Author: James Martin

Cressida Dick has won a victory after the government agreed to a review of how she came to leave office after a clash with the London mayor, Sadiq Khan.The Home Office is expected to announce it will ask Sir Tom Winsor to examine how Dick came to be ousted as commissioner of the Metropolitan police last month, a government source confirmed.Dick resigned rather than go to a meeting with Khan about the scandals plaguing the Met and attempts to rebuild public confidence. She believed her plans for reforms were good enough, but he did not.The government did not step in…

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was stabbed to death while her children were at school.The victim of the attack in Bethnal Green, east London, has been named as 40-year-old Yasmin Begum, who was from the area. The Metropolitan police said a 40-year-old suspect was detained on Sunday in Stratford and remains in police custody.A postmortem examination carried out on Saturday established the cause of death as multiple sharp force injuries, police said.Officers were called to Globe Road shortly after 4pm on Thursday after school staff raised the alarm when Begum did not arrive…

Property developers in New South Wales are fighting against the introduction of a wide-ranging planning policy aimed at ensuring houses are more energy-efficient and climate-resilient, which one environment group described as “everything you could ever dream about”.Public comment closed last month on the draft Design and Place state environmental planning policy, hailed late last year by the then planning minister Rob Stokes as “NSW’s first comprehensive design policy”. It would offer “an important opportunity to reshape the look and feel of the places we live in”.The policy included pushing for new commercial buildings to be net-zero carbon emissions from “day…

12.49pm EDT 12:49 Max Verstappen is keen to get going: “I’m looking forward to it, we have good top speed, [Ferrari] have good cornering. Let’s see which works best.” The drivers are at the front of the grid for the Saudi national anthem. 12.45pm EDT 12:45 “Question,” writes Kurt Perleberg. “What is porpoising?” Well indeed. I can report that it’s an aerodynamic phenomenon, a bouncing induced by a break in downforce on straights. It has affected all teams going into the new season, with the all-new regulations, but Mercedes seem to have struggled by far the most (though Carlos Sainz…

Kate Middleton dazzles in yellow during Caribbean tourKate Middleton and Prince William’s Royal Tour of the Caribbean came to a close last night with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arriving back in the UK earlier today. During her time in Belize, Jamaica and The Bahamas, Kate wore an array of outfits – a mixture of designer labels and high street brands. In total, Kate’s outfits for the week-long tour are said to cost around £35,000. Here’s everything the Duchess wore and how much each item cost.  Kate Middleton’s Caribbean wardrobe cost an incredible £35,000 ‘Always looked beautiful!’ (Image: GETTY)Day…

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has sought to reassure Israel and its Gulf allies that Iran will never acquire atomic weapons, ahead of the possible renewal of the nuclear deal with Tehran.“When it comes to the most important element, we see eye to eye,” Blinken said at a news conference on Sunday with Israel’s foreign minister, Yair Lapid. “We are both committed, both determined, that Iran will never acquire a nuclear weapon.”Blinken’s comments came before a meeting with four Arab foreign ministers at an extraordinary summit hosted by Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett – an event that in…

If there is one thing not unfamiliar to Peter van der Veen, it’s the prospect of hard work and long hours. The new Hull City assistant head coach has only been at the MKM Stadium since mid-January when he came in to join Shota Arveladze’s coaching staff but is already making his presence felt within the dressing room. Van der Veen’s back story, however, is something rather unique and it involves the former Netherland’s Under-20s boss running his own gardening company in a bid to make ends meet, and ensure his love of working outside was able to continue. Having…

Unfortunately, it isn’t always so easy. Prolonged screen time disrupts sleep and gives us a big hit of dopamine, often called the “feel-good” neurotransmitter — so much of it that if you go overboard, your body could compensate by making less of your own. Scrolling through social media can add the harmful impacts of comparison, unrealistic standards and the spread of misinformation, said Wendy Rice, a psychologist based in Tampa, Florida.”Any time you bring groups of people together, there’s opportunities for people to directly harm each other’s mental health by how they treat each other, for people to compare themselves…

Donald Trump chose a rally in Georgia on Saturday night once again to praise Vladimir Putin, calling the Russian president “smart” even as he said the invasion of Ukraine amounted to a “big mistake”.The Republican former president also had warm words for China’s president Xi Jinping and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and referred to such leaders collectively by saying: “The smartest one gets to the top.”He spoke admiringly of Xi in terms of the fact that he “runs 1.5 billion people with an iron fist” and referred to Kim as “tough”.Then of Putin, Trump told the crowd: “They asked…

All the latest from the Grenada National Cricket StadiumEngland’s big reset is undermined by Root’s third-class captaincyEmail simon.burnton@theguardian.com | Tweet @Simon_Burnton58th over: England 114-8 (Woakes 18, Leach 3) Another maiden over, this from Mayers. Some early leaders have emerged in my completely unscientific captaincy micro-poll: Continue reading… Source link