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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said: ‘Red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy.’ He then offered £650 million to a ‘green climate fund’. In a speech in Singapore, Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said that fines for banks over rigging foreign exchange rates showed that ‘it is simply untenable now to argue that the problem is one of a few bad apples. The issue is with the barrels in which they are stored.’ Official figures showed that the number of British Army reservists has been boosted by a recruitment drive in the past year from 19,290 to 19,310. Friends of the Earth went to law to secure the future on the river Otter of a family of beavers living wild there.
‘Rotherham was not an outlier and that there is a widespread problem of organised child sexual exploitation in England,’ said a report by the Commons Communities and Local Government Committee. The General Synod of the Church of England voted for canon law to be changed so that Canon 33 should begin: ‘A man or a woman may be consecrated to the office of bishop.’ Two men in Cardiff died of meningoencephalitis after receiving a transplanted kidney infected with the parasitic worm Halicephalobus gingivalis. Some 6,000 birds were killed at a duck farm in Nafferton, East Yorkshire, after the detection there of the H5N8 strain of avian influenza (very infectious to birds, rarely to human beings).
The Conservative party contemplated the defeat of its candidate by Ukip’s in the Rochester and Strood by-election. Greg Dyke, the chairman of the Football Association, demanded that Fifa should publish in full a report into alleged World Cup corruption. It had published a summary which cleared Russia and Qatar of wrongdoing, but Michael Garcia, the American lawyer who spent two years on the inquiry, said the summary ‘contains numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations’ of what he had written.
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