Edd Dracott
UK
JD Vance joins world tributes to Pope Francis after Easter Sunday meeting
French President Emmanuel Macron said Pope Francis wanted to ‘unite people with one another and with nature’.
By Edd Dracott
21 Apr 2025
UK
Climate protesters will block roads ‘day after day’ in October, says XR founder
Speaking at Glastonbury festival, Roger Hallam said the disruption caused will be ‘the same if not greater’ than that seen in 2019.
By Edd Dracott
24 Jun 2022
UK
Zelensky calls Glastonbury ‘greatest concentration of freedom’ in video address
The Ukrainian president called for the world to “spread the truth” about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
By Edd Dracott
24 Jun 2022
UK
Festival-first Notting Hill Carnival parade ‘sums up Glastonbury’
Vibrant stilt walkers, a truck in the shape of a beetle and a lorry carrying a dozen steel pan players joined the parade at Glastonbury Festival.
By Edd Dracott
23 Jun 2022
UK
Robot painting Glastonbury’s famous faces says festival atmosphere is ‘electric’
Ai-Da is heralded as the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist and has been producing abstract paintings of this year’s Glastonbury headliners.
By Edd Dracott
23 Jun 2022
UK
Terminally ill festival-lover to fly to Glastonbury as public grant ‘last wish’
The University Hospital of North Tees confirmed Nigel Stonehouse will travel to Worthy Farm via helicopter after more than £18,000 was raised for him.
By Edd Dracott
22 Jun 2022
UK
‘Party utopia’ will be ‘such a release’, says man attending his 35th Glastonbury
Ben Rogers first went to the festival in 1978, aged one, and said his earliest memories of the event included lasers, mud and UB40.
By Edd Dracott
22 Jun 2022
UK
NHS worker fears he won’t make it to Glastonbury Festival following rail strikes
The Prime Minister told a meeting of the Cabinet that reforms are vital for the rail industry and those who work in it.
By Edd Dracott
21 Jun 2022
UK
Rwanda migrant plane thought to have landed at Wiltshire military base
The Boeing 767 landed at MoD Boscombe Down on Tuesday morning
By Edd Dracott
14 Jun 2022
UK
Storm response shows rural areas do not matter to energy providers – resident
Stewart Sexton, from Alnwick in Northumberland, was left without power for almost 11 days after Storm Arwen in November.
By Edd Dracott
9 Jun 2022
UK
Man disguised as woman in wheelchair hurls cake at Mona Lisa
A Liverpool fan who was at the Louvre following his side’s Champions League final defeat asked: ‘What were the odds this would happen?’
By Edd Dracott
30 May 2022
UK
Ukrainian MP: It doesn’t feel like our finest hour but PM’s speech gives us hope
Inna Sovsun, deputy leader of the Holos Party, said Boris Johnson is seen as a ‘hero’ in Ukraine after his speech in the Verkhovna Rada.
By Edd Dracott
3 May 2022
UK
Ukraine families’ visas must be processed together, says peer offering home
The children of the family Baroness Finlay of Llandaff is helping received their visas days before their mother.
By Edd Dracott
21 Apr 2022UK
‘Unwelcoming’ visa scheme adding to refugees’ trauma, says peer offering home
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff is offering her Cardiff home to a mother and two children.
By Edd Dracott
10 Apr 2022
UK
We’re fighting against a Nazi regime, says Ukrainian MP
‘They’re killing us, not as individual human beings, but because we’re Ukrainians,’ said Inna Sovsun.
By Edd Dracott
6 Apr 2022
World
Ukrainian couple describe escape from ‘real hell’ of Mariupol
Victor Mayevsky, 62, said he witnessed blood and body parts on the streets of his home city after he and his wife narrowly avoided explosives
By Edd Dracott
25 Mar 2022
UK
Briton searching for Ukrainian refugee in Poland ‘surprised’ by lack of guidance
Max Fox is offering a room in his Lancashire home to a Ukrainian he hopes to meet in Przemysl, near the Ukrainian border.
By Edd Dracott
18 Mar 2022
UK
Ukrainian MPs sing national anthem at emergency parliamentary session in Kyiv
Inna Sovsun said the singing was ‘highly emotional’ as she and fellow MPs passed a series of new laws in response to Russia’s invasion.
By Edd Dracott
15 Mar 2022
UK
Tesla boss Elon Musk challenges Vladimir Putin to ‘single combat’ for Ukraine
The Tesla billionaire tagged the Kremlin in a tweet, posted in Russian, asking: “Do you agree to this fight?”
By Edd Dracott
14 Mar 2022UK
Briton flying to Poland to offer his home directly to a Ukrainian refugee
Max Fox said he and his husband are open to adopting a Ukrainian orphan if they are legally allowed.
By Edd Dracott
13 Mar 2022