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Fisheries

Express
Fishermen heralded “really good news” for the industry after a landmark fish was sold for £2,000 to a posh restaurant in London.
The sale of the Atlantic bluefin tuna marked the first time in 70 years that the fish was commercially caught in the UK, The Telegraph reports.
Thanks to Brexit, the UK Government has handed new commercial licences to a select number of fishing boats to catch the species.
It marks a victory for fishermen and a first for the post-Brexit Government programme to grant commercial licences.
The bluefin tuna – also known as tunny- has returned in great numbers to British waters in recent years.
Earlier this week, a nine-foot-long bluefin weighing 30 pounds was caught off the coast of Cornwall.
The catch was sold by a fisherman for almost £2,000, with the fish destined for high-end sushi restaurants in London.
The once-endangered fish has experienced rising numbers due to conservation efforts and warming seas.
They were once an iconic draw for anglers across the UK in the 1930s and 1940s.
However, overfishing and changing climate conditions in the Atlantic saw them virtually disappear from British waters by the 1990s.
The Government’s commercial fishery pilot follows a catch-and-release programme that has led to hundreds of tuna being tagged since it started in 2021.

Small boats

Express
The Prime Minister has insisted his plan to stop the boats is “working”, as photos emerge of yet more migrants being brought to shore this morning.
Rishi Sunak told broadcasters the current illegal migration crisis is “ridiculous, unfair and unsustainable”.
It comes as 661 migrants crossed on Monday alone, followed by a further 764 between Tuesday and Thursday.
Despite the latter half of the week seeing fewer crossings than predicted, at least three more boat-loads of migrants have been collected today, almost certainly taking the five-day total beyond 1,500 – three Bibby Stockholm barges-worth.
Mr Sunak said that before he became PM, the number of illegal migrants coming to the UK had quadrupled in the last few years.
Mr Sunak said: “For the first time this year, crossings are down. They are down about 15 percent versus last year.
“That’s the first time that has happened since the small boat crisis emerged.
“That shows that the plan is working. I never said it would be easy,”
Many observers put the fewer crossings at the start of the year down to worse weather, however.
More than 18,000 people have still crossed into Britain in small boats since the start of 2023, but the bulk of last year’s crossings didn’t happen until the latter half of the year.

Guardian
Vulnerable children who arrive in Britain by small boat are being placed in an adult prison that holds significant numbers of sex offenders.
A growing number of cases have been identified where unaccompanied children, many of whom appear to be trafficked, have been sent to HMP Elmley, Kent, and placed among foreign adult prisoners.
According to the most recent inspection of Elmley, the block where foreign nationals are held also houses sex offenders.
Of 14 unaccompanied children so far identified by staff at Humans For Rights Network as being sent to an adult prison, one is believed to have been 14 when they spent seven months in Elmley.
Most of the cases involve Sudanese or South Sudanese children who travelled to the UK via Libya, with most appearing to have been trafficked or having experienced some form of exploitation.

Sun
GOVERNMENT moves to halt the flood of migrants crossing the Channel have been frustrated by a hard-Left French mayor who declared his town “open to the world”.
Militant Patrice Vergriete has been accused by British MPs of failing to tackle the small boats crisis in Dunkirk.
The town has become a focal point for migrants wanting to reach ­Britain as the boat gangs spread along the coast from nearby Calais.
But towering Vergriete, a former basketball player, has repeatedly downplayed the crisis.
He said: “This territory is above all a port, therefore open to the world.
“We must face the evolution of the world without betraying our humanist values, not by erecting walls around the city as some imagine.”
Vergriete’s welcoming message comes as illegal immigration costs the UK at least £4billion a year and as the backlog of asylum cases reached a record 175,000.
Incredibly, Vergriete has now been appointed a ­government minister in France, which we are paying £500million over three years to tackle the crisis.

Dorries

ITV News
Nadine Dorries has resigned her parliamentary seat with a scathing attack on Rishi Sunak, accusing him of “demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy” against her.
The Tory former minister had announced in June that she would quit the Commons with “immediate effect” in protest at not getting a peerage in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, but failed to follow through until now.
Her exit triggers a challenging by-election for the Prime Minister in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency this autumn.
Ms Dorries on Saturday said she had submitted her resignation letter to Mr Sunak, publishing the blistering text in The Daily Mail.
In it, she accused Mr Sunak of leading attacks on her resulting in “the police having to visit my home and contact me on a number of occasions due to threats to my person”.
“The clearly orchestrated and almost daily personal attacks demonstrates the pitifully low level your Government has descended to,” the former culture secretary wrote.

Guardian
The Tory MP and former minister Nadine Dorries has resigned her Commons seat and accused Rishi Sunak of “demeaning his office” by speaking out against her.
Two-and-a-half months after first announcing her intention to step down as MP for Mid Bedfordshire in protest at not receiving a peerage, Dorries on Saturday accused the prime minister of abandoning “the fundamental principles of Conservatism”, telling him: “History will not judge you kindly.”
Dorries, using parliamentary terminology for an MP’s resignation, added: “I shall today inform the chancellor of my intention to take the Chiltern Hundreds, enabling the writ to be moved on 4 September for the byelection you are so desperately seeking to take place.”
The Treasury confirmed it had been notified of Dorries’ intention to step down.
Her decision opens the way for another awkward byelection for the Conservatives in what should be an ultra-safe Tory seat. In 2019 Dorries won the seat with a 24,664 majority over Labour.

