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Cold snap piles pressure on already struggling households and services
After one of the warmest autumns on record, a cold snap began to grip the UK last night. Temperatures plummeted to minus nine in rural Scotland and some English towns and cities saw temperatures drop well below zero. The freezing weather is set to continue at least into the early part of next week, putting…
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7.2m people on NHS waiting list in England – highest figure ever
The number of people waiting to start routine NHS treatment in England has reached the highest number since records began – 7.2 million. And nearly a third of people waiting in A&E departments were not seen within four hours – again the worst performance on record. The health thinktank The King’s Fund warned that there…
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Lecturers have ‘considerable amount of government funding’, says education secretary
The NHS isn’t the only part of the public sector facing strike action. University lecturers are already staging walkouts and teaching unions are balloting for action. We spoke to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan following an announcement that the government is giving universities and colleges £490 million to invest in facilities – and asked her if…
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Harry Dunn: Anne Sacoolas given suspended sentence for causing death of UK teen
US government employee Anne Sacoolas has avoided jail and been given a suspended sentence for causing the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn. She was sentenced at the Old Bailey today – more than three years after hitting the 19-year-old as she drove on the wrong side of the road near a US military base…
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What did we learn from Harry and Meghan Netflix series?
If you were expecting incendiary revelations in the Harry and Meghan show you might be disappointed. Instead, the first three episodes of their Netflix series released today and for which they were reportedly paid millions, gave lots of new details about how Meghan and Harry first met. It also made clear Harry’s enduring fury at…
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What could Harry and Meghan’s documentary series mean for the Royal family?
We spoke to royal historian Professor Anna Whitelock and Professor David Olusoga, the historian and documentary-maker who appears in the Netflix series.
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Will Israel’s new far-right coalition spark more violence? (dubbed)
Now in Israel, the most far-right government in the country’s history is about to take power, at the end of a year marred by soaring levels of deadly violence. Four Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours. The new government, being brought together by four-time prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, includes ultranationalists who have…
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Iran executes first protester involved in anti-government demonstrations
Iran has said it has carried out the first execution of a protester for being involved in the anti-regime demonstrations that first erupted in September. 23-year-old Mohsen Shekari was found guilty of “enmity against God”. He was accused of taking part in a riot and using a machete to wound a member of the paramilitary…
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New AI chatbot ‘ChatGPT’ interviewed on TV
ChatbotGPT is a new artificial intelligence programme designed to simulate human conversation and tackle complex questions. It’s made by Open AI foundation, a tech-startup co-founded by Elon Musk, and it draws on text taken from a variety of sources on the internet and its creators say it has learned how to answer academic questions, and…
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Ukraine: how winter could change the war
How might winter change the war in Ukraine?
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George Takei on how his family were imprisoned in Japanese internment camps in US
When he made his name in Star Trek as Lieutenant Sulu, actor George Takei had already lived a life worthy of a Hollywood movie.
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Are risks of ‘buy now, pay later’ clear enough to consumers?
In a cost of living crisis, the offer to buy now, pay later might seem increasingly attractive. And, online or in person, more and more shoppers are being offered the chance to pay in interest-free instalments by firms such as Klarna.
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COP15: World representatives meet for once-in-a-decade chance to save biodiversity
Climate campaigners may be united in their opposition to new coal mines. But there’s another major environmental issue facing the globe, that of catastrophic biodiversity loss.
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Matt Hancock won’t stand at next election
The former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced that he won’t stand again to be an MP at the next General Election.
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Germany raids far-right group over alleged plot to overthrow German government
German police have arrested 25 members and supporters of a far-right organisation that they say was plotting to overthrow the state and install an alternative government led by a German aristocrat.
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Public sector workers ‘desperate’ and worried about feeding their families, Union boss says
We spoke to Mark Serwotka, the General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union which represents Border Force staff among others and asked him if he was concerned the British public would tire of strike action, not least over Christmas?
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What new laws is the government looking at to try to deal with strikes?
Our political editor Gary Gibbon joined us from Westminster.
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Christmas travel chaos expected as border force strikes announced
Passport control staff at Britain’s main airports are to go on strike for eight days over Christmas and New Year.
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New UK coal mine is ‘climate crime against humanity’, says Green MP
Only yesterday the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas was tweeting a welcome to the news of the government’s U-turn on onshore wind development. But she also warned that if it was meant to ‘buy off’ giving the green light to the Cumbria coal mine, it would be ‘totally and utterly shameless’.
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New coal mine ‘is not embarrassing for Britain’, says local MP Mark Jenkinson
Mark Jenkinson, is the Conservative MP for Workington in Cumbria, the same region where the government has given permission for a new coal mine in Cumbria.
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Government grants planning permission for controversial UK coal mine
The government has given permission for a new coal mine in Cumbria, the first in the UK for 30 years. The controversial project has generated huge criticism.
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How Kyiv is turning to arts during winter of war (dubbed)
Ukrainians are turning to the arts during a winter of war. Lindsey Hilsum meets the opera singers and ballet dancers of Kyiv, as the city looks for inspiration and respite from the fighting.
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Kirstie Alley, star of ‘Cheers’, dies aged 71
Kirstie Alley, the star of the long-running US comedy series ‘Cheers’ and some iconic movies such as ‘Look Who’s Talking’ has died after a short battle with cancer, at the age of 71.
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Solar power to overtake coal worldwide in next five years
Solar power is set to overtake coal power worldwide in the next five years, according to the International Energy Agency. Today it predicted the world will add as much renewable power in the next five years as it did in the previous 20.
