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Refund Claims On Cancelled Flights Refused, Admits BA

Airline apologises and promises to compensate customers

Passport Advice Changed After Passengers Wrongly Told They Couldn't Travel

The Foreign Office has finally changed its advice on passport validity for travel to the EU after dozens of airline passengers were wrongly told they couldn't fly.

Image Proves Our Galaxy Has A Supermassive Black Hole

Scientists have taken the first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Government Plans To Axe 90,000 Civil Service Jobs

The government could cut as many as 90,000 civil service jobs in a cost-saving exercise touted by Boris Johnson, as ministers come under increasing pressure to help ease the cost of living crisis with possible tax cuts.

Protocol Deadlock Means Brexit Still Won't Get Done

Britain celebrates two momentous anniversaries next month.

Energy Levy How Targeting North Sea Profit May Work

Boris Johnson refused to rule out a windfall tax yesterday as calls for a one-off levy grow.

Spain Plans To Relax Abortion Rules And Grant Period Leave

Spain's Socialist-led coalition government is preparing a law that would allow anyone over the age of 16 to have an abortion without permission from their parents or guardians.

PM Is Urged To Widen Covid Inquiry After UK-Wide Consultation

The chair of the UK Covid-19 public inquiry has urged the prime minister to significantly widen its scope to better examine the pandemic's unequal impact on minority ethnic people, on children and on mental health.

Brexit Legal Experts Dispute UK's Claim Parts Of Deal Can Be Ditched

Claims that the UK government has discovered a legal justification for tearing up large parts of Brexit arrangements in Northern Ireland have been greeted with scorn by expert lawyers.

Labour Votes Reject 'Woke' Politics, Blair Tells Starmer

Tony Blair has urged Keir Starmer to reject “woke” politics and to present a programme for government that is "radical without being dangerous” if he wants to win the next general election.

Huge Carbon Projects 'Won't Fix Energy Crisis'

The world's leading energy economist has warned against investing in large new oil and gas developments, . which would have little impact on the current energy crisis but would spell devastation for the planet.

Vlad All Over

Tyrant's war plan reveals he wants entire Ukraine

Partygate: 50 Handed Extra Fines

Met investigation goes on

Sunak Will Reconsider Windfall Tax On Oil Firms

Rishi Sunak is preparing to impose a windfall tax on North Sea oil companies to help consumers with the cost-of-living crisis.

Defiant Truss ...We'll Rip Up Brexit Border Deal

UK has 'no choice but to act' as EU puts Northern Ireland peace process at risk

Buckle Up Folks, It's Madison Cawthorn Versus The World

What a sorry state of affairs it is when a young congressman can't mention attending Republican orgies without being the victim of (ahem) a GOP pile-on

Chancellor Weighs Windfall Tax For Gas And Oil Giants

Rishi Sunak has asked Treasury officials to explore proposals for a windfall tax on gas and oil giants despite ministers repeatedly ruling out the idea, according to reports.

Cost Of Living Help Coming In ‘Months', Says PM After Earlier Pledging It In Days

Boris Johnson has promised more help with living costs “in the months ahead”, stepping back from his suggestion on Tuesday that he would announce new support measures within days.

Is Johnson Really Willing To Tear Up His Own Brexit Deal?

Adam Forrest looks at why the prime minister might feel that a trade war with the EU would be in his interest right now

City Looks Forward To Hosting Queen's Baton Relay In July

The Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay will visit Plymouth during its journey through England this summer. It will spend two days in the South West, July 4 and 5, starting in Plymouth.

All At Sea: Turtles May Have No Idea Where They Are Going

How migrating animals such as sea turtles navigate across the ocean has intrigued biologists since Charles Darwin.

55% Of Covid Patients Still Ill After Two Years - Study

Half of people hospitalised with Covid still have at least one symptom two years after they were first infected, according to the longest follow-up study of its kind.

PM: UK Will Support Sweden Against Putin

Boris Johnson said the UK 'will not hesitate' to act after signing a historic security agreement with Sweden to defend against any threat from '21st century tyrant' Vladimir Putin.

Ukrainians Stop Flow Of Russian Gas

UKRAINE has stopped the flow of Russian natural gas through one hub that feeds European homes and industry, while a pro-Kremlin official in a southern region seized by Russian troops has said it would ask Moscow to annex it.

Boris Pushes Boat Out For Swedes And Finland To Join Nato Alliance

Boris Johnson yesterday signed security pacts with Sweden and Finland in a signal of Western defiance of Vladimir Putin and said he could be prepared to put British boots on the ground in Scandinavia if Russia attacked.

Just Half Of Britons With Covid Are Self-Isolating

Compliance rates have dropped since the legal requirement ended in February

Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra Advance To Eurovision Final

Ukraine's Eurovision contestant Kalush Orchestra are through to Saturday's final with their song “Stefania”.

BA Blames Cancellations On Covid - And Refuses To Pay Compensation To Passengers

The airline cites 'extraordinary circumstances' for the claims rejections

The Labour Leader Is Up Against Ideas Man Johnson

According to the most recent red-hot thinking on the subject, Keir Starmer made a fatal mistake by trying to “take the moral high ground” with regard to the actual prime minister breaking the actual laws he made, especially when it turns out that he'd eaten some dinner while away from home for work.

EU's NI Proposals Would 'Take Us Backward – Truss Ms Truss

Some of the European Union's proposals on the Northern Ireland protocol would “take us backwards”, Liz Truss has claimed, in a seeming bid to set the stage for the UK to take unilateral action on the post-Brexit treaty.