Conservative MP Esther McVey has been branded “repugnant” for using a poem about the Holocaust to criticise the government’s proposals for tougher rules on outdoor smoking. The MP for Tatton shared a section of Martin Niemoller’s 1946 poem, “First They Came”, on social media, adding: “Pertinent words re Starmer’s smoking ban.” The Board of Deputies of British Jews called on ...

A government scheme to use vacant military land for new homes was quietly shelved two years ago without a single house being built. The plan was meant to deliver up to 10,000 new homes, but came to an end after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) withdrew most of the chosen sites from the programme. Earlier this year the MoD identified ...

A man caught upskirting a woman at the British Museum by an off-duty police officer has been jailed for four months. Jake Verano Gomez, 33, was seen by the City of London officer, who was on his day off, secretly recording a woman on Aug 19. The officer detained the man with the help of museum staff and security before ...

Full-time workers’ rights to ask for a four-day working week could be strengthened under government plans to increase flexible working. Employees would still have to work their full hours to receive their full pay but could request to compress their contracted hours into a shorter working week, as first reported by the Daily Telegraph. Since April, workers have already had ...

Wales’ national teams will wear differing kits next season for the first time following consultation with the women’s squad over period anxiety. Captain Hannah Jones’ side will wear the traditional red shirt but with red shorts and white socks, while the men will wear red shirts, white shorts and red socks. Wales have also opted to return to a white ...

The mother of a teenage girl who died of an allergic reaction after drinking a Costa hot chocolate has told the BBC she lies awake at night thinking about whether she could have prevented her death. Hannah Jacobs, 13, had a severe dairy allergy and died within hours of taking a sip of the drink on 8 February last year. ...

For the second summer running, women with places to go and bling on all their fingers have heralded the sunshine with fizzing orange manicures: Aperol spritz nails. “It is refreshing and puts you in a good mood,” wrote one journalist after the actor Zendaya posted an apricot-tipped selfie last year, listing the many ways (ombré, glowing, pastel, arty, French, jelly, ...

Israel has agreed to a series of three-day “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow health officials to administer polio vaccinations to children in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday. “The way we discussed and agreed, the campaign will start on the first of September, in central Gaza, for three days, and there will be a humanitarian pause during ...

Bangladesh is showing an upward trend again in remittance sent by expatriates which exceeded $2 billion in 28 days of August. According to Bangladesh Bank’s updated report on remittance as of August 28, expatriate Bangladeshis sent $2.07 billion to the country through the formal channel. In the same period of August 2023, remittance inflow was $1.43 billion, reports UNB. Bangladesh ...

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has asked all banks to freeze accounts of former chief justice Obaidul Hassan and attorney general AM Amin Uddin. The anti-money laundering agency also ordered banks to block all accounts belonging to Obaidul Hassan’s wife Nafisa Banu, and Amin Uddin’s wife Afsari Khanam. BFIU, an investigation wing of the central bank, sent letters to banks ...