Author: News Desk

The Independent – UK fell short as climate leader, says top adviser Summary of the front page The Independent says Britain’s year of global climate leadership has fallen short on multiple fronts, the government’s top adviser has warned, just as the UK’s Cop presidency comes to an end. At the Cop26 summit in Glasgow last year, Boris Johnson urged countries to “pull out all the stops” to limit global heating, arguing that commitments made at the summit would be “100 per cent useless if promises are not followed up with action”. The front page features a large image of mourners lighting…

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Court heard how Harry Armstrong Evans told tutor and welfare team he was struggling after ‘disastrous’ exam results A coroner has strongly criticised the University of Exeter over the suicide of a 21-year-old student, claiming it had failed to respond effectively to his “cry for help” after a “disastrous” set of exam results and in light of his despair over being isolated during Covid. Guy Davies, the assistant coroner for Cornwall, said Harry Armstrong Evans’ death had been due to a “mental health crisis” and was preceded by a “catalogue of missed opportunities coupled with systems failings” that meant the…

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The Guardian – Ministers accused of wild west attitude to UK’s national security Summary of the front page The Guardian warns of a so-called “Wild West” attitude to national security following news of a breach of personal email rules by the Home Secretary – and revelations Liz Truss’s mobile was hacked by “overseas agents” while she was Foreign Secretary. The paper’s main image is of a man paying tribute at a memorial in Itaewon to those who were killed in a crush there over the weekend. The paper also reports a new round of cuts at the BBC could drastically reduce…

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