Millions asked to give 'great cry' in mass pledge of allegiance to King Charles - The National

The words and actions of the coronation service were decided by Lambeth Palace, the home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in close consultation with the King and the UK Government.

They will ask “all persons of goodwill in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of the other realms and the territories, to make their homage, in heart and voice, to their undoubted King, defender of all”.

The order of service will read: “All who so desire, in the abbey, and elsewhere, say together: “All: I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God.”

The vocal pledge has been termed a “Homage of the People”. It is supposed to replace the traditional “Homage of Peers” in which a long line of hereditary aristocrats knelt and made a pledge to the monarch in person.

It is unclear how many people will actually participate in the cry. Polling has suggested that half of Scots have no plans to watch or celebrate the coronation at all, and elsewhere showing that 72% of people north of the Border just don't care.

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Graham Smith, the CEO of campaign group Republic, said the calls for a pledge of allegiance looked "like a spectacular misjudgement".

National columnist Ruth Wishart added: "Swear allegiance to a hereditary monarchy? What fresh hell is this?"

The new Homage of the People was introduced to allow “a chorus of millions of voices” to put out a “great cry around the nation and around the world of support for the King”, Lambeth Palace said.

It will be followed by the playing of a fanfare.

The Archbishop of Canterbury (above) will then proclaim “God Save The King”, with all asked to respond: “God Save King Charles. Long Live King Charles. May The King live forever.”

A spokesperson for Lambeth Palace said: “The Homage of the People is particularly exciting because that’s brand new.

“That’s something that we can share in because of technological advances, so not just the people in the abbey, but people who are online, on television, who are listening, and who are gathered in parks, at big screens and churches.

“Our hope is at that point, when the Archbishop invites people to join in, that people wherever they are, if they’re watching at home on their own, watching the telly, will say it out loud – this sense of a great cry around the nation and around the world of support for the King.”

The words printed in the service are for “everyone to share in”, the spokesperson said.

Before the Homage of the People, the Archbishop of Canterbury will pay homage representing the Church of England, followed by the Prince of Wales – performing what is the only “Homage of Royal Blood”.

William (above) will kneel before the monarch, place his hands between his father’s and vow to be his “liege man of life and limb”.

He will say: “I, William, Prince of Wales, pledge my loyalty to you and faith and truth I will bear unto you, as your liege man of life and limb. So help me God.”

The symbolic act means the heir to the throne, as “liege man” to the King, has a mutual obligation to the monarch.

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In the past, other dukes of royal blood would pay homage, but this time, with only William taking part from the royal family, it removes the need for the controversial Dukes of Sussex and York to undertake this role.

The removal of the homages of hereditary peers also has the benefit of helping to reduce the length of the service, which is now two hours instead of around three as it was at the late Queen’s coronation.

William will also enter the coronation theatre earlier in the ceremony in the investiture segment and help clothe the King in the robe royal, also known as the mantle, ahead of the crowning.

William will join others to lift the “robe of righteousness” on to his father. This is supposed to represent what the King, as sovereign, has been given by God.

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Nurses' strike: Critical care exemptions in place for 28-hour walkout, RCN chief insists, ahead of industrial action - Sky News

National exemptions are in place to provide critical care during strike action by nurses, a union leader has insisted, telling Sky News staff would never leave patients unsafe or create more risk.

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary Pat Cullen was speaking to Sophy Ridge On Sunday ahead of a 28-hour walkout by members over pay.

The government has warned strike action without exemptions "clearly does put patients at risk".

The industrial action will run from 8pm on Sunday until 11.59pm on Monday night after voting to reject the latest government offer.

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The union initially said it would not agree to derogations - broad areas of care where staffing is guaranteed despite industrial action - fuelling concerns about patients being put at risk.

It led Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) among other organisations to declare a "business continuity incident" until it was confident it could staff its services over the strike.

The RCN subsequently offered assurances after the hospital raised "serious concerns".

But Ms Cullen told Ridge wider, national exemptions were in place.

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She said: "Our nurses, as I've said time and time again, will never leave their patients unsafe or create more risk that's already in the system at this point in time."

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Ms Cullen added: "There are national exemptions in place for a range of services, for emergency departments, for intensive care units, for neonatal units, paediatric intensive care units, those really acute services.

