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The Queen was due to attend an anniversary service at St Paul’s Cathedral but has opted to stay at home. 12:00, UK, Thursday 28 June 2018 Image: The Queen has decided not to attend a morning service The Queen will not attend an anniversary service this morning at St Paul’s Cathedral as she is feeling unwell. Buckingham Palace said Her Majesty is feeling “under the weather” and had decided not to attend the special service.It is reported she is suffering with a summer cold.She was due to attend St Paul’s Cathedral to mark the 200th anniversary of the Order of…

At least five people have been killed after a small chartered plane crashed near several apartment blocks in the Indian city of Mumbai. The victims included a pilot, three passengers and one person on the ground, according to police.A fire has been put out and five bodies have been recovered from the wreckage in a densely populated area.TV images showed flames and black smoke billowing from the scene right next to a multi-storey building under construction.The 12-seater turbo-prop King Air C-90 crashed during a test flight shortly after 1.30pm local time (9am BST). Image: Emergency services at the crash scene…

Ambulance staff and first responders sent to a house following a 999 report of a 13-year-old girl having a cardiac arrest have been attacked by people at the property. The emergency service members were pelted with a “barrage” of bricks, glasses, tables, chairs and other items from the upstairs windows in Eastleigh, Hampshire, on Wednesday evening.A rapid response car and ambulance were damaged during the violence and more crews had to be sent to the scene as back-up.The first responders were left “extremely shaken”, according to the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.Police were called by the service and…

A team of British divers has joined rescue efforts at a flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 children and their football coach have been trapped for five days. The three cave diving experts flew to Chiang Rai province with special kit, including cave radios provided by the Derbyshire Cave Rescue Organisation (DCRO), and arrived at the site late on Wednesday.Richard William Stanton, Robert Charles Harper and John Volanthen entered the cave in full kit before emerging about an hour later.”We’ve got a job to do,” Mr Volanthen said as he went into the tunnel, declining to speak further.Heavy rain…

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is investigating claims of insider dealing at Carillion ahead of the now-collapsed construction firm’s first profit warning in July last year. The revelation was made in correspondence between the regulator and the chair of the work and pensions select committee, Frank Field, who subsequently made the detail public.Carillion had announced on 3 January – less than two weeks before its collapse – that the FCA was examining the “timeliness and content” of announcements the company had made between 7 December 2016 and 10 July 2017. 2:45 Video: MPs attack bosses over Carillion collapse :: Carillion…

The Bank of England has warned of the prospect of an unprecedented financial crunch next March with trillions of pounds of derivatives effectively ceasing to function unless Europe rapidly comes up with a fix.  The Bank said that UK banks were strong enough to withstand even a hard Brexit, with their levels of capital hitting new post-crisis highs.However, it said that while progress had been made on this side of the Channel, European authorities had failed to pledge the implementation period that would prevent financial chaos next March.In its Financial Stability Report, the Bank said that £29trn of derivative contracts,…

John Lewis Partnership is to close four Waitrose convenience shops and a supermarket after issuing a profit warning. The group said that it expected profits in the first half of the year to be “close to zero”, while profits for the full year will come in “substantially” lower than last year.The company cited “market uncertainty” and significant extra costs as a result of “greater IT investment” as the drivers behind the forecast.It said Waitrose was expected to see profit growth and John Lewis a decline.Little Waitrose convenience shops at Manchester Piccadilly, Spinningfields in Manchester, Colmore Row in Birmingham and Portman…

A heterosexual couple have won a legal bid at the UK’s highest court for the right to have a civil partnership instead of marriage. Rebecca Steinfeld, 37, and Charles Keidan, 41, had been prevented from having the legal union because the Civil Partnership Act 2004 says only same-sex couples are eligible.The couple, who have two young daughters, claim the government’s position was “incompatible with equality law” and the Supreme Court in London has now ruled they are being discriminated against.The academics, from Hammersmith in west London, have “deep-rooted and genuine ideological objections to marriage” and were “not alone” in their…

Brexiteers have accused Remainers in the cabinet of co-ordinating business attacks on Brexit in a bid to bounce the prime minister into a soft Brexit. Jacob Rees-Mogg, head of the eurosceptic European Reform Group of Tory MPs, told Sky News he believed Chancellor Philip Hammond was behind the sudden flurry of businesses speaking up on Brexit.It comes ahead of a crunch Chequers meeting of cabinet ministers next Friday to agree detailed plans on the UK’s post-Brexit future.”I think there is cooperation between the Remainers in the cabinet and some businesses, some of the more politicised businesses,” Mr Rees-Mogg told Sky…

Boris Johnson has called for the international chemical weapons watchdog to get beefed up powers to name countries behind attacks. He said the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) should be able to use its “forensic, scientific impartiality” to identify states that use the banned substances aggressively.The foreign secretary’s comments come three months after the Salisbury poisoning, where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were incapacitated by the nerve agent novichok.Britain believes Moscow was behind the attack – a claim the Kremlin strongly denies.But after the OPCW travelled to Britain, it was only able to…