The resilience of exports from the UK's service sector has been a success story despite the feared impact of Brexit.
Full Fact’s annual report says the UK is ill-equipped to tackle misleading content.
British growers and sellers fear government measures starting on 30 April could result in delays and plants being damagedGarden centres and nurseries are stockpiling plants before Brexit checks are introduced later this month, amid concerns over whether new border posts will be ready to deal with the volume of deliveries.The Horticultural Trade Association (HTA), which represents garden retailers and growers, said many of its members had been increasing orders of plants in recent weeks, to...
Right-wing Tories believe Downing Street is blocking ‘true blue’ candidates from standing in general election
Humanitarian work in Afghanistan and Yemen now classified as climate finance, FoI request reveals, as £11.6bn pledge slipsThe UK government has been accused of double counting £500m of overseas aid as climate finance in an attempt to meet its commitments under the Paris agreement .Money for humanitarian work in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia is now being classified as climate finance, according to documents released under a freedom of information request by the website Carbon Brief. Continue...
FLORENCE COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) --Two women were arrested by SLED Thursday for failure to report abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult at Pee Dee Regional Center in Florence, according to arrest warrants. Adria Denise Davis, 52, of Columbia and Tominka Tunisia Grant, 44, of Blythewood are both accused of not protecting a vulnerable resident []
Former foreign secretary says Britain needs to forge closer political and foreign policy links with Europe if it is to thriveThe UK has lost influence since Brexit to become just one of many “middle powers” in the world, former foreign secretary David Miliband has said.Writing for the Observer, Miliband, now president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, said that in order to reverse the decline, the UK needed to enter new “structures and commitments” with the EU on foreign...
Some shortages are so serious they are imperilling the health and even lives of patients with serious illnesses, pharmacy bosses sayDrug shortages are a “new normal” in the UK and are being exacerbated by Brexit, a report by the Nuffield Trust health thinktank has warned. A dramatic recent spike in the number of drugs that are unavailable has created serious problems for doctors, pharmacists, the NHS and patients, it found.The number of warnings drug companies have issued about impending supply...
Rules due to come in this month will impose new handling fees – and experts say small suppliers are already being driven awayMinisters’ decision to impose Brexit import checks on 30 April will lead to shortages of some foods, flowers and herbs, industry leaders have warned.In the week after the government was accused of blindsiding the British food industry by giving 27 days’ notice that every consignment of items such as camembert, steak, tulips and chives would be subject to fees of up to...
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Gibraltar’s chief minister says progress made in talks about free movement across border with SpainThe UK and the EU are within “kissing distance” of a post-Brexit deal to guarantee free movement over the border between Gibraltar and Spain, Gibraltar’s chief minister has said.After a meeting between the UK foreign secretary, David Cameron, Spain’s foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, and the European Commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič, agreement was reached on issues that have dogged...
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) blamed the United Kingdom for facilitating the "vast majority" of Ukraine's attacks on Crimea.In a video statement distributed by the FSB on Thursday, a Russian intelligence officer said that the agency "has regularly received information about the participation of Western intelligence services, primarily British, in the training of Ukrainian special forces.""We have established the supervisory role of British special forces in the vast majority of...