Mandela’s ‘unhelpful’ mediation over Lockerbie bombing
Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi wanted the former South African president to persuade Tony Blair to lift sanctions on his country
Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi wanted the former South African president to persuade Tony Blair to lift sanctions on his country
Aides to the then PM warned at the time that the new US president would not be as helpful as his predecessor Bill Clinton.
Files released to the National Archives show the former Northern Ireland secretary pressed to liberalise the laws on cannabis.
Newly released files show officials warned that despite ‘warm rhetoric’ the Russian leader maintained Cold War levels of spying against UK.
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The South African president was in Downing Street as part of his state visit to the UK, the first by a foreign dignitary in the reign of the King.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was making the first state visit of the King’s reign.
The two nations signed an agreement during South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state visit to the UK.
A yellow thunderstorm warning has been issued for Thursday into Friday for the south coast of England, south Wales and the South West of England.
A yellow weather warning for rain remains in place until 3pm on Thursday.
Slightly above-average rainfall for the UK has not made much of a dent in what has been a dry year, the Met Office said.
The court heard Georgia Barton had written to prosecutors claiming she and her husband had been drinking “about four or five bottles of wine each”.
The court heard Georgia Barton had written to prosecutors claiming she and her husband had been drinking ‘about four or five bottles of wine each’.
Forecasters say the mild temperatures are ‘unusual but not exceptional’.