It’s very name conjures images of warmth, and now Sunbury-on-Thames has been named as a property hotspot. According to listings website Rightmove, the Surrey town recorded the biggest rise in asking prices in Great Britain last year, registering a 12.5% leap in the average, from £527,005 to £592,976. The town has long been popular with…
Russia planned to conduct “acts of terrorism in the air”, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday, by plotting a wave of fire bomb attacks that could have brought down planes mid-flight around the world. Warsaw had been involved in countering “acts of sabotage” conducted by Russia, Tusk added, before he referred to incendiary…
NSW premier addressing media on rail disruptions, negotiations with union The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, is addressing the media amid the train disruptions across the state. He said nearly 2,000 services were cancelled across the network yesterday, and today more than 1,000 were expected to be cancelled: Now you think about the economic…
Polls have opened in Vanuatu , a Pacific nation grappling with political instability and the logistics of holding a snap election in the aftermath of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that killed at least 14 people and displaced thousands. As downtown Port Vila remained shuttered, with multiple buildings earmarked for demolition, some residents lined up in tents…
Streeting tells MPs he does not want ‘corridor care’ in hospitals to be normalised Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has told MPs that he does not want “corridor care” – patients being treated in corridors because beds are not available in wards – to be normalised. In a Commons statement, he said he wanted to…
The Italian government is seeking to clamp down on fake and paid-for online reviews in an effort to protect the country’s hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions from misleading and damaging content. Under a draft law announced this week, which still needs to be approved in parliament, anyone wanting to write an online review would be…
The chaos across Sydney’s train network caused by industrial action on Wednesday is expected to worsen on Thursday, as a standoff over a new pay deal between rail unions and the New South Wales government drags on. Trains on some lines were delayed by up to five hours on Wednesday, with rail authorities warning more…
US companies ship more than 1m tons of hazardous waste to other countries each year, raising questions over possible impacts on health and the environment, an investigation by the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab has found. Exports of toxic waste, most of which is shipped to Mexico and Canada, have climbed 17% since 2018, US…