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Time for a 'Nightingale moment' for England's children, says watchdog Exclusive: children’s commissioner calls for mental health support and focus on vulnerable teenagersCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA “Nightingale moment” for children is needed, providing increased funding, extra training for teachers and counsellors in every school, the children’s commissioner for England has said.Invoking the gargantuan effort taken to build Nightingale hospitals for thousands of Covid patients in a matter of weeks, and the £35bn furlough scheme to save jobs, Anne Longfield said children’s recovery from missing months of school would take up to a year and would have a profound psychological impact. Continue reading... Go to So...

Far-right activists filmed hassling asylum seekers in hotels One video shows members of Britain First entering hotel and banging on bedroom doorsQ&A: are asylum seekers really living in luxury hotels?Anger is mounting over a series of videos posted by far-right organisations in which activists enter hotels where asylum seekers are being held, knock on their doors to interrogate them and accuse them of wasting taxpayers’ money.A video by Britain First, circulated widely on social media, shows a group of far-right activists entering a hotel in Bromsgrove, near Birmingham, and banging on bedroom doors, demanding to know what country the asylum seekers are from. Continue reading... Go to Source

Revealed: auditors raised minimum-wage red flags at Boohoo factories Exclusive: Third-party reports set out allegations at 18 Leicester suppliers How Leicester’s factories went to war with BoohooThe fast-fashion retailer Boohoo has been selling clothes made by at least 18 factories in Leicester that audits say have failed to prove they pay the minimum wage to workers, a Guardian investigation has found.Third-party audit reports produced over the past four years make claims of “critical” issues over record-keeping and working hours at the time they were written, suggesting that in parts of the supply chain workers may be paid as little as £3-£4 an hour. Continue reading... Go to Source

Covid lockdowns to be eased for over 1m people in north-west England Households will be able to mix in parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than 1 million people in north-west England will be allowed to mix with other households for the first time in a month after a fall in coronavirus cases.Restrictions on seeing friends and family will be lifted from next week in the Greater Manchester boroughs of Bolton, Stockport and Trafford, as well as Burnley and Hyndburn in Lancashire. Continue reading... Go to Source

House panel announces contempt proceedings against Pompeo after speech at Trump's RNC – live Secretary of state delivered controversial speech from IsraelTrump paints Biden as ‘radical’ candidate and danger to USJacob Blake shackled to hospital bed despite being paralyzed, father says1,124 new coronavirus deaths and 45,561 new cases in US yesterdaySign up for our First Thing newsletter 6.51pm BST Jacob Blake’s family spoke at the march on Washington, just days after Blake was repeatedly shot in the back by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin.Blake’s sister, Letetra Widman, said African Americans were done “catering to your delusions.” 6.41pm BST George Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, struggled to speak about his brother, and he said it was b...

UK coronavirus live: Shapps insists return to office is safe as nine in 10 want to work from home Transport secretary urges people to go back to the office as report says many who have worked from home want to continue; researchers say risk of severe illness or death very small for children Grant Shapps says it’s safe to return to officesUK to give emergency approval to any vaccine breakthrough‘Vanishingly small’ risk of severe illness or death for childrenGlobal coronavirus updates - live UK registers highest number of Covid infections since mid-June 12.47pm BST Enforcement action has been taken at an NHS trust amid concerns over infection control, including people contracting Covid-19 in hospital, PA Media reports.The Care Quality Commission said it has launched act...

Japan PM Shinzo Abe quits over health concerns Abe says return of bowel condition means he is unable to continue in his positionJapan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has said he will resign because of his declining health, telling a shocked country that the return of a chronic bowel condition had left him unable to steer it through the coronavirus pandemic.“Poor health should not influence political decisions, and as long as I am unable to meet the expectations of the Japanese people, I have decided that I cannot stay on as prime minister and will step down,” Abe told a televised news conference on Friday. Continue reading... Go to Source

Trump attacks Biden as eager to ‘tear down' America in RNC speech President accepts Republican presidential nomination in event staged at White House, raising legal and ethical concernsAgainst a backdrop of a global pandemic, heightened racial tensions, and widespread unemployment, Donald Trump framed his Democratic rival Joe Biden as the real danger to the country’s safety and economic welfare in his address to the Republican convention on Thursday.Accepting the party’s presidential nomination ahead of November’s elections, Trump argued for more than an hour that his administration had accomplished everything it had set out to do and warned that a Biden presidency could be ruinous. Continue reading... Go to Source

Friday briefing: Trump buckets Biden in sprawling speech President hammers law and order, and risk posed by ‘radical left’ … school leaders in plea to parents ahead of pupils’ return … bank holiday chill forecastGood morning, Warren Murray here to get you out of the gate. Continue reading... Go to Source

Japan PM Shinzo Abe set to announce resignation amid health concerns - report Surprise development comes after Japanese officials were unable to quash speculation following two recent hospital visits by the prime ministerJapan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is set to announce his resignation later on Friday, according to public broadcaster NHK, amid growing concerns about his health after he made two hospital visits in the space of a week.Officials from the governing Liberal Democratic party (LDP) had earlier attempted to quash speculation that Abe may be unable to serve out his term, which was due to end in September 2021, as rumours swirled around the state of his health. Continue reading... Go to Source

'Vanishingly small' risk of death or severe illness for children from Covid Study of two-thirds of British cases in hospital found six fatalities under 19, all with underlying conditionsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe risk of severe illness and death to children from Covid-19 is vanishingly small, according to the biggest study yet of those admitted to hospital, which the researchers say should reassure parents as they return to school.The study included two-thirds of all patients admitted to hospitals across England, Scotland and Wales with Covid-19. Of these, 651 – less than 1% – were children and young people under 19. Six of these patients – less than 1% – died. All had severe underlying health conditions. Continue readin...

Prosecutors release charges against alleged Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Teen has been charged with six criminal counts in connection with the shootings of three protesters in Wisconsin earlier this weekKyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old from Illinois who was arrested in connection with the shootings of three protesters in Wisconsin earlier this week, has been charged with six criminal counts, according to the criminal complaint disclosed on Thursday.The charges filed by prosecutors against Rittenhouse in Kenosha county include first-degree reckless homicide in the death of Joseph Rosenbaum and first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Anthony Huber, according to the complaint. Continue reading... Go to Source