Former Post Office boss says subpostmasters inquiry should have statutory powers
Paula Vennells, who ran the Post Office during the scandal, said she welcomes calls for witnesses to be compelled to ...
Tag: UK
Sturgeon says new vote is ‘will of the country’ after Scotland elects pro-independence majority
Another referendum is the “will of the country” first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said after Scotland elected a majority of ...
Sturgeon meets voters at polling station and supports former refugee candidate
The SNP leader and Glasgow regional list candidate Roza Salih met three Syrian Scots at Annette Street Primary School polling ...
E.On pays £650,000 after leaving 1.6m customers out of pocket on Christmas Day
The energy supplier told industry regulator Ofgem it had charged customers early and refunded most of them within days.
PM will still visit India despite concerns over rising cases and new variant
Boris Johnson’s visit to India will still go ahead despite soaring coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and fears over a variant first ...
The UK is deeply entangled in the escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine
The UK is deeply entangled in increased border tensions between Ukraine and Russia with UK plans to build warships for ...
Covid-19 case rates for UK nations ‘levelling off’ at six-month low
Covid-19 case rates for each of the four UK nations have dropped to a six-month low, but continue to show ...
The Tories want to bury their failures under a mountain of Union Jacks
It's flags, flags, and more flags. And when it isn't flags, it's Winston Churchill's fairy tale greatness. In its latest ...
On World Poetry Day, people celebrated ‘all incredible poets worldwide’
On 21 March, people marked #WorldPoetryDay, first embraced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1999. ...
Campaigner Maia Thomas is taking the initiative to reduce food poverty in Devon
March is being commemorated as Women’s History Month, and The Canary has featured the important work of Black women such ...
Meet Wawa Gatheru, the climate activist creating spaces for Black women
Wanjiku Gatheru, who goes by the name ‘Wawa’, is an environmental justice trailblazer. After founding the grassroots platform Black Girl ...
UK abortion services amounted to ‘torture’ and ‘breached human rights’
As part of the #OurLivesOurStories series, The Canary has spoken to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) after it launched ...
In conversation with Rianna Patterson about dementia and her new documentary
Dementia UK defines dementia as "an umbrella term for a range of progressive conditions that affect the brain". According to ...
Politicians and religious groups are fuelling homophobic attacks on Ghana’s LGBTQI+ community
On 24 February, National Security raided the offices of LGBT+ Rights Ghana. It came not long after the organisation opened a ...
LGBT+ History Month: 36 brilliant resources for Queer Black, Asian, Ethnic Minority and POC
LGBT+ History Month takes place between the 1-28 February in the UK and is celebrated annually. Its purpose is to ...
The UK government’s Kickstart Scheme is more like another kick in the teeth
In July 2020, the UK government announced a £2bn investment in an employment scheme to support 16 to 24-year-olds on ...
UK’s handling of pandemic labelled ‘system failure’ by public health expert
There was a “system failure” in the UK’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a public health expert has said. Professor ...
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