Ms Champion’s committee of cross-party MPs visited el-Arish, a city in Egypt serving as a supply and logistics hub for the humanitarian aid effort to the Gaza Strip. Following the visit, where Ms Champion and her committee met aid workers so they could report back to the UK Government, the MP described Gaza as ‘lawless’. The committee published a report calling on the UK Government to press for more than 500 trucks of humanitarian aid a day to be allowed into Gaza; for all the crossings to open;...
More people are dying each year in Sheffield as a direct result of drinking alcohol, new data shows. Per 100,000 people, the rate of deaths directly caused by alcohol misuse has increased year-on-year since 2001 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire and across the UK. However, the rate in Sheffield is higher than average, with 19.8 deaths per 100,000 directly attributable to alcohol in the city in 2020-22, compared to the English average of 13.8 per 100,000. Project 6, a harm-reduction and recovery...
If one has ever wondered why most people switch off from other people’s reality, wonder no more. In Neil Postman’s book ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business’ he explains how we are distracted by nonsense, served up by the corporate media as entertainment. In “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” Neil […]
Police have appealed for information following the crash
In response to Friday’s letter, does the writer have any knowledge of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 written by Lord Balfour (“Genocide is a misnomer when talking about Gaza,” Star-Advertiser, April 19)?
Under a ceaseless storm of strikes in Gaza, a baby girl has survived insurmountable odds as the only member of her family left alive after she was delivered by Caesarian section as her mother lay dying.At just seven months pregnant, her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, reached the emergency unit in critical condition after she was fatally wounded in the head and abdomen at the weekend.An Israeli air strike hit her family's house in the east of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, witnesses told AFP."It's...
James Kirby, James Henderson and John Chapman were killed in an air strike
The Stardust inquests today delivered a verdict of unlawful killing in the case of all victims.
The band who wrote and recorded ‘Valerie’ are back with a new album after 16 years. They tell Craig McLean how drugs and booze derailed their chart career before they realised how much they meant to each other
Three men, a woman and a child reported dead with vessel said to have been carrying more than 110 peopleFive people, including a child, have died in an attempt to cross the Channel in a small boat near the town of Wimereux, south of Calais, French authorities say.More than 110 people were said to have been on board the vessel when it left at 5am near the Plage des Allemands. Continue reading
Forty-eight people lost their lives as a result of the Stardust fire. Most were just teenagers and almost all of the victims were from the Dublin 5 area, mostly Coolock, Raheny and Artane. Here are their stories:
At least 172 people have taken their own lives using the suicide powder “substance X” since 2015, suicide prevention organisation Stichting 113 and the Amsterdam health board estimate. It is the first time an investigation has been carried out into how widespread use of the powder is, the organisations say. The average age of people who had obtained the powder was 59, although the biggest group, some 38%, was over 70. “The figures show that this is a very diverse