"In fact, it was the Royal College of Nursing contacted NHS England to ask for a process to be put in place so that we could make sure that the strike was safe for our patients."

'Lives are being put at risk every single day'

Defending the latest walkout she added: "They're going on strike because patients' lives are being put at risk every single day, and why? Because we have tens of thousands of vacant nursing posts."

Health workers across the NHS have gone on strike several times in past months in disputes over pay and conditions.

Unions including Unison and the GMB have voted in favour of a government pay offer to end the strikes, while Unite and the RCN have voted against.

Nurses make up a quarter of NHS staff and are the biggest proportion of the health service workforce.

NHS England warned staffing levels for some areas of the country will be "exceptionally low, lower than on previous strike days".

Pay offer 'fair and reasonable'

Warning of the danger of strike action without exemptions for emergency care, cabinet minister Mark Harper told Ridge: "It clearly does put patients at risk, which is why we urge the unions not to go ahead and do the strike."

Appealing to the RCN, the transport secretary added: "I would urge them to think again and to do what the other trade unions in the health service have done, which is to accept what I think is fair and reasonable pay offer, reflecting the value that we do place on hardworking NHS staff."

'I don't want to see strikes go ahead'

Speaking on the same programme, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer refused to say whether he supported nurses going on strike without exemptions.

He said: "I don't want to see strikes go ahead.

"The way to avoid strikes is to get in the room with the nurses and resolve these issues."

A High Court judge ruled on Thursday it would be unlawful for the RCN strike to continue into Tuesday as originally planned, meaning it will now end just before midnight on Monday.

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Sudanese army blocks Britons from boarding last rescue flights - The Guardian

Britons are feared to have been stranded in Sudan following reports that the country’s armed forces had prevented a number of people from reaching the last rescue flights out of the war-torn country on Saturday.

The Conservative chair of the foreign affairs select committee told the Observer she had received information that elements of the Sudanese Armed Forces had blocked British nationals as they attempted to navigate the treacherous route to an airbase north of Khartoum.

Speaking an hour before the UK government’s final flight for British nationals and NHS doctors was due to leave Sudan, Alicia Kearns MP said: “I’ve had some messages saying the Sudanese Armed Forces have been stopping people from crossing through Khartoum to get to the airstrip. I think we need to look into that and see if that’s got any truth to it. If so, you’ve got British nationals who are stuck and being stopped from getting to the evacuation point.”

Earlier, hundreds of people had been told to risk ongoing fighting and try to make it to the evacuation centre at the Wadi Seidna airbase – about 14 miles north of Khartoum and its twin city, Omdurman – while the Sudanese Armed Forces continued to attack the positions of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group.

Kearns’s bleak update followed fresh airstrikes and artillery fire in the Sudanese capital, and came amid mounting concern over the broader humanitarian disaster unfolding on Sudan’s borders, with thousands waiting for days in the open air to enter Egypt, or walking hundreds of miles to cross into South Sudan.

Among them were Rana Ameen, a 23-year-old engineering student, who said she and five members of her family had paid the equivalent of £475 per person to reach the border crossing with Egypt, almost 600 miles away. To even reach the bus station on the outskirts of Omdurman, the family was forced to negotiate the centre of the capital, where bitter fighting between two generals has caused hundreds thousands of people to flee.

Once at the border, the situation only deteriorated as they were forced to wait in the desert for three days to cross. “It was a deadly trip,” she said. “At the border crossing, there was barely food, water and no bathrooms. Babies were crying as they lay on the ground. Women were very tired. Thousands of men were standing in very long lines to get visas.”

On Friday, the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, said they had imposed the deadline on rescue flights after a lack of demand for seats. However, Kearns urged ministers to check on the location of all 2,000 people who had registered as needing assistance to ensure they had all reached the UK.

She also criticised the communication strategy of the government over the past week as being too intermittent. “The system proves that bureaucratic nonsense and siloed thinking continues to be a problem, even in a crisis,” she added.

Late on Saturday, the government said the UK had successfully evacuated 1,888 people from Sudan on 21 flights – the vast majority of them British nationals and their dependents.

The Foreign, Common and Development Office said shortly after 9pm that the final flight, which had been scheduled to leave at 6pm, was still at the airfield near Khartoum.

