Browsing: The Guardian

The Guardian says Sinn Féin has welcomed a demand by the British government for progress on the introduction of abortion services in Northern Ireland, as the party denounced Democratic Unionist opposition to the provisions as “shameful and disgraceful”.

The Guardian says Pope Francis has urged world leaders to take “radical decisions” at next week’s global environmental summit in a special message recorded for BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day.

The Guardian says a few days after successfully navigating tension, frustration and inexperience to secure her first ever WTA win, Emma Raducanu returned to the BT Arena far more relaxed and at ease.

The Guardian says E-cigarettes may soon be prescribed on the NHS to help smokers quit under radical plans by ministers to slash smoking rates in England.

The Guardian leads on the plan to scrap the public sector pay freeze which it says comes “amid cost of living crisis”.

The Guardian says Rishi Sunak will end the public sector pay freeze for millions of workers and increase the national minimum wage in the budget on Wednesday.

The Guardian says Joanna Lumley has suggested that a system of rationing similar to that seen during wartime, under which people would have a limited number of points to spend on holidays or lavish consumer goods, could eventually help to tackle the climate crisis.

The Guardian says the Metropolitan police failed the family of two black sisters who went missing and were later found murdered.

The Guardian says Labour has accused Mr Sunak of presiding over a “smoke and mirrors” Budget.

The Guardian says Boris Johnson has admitted Britain could fail to broker adequate enough deals to curb irreversible and devastating climate change at the global summit of world leaders beginning in Scotland later this month.