Princess Leonor of Spain, 15, attends first solo royal engagement at Madrid Cervantes Institute

Princess Leonor of Spain proved she has inherited her mother’s taste for sustainable fashion as she carried out her first engagement without her parents today  The royal, 15, presided over the Cervantes Institute’s 30th anniversary in Madrid – marking her first working visit without her mother Queen Letizia, 48 and father King Felipe VI, 53.  … Read more

Britain faces ‘a return to austerity’ with £4billion cut, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Britain faces another tax hike due to a £4billion black hole in Rishi Sunak’s Budget spending plans, an influential think tank warned today. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the shortfall for the 2022−23 financial year went ‘entirely unmentioned’ in the Chancellor’s speech to the Commons on March 3. If the spending plan is followed … Read more

Britain faces ‘a return to austerity’ with £4billion cut, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Britain faces another tax hike due to a £4billion black hole in Rishi Sunak’s Budget spending plans, an influential think tank warned today. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the shortfall for the 2022−23 financial year went ‘entirely unmentioned’ in the Chancellor’s speech to the Commons on March 3. If the spending plan is followed … Read more

Dr Jenny Harries is favourite to take over England’s National Institute of Health Protection

England’s deputy chief medical officer, Dr Jenny Harries, is the odds-on favourite to run No10’s National Institute of Health Protection — which will replace Public Health England. PHE is set to be disbanded when the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is over and replaced by the NIHP, which will be bigger and more powerful. Dr … Read more

Union J star Josh Lloyd-Cuthbertsays he checked himself into a mental health institute

Union J star Josh Lloyd-Cuthbert has candidly spoken about how he checked into a mental health institute after struggling with the most ‘turbulent and awful year’. The singer, 28, told how he spent eight days at the institution, which he described as the ‘toughest’ but ‘most inspiring and eye opening week’ of his life. Josh … Read more

Government AXE PHE and replace it with new institute run by former jockey Baroness Dido Harding

Government AXE PHE and replace it with new institute run by former jockey Baroness Dido Harding who oversaw disastrous Test and Trace scheme and TalkTalk when hackers stole 157,000 customers’ data Baroness Dido Harding, 52, headed NHS England’s Test and Trace scheme She is a former horse jockey and was chief executive of TalkTalk during … Read more

Wuhan Virology institute director refutes Covid-19 claims

Wuhan Virology institute director says she has three strains of coronavirus on site but none of them match COVID-19 – but will anyone believe her? Institute director Wang Yanyi said the facility has three strains of the viruses She went on to say that none of the strains they had matched that of Covid-19 Comes … Read more

President of Royal Institute of British Architects temporarily steps down over affair rumours

‘Deeply religious’ President of Royal Institute of British Architects temporarily steps down over fears woman claiming to be his mistress will reveal embarrassing details of their affair as he battles to save his marriage Alan Jones, 55, told 180-year-old Riba that ‘matter had arisen’ in his personal life Members of the institute have called for … Read more

‘We need the Dunkirk spirit’: Francis Crick institute demands testing change

Boris Johnson is facing demands to overrule control-freak health chiefs today amid warnings ‘time is running out’ to scale up coronavirus testing. Sir Paul Nurse, chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute, urged the PM to summon the Dunkirk spirit and let ‘small ship’ labs start screening for the killer disease. Delivering a damning verdict … Read more

Science institute funding food research accused of influencing politicians for food firms

An organisation advising the EU and UN about health has been accused of trying to influence politicians on behalf of giant food companies. The International Life Sciences Institute, based in Washington DC, is influenced by, and working to help, the companies which fund it, scientists said in a study. The institute, funded by Coca Cola … Read more