to be bounced into an England-wide shutdown after No10 binned its three-tier Covid-19 alert system. Conservatives were outraged that plans to plunge the country into a second shutdown were leaked to the Saturday papers, including the Mail, before the Prime Minister’s announcement…