Month: October 2021

PA Media The family of MP Sir David Amess have said their hearts are shattered as they called on people to “set aside hatred and work towards togetherness”. The Conservative MP was stabbed multiple times during a meeting with his constituents in Essex on Friday. A 25-year-old British man is being held under the Terrorism

MPs should remain “accessible to the public”, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said after Sir David Amess’s killing. The death of the Essex MP has raised concern over the safety of politicians and the abuse they receive online. Ms Patel said she and Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle were working on “practical” measures to protect

PA Media A man detained after MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death on Friday is 25-year-old Ali Harbi Ali, Whitehall officials have confirmed to the BBC. Police said the British man was being held at a London police station under the Terrorism Act 2000 and officers have until 22 October to question him.

House of Commons The killing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess has been declared a terrorist incident by police. Sir David was stabbed multiple times at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Friday. The Metropolitan Police said there was “a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism”. A 25-year-old British man was arrested at

Getty Images Conservative MP Sir David Amess has died after being stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex. Police said a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack at a church in Leigh-on-Sea. They said they recovered a knife and were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.

Getty Images About 43,000 people in England and Wales may have been wrongly told their Covid-19 test was negative because of errors at a private laboratory. Testing at the Wolverhampton lab has been suspended following an investigation by NHS Test and Trace. It is now contacting those affected, mainly in the South West region, to

Getty Images New rules allowing travellers returning to England to take lateral flow tests instead of more expensive PCR tests will come into force on 24 October. The government says the changes will take effect in time for families returning from half term breaks. Fully vaccinated passengers will be told to upload photos of their

Reuters A man arrested over a deadly bow and arrow attack in Norway had converted to Islam and there were fears he had been radicalised, police have said. The 37-year-old Danish citizen is accused of killing four women and a man on Wednesday night in the southern town of Kongsberg. He was arrested and questioned

Hakon Mosvold/NTB/via Reuters Five people have been killed and two more injured in Norway after a man used a bow and arrow to attack them. Police first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg, south-west of the capital Oslo, at around 18:13 local time (16:13 GMT). Chief Oeyvind Aas said a suspect

Getty Images The European Union (EU) is to outline new proposals for the Northern Ireland Protocol later on Wednesday. They will cover customs, agri-food, medicines and the role of Northern Ireland politicians. The protocol avoids a hard border on the island of Ireland by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU’s single market for goods. But

PA Media Hundreds of people could die in floods in the UK, the Environment Agency has warned in a hard-hitting report that says the country is not ready for the impact of climate change. Earlier this year in Germany, dozens of people died in floods. “That will happen in this country sooner or later” unless

Getty Images The UK’s failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early in the pandemic was one of the worst ever public health failures, a report by MPs says. The government approach – backed by its scientists – was to try to manage the situation and in effect achieve herd immunity by infection, it

The head of the academy that awards the Nobel Prizes in science has said it will not introduce gender quotas. Goran Hansson, head of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said they want people to win “because they made the most important discovery… not because of gender or ethnicity”. Since its inception in 1901, only

Getty Images Industries hit by soaring energy costs have made another appeal to the government for action. Talks with ministers will continue on Monday over a crisis that has sparked warnings about some factories. Sectors such as ceramics, paper and steel manufacturing have called for a price cap, though talks with government on Friday failed

The UK is facing an uncertain winter with the spread of coronavirus and the flu, the head of the Health Security Agency Jenny Harries has said. People are at “more significant risk of death and of serious illness if they are co-infected” with both viruses, she told the BBC. She said: “It’s a more uncertain

Getty Images Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has defended the government’s handling of the energy crisis after suppliers said the system of having a cap on prices was not fit for purpose. Gas prices are at record highs, with some domestic energy supply firms failing as they pay more for gas than they are able to