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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was given a clean bill of health when he provided an “extremely fit” blood pressure reading during a visit to a pharmacist to promote his plan to expand primary health care. Pharmacist Peter Baillie asked the Conservative leader to roll up his sleeves for the test during a visit to Weston Lane Surgery in Weston, Southampton – the Hampshire city where the Prime Minister was brought up by

Sophia Floersch has set her sights on competing in Formula One “in the next three to five years” after recovering from a spinal fracture. The 22-year-old currently drives for PHM Racing by Charouz in Formula Three, and has also taken part in endurance events such as Le Mans. Floersch’s F1 aspirations are all the more remarkable given she broke her spine in a horrific crash at the 2018 Macau Grand

Eurovision boss Martin Osterdahl has said the contest returning to the UK for the first time in 25 years could encourage the country to “fall in love with it again”. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) executive supervisor for the event said it had changed in the intervening years and was now capable of producing a new kind of global music star. In recent

Commuters were “very angry” after a slow march by Just Stop Oil activists held up traffic in North London. Activists from the climate action group walked slowly in front of traffic in Camden, holding up banners reading “Just Stop Oil”, on Tuesday morning. Police observed the protesters on their walk from Delancey Street to Chalk Farm via Camden Town but did not intervene. Some members of the public showed their support for the march by clapping

Russian President Vladimir Putin has addressed a Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square, claiming that “a real war” has been unleashed against the country – a reference to the war in Ukraine that the Kremlin portrays as being a proxy conflict with the West. “Today civilisation is once again at a decisive turning point,” Mr Putin said. “A real war has been unleashed against our Motherland.” He welcomed soldiers

Patients will be able to obtain prescription medicines and oral contraception directly from pharmacies under a blueprint to ease the pressure on GPs’ appointments. Treatments for seven common conditions including earache, sore throat and urinary tract infections will be available without seeing a doctor under plans announced by Rishi Sunak. The Prime Minister hopes the measures will help end the “all-too stressful wait” for appointments by freeing up 15 million

Convicted sex offender Rolf Harris warned his daughter’s friend who he was abusing to “tread carefully” because he was powerful and had money, according to a new ITVX documentary. Australian-born Harris was a family favourite in the UK for decades before he was convicted of 12 indecent assaults at London’s Southwark Crown Court in June 2014 – which included a catalogue of abuse against his daughter’s friend over 16 years.