Lauren Frayer

It's the UK's most remote inhabited overseas territory, with no airstrip and a population of just over 200 people.

The Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docked there in mid-April to drop off a British passenger who lives there.

Two weeks later, he came down with symptoms and is isolating in stable condition.

The Ministry of Defense says six paratroopers jumped out of aircraft in tandem with an intensive care doctor and nurse.

Footage shows three parachutes floating down onto an island meadow dotted with corrugated metal shacks.

The government says oxygen was part of the delivery.

Two other Britons with confirmed cases are being treated in South Africa and the Netherlands.

Lauren Fryer, NPR News, London.

These are seen as the British equivalent of the midterms.

Early results show big losses for Prime Minister Starmer's centre-left Labour Party and gains for the far-right anti-immigration Reform Party.

particularly in working-class areas of northern England that used to vote Labour.

The next parliamentary elections aren't expected for another three years, but a trouncing in these local polls could lead Starmer's party to oust him.

The Prime Minister acknowledged... It's a really tough result.

...but told reporters he won't step down.

Vote counting is still underway in Scotland and in Wales, where pro-independence parties are vying for control of regional legislatures.

Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.

Polls show the far-right anti-immigration Reform Party and the left-wing environmentalist Greens are forecast to win unprecedented numbers of seats on English town councils.

They're challenging the mostly two-party system, Labour and Conservative, that's dominated Britain for 100 years.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party could lose the Welsh Parliament for the first time since its creation.

Labour could even oust Starmer if results are seen as very bad.