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Twenty hospitals in England due to receive an extra £850m funding for upgrades to outdated facilities and new equipment have been revealed. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will formally announce the plans – part of NHS spending pledges totalling £1.8bn – at a Lincolnshire hospital on Monday. Projects the £850m will pay for include a new women and children’s hospital in Cornwall. But a healthcare charity said the money risked being a “drop in the ocean”. The funding pledge comes during a week of health policy announcements by the government, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock expected to announce pension changes aimed…

Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton hunted down Max Verstappen to win the Hungarian Grand Prix for a record-extending seventh time on Sunday (August 4) and surge 62 points clear in the championship standings. Dutch 21-year-old Verstappen, who had started from pole position for the first time, was runner-up after being reeled in and overtaken four laps from the end with his tyres worn to the limit.   A triumph attributed to Mercedes Team strategy of moving Hamilton to soft tires before the end of the race.  Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel finished third and more than a minute behind — an eternity in…

Asian shares suffered their steepest daily drop in 10 months on Monday (August 5), as Sino-U.S. trade friction sent the yuan slumping to a more than decade trough and stampeded investors into safe harbors. South Korean shares tumbled more than 2% to close at their lowest level since June 2016. The drop comes amid escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and China, South Korea’s largest export markets, and also a worsening diplomatic row with Japan. Japan said on Friday it would remove South Korea from a list of countries that enjoy minimum export restrictions from Aug. 28, pushing the KOSPI…

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross addressed business leaders in Sao Paulo on Tuesday (July 30), warning that the EU-Mercosur deal could put at risk a possible free trade agreement between Brazil and the United States. Ross was in Brazil the same day that U.S. President Donald Trump said he will pursue a U.S. trade agreement with Brazil, suggesting a friendly relationship with Bolsonaro could help lower trade barriers between the two biggest economies in the Americas. Ross said a trade deal between Mercosur and the European Union, reached in principle last month, should avoid “obstacles” and “roadblocks” that would obstruct…

The PM on Thursday could face his first setback, when voters in the Brecon and Radnorshire constituency, in South Wales, votie in a by-election. The sitting Tory MP, Chris Davies, was convicted of filing false expenses and 18,000 voters signed a petition to recall him.  Conservatives then shocked many by selecting Mr Davies to stand again, although there may be method in the madness – the party believes they can portray the recall petition as a politicised overreaction to an honest mistake. The Liberal Democrats are heavy favourites to win the election, having made a pact with the Greens and…

A disorderly Brexit would be disastrous for the Irish economy, the head of Northern Ireland’s largest nationalist party warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson, at a meeting with Britain’s new leader. PM Johnson is meeting the leaders of the five main political parties in Northern Ireland, to encourage a resolution in talks between Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to restore a power-sharing government, which collapsed more a year and a half ago. Sinn Fein and the pro-British DUP — the largest parties in Northern Ireland — remain deeply divided over Brexit and the proposed Irish backstop which has…

Schools in areas with a higher risk of youth violence should be given dedicated police officers, say MPs. The Home Affairs Committee criticised the government’s current violence reduction strategy as “completely inadequate”. It called on the new prime minister, Boris Johnson, to take “personal responsibility” for tackling knife and gun crime among young people. But the Home Office said the MPs failed to fully recognise its action on crime. In its report, the committee called for more investment into neighbourhood policing – including a commitment to get a dedicated police officer into “all schools in areas with an above-average risk…

When Barcelona announced in January they had signed Frenkie de Jong from Ajax, the midfielder became the latest in an illustrious pipeline of Dutch imports to the Catalan club. Since Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff brought Dutch ‘Total Football’ to Barcelona in the 1970s, there has been a steady stream of talent moving south from the Netherlands. De Jong is proud to join the likes of compatriots Ronald Koeman, Frank de Boer and Patrick Kluivert in heading to the Nou Camp, having dreamed of wearing Barca colours. “I think it’s a bit because of Cruyff,” De Jong told Reuters in…

Shares in Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct have plunged by up to 27% as investors gave their first reaction to financial results – delayed several times in bizarre fashion last week. The stock fell sharply at the open and settled around 10% down in early trading on Monday morning.It was not until after dealing had concluded on Friday that the retailer finally revealed numbers for the year to the end of April after several false starts. Market analysts wrote at the time that the handling of the results statement had amounted to a “shambles”. After the initial share price plunge on…

The chief executive of Vauxhall-owner PSA says it could move all production from its Ellesmere Port factory if Brexit makes it unprofitable. Carlos Tavares told the Financial Times that the carmaker has alternatives to the plant which it could use. The move would probably lead to the closure of the site, the FT said, threatening 1,000 jobs. That would leave Vauxhall’s Luton-based van plant as its last presence in the UK.