Independent
The former culture secretary Nadine Dorries has finally resigned as an MP – more than 10 weeks after announcing her intention to quit – with a scathing attack on Rishi Sunak.
In her resignation letter, the staunch Boris Johnson ally accused the prime minister of “demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy” against her.
The Conservative MP has faced intense pressure to formally resign, having previously insisted she would stay on until Mr Sunak’s government revealed documents on the decision to deny her a peerage in Mr Johnson’s honours list.
Her resignation will give Mr Sunak another headache, triggering a by-election in Mid Bedfordshire which could be held as soon as September, hot on the heels of painful losses for the Tories in Yorkshire and Somerset, despite managing to cling to Mr Johnson’s former seat in Uxbridge.
Her resignation letter, published in the Daily Mail and running to more than 1,750 words, comes a day after the Liberal Democrats vowed to table a “Dosser Dorries” bill as soon as parliament returned to suspend her as an MP.

BBC News
Nadine Dorries has resigned from the Commons, more than two months after pledging to go “with immediate effect”.
She launched a blistering attack on Rishi Sunak in her resignation statement, telling the prime minister “history will not judge you kindly”.
The Mid Bedfordshire MP first announced her intention to quit on 9 June.
She accused Mr Sunak of abandoning “the fundamental principles of Conservatism” and said the country was now run by a “zombie Parliament”.
Ms Dorries, whose salary as an MP is £86,584, had come under increasing pressure to act on her promise to resign as she had not spoken in the Commons since June 2022.

ULEZ

Mail
Millions of drivers are in danger of being hit by a new pay-per-mile road tax under Labour plans seen by The Mail on Sunday.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for an army of experts to build a ‘sophisticated’ new pricing system for the capital’s roads – using the cameras installed for his hugely controversial ultra low emission zone (Ulez) and Congestion Charge schemes.
It would mean drivers could incur charges based on the length of the trip taken, the congestion levels on the roads and the levels of pollution emitted.
A source said: ‘It is an open secret in City Hall that it is being worked on.’
A dedicated website called Project 2030 contains a request for engineers to ‘join TfL [Transport for London] now’ to ‘lead the way in introducing a new, more sophisticated type of road pricing’.
The move has sparked concerns that Labour could roll out similar road taxes across the country, hitting millions. Amid claims that the party is working towards a ‘carless society’, Transport Secretary Mark Harper has written to Sir Keir Starmer to warn that the Government would legislate to block Labour from bringing in road charging.

Guardian
The Metropolitan police has vowed to throw “considerable resources” at protecting this week’s expansion of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) amid fears the rollout will prompt a spike in vandalism and disruptive protests.
The force’s declaration came as London mayor Sadiq Khan issued a fierce defence of his bitterly contested policy, saying he was acting to tackle “toxic air” and prevent the capital’s children “growing up with stunted lungs”.
The Ulez will expand to cover the whole of greater London from this Tuesday. Vehicles that do not meet the emissions standards will be charged £12.50 a day, prompting claims that it will hit people already struggling with the cost of living.
Advocates counter that it is needed to improve air quality and help meet targets in the UK and Europe. In many British cities, including all London boroughs, air pollution far exceeds limits recommended by the World Health Organization.

Metro
London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is just a few days away from being expanded, in line with plans made by Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Up until now the scheme has been limited only to areas within the boundaries of the North and South Circular Roads but from August 29 all London boroughs will be included.
It comes after the mayor won a High Court challenge by several Greater London councils who opposed the plans.
The outer London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Harrow, and Hillingdon, along with Surrey County Council, made the challenge amid concerns residents would not be able to afford the £12.50 daily charge.

Express
London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Labour have dismissed claims they are secretly planning a pay-per-mile scheme for drivers in the capital – and that they want a car-less society – as “complete nonsense” and “completely untrue”.
However, Transport Secretary Mark Harper is said to have warned Sir Keir Starmer that the Government will legislate to block Labour from bringing in road charging.  And a national newspaper claims it has seen plans to charge drivers by the mile – and that London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone ULEZ is just the start of Labour’s “vision” for a car-less society.
It quotes a “Government source” that says Labour intends to “drive cars off the road” – and another that says plans to charge drivers based on the length of the trip taken are “an open secret in City Hall”.

Telegraph
Sadiq Khan’s plans for pay-per-mile charging for motorists in a future Ulez-style scheme could be scuppered under a new law to let councils opt out.
Mark Harper, the Transport Secretary, has written to Sir Keir Starmer warning that the Government will back an amendment to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill that would ensure that councillors could block “a Labour plan to use air pollution to attempt to justify” charges on drivers.
The move comes as the Labour Mayor of London, declared Tuesday a “landmark day” when the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) expands across the capital.
Mr Khan continues to insist the expansion will “improve air quality” and prevent 4,000 premature deaths from pollution, despite criticism his claims are based upon “flawed” or “selective” scientific data.

