There are 650 MPs in parliament. Each one has a personal mandate to represent their constituency and is under a heavy whip from their party leaders. But only a few tens of thousands of people will actually vote for each MP by name. In the upcoming elections across Britain on 6 May, voters will directly
Month: March 2021
The Ever Given, a more than 200,000 ton container ship, is stuck in the Suez Canal, halting traffic in one of the world’s key waterways. Authorities worked all Wednesday to dislodge the cargo carrier, but it remains firmly stuck as ship traffic piles up on either side of the canal. Ever Given towers over machinery
Boris Johnson is facing a Tory rebellion on lockdown rules in the Commons, 24 hours after telling drinkers they may need a COVID vaccine or negative test to go to the pub. MPs are due to vote on extending emergency COVID legislation for six months until 25 September and current lockdown rules into July, but
This is the story about mistrust, anger, blame and death. It’s about a relationship that started with high hopes and has now collapsed into acrimony and mistrust. It’s the story of Europe’s vaccine rollout, but it may not be the story that you think it is. Because this isn’t really about the EU going toe-to-toe
A senior state official has become the first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the US Senate. Rachel Levine, the former Pennsylvania Health Secretary, has been approved as the Biden administration’s assistant secretary of health. The vote on Wednesday went 52-48 in her favour, as two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan
NHS staff in Scotland are being offered a pay rise of at least 4%, the Scottish government has said. It said the increase would benefit 154,000 NHS Agenda for Change employees – including nurses, paramedics, allied health professionals, as well as domestic, healthcare support staff, porters and other frontline health workers. The move is in
Meeting Los Angeles’ ambitious goal of reliable, 100% renewable electricity by 2045 — or even 2035 — is achievable with rapid deployment of wind, solar, storage, and other renewable energy technologies this decade, according to a years-long analysis by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The combined effects of energy efficiency,
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7:26 PM ET Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — Ryan Blaney became the sixth driver to win in six races to start NASCAR’s Cup season, surging to the front with nine laps to go after Kyle Larson‘s dominant performance at Atlanta Motor Speedway fell apart on a fading set of tires Sunday. Larson easily won the
The New York Stock Exchange welcomes DigitalOcean, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), today, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in celebration of its Initial Public Offering. To honor the occasion, CEO, Yancey Spruill, joined by John Tuttle, NYSE Vice Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer, rings The Opening Bell®. NYSE Small-scale cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean debuted on the New York
7:00 AM ET Who will be the best player of the 2021 MLB season? With Opening Day nearly upon us, it’s time to break down how baseball’s elite stack up. To create our annual MLB Rank list of the top 100 players in the sport, we presented our panel of ESPN baseball experts with multiple
For most theatres, their auditoriums have not seen an audience since March 2020. Online shows, such as Rent, A Christmas Carol and Mischief Movie Night, have brought delight to theatre fans during the lockdown, showing off the diversity of the sector as it attempted to navigate the pandemic. And while online performances have kept us
Boris Johnson has hit back at EU plans for further vaccine export controls as he said companies may reconsider investing in nations that impose trade blockades. The prime minister told the cross-party Liaison Committee he does not think blockades of “either vaccines or of medicines or ingredients for vaccines are sensible”. And in a further
AstraZeneca has hit back after claims of a stockpile of 29 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine at a factory near Rome, saying the jabs are for the EU and developing countries. It follows an inspection of the Catalent plant in Anagni over the weekend by Italian authorities at the request of the European Commission.
The cast of the Glee will reunite next month, six years after its final episode aired. They will pay tribute to Naya Rivera, who played Santana Lopez on the Fox show, who drowned last year while on a boat trip with her son. The reunion will include stars such as Matthew Morrison, who played teacher
Johnny Depp has been refused permission to appeal a High Court ruling that he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard and made her fear for her life. In November, three months after the end of a high-profile trial, the judge rejected Depp‘s claim that The Sun newspaper had libelled the actor in a 2018 article calling
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