Climate secretary Ed Miliband warns against listening to ’siren voices’, in an interview with the ObserverThe climate secretary, Ed Miliband, last night warned of the danger of a public backlash against the science of global warming in the face of continuing claims that experts have manipulated data.In an exclusive interview with the Observer, Miliband spoke [...]
Use of gagging order will reignite debate on use of human rights legislation to stifle reporting in wake of Trafigura affairEngland captain John Terry emerged as the footballer who had obtained a gagging order preventing the publication of claims about his private life, after the high court overturned a superinjunction yesterday.Lawyers for Terry won a [...]
Insurer launches direct web sales in the hope of attracting the safest driversAxa has become the latest insurance company to launch a website selling direct to customers. And it is hoping to entice the safest drivers with the promise of a maximum 90% no-claims discount which, it claims, is the highest in the market.It has [...]
Sceptics to swallow whole bottles of pills outside Boots stores to try to show remedies are ineffectiveHundreds of sceptics will stage a “mass overdose” outside Boots stores around Britain tomorrow to protest against the chain’s continuing sale of homeopathic remedies and to argue that such treatments have no scientific basis.The event ‑ called 10:23 ‑ [...]
World number one Roger Federer claims Britain’s Andy Murray will be under “big pressure” in Sunday’s Australian Open final.
• Standards authority will set salaries to depoliticise the issue• Bill could also ban non-doms from sitting as MPs or peersMPs could get retrospective pay rises under government plans set out today to reform how politicians’ salaries are set in the wake of the expenses scandal.They would lose the power to vote on their own [...]
A Metropolitan Police commander says claims he challenged a man to fight in the street are “complete nonsense”, a court hears.
Radio presenter claims Ofcom breached right to free speech by upholding complaints about on-air commentsRadio presenter Jon Gaunt is taking on media regulator Ofcom at the high court today as he begins his legal battle over his dismissal from TalkSport for accusing a local councillor live on air of being a “health Nazi”.Gaunt, who now [...]
Thousands of people who survive cancer in Wales are having their health needs ignored, claims a leading charity.
At least 10,000 lives a year should be saved by screening all hospital patients to prevent potentially fatal blood clots, an NHS advisory body recommends today.The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) is introducing guidelines to ensure those at risk are provided with blood-thinning drugs, compression stockings, or foot pumps to keep their [...]