Labour is heading for a crushing defeat in Wales after suffering disastrous local election results in England overnight. The party has been the largest at country-wide elections in Wales for more than a century and had won the most seats in the Welsh Parliament since its creation more than two decades ago. But after Wales went to the polls on Thursday, Labour is bracing itself for a brutal set of results in its former heartlands, […]
Counting is under way in the Scottish Parliament election after voters went to the polls on Thursday. Results will start coming through from declaration centres across the country from about lunchtime on Friday – with John Swinney’s SNP hoping for a record-breaking fifth consecutive win. Scottish Labour will be hoping they can buck the trend which has seen the party lose hundreds of council seats in local government elections in England. The Senedd election in […]
Baroness Eluned Morgan, the First Minister of Wales, has lost her seat in the Senedd and resigned as Welsh Labour leader in a dire set of elections for the party. Lady Morgan losing her seat marks the first time a sitting Welsh leader has lost an election in the Welsh Parliament, and is one of many results across Britain which will add to growing pressure on Sir Keir Starmer’s Government. Labour has led Wales since […]
Sir Keir Starmer insisted he would not quit despite an electoral mauling in Labour’s heartlands as Nigel Farage’s Reform UK made stunning gains. The Prime Minister said he was hurting from “tough” results which saw Labour lose hundreds of councillors in England and suffer humiliation in Wales. First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan failed to win a seat in the newly-expanded Senedd, with Plaid Cymru and Reform hammering Labour. In Scotland, the SNP looked set to remain the […]
It's interviews galore on this week's epidode of A View from the Wings the Arts & Entertainment podcast produced by Moorlands Radio. Dave and Carol bring you five interviews from the hugely successfull War Child fundraiser which was held at the Artisan Tap on Bank Holiday Monday. Dave speaks to Jo Cox from the Leek Arts Festival and we learn all about Stoke Rep from Director/Operations manager Richard Masters. A few words on Good Golly Miss Molly now that Carol […]
Two people who were on board the cruise ship linked to the hantavirus outbreak are self-isolating after returning to the UK, health officials have said. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said that neither of these people who were on board the MV Hondius are reporting symptoms and that a number of close contacts of those on the boat are also being “offered support and are also self-isolating”. The health authority said that it is also helping to […]
Shell has become the latest oil giant to face criticism over mammoth profits after it revealed a bumper earnings haul thanks to rocketing oil prices caused by the Iran war. The FTSE 100 firm reported underlying earnings of 6.92 billion US dollars (£5.09 billion), more than double the result in the previous three months and 24% higher on a year ago. Most analysts had expected the group to report profits of 6.36 billion US dollars (£4.67 billion). Campaigners […]
A man has been arrested for allegedly threatening Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor near his new home on the Sandringham Estate, Norfolk Police said. The former Duke of York was out walking his dogs when he was confronted by a balaclava-clad man who was sitting in a car on Wednesday evening in Wolferton, close to his Marsh Farm property, The Telegraph reported. The man was said to have spotted the disgraced former prince 50 yards away and then got out of […]
Polls have closed in elections across Scotland, Wales and parts of England that could prove a decisive moment in Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership. Labour is expected to suffer heavy losses throughout the country as the party languishes in the polls and faces challenges from Reform UK to the right and an insurgent Green Party to the left. Polling guru Lord Robert Hayward has suggested Labour could lose some 1,850 councillors in England. The party is […]
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