James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, said: “The UK has brought more than 1,888 people to safety from Sudan thanks to the efforts of staff and military working around the clock to deliver this evacuation – the largest of any western country.

“We continue to press all diplomatic levers to secure a long-term ceasefire and end the bloodshed in Sudan. Ultimately a stable transition to civilian rule is the best way to protect the security and prosperity of the Sudanese people.”

Anyone left behind faces an uncertain future and may choose to head north to Egypt, the opposite way to South Sudan or broadly east towards Port Sudan on the Red Sea.

A sense of Sudan’s rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis began to emerge on Saturday, with images of refugees holding Saudi Arabian flags after successfully crossing the Red Sea to the port of Jeddah contrasting sharply with stories of people waiting days to cross into Egypt. Thousands more are sheltering in the open border region with Chad, while others have travelled east to Ethiopia.

The International Organization for Migration estimates that at least 75,000 people have been newly displaced by the fighting, although this number may not include thousands more who fled to Sudan to seek shelter from conflict in surrounding nations and have now been forced to flee a second time.

Terrified refugees found little welcome on the border with Egypt, where just a few local police officers had been dispatched to process thousands of exhausted people. “Thousands of people were there at the crossing but very few border employees,” added Ameen, who said there had been only one police officer deployed to check hundreds of passports at a time.

The Egyptian ministry of health said it had deployed teams to two border crossings with Sudan to aid new arrivals in need of care, almost two weeks after fighting began.

Egypt has long sought to militarise its border region with Sudan as a way to crack down on migration, impeding access to civil society or aid groups from the Egyptian side in order to worsen an already harsh environment for arrivals.

Moneer Abdel Mohsen, a Sudanese citizen who fled across the Egyptian border and took a flight back to the United Arab Emirates after a trip to Sudan to see friends, said he had waited a day and a half at the border crossing. “It was chaos at the border,” he said. “People were sitting on the floor. I spent those one and a half days without sleep, food or water.”

He added that prices for bus tickets, which cost him the equivalent of almost £200, are increasing every day. “I felt so sad leaving my friends behind. But only those who have money can leave the country,” he said.

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Sudan crisis: NHS doctors told they can catch last UK evacuation flights - BBC

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The UK government has told NHS doctors in Sudan they can now catch evacuation flights out of the country, in a U-turn on its previous policy.

More than 20 NHS medics were initially told they could not board flights because they were not British nationals - although they have UK work permits.

The government confirmed to the BBC that non-Britons in Sudan working for the NHS could be evacuated.

The change comes just hours before the UK's final rescue flights out of Sudan.

Fighting erupted in capital Khartoum two weeks ago due to a power struggle within the Sudan's military leadership.

A UK government spokesperson told the BBC the evacuation criteria had been extended to non-British nationals in Sudan working "as clinicians within the NHS, and their dependents who have leave to enter the UK".

The spokesperson added that the government was working with partners to "maintain the ceasefire and bring an end to fighting - the single most important thing we can do to ensure the safety of British nationals and others in Sudan".

Countries have been frantically rescuing their citizens, with the latest evacuations happening during a US-brokered ceasefire, which has not held.

On Friday evening, the US also reportedly started evacuating civilians on buses - with a convoy carrying some 300 people leaving Khartoum and heading towards the coastal city of Port Sudan, according to US media. It appears to be the first evacuation of non-diplomat Americans from Sudan.

British nationals and the NHS doctors hoping to leave Sudan had until midday local time (11:00 BST) to reach the Wadi Seidna airfield.

They were instructed to make their own way to the airfield.

The Ministry of Defence has told the BBC flights will continue to leave Sudan until all those people who registered at the airfield before the deadline have been evacuated.

More than 1,650 people have been evacuated from Khartoum and more than 1,000 have been flown to the UK, it added.

The Foreign Office has also announced consular support in the coastal city of Port Sudan, with an office established at the Coral Hotel.

It advised British nationals to visit the team for help or call the 24-hour helpline on +441908 516 666.

The Foreign Office said the last flights marked "the end of a successful evacuation operation" and it was winding up evacuations due to "declining demand for seats".

It added that the UK has "set up a limited consular presence at Port Sudan to signpost British nationals to available options for departure".

