The polar vortex is wreaking havoc on millions of people across the US who are bracing for a deep arctic chill that has halted postage services in five states and cancelled more than 2,700 flights. Via: Polar vortex wreaks havoc on Midwest and causes more than 2,700 flight cancellations
Moves and news as the January window inches closer to shuttingTransfer interactive: every deal from Europe’s top five leaguesEmail Tom with your thoughts or tweet @TomBry 1.52pm GMT Nuremberg have dipped their toe in the transfer market for the first time this January, while Sandro Wagner (remember him?) has done Read more
Chris Grayling also declines to explicitly reject allegations that he acted illegally – because there was no open tender Via: Transport secretary refusing to answer questions about handing no-deal Brexit contract to ferry firm with no ships, say MPs
London newspaper refuses to reveal identity of new financial backerAn anonymous offshore investor has taken a 20% stake in the parent company of George Osborne’s Evening Standard, with the newspaper refusing to reveal the identity of its new financial backer.The newspaper’s Russian owner, Evgeny Lebedev, sold about a fifth of Read more
Court of appeal rules Joshua Gardner’s initial suspended sentence was ‘unduly lenient’A teenager who attacked a car with a “zombie knife” has been jailed for three and a half years after the court of appeal decided his suspended sentence was unduly lenient.Joshua Gardner, 18, was caught on camera hitting a Read more
By criticising the party’s approach to migration, loyalists helped to change it. The leadership must learn to listen to themWe’re here, then. The point at which a Labour leadership that won support for being different ends up being the same. The stage that jaded observers warned was an inevitability of Read more
Follow live updates from Westminster Via: Brexit news – live: Theresa May interrogated over EU renegotiation plans in bruising PMQs clashes ahead of Corbyn meeting
French express sympathy for people in UK but struggle to see how impasse can be solvedWhile one French newspaper warned “Europe held hostage by British conservatives”, the mood among those heading to work on Wednesday in central Paris – where since late last year there have been weekly protests against Read more
Commission contingency plans say UK should keep up contributions to 2019 EU budget and beyond Via: Brexit: Brussels says UK should keep paying into EU budget after no-deal
‘I’m not ignorant to how farming works but it always made me stressed. They knew their fate’ Via: Sheep farmer felt so guilty on way to slaughterhouse he drove lambs to sanctuary and became vegetarian