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MINISTERS TAKE NURSES TO COURT TO STOP STRIKE Court to sit today to decide on this matter The government will go to the High Court today in a bid to stop nurses going on strike for 48 hours from 8pm on Sunday night until 8pm on Tuesday 2 May. The Royal College of Nursing announced the latest strike after members narrowly rejected the government’s pay offer earlier this month. Steve Barclay, the health secretary, says the union’s six-month strike mandate runs out at midnight on 1 May. Last night, he wrote to RCN boss Pat Cullen asking her to cut…

FOOD & MEDICINE SUPPLIES RUNNING LOW IN SUDAN’S KHARTOUM AS FIGHTING RAGES Air strikes and artillery have killed at least 459 people, wounded more than 4,000 Food supplies, gas and medicine are running low in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum, local businesses said, warning it could be “catastrophic” if the fighting between Sudan’s army and a paramilitary force continued. In a supermarket in Khartoum, shelves and fridges were empty on Wednesday. Only a few boxes of vegetables were available for people to purchase.  A nearby bakery was closed and a gas station was empty. Khartoum resident Medhat said he was struggling…

MANCHESTER CITY THRASH ARSENAL 4-1 – City have their destiny in their own hands says Pep Guardiola Manchester City took charge of the Premier League title race on Wednesday after thrashing Arsenal 4-1 at Etihad Stadium. Kevin De Bruyne scored once in each half either side of John Stones’ 45th-minute header before Erling Haaland added a fourth in stoppage time, cutting the Gunners’ lead at the top to just two points with Pep Guardiola’s side still possessing two games in hand. City grabbed the initiative in the seventh minute when Erling Haaland fed De Bruyne in space and the Belgian…

LITTLE TIME TO SOLVE ‘BIG DIFFICULTIES’ AT CHELSEA SAYS LAMPARD – Interim Chelsea Coach Frank Lampard understands how difficult his job is Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, stressed that there is little time to solve the club’s ‘big difficulties’ as he looks for his first win since taking over in interim charge. Chelsea, who are 11th in the league standings and at risk of their worst domestic league finish in nearly 30 years, will look to end their seven-game winless run in all competitions against Brentford. Chelsea are five points behind their west London rivals, who have played a game more,…

NO ONE COMPARES TO CITY’S HAALAND THIS SEASON SAYS ARTETA – Arsenal prepare for top-of-the-table clash against City tonight Erling Haaland’s incredible goal record at Manchester City sets him apart from all other players this season, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said ahead of tonight’s top-of-the-table Premier League clash at the Etihad Stadium. Haaland leads the league’s goal-scoring charts with 32 goals, eight more than Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane in second and 12 more than Brentford’s Ivan Toney, who is third on the list. The Norway international is only one short of breaking Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah’s record for the most…

FIRST BRITISH EVACUEES FROM SUDAN ARRIVE IN CYPRUS Warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire The first British civilians evacuated from Sudan arrived on the island of Cyprus, Cyprus’s foreign ministry said, airlifted out by Britain after warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire. A passenger plane belonging to Britain’s Royal Air Force with about 40 civilians on board landed at Cyprus’s Larnaca airport, said a foreign ministry spokesperson. Evacuees took shelter at Larnaca’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, before boarding buses and leaving the airport. Authorities had expected 40 people, though another diplomatic source said there were 39 people on…

JUDGES OVERRULING GOVERNMENT REMOVAL DECISIONS ‘TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE’ Home Secretary defends Government Policy  The illegal migration Bill returns to the Commons this afternoon. She said: “People who are coming here illegally are breaking our laws. they are criminals and they don’t have a right to be here.” She said that entering the UK illegally is “at odds with our values”. “You don’t have a legal right to be in the United Kingdom,” she added. The home secretary said people should apply for visas and official permission to come to the UK, and “not on a boat, surreptitiously, dangerously, fatally so, where…

RISHI SUNAK CELEBRATES HITTING POLICE RECRUITMENT TARGET ‘Promise made, promise kept’ says Sunak The prime minister has hailed the news this morning that the government achieved its 2019 manifesto pledge of recruiting 20,000 police officers. The total recruited since the last election is 20,951, according to government figures released in the past few minutes. Rishi Sunak tweeted: “In 2019 we promised to recruit 20,000 additional police officers in England and Wales to make our streets safer and protect communities. “Today, I’m pleased to say we have delivered that promise.” The tweet was accompanied by a police siren gif with the…

Drivers and train passengers have been warned they face congestion and disruption over the bank holiday weekend, with motoring organisations forecasting the biggest early May getaway for seven years and a main rail line partly closed. The RAC said it estimated 17.2m leisure trips would be taken by car in the UK between Friday 28 April and Monday 1 May, the most for the May bank holiday since 2016. Congestion is likely to be worse on the month’s first bank holiday than the subsequent long weekend break for the coronation, when the RAC expects fewer than 15m leisure trips. The…

All key figures involved in the pandemic response will be required to hand over their WhatsApp messages to the Covid public inquiry, the chairman of the independent investigation has decided. Baroness Hallett has announced that all government ministers and advisers with a significant role in the crisis will be asked to release the private communications. It comes in the wake of The Lockdown Files, when The Telegraph obtained more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages between Matt Hancock, the then health secretary, and dozens of senior government figures including Boris Johnson, the then prime minister; Rishi Sunak, then the chancellor; Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary; and dozens…