The ancient Romans considered Chester as strategically important as London. This week, it is arguably just as central to Labour and the Conservatives. People in this affluent northern city will vote in the first Westminster by-election since Boris Johnson departed, the pound crashed, and Rishi Sunak replaced Liz Truss as prime minister. The contest was triggered
A woman who was abducted when she was a baby has been reunited with her family 51 years later. Melissa Highsmith went missing in 1971 when, at just 22 months old, she was taken by a babysitter from her parents’ Fort Worth, Texas, home. Melissa’s mother Alta Apantenco was working as a waitress and in
Aboard the Lady Diana, a tourist river cruise through Chester, there is little talk of the upcoming by-election: “We don’t do politics here”, captain Paul Blessing tells me, chuckling. But dig a little deeper, and you will find strong views on everything from shops closing to sewage in the River Dee, queues at A&E and
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Prof Michael Clarke analyses the latest situation on the ground in Ukraine, with Russia suffering heavy troop losses in the Donbas region. He explains how the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and three others remain under continued attack and have gone offline from the main electricity grid, now relying on backup generators. The strategy of attacking
Caroline Smith, who works at the Natural History Museum, discusses a new discovery made by a NASA rover that may provide evidence of past life on Mars. #CNN #News
In this article @LCO.1 @CL.1 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tom Kaye of Plymouth, Pennsylvania tops off his neighbor’s gas tank for them on at a gas station in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S. October 19, 2022. Aimee Dilger | Reuters Oil prices are defying expectations and are barely higher on the year, as the outlook
Will Smith said his “deepest hope” is that his infamous Oscars slap does not see the crew behind his new film “penalised” in the upcoming awards season. The Hollywood actor said he understood if people were “not ready” to have him make a comeback at the 2023 awards circuit. During the annual awards show in
EasyJet says it is expecting to build on a strong summer, despite pressures on consumer budgets, after COVID and post-pandemic disruption pushed it to an annual loss. The no-frills carrier reported a headline loss before tax of £178m for the 12 months to 30 September. While that sum was well down on the previous financial
Former US vice president Mike Pence has criticised Donald Trump for dining with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Mr Pence is among a number of Republicans calling on the former US president to apologise for what he has described as “profoundly poor judgement”. The group – Mr Trump,
The pictures we have been seeing from China have been astonishing. People using loudhailers to demand democracy – others calling for freedom, their faces exposed. We have not seen this for more than three decades for good reason. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 2:38 Why are people protesting in China?
VW brand CEO, Thomas Shafer, says Europe, Germany in particular, is “rapidly losing” its competitiveness as it falls behind in the race to a clean energy economy. VW CEO urges clean energy initiatives According to VW’s Shafer, “Europe lacks price competitiveness in many areas” due to higher energy prices and limited supply chains. Energy prices
In this article VYGVQ FTT.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The BlockFi logo on a smartphone arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images There was supposedly one man who could save crypto — Sam Bankman-Fried. The former FTX CEO bailed out
Rishi Sunak has called last orders on the UK government’s cosy relationship with China. The UK needs to “evolve our approach” to China, he declared at the sumptuous Lord Mayor’s Banquet at the Guildhall in the City of London. The so-called “golden era” is over, he said, “along with the naive idea that trade would
The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has urged NATO members to guarantee the protection of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities. Over the weekend, Zaphorizhzia power plant came under fire with UN’s atomic body warning that Russia and Ukraine are “playing with fire”. Former senior military intelligence and security officer, Philip Ingram has more detail. #ukraine #zaporizhzhya #skynews SUBSCRIBE
Jessie Wilczewski was an employee for only five days at Walmart in Chesapeake, VA, when a fellow employee opened fire in the store’s break room. She recounts her horrifying experience to CNN’s Erica Hill. #CNN #News
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. Advice for new Club members Buying DVN Stay disciplined with WYNN 1. Advice for new Club members Stocks fell on Monday on reports of protests against Covid restrictions in China
3:17 PM ET Tiger Woods has withdrawn from this week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot, he announced on Twitter on Monday. The tournament, which benefits the Woods’ charity, TGR Foundation, was supposed to be his first start since he missed the cut in the 150th Open
Rishi Sunak has said the “golden era” between the UK and China is over as he called for a new approach to the Chinese government. The prime minister, speaking at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet at London’s Guildhall, criticised China’s human rights abuses but said the UK “cannot simply ignore China’s significance in world affairs”. Mr
In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk said that his company SpaceX cannot fund the Starlink service in Ukraine “indefinitely.” Michael Gonzalez | Getty Images News | Getty Images Twitter owner Elon Musk claimed on Monday in a series of tweets that Apple had threatened to remove the Twitter app