Ayshah Tull , News Correspondent

The United Nations has launched a global funding appeal for St Vincent and the Grenadines to help the country’s recovery from ongoing volcanic eruptions.

The finance minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines has told Channel 4 News his country’s recovery from a volcanic eruption could cost half the nation’s GDP.

It’s nine days since the volcano on the Caribbean island of St Vincent erupted spewing ash six miles into the air. Thousands of people were evacuated to safer parts of the island. But even in the south there’s no getting away from the volcanic dust which covers almost everything. There’s now a shortage of water…

There have been more volcanic eruptions on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, with thousands of people seeking safety in government shelters.

Friends and colleagues of the reality television star Nikki Grahame have said she “touched the lives of millions of people” – after she died at the age of 38. She had been receiving treatment for an eating disorder, after her mother said her illness had been made considerably worse by the pandemic.

From Vladimir Putin to China’s Xi Jinping and every living US President, tributes to the Duke of Edinburgh have poured in from around the world, especially the Commonwealth countries where the Duke had made more than two hundred solo visits over his lifetime.

This programme exclusively reported that the UK’s medicines regulator, the MHRA, is looking closely at the planned roll out of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine among younger groups.

We look back at race and inequality in Britain.

The discovery of Covid vaccines was supposed to give us a passport back to normality. But despite another record-breaking day for innoculations yesterday, another warning from the government that summer holidays should remain on hold. The latest UK figures from the government show that more than 752,308 people received their first dose of the Covid vaccine…

Half of the UK’s adult population has now received a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine

The UK has managed to hand out the most Covid jabs yet in a single day.

Hundreds of women have been gathering this evening at a peaceful vigil in Parliament Square to pay tribute to Sarah Everard.

ITV has said that Piers Morgan has decided to leave Good Morning Britain. It comes after he made controversial comments about Meghan Markle that led to 41,000 Ofcom complaints and backlash from mental health charities.

Buckingham Palace has finally broken its silence on the explosive allegations made by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in their Oprah Winfrey interview

All we know about that alleged racism is that Harry now says it didn’t come from the Queen or Prince Philip.