Questions were tonight being asked about why the UK’s first-ever space launch went ahead despite warnings that the project was not ready, Express.co.uk can exclusively reveal. The botched Virgin Orbit launch at Spaceport Cornwall on January 9 “only had a 50/50 chance of success” and ended up as a multi-million-pound write-off.
One Government source, who attended the launch, feared his life and the lives of 2,000 people watching, could have
“I’m a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).
“Over at least the past 15 years, we have seen a relentless increase in demand, both in primary care and in hospital care.
“This has been absolutely predictable by social statisticians for decades and is based on the fact that our elderly are surviving much longer.
“Our elderly
The Palace fears that ‘next week will be poison’ after the first three episodes of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix series aired yesterday, leaving royals in a state of sadness with its ‘sly and insidious assault’ on Harry’s family, as concerns are raised that the next release will be even more ‘inflammatory’.
Harry and Meghan were accused last night of wanting to ‘bring down the monarchy’ after their Netflix documentary made another excoriating attack on the Royal Family.
“There are lines in the play,” says Tom Stoppard, thinking back to a few years ago, when he was working on “Leopoldstadt,” “that land in a very different way now.” In the time since Stoppard wrote his decades-spanning tragedy about a Viennese Jewish family ultimately doomed by the holocaust — indeed, even since “Leopoldstadt” opened on Broadway in October — antisemitism has again been worming its way out of the margins and into public view. Which means, as Stoppard
GPs seeking to cut their working hours to 9-5 during the worst NHS crisis in history were today labelled ‘insensitive’ by patient groups.
Members of the public also criticised the radical proposal, saying it will make it even harder for patients to get appointments.
One family doctor approaching retirement said he ‘didn’t recognise’ the profession anymore and said GPs should be looking to do ‘more not less’.
The staggering scale of the appointment crisis was laid bare yesterday after worst-performing
Fears have grown for cancer appointments and elderly patients this winter as nurses are set to strike for two days before Christmas in a row over pay.
The Royal College of Nursing announced the first in a series of walk outs over pay will take place on Thursday 15 and Tuesday 20 December.
Nurses have promised to protect emergency and urgent care during the 12-hour strikes.
However, the strikes will still affect around half of hospitals, potentially postponing 30,000 operations
Up to one million NHS workers could walk out over pay conditions this winter, prompting fears that blood tests will be delayed, chemotherapy cancelled and dialysis treatments postponed if strikes go ahead.
Unite has become the seventh union to announce a ballot, meaning that up to two-thirds of service staff could be involved in strike action over the coming months.
Biomedical scientists are being asked to join the walk out, according to The Daily Telegraph, depriving hospitals of staff members
There are serious concerns Vladimir Putin will make a ‘nuclear show of force’ after Defence Secretary Ben Wallace flew to Washington yesterday for emergency talks with the Pentagon.
A third of Ukraine was left without power as the new head of Russia’s armed forces Sergei Suvorikin, nicknamed ‘General Armageddon’, launched a series of missile and drone strikes.
At least three residents were killed and now 1,162 towns or villages across 16 Ukrainian regions are without power as the general, who
Rich staycation tourists are threatening to transform Britain’s seaside communities into ‘ghost towns’ amid a huge boom in the number of Airbnb holiday homes now dominating coastal beauty spots in England and Wales.
New figures have shown the number of ‘entire places’ for rent in seaside towns has swelled by 56 per cent between 2019 and 2022, compared to 15 per cent in non-coastal communities.
The volume of demand for Airbnb listings per property is three times higher in coastal
Huge leaks in the two largest gas pipelines linking Russia to Europe are spewing out vast quantities of natural gas – at an estimated rate of 500 metric tons per hour when first breached.
As well as the potentially devastating implications for global energy supply, the leaks could also have an ‘unprecedented’ environmental impact, experts have warned.
Gas has been spewing from both Nord Stream 1 and 2 since Monday, after three leaks mysteriously appeared in the system.
One has