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Stories emerged this week of National Health Service doctors being turned away from the airport in Khartoum - and the Foreign Office repeatedly told the BBC that only British passport holders and their dependents were able to get on the flights.

They insisted anyone with a work permit was welcome in the UK, but must make their own way there.

On Friday evening, a message was circulated by the Department of Health and Social Care to NHS doctors in Sudan, telling them to make their way to Wadi Seidna airfield, just north of the capital, for evacuation.

The text, seen by the BBC, tells any medical staff with leave to remain to bring dependents and proof of NHS employment.

The change comes after the case of Sudanese doctor Dr Abdulrahman Babiker, who was initially refused a place on a British evacuation, made headlines.

Dr Babiker landed back in the UK on Saturday after he was successfully evacuated on a flight to Cyprus which landed there on Friday evening.

He told the BBC he was "really glad" that the UK government had changed its guidance - but said there was "just one day only" for his colleagues in Sudan to make the last flights.

After he landed in Cyprus, he said he had "mixed feelings", saying: "I am happy that I am finally in a safe place, away from a war and on my way back to the UK. At the same time I feel down that my family (my dad, mum, brother and sister) are still endangered by this deadly fighting in my country.

"I am thinking about them now and trying to work out what I can do to help them escape the danger zone."

Speaking to the BBC from Stansted Airport after finally making it home, Dr Babiker thanked the journalists who highlighted the position of NHS doctors trapped in Sudan and the UK government for changing evacuation guidance, as well as colleagues for their support.

The Manchester Royal Infirmary doctor is planning to fly to the UK later and is due back at work on Tuesday.

The British Medical Association had called on the government to "ensure all NHS doctors, and their families, including those on UK visas are evacuated".

Those comments were echoed by Labour shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, who said if there was a reduced demand for evacuation flights while the ceasefire is ongoing, then the government should widen its criteria to include British residents trying to flee Sudan.

He added: "It cannot be right for the government to clap for NHS doctors one day and then turn them away from evacuation flights out of a conflict zone the next."

The UK's evacuations to the RAF base in Cyprus began last Tuesday.

Other countries have also been evacuating their citizens, and the UN refugee agency said around 33,000 refugees fled from Khartoum to refugee camps in Sudan's White Nile state.

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Heavy fighting between the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed at least 512 people, and injured almost 4,200.

Missiles and heavy weaponry has also damaged the country's key infrastructure, including access to clean water and the internet. Health officials say most hospitals in conflict areas are not functioning, and more than 60% of health facilities in the capital, Khartoum, are inactive.

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Despite the ceasefire, fighting has not come to a halt and eyewitness have reported fighting in Khartoum, the western Darfur region and other provinces.

The truce - due to end at midnight local time on Thursday (23:00 BST) - was extended for a further 72 hours.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken - who mediated talks alongside neighbouring countries, the UK and UN - said that while the ceasefire was imperfect, it had reduced violence.

The UK Foreign Office called the evacuation effort "the longest and largest evacuation effort of any Western country".

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Ministers set to impose NHS pay deal on staff despite opposition of unions - The Guardian

Ministers plan to impose a pay deal on NHS workers even as nurses continue to reject it, the Observer understands, as health service unions prepare to hold crunch talks on the package this week.

Both the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Unite unions continue to oppose the deal offered to NHS workers, after protracted negotiations that have led to strikes and hampered attempts to shorten waiting lists. All 12 unions involved in the talks will gather on Tuesday to vote on whether to accept an improved deal covering the last two years.

Should the unions opposing an agreement be outvoted, sources said that ministers would simply press on and apply the agreement. The move is apparently designed to isolate the RCN, which will begin another strike on Sunday.

Health unions will debate the deal during a meeting of the NHS staff council on Tuesday. Most insiders expect it to be voted through, despite some continued opposition. It comes amid warnings of a crisis of morale within the NHS before the new strike action.

Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said there were now “serious issues” about recruitment that went beyond the current pay talks. “I talk to NHS leaders all the time and I have never known a period when leaders are so worried about staff morale and there is a sense of a loss of hope,” he told the BBC. “We have 120,000-plus of vacancies in the health service.”

Pat Cullen, the RCN general secretary, said it was “disingenuous” to claim that the continuing problems with treatment delays were down to strikes.

