Month: July 2021

The Metro says “thousands” of people have ditched the NHS Covid app after more than half a million isolation alerts were sent to people in England and Wales in a single week.

Lebanon’s PM-designate Saad Hariri has stepped down after nine months in the job, citing “key differences” with the president, leaving the cash-strapped country leaderless.

ASOS has seen sales continue to soar despite the reopening of high street shops, per the firm’s latest market update. 

An investigation into a leak of CCTV footage of Matt Hancock kissing his aide has led to two homes being raided and computers being seized.

Instagram has admitted a mistake in its technology meant the racist comments and emojis sent to England players, were not removed.

Levelling up: More powers for local leaders: Boris Johnson has set out the “skeleton” of a plan to “level up” the country, by spreading power and opportunity more evenly.

The Guardian says Boris Johnson will attempt to reassure Tory MPs in south-east England that his flagship “levelling up” policy does not involve directly favouring the party’s new power base.

The Independent says levelling up is one of the most familiar of the government’s slogans, but nowhere is it precisely defined. Is Boris Johnson’s promise achievable?

The Times says Britain is firing on only “one cylinder”, Boris Johnson said today as he called for a national effort to improve the economic performance of the North and Midlands.

The Times says Britney Spears won the right last night to choose her own lawyer to help to end the 13-year-long conservatorship that controls her personal and business affairs.