Browsing: The Times

The Times says Lady Kitty Spencer, whose aunt was Diana, Princess of Wales, has married a fashion tycoon at a ceremony in Italy.

The Times says you could have set your alarm clock by it. At 3.12am UK time, Adam Peaty won Great Britain’s first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

The UK is seeing a fall in COVID cases outside of lockdown for the first time since the pandemic began, the Times reports.

The Times says the number of people infected with Covid has dropped for a fourth day, raising hopes that the pandemic may be levelling off.

The Times says Britain could experience its first 40C day within ten years as intense heatwaves become more frequent, scientists have warned.

The Times says Andy Murray’s defence of his Olympic title ended in crushing anti-climax today as he pulled out of the men’s singles with a thigh injury.

The Times says the mental health start-up employing Prince Harry is to open a London office and hire 75 staff

The Times says football fans could be banned from attending games unless they have been double-vaccinated

The Sunday Times says private schools have been accused of using COVID A-level disruption to “play the system”

The Times says Boris Johnson held a rousing zoom call with four members of the British Olympic team yesterday, wishing them luck for the Games.

The Times says Italy has followed France to impose compulsory vaccination as a condition for access to public spaces and events

The Times says six women have been expelled from a municipal swimming pool in Grenoble and fined for wearing “burkini” full-body bathing suits in a protest against anti-Muslim discrimination.

The Times says the Taliban have massed on the outskirts of Kandahar in preparation for an all-out assault to recapture a city that was once the movement’s capital and spiritual home.

The Times says the White House and senior US health officials are debating whether to urge a return to masks, including for fully vaccinated Americans to combat Delta variant surge

The Times says workers in 2,000 warehouses and supermarket distribution centres who are identified as contacts of people with Covid will be covered by the testing scheme

The Times says hot summer sunshine has been in abundance over the past week or so as high pressure has parked itself across northern France and Britain

The Times says a policeman who challenged ticketless fans during the Euro 2020 final at Wembley has accused senior officers of a reluctance to use force because of concerns over “brand image”

The Times says Britain and the European Union are at loggerheads over government demands to rewrite the Brexit deal for Northern Ireland and strip EU courts of their right to police the agreement.

The Times says a 3 per cent pay rise for NHS staff is likely to be funded from an increase in national insurance that was intended to pay for overhauling social care

The Times says the director of the opening ceremony of the Olympics was fired today over a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998.

The Times reports that ministers have confirmed supermarket workers are unlikely to be granted an exemption from isolation, as fears grow over pingdemic

The Times says the deputy head of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the Olympics as more athletes tested positive for Covid-19

The Times says street harassment such as wolf-whistling could become a specific crime under government plans to protect women and girls.

The Times says most young people support compulsory vaccinations to enter nightclubs, polling suggested yesterday, despite staunch opposition from Tory MPs

The Times says Dominic Cummings has revealed that he held talks about ousting Boris Johnson within weeks of his landslide victory in the 2019 general election