Ministers have been told that a plan to ban the sale of disposable vapes by next summer could lead to some users “reverting or relapsing” back to cigarette smoking. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said vape usage in England had grown by more than 400% between 2012 and 2023, with 9.1%…
Police dismissed a teenage girl who reported an alleged sexual assault by Mohamed Al Fayed in 1995, saying they would add her name to a pile of similar claims. Last month the Metropolitan police said the first report of sexual assault by the Harrods owner had been made in 2005. After the family of Samantha-Jane…
Members of the RMT union at London Underground have called off plans to strike over the coming week, as transport officials urged tube train drivers to follow suit. The RMT said it had suspended its planned week-long action, which had been due to begin on Friday evening, after receiving a significantly improved pay offer from…
On 21 July, Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris. This historic move changed the landscape of the election and how many felt about the race. The Guardian US is averaging national and state polls to see how the two candidates are faring. We update our averages once a week,…
The US added just 12,000 jobs in October, the last snapshot of the employment market before election day, in a report heavily impacted by the strike at Boeing and two recent hurricanes. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1%. Temporary impacts from Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton and the ongoing strike by 33,000 Boeing workers in…
Residents in Spain’s Valencia region have been warned to brace for more rain, days after rivers of mud-coloured waters left a trail of devastation and as an additional 500 soldiers were earmarked to help with the rescue operations. On Friday, the state weather agency AEMET said that four regions, including Valencia, remained under amber alert…
The chief secretary to the Treasury has claimed the UK is still suffering from the trauma of Liz Truss’s economic mismanagement amid market jitters after this week’s budget. Darren Jones insisted “we are in a very different world” from the market panic that followed Truss’s mini-budget two years ago, despite a slight rise in government…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Stock markets across Europe have gained ground. The FTSE 100 in London is up by 0.4%. Here are the opening snaps from across the rest of Europe: EUROPE’S STOXX 600 UP 0.1% GERMANY’S DAX FLAT FRANCE’S CAC 40 UP 0.2%; SPAIN’S…
William Morris famously implored us to avoid filling our homes with items that “you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”. But now the William Morris Gallery – housed in the 19th-century writer and artist’s former home – is appealing to the public to send them all manner of artefacts adorned…
New South Wales police are investigating whether engine failure led to a police car’s air conditioning failing and the subsequent death of two police dogs inside a special “dog pod”. The German shepherds Xtra and Soldier were found dead inside the police vehicle by their handler on Thursday at about 12.30pm. The dogs had been…
