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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: A&E crisis, Alps snow shortage and walrus cancels fireworks

7 January 2023

9:00 AM

7 January 2023

9:00 AM

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The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said some A&E departments were in a ‘complete state of crisis’. Railway workers belonging to the RMT union and Aslef began five days of strikes. Rail fares will rise by 5.9 per cent from March after the government decided to cap them; usually they go up a percentage point more than the July inflation figure, which in 2022 was 12.3

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