Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker have won mixed team skeleton gold for Team GB.
Weston overturned a deficit of zero point three seconds after Stoecker’s run and set a track record of one minute fifty nine point three six seconds. It is Team GB’s third medal of the Winter Olympic Games and their second gold of the day. Weston also makes history as the first British athlete to win two medals at the same Winter Olympics.
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least eleven people in Gaza, according to local officials, including in a blast at a tent encampment housing displaced families.
The Israel Defense Forces said the action was in response to ceasefire violations by Hamas. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since October, but more than five hundred and seventy Palestinians have been killed since then, according to Gaza’s Hamas run health ministry. The latest strikes come days before the first meeting of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s time as trade envoy should be investigated for possible corruption, according to former business secretary Sir Vince Cable.
Files released by the United States Department of Justice appear to show the former prince forwarded UK government documents and commercial information to Jeffrey Epstein. Sir Vince described reports of sensitive information being leaked about the Royal Bank of Scotland and Aston Martin as totally unacceptable. Andrew has consistently and strenuously denied any wrongdoing.
Slough councillors have agreed to relax taxi licensing restrictions to support the private hire vehicle industry.
Officers had warned it would be a significant shift from existing policy. The council had planned to stop granting new licences for diesel fuelled private hire cars and hackney carriages from January first twenty twenty six, under a twenty twenty three policy. In twenty eighteen it proposed that by January twenty twenty five all new licences and renewals must be for Ultra Low Emission Vehicles.
The UK wants action after evidence showed Russia killed political prisoner Alexei Navalny with frog poison.
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said European labs confirmed he died from the obscure toxin, a clear breach of chemical weapons rules, and that only the Russian government had the means, motive and opportunity to use it.
Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network extended to Africa’s southern coast, bound by what one victim described as invisible chains of psychological control.
Juliette Bryant, now forty three, says it felt as though she was handcuffed invisibly and kept silent for years. She says she never told her family or anyone about what happened until after Epstein died. Recruited from Cape Town in two thousand and two as a first year university student and aspiring model, she was twenty and believed her life was about to change for the better.
A measles outbreak has spread across several schools in north London, with some children needing hospital treatment.
More than sixty suspected cases have been recorded across seven schools and a nursery in Enfield. The UK Health Security Agency has confirmed thirty four measles cases in the borough between the first of January and the ninth of February. A message from the NHS Ordnance Unity Centre for Health GP surgery warned of a fast spreading outbreak affecting several schools.
Train departure boards were filled with cancellations when Storm Ingrid hit the South West of England last month.
For many passengers it felt familiar, particularly for those using the railway near Dawlish in Devon. In February twenty fourteen, storms left the only line linking Plymouth and Cornwall with the rest of the UK hanging like a Peruvian rope bridge. Cornwall and much of Devon were cut off from the network for eight weeks, causing widespread travel disruption.
