Day: September 26, 2018

    We joined Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, as she chatted with royal restorationists preparing her wedding dress for an exhibition. Later the camera peered over the shoulder of Prince Harry exchanging raffish small talk with students from the Caribbean who’d spent time behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace (they had, he jested, enjoyed a longer stay at the palace than he ever had). The promised archive material, meanwhile, took us back to the Queen’s early years on the throne when she was a shy young woman sprung before her time into one of the highest profile jobs in the world. She looked pale and serious launching Royal Yacht Britannia in 1954 though clips of Prince Philip and of a young Prince Charles and Princess Anne on board the vessel confirmed this was fam...

    Jeremy Corbyn has told Theresa May he will back a Brexit deal she brings back from Europe as long as it means Britain staying in a customs union, protecting jobs, workers rights and standards for the environment. The Labour leader’s pledge appears to hold out a lifeline to a prime minister who finds herself at the mercy of Tory Brexiteers who have vowed to torpedo her proposals. But it also represents an adjustment in Labour’s Brexit rhetoric, coming after a week in which shadow cabinet minister Sir Keir Starmer indicated his party was likely to vote down any deal Ms May secured. Mr Corbyn also used his conference speech to try and draw a line under the antisemitism row dogging his party, telling the Jewish community we are your ally and committing a Labour governm...

    Two ambulances have been damaged by bricks thrown from a Birmingham overpass in a dangerous and idiotic attack. Authorities are appealing for information about the incident which took place on Borchfield Road, at the junction of Aston Lane, between 2.30pm and 3pm on Tuesday. Nathan Hudson, emergency services operations delivery director for West Midlands Ambulance Service, said: It is hard to put into words how angry and disappointing these incidents are. Throwing a brick at any vehicle is dangerous and idiotic, but when it is an ambulance responding to an emergency, it beggars belief. The first ambulance suffered a cracked windshield while racing to help a patient with breathing difficulties, forcing it to stop and causing a delay to paramedics delivering help. A...