Mirror
The expansion of London’s Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) will be a “landmark day” for the capital, Sadiq Khan has said.
The zone will grow to include all London boroughs from Tuesday, which the London Mayor said would “ensure every Londoner breathes cleaner air.”
“We’ve already seen huge progress since I announced the expansion. On the eve of the roll out 9 in 10 cars seen driving in the zone on an average day are already compliant and won’t pay a penny,” he said. “Financial help is available for every single Londoner and small business whose vehicle is not compliant.”
If your car is not compliant with ULEZ, you’ll need to pay £12.50 each day you enter the zone. ULEZ operates seven days a week, except for Christmas Day, and is applicable against cars, motorcycles, vans and specialist vehicles (up to and including 3.5 tonnes) and minibuses (up to and including 5 tonnes) who do not comply with the current European emission standards.

Heart attack

Mail
The symptoms of a cardiac arrest are different between men and women, experts warn.
A study of more than 1,672 found that for women, the most prominent symptom of an impending cardiac arrest is shortness of breath, whereas for men, it is chest pain.
Both men and women also had palpitations, seizure-like activity and flu-like symptoms.
The fatal complication – which sees the heart suddenly stop beating and deny the rest of the body oxygen-rich blood – causes around 450,000 deaths a year in the US.
Dr Sumeet Chugh from Cedars-Sinai in California hopes her findings will lead people to quickly identify signs of a cardiac arrest and take swift action.
Approximately 90 percent of people who experience a sudden cardiac arrest at home die from it.
However, more of a distinction in symptoms among the sexes could help first responders spot the loss of heart function in male and female patients more quickly.

Mail
Half of all people who have a cardiac arrest will experience tell-tale symptoms in the 24 hours before, according to a new study. But the telltale signs are different for men than women.
A cardiac arrest, when the heart stops beating, is the most deadly form of heart condition, killing 90 per cent of all those it strikes outside of a hospital. So there is an urgent need to better predict and prevent it. If more people are aware of the symptoms then they might get themselves to a hospital.
Women will feel breathless in the day before, whereas men will feel chest pains, according to a new study from the Smidt Heart Institute at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the US. Smaller subgroups of both genders experienced palpitations, seizure-like activity and flu-like symptoms.

NHS

Guardian
Hundreds of migrants have declined NHS treatment after being presented with upfront charges over the past two years, amid complaints the government’s “hostile environment” on immigration remains firmly in place.
Data compiled by the Observer under the Freedom of Information Act shows that, since January 2021, 3,545 patients across 68 hospital trusts in England have been told they must pay upfront charges totalling £7.1m. Of those, 905 patients across 58 trusts did not proceed with treatment.
NHS trusts in England have been required to seek advance payment before providing elective care to certain migrants since October 2017. It covers overseas visitors and migrants ruled ineligible for free healthcare, such as failed asylum seekers and those who have overstayed their visa. The policy is not supposed to cover urgent or “immediately necessary” treatment. However, there have been multiple cases of people wrongly denied treatment.

Education

Mail
Five teenage girls have written to the Prime Minister urging him to keep single-sex toilets in schools to guarantee female pupils’ safety and dignity.
In an open letter, the students – who are aged between 13 and 15 – called on Rishi Sunak to tackle the issue head on when the Government issues its long-awaited transgender guidance to schools.
The girls – who used only their first names to sign their letter for fear of a backlash from trans activists – said single-sex facilities were an ‘essential safeguarding feature’ of schools.
But they warned that many schools had started introducing mixed toilets without consultation to appease transgender and Left-wing activists.
The five pupils, who identified themselves as Cynthia, Marilyn, Sonja, Olivia and Ellie, said many female pupils found mixed-sex toilets ‘intimidating, humiliating and downright dangerous’.
They called on Mr Sunak, who is a father of two daughters, to uphold their rights.
‘There is no justifiable reason to introduce dangerous and uncomfortable spaces into schools, and the Government has a duty to ensure that toilets in schools are safe and dignified,’ they wrote.
The letter warns that in ‘many schools, girls are so uncomfortable with having to use the toilets there that they simply don’t go at school, risking a urinary tract infection’. They decided to write to Mr Sunak after almost 12,000 people signed an online petition launched by one of the girls calling for single-sex spaces to be protected in schools.

Guardian
Universities are reducing the number of days students are required to be on campus to enable them to work part-time as they struggle to survive the cost of living crisis.
Compact teaching timetables, where lectures and seminars are scheduled over two or three days rather than dotted throughout the week, are being introduced by a number of institutions. The move makes it easier for the growing number of undergraduates who have to take on part-time jobs to make ends meet. More than half of students now work alongside their studies, up from 45% in 2022 and 34% in 2021.
With inadequate maintenance loans, which barely cover accommodation costs, and cash-strapped families struggling to afford parental contributions, young people starting degrees in the autumn face financial uncertainty. Two-thirds of freshers expect to get a part-time job to stay afloat, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas). Students describe having to skip meals, work extra shifts or rely on credit cards to survive.

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