Day: September 17, 2024

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Chart Showing the Number of Migrants Crossing the English Channel

News

Channel crossings since Labour came to power top 10,000

More than 10,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel since Labour won the general election. Home Office figures show 65 migrants made the journey in two boats on Monday, taking the provisional total for the year so far to 23,598. The latest crossings mean 10,024 arrivals have been recorded since Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister on July 4. The total for 2024 to date is […]

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Glasgow 2014

Sport

Glasgow set to host 2026 Commonwealth Games

The Scottish Government has backed a deal which will see the city step in after the state of Victoria in Australia backed out. Glasgow is set to host a scaled down version of the Commonwealth Games in 2026 after the Scottish Government backed the deal. The city last hosted the international sporting event in 2014 and has stepped in after the planned 2026 hosts backed out. The state of Victoria […]

todaySeptember 17, 2024 2

Junior Doctors Taking Industrial Action

News

Junior doctors will strike again ‘if we need to’ – BMA

More strikes by junior doctors are not off the table in the future, a leading medic has said. It comes as junior doctors in England voted to accept a Government pay deal worth 22.3% on average over two years, bringing their long-running dispute to an end. The British Medical Association’s (BMA) junior doctors committee in England has accepted the Government’s pay offer, with 66% of junior doctors voting in favour […]

todaySeptember 17, 2024 3

Brie Larson

Entertainment

Oscar winner Brie Larson to make West End debut in Greek tragedy Elektra

Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson is to make her West End debut in a revival of a Greek tragedy. Elektra, an adaptation of a Sophocles play translated by poet Anne Carson, will be directed by Daniel Fish and staged at Theatre Royal Brighton in January before it moves to London’s Duke Of York’s Theatre for an 11 week-season. Larson said: “I couldn’t be more excited to perform in this Greek drama, […]

todaySeptember 17, 2024 3

Kyle Clifford by Elizabeth Cook

News

BBC commentator’s daughters shot with crossbow and wife stabbed, court told

The daughter of a BBC commentator had been tied to a chair in an incident which saw her and her sister shot with a crossbow and their mother suffer multiple injuries in a stabbing, a court has heard. Kyle Clifford was remanded in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to appear at the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday afternoon following the incident in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on July 9. He has […]

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