UK's elite schools face a reckoning on rape culture

London (CNN)Nine years after being assaulted by a boy she alleges was a student at Eton College, Zan Moon can still remember the moment as if it was yesterday.

"I can picture the hallway where it happened, his hands around my neck choking me," she says. "Then he put his hands down my pants... It was painful. I told him to stop."

Moon says the five-hour attack took place outside of school in a secluded cottage on England's South Coast, rented for the weekend by a friend at the elite girls' boarding school she attended: Benenden. She was 15 then.

Boys from the two all-male schools the girls often socialized with -- Eton and Tonbridge -- were also there and saw her fight her aggressor off multiple times. Yet no one intervened, she says.

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UK watchdog investigating Sussex Royal, Harry and Meghan’s charity

London: Britain’s Charity Commission is conducting a review of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s philanthropic organisation.

Well-placed sources said that the watchdog was examining how Sussex Royal was run and whether it complied with charity law.

The “regulatory and compliance case” is understood to be looking at concerns about the charity before the royal couple decided to shut it down last July after their move to America. 

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Boris Johnson's vaccine strategy gets another boost, while Europe confronts fresh problems

London (CNN)Boris Johnson didn't have a very good start to the pandemic. The United Kingdom still has one of the world's worst coronavirus mortality rates, and is near the top of the table in total infections and deaths -- truly the Covid capital of Europe.

Critics have blamed this on several errors made early on, from going into lockdown too late and making a mess of testing to poor government communications.

However, of late, Johnson's fortunes appear to have turned. On Monday, the Prime Minister was able to reveal a roadmap that would take England out of lockdown before the end of June.

Johnson would not have been able to deliver this good news had the UK's vaccine rollout not gone so remarkably well to date. As things stand, the UK has administered more than 18.5 million doses, or 27 per 100 people. Compare this to other European giants like France and Germany, who have each managed only six per 100, and a very favorable narrative emerges for Johnson. 

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London Covid cases by borough revealed amid hopes capital’s second wave is peaking

Hopes strengthened today that the devastating Covid-19 second wave in London is peaking as 11 boroughs continued to show falls in the number of cases. Bromley saw the biggest drop in confirmed cases in the week to January 8, of 18.3 per cent, 

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Free school meals: What £15 and £30 really gets you as outcry sparks U-turn

This is how much £15 and £30 can really get you at the shops - if free school meals cash was handed directly to struggling parents. A scandal erupted this week as a disabled mum-of-two's shocking picture of her measly free school meals parcel ignited controversy.

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UK steps up vaccinations as coronavirus-related deaths and case numbers hit record highs

The United Kingdom is facing its worst weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, its Chief Medical Officer says, with deaths and cases in the country hitting record highs ahead of the rollout of a mass vaccination program. According to Johns Hopkins University, 

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UK reports 54,940 new Covid-19 cases, 563 deaths – latest updates

 Sunday, January 10, 2021:

Britain sees 54,940 new cases, 563 deaths

Coronavirus Updates

Britain has reported 54,940 new cases of Covid-19, a slight drop from the number on Saturday, and 563 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test, government data has shown.

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UK Coronavirus LIVE: Covid cases up by nearly 55,000 as Chris Whitty warns NHS is facing ‘most dangerous situation’

The NHS faces the “most dangerous situation” in living memory as the Covid-19 pandemic stretches hospitals to breaking point, Chris Whitty has warned. With the health service straining under record numbers of coronavirus patients, England’s 

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Coronavirus Updates

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip vaccinated against COVID-19

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Her Majesty, 94, and Duke of Edinburgh, 99, are the first members of the British Royal Family to received the jab, which a royal source confirms was administered by a Household Doctor at Windsor Castle on Saturday.

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'World's unluckiest burglars' arrested after pocket-dialling police during robbery

Two hapless burglars have been arrested in the UK after accidentally pocket-dialling the police during their crime. An officer in Staffordshire, central England, labelled the thieves the "world's unluckiest

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London's field hospital to be used amid acute COVID-19 pressure

Britain's National Health Service (NHS) will from next week employ a little-used field hospital specially built at a huge exhibition centre in east London in the early days of the pandemic last spring.

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UK leader vows to use 'every second' to vaccinate vulnerable

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged that his government would use "every available second" to shield the elderly and the vulnerable from the virus rampaging across Britain as he told Parliament on Wednesday why the country needed to return to a COVID-19 lockdown.

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