The deal on offer would give NHS staff in England, apart from doctors and dentists, a one-off, non-consolidated payment of between £1,250 and £2,000 for 2022-23, on top of the £1,400 rise in basic pay they have already received. It also includes a 5% rise in basic pay for 2023-24.

The RCN’s latest strike was due to last until 8pm on 2 May, but it has been forced to shorten its industrial action after the high court in London ruled its legal mandate for strikes expired on 1 May.

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2023-04-29 14:57:00Z
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GMB union votes to accept pay offer for NHS staff in England - The Guardian

A leading health union has accepted the government’s improved pay offer for NHS staff, in a move that could split unions over whether to keep on striking for more money.

GMB members working in the NHS in England have voted by 56% to 44% to accept the deal that all 12 health unions hammered out last month with the health secretary, Steve Barclay.

The GMB’s decision came hours after another union, Unite, rejected the deal and the NHS continued to gear up for a new nurses strike on Sunday.

That means two of the main NHS-related unions have accepted the deal – Unison has already done so – as have unions representing midwives and physiotherapists. But two other unions – Unite and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) – have rejected it, as have those representing podiatrists and radiographers.

Those differences will be aired next Tuesday when the NHS staff council, which represents all 12 unions, meets to debate and vote on the improved offer for both last year and this.

The staff council operates on an electoral college system in which unions’ voting strength is proportionate to the size of their membership. Union insiders say that system, allied to the unions’ decisions so far, mean it is likely the council will vote to accept the deal.

Nevertheless, that could lead to a fracture in the coalition of NHS unions, with Unite continuing to strike for a better NHS deal and the RCN doing the same if it gets a renewed legal mandate from a ballot of its members.

The GMB and Unite’s ballot results came amid rising concern in the NHS in England that this weekend’s strike by nurses could leave hospitals desperately short of staff and put patients at risk.

NHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said some were “struggling to find enough staff”.

Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London said it had “serious concerns” over how it would be able to look after its patients, many of whom are critically ill, over the weekend. The hospital is so concerned that on Friday it declared a “business continuity incident” to protect patient safety.

Tens of thousands of nurses belonging to the RCN are expected to stage a 28-hour stoppage from 8pm on Sunday until midnight the next day with – for the first time since they began striking in December – no exemptions for life-or-death areas of care such as A&E and intensive care.

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“We respect the right of our staff to take part in lawful industrial action. But after exhausting all options, at the moment we have serious concerns over how we will safely staff our hospital during the strike”, said Mat Shaw, Great Ormond Street’s chief executive.

They are unhappy with the improved pay deal. It would give NHS staff in England, apart from doctors and dentists, a one-off non-consolidated payment of between £1,250 and £2,000 for 2022-23, on top of the £1,400 rise in basic pay they have already received – the sum that prompted nurses, ambulance staff and other health workers to stage a series of strikes starting in mid-December. It also includes a 5% rise in basic pay for 2023-24.

The RCN’s strike was due to last until 8pm on 2 May. The union suffered a humiliation on Thursday, however, when the high court in London declared that its planned strike on that day was unlawful because its legal mandate, arising from a ballot last autumn, expired on 1 May.

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2023-04-28 15:13:00Z
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Body found in search for fiancé of dead teacher Marelle Sturrock formally identified as David Yates - Daily Record

Police have formally identified the body of a man pulled from Mugdock Reservoir during the search for the 'killer' of pregnant teacher Marelle Sturrock.

David Yates was being hunted by cops after his partner and her unborn baby were found dead at their home in Jura Street, Glasgow, on Tuesday. The 36-year-old’s car, a white Seat Ateca, was found abandoned at the beauty spot on Tuesday sparking a major manhunt.

A body was found by police on Thursday afternoon. It has now been formally identified as being Yates. There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.

A statement from Police Scotland said: “The body of a man recovered yesterday following searches of Mugdock Reservoir has now been formally identified as 36-year-old David Yates. His death is not being treated as suspicious.

“Yates was wanted in connection with the murder of his partner Marelle Sturrock. The 35-year-old was found dead at her home on Jura Street, Glasgow on Tuesday, 25 April, 2023.

“An investigation remains ongoing, however, there is nothing to suggest anyone else was involved in her death.

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“Reports will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal in due course. Officers continue to provide specialist support to both families at this incredibly difficult time.”

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