Author: News Desk

Two grieving mums embraced yesterday after a damning report revealed at least 201 babies and nine mothers died needlessly in a maternity unit scandal, reports the Daily Mirror.

Sky News says the UK economy grew at a rate of 1.3% in the last three months of 2021, a faster pace than first thought and bringing GDP to just below pre-pandemic levels.

The Guardian says Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has told the Australian parliament that his country is “undefeatable” against Russia as long as it can count on the support of the global community.

The Metro says the UK economy grew at a faster pace than first thought in the final three months of 2021 despite the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, according to official figures.

The Metro says Trump likened the US to a third world country, claiming that grocery stores do not have bread and other shops are not stocked amid supply chain shortages under his successor Joe Biden.

The Metro says Russian troops withdrawn from the Chernobyl nuclear power site are being rushed across the border to a special medical facility in Belarus with ‘acute radiation sickness’, it has been claimed.

The Metro says winter has reared its head in Britain where some people have woken up to a thick blanket of snow.

The Guardian says New Zealand’s glaciers are becoming “smaller and more skeletal” due to the effects of climate change and scientists predict many could disappear within a decade.

The Guardian says two people were killed after a gunman opened fire in a McDonald’s restaurant in the northern Dutch city of Zwolle, according to police and local media.

The Guardian says UK house prices grew at the fastest annual pace since 2004 in March, continuing the ascent to new record levels – a fifth higher than at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.