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NHS in ‘last-chance saloon’, says former health secretary Alan Milburn

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November 2024

Milburn set to take senior health department role and says crisis is ‘million times worse’ than when he was in office

The NHS is “drinking in the last-chance saloon” and needs to change, the former health secretary Alan Milburn has said as he prepares to take up a senior role in the Department of Health.

Milburn, who brought about radical changes, such as the introduction of NHS foundation trusts, when he was a minister for Tony Blair, called for “cultural change” in the health service and said “big reforms will be needed to make it fit for the future”.

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Woman who fell to her death from Hackney council flat ‘was trying to fix drainpipe’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November 2024

Coroner’s report finds Sarah McGreevy died after climbing on box on sixth floor balcony to unblock pipe repaired with tape

A woman who accidentally fell to her death from the sixth floor balcony of a Hackney council block was trying to fix a blocked drainpipe that had been repaired using “heavy duty tape”, a coroner has found.

Sarah McGreevy, 37, died on 16 June after climbing on to a wooden box on the balcony to manually unblock the pipe, a common practice among residents of the fifth and sixth floors of the building after heavy rainfall, according to the coroner’s report.

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Doubledecker bus collision in Manchester leaves 17 injured

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November 2024

Two buses crash on Rochdale Road with people taken to hospitals across region although none seriously hurt

A crash between two doubledecker buses in Manchester has left 17 people needing hospital treatment.

The buses collided on Rochdale Road at 8.34am on Saturday.

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Boost UK defence spending to win Trump’s support, former navy chief urges Starmer

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November 2024

Lord West says Republican victory is chance to show Britain is willing to prioritise military by allocating 3% of GDP

Keir Starmer is being urged to consider an emergency cash injection into defence and to accelerate Britain’s planned review of its military capabilities before Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Senior defence figures are now assessing how Trump’s victory will shape a strategic defence review (SDR) that was already under way in Whitehall, whose findings are due to be reported in the spring. The SDR comes alongside a crucial review of public spending.

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Queen Camilla to miss remembrance events due to chest infection, says palace

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November 2024

Doctors advise queen not to attend Remembrance Day events to ensure full recovery from seasonal infection

Queen Camilla will not attend Remembrance Day events this weekend as she recovers from a chest infection, Buckingham Palace has said.

Camilla was due to attend the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening, and to honour the war dead at the Remembrance Sunday ceremony on Whitehall.

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Global boiling, mass flooding and Trump: 10 big talking points for Cop29

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November 2024

Record carbon emissions, melting ice sheets and the return of the former US president will all be under the spotlight at this week’s climate summit

It has been a remarkable year for meteorological mayhem with intense heatwaves and storms of extreme intensity battering many parts of our planet. Last month these culminated in the devastating floods that struck eastern Spain and killed hundreds.

Ahead of this week’s Cop29 summit, scientists believe disasters like these are becoming more frequent because major changes in our climate are occurring as emissions from the burning of fossil fuel continue to rise.

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Mark Cavendish confirms that Sunday will be ‘final race of my cycling career’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November 2024

Briton’s last race is Tour de France Criterium in Singapore
‘I have achieved everything that I can on the bike’

Mark Cavendish has confirmed that he will retire on Sunday, ending a glittering career that saw him break the all-time record for most stage wins at the Tour de France and win four world titles on the track and road.

Cavendish announced his decision with a post on his Instagram feed, which showed his greatest victories before ending with a simple message: “My racing career … completed it.”

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How Elon Musk became Donald Trump’s shadow vice-president

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November 2024

The world’s richest man has risen to become the second most powerful man in US politics. None of it was accidental

As Donald Trump watched election results roll in from a party at his Mar-a-Lago compound, Elon Musk sat arm’s length away, basking in the impending victory he had helped secure. In less than five months, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had gone from not endorsing a candidate to becoming a fixture of the president-elect’s inner circle .

“The future is gonna be so ,” Musk posted to his social media platform, X, just after midnight, along with a photo of himself leaning over to talk with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago dinner.

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In no great rush to get back to the office? UK home workers may not have a choice

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November 2024

Supermarket chain Asda has joined the growing number of firms demanding staff return to the workplace. Does this signal the end for remote working or is it a new battle line?

For anyone who has recently spent their morning commute nestled under a stranger’s armpit, it may come as a surprise to hear that passenger numbers on public transport have not returned to pre-Covid levels.

What Transport for London calls “ridership” has remained stubbornly stuck at about 90% of the levels seen before the pandemic. A similar picture prevails for light rail and tram systems across the rest of England, as a result of fewer people travelling daily to and from their workplaces.