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A worker who triggered a factory evacuation after allegedly vaping in the toilets has been awarded more than £22,000.Luke Billing set off a fire alarm at a Nestle plant in Tutbury, Staffordshire, on October 11, 2023 – forcing a full evacuation and halting production. He will receive £22,216.72 after an employment tribunal in Nottingham ruled the company had no right to dismiss him.Mr Billing had worked at the factory for more than a decade. When first confronted with CCTV footage showing him entering the bathroom, he denied vaping.He continued to deny it before later admitting at a disciplinary hearing that…

More than 1,000 medical professionals have urged peers to reject plans that would allow abortion up to the point of birth.In a letter to the House of Lords, 1,015 senior obstetricians, gynaecologists, midwives and medical professors raised “grave concerns” about proposals to decriminalise abortion throughout pregnancy.Peers are set to vote on the issue on Wednesday as the Crime and Policing Bill reaches report stage.The controversial measure was introduced last year by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi as a surprise amendment to the Government’s legislation.MPs debated the proposal for just 46 minutes before approving it by 379 votes to 137.The medical professionals…

A cafe located in one of London’s most prestigious addresses has been caught in a cost of living crisis row after charging customers £1.50 for only a half-dozen blueberries to go alongside their morning porridge.Coffee shop Blend, which has a store situated within the 62-storey 22 Bishopsgate tower in the City of London, offers the tiny 20g pot of fruit as an optional topping.At that rate, someone purchasing a kilogram of blueberries from the cafe would end up paying a staggering £75. By comparison, a nearby Tesco Express sells a 150g punnet of blueberries for just £2.20, The Sun reports.As…

Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior says his players have “had no break” but insists that isn’t an excuse as his side were knocked out of the Champions League by Paris Saint-Germain, with the defending champions winning the second leg of their last 16 tie 3-0 at Stamford Bridge, going through 8-2 on aggregate. MATCH REPORT: Chelsea 0-3 PSG (2-8 Agg)Available to UK users only.

The meningitis outbreak that killed two people in Kent has now been declared a national incident.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and NHS declared the emergency due to its severity.A case was reported in London on Tuesday, marking the first confirmed outside of Kent, where the outbreak originated.The “unprecedented explosion,” health chiefs said, is the worst outbreak of meningitis they have seen in the UK.UKHSA chief executive Susan Hopkins said: “This looks like a super-spreader event, with ongoing spread within the halls of residents in the universities.”There will have been some parties particularly around this, so there will have been…

Pensioners could be in line for a boost of approximately £400 to their state pension payments next year should ongoing conflict in the Middle East continue.Under the triple lock guarantee, the state pension increases each April by whichever is greatest: the previous September’s inflation rate, wage growth from May to July, or 2.5 per cent.Inflation may hold at around three per cent by year’s end if oil and gas prices remain high due to the war in Iran, the Office for Budget Responsibility has indicated.Forecasters at Pantheon Macroeconomics predict inflation could reach 3.1 per cent by September, which would take…

Those experiments seek to answer some of the biggest questions in science. These include learning how the Universe began and how it will end, finding the first ever signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars, detecting black holes that ripple space time, mapping newborn planets around distant stars and analysing their atmospheres for signs of life. All of these are experiments in which, historically, the UK played a leading role. But now, British scientists could be largely locked out of them in the future, if the STFC does not pay its way.

Pep Guardiola is one of the greatest managers of all time.The Spaniard has won 12 domestic league titles during his tenures at Barcelona, Bayern Munich and then Manchester City, along with an abundance of domestic trophies and individual accolades.In the Champions League, his three titles – two with Barca and one with City – put him among the greats with only five-time winner Carlo Ancelotti having won more.But a 5-1 aggregate defeat by Real Madrid in the last 16 represents another missed opportunity and leaves many wondering what might have been.In the 15 years since lifting the Champions League trophy…

Following one of the most emotionally charged issues facing parliamentarians in the history of Scotland’s devolved parliament, MSPs have rejected “the toughest and most comprehensively safeguarded assisted dying bill in the world”.Tonight’s vote marks the third time a Scottish assisted dying bill has failed in 16 years.The rare free vote spurred internal division across all parties sitting in Holyrood, ultimately coming together to decree the bill’s rejection with 57 votes in support and 69 against, with one abstention.The 10pm vote is the third time the Scottish Parliament has attempted to legislate for assisted dying north of the Border, with supporters…

Angela Rayner has issued her most forceful challenge yet to Sir Keir Starmer, warning Labour is “running out of time” to change course.The former Deputy Prime Minister urged the party leadership to shift direction or risk an electoral wipeout. Speaking on Tuesday evening, Ms Rayner accused Labour of becoming “the establishment” since coming to power.”As a party and a movement, we cannot hide. We cannot just go through the motions in the face of decline,” she told activists..”There’s no safe ground for us, and we’re running out of time. The change that people wanted to so desperately to see needs…