All news by author: Ben Glaze
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Dad whose son, 12, died during swimming race hails schools defibrillator rollout
The Mirror is campaigning for all public buildings to be equipped with the lifesaving devices - and the Government vowed to put defibrillators in all state schools by June this year
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Tories chose not to respond to looming nurse shortages 12 years ago
A Labour backbencher has revealed the reply he received from a Conservative Health Secretary after raising fears about a cut in training places for budding nurses
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New £70 million ship bought to protect underwater cables from Russian sabotage
The Topaz Tangaroa has berthed at Birkenhead where she will be repainted, fitted with military equipment and renamed before being relaunched for her vital missions
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James Dyson blasts Tories' 'stupid' and 'short-sighted' economic policies
The vacuum tycoon and knight of the realm lashed out at Rishi Sunak's Government over its approach to generating growth - and attacked ministers for hiking taxes on firms
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Rishi Sunak gives his own wealthy constituency £19m to 'level-up'
The Prime Minister announced the cash to regenerate the town centre in Catterick six months after footage emerged of him boasting about diverting levelling-up funds from deprived, urban areas
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Labour calls for probe into Boris Johnson's £800k 'credit facility'
Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards calling for an urgent investigation into revelations of the arrangement between the then Prime Minister and a distant cousin
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Watchdog slams Government over security vetting delays and backlogs
A damning National Audit Office report outlines the scale of delays hitting checks, which Labour said was "a stinging rebuke from the independent watchdog"
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'Iranians threaten to destroy body of executed dual national Alireza Akbari'
MPs were told doubt has been cast on the timing of his death - and that his corpse could be "destroyed" unless his family cooperated with Iranian authorities
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Teachers set to strike next month as cabinet slam action as 'disruptive'
Teachers are set to strike in February as the National Education Union chiefs is set to announce results of a ballot for industrial action on Monday - despite NASUWT failing to meet the threshold for action
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Paying carers Real Living Wage could help ease NHS crisis, say campaigners
The Living Wage Foundation believes lifting the pay of tens of thousands of care workers could encourage more staff into the sector, relieving pressure on the health service
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Families missing out on £4.25-a-week food vouchers as data shrouded in mystery
The Feeding Britain charity urged the Government to publish the figures - due more than two weeks ago - as soon as possible to show how a revamp of the system is working
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Steel firm cutting 440 jobs urges 'revolution' to save sector on 'life support'
Writing exclusively for the Mirror, Liberty Steel's Jeff Kabel says there is a way to rescue the sector - and help it transition to more environmentally-friendly production
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Just one in five Brits would vote Tory in an election today as Labour lead grows
The latest survey, by People Polling for GB News, reveals the scale of the challenge facing Rishi Sunak if he is to turn around the Conservatives' fortunes before the next election
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Security had to stop obsessives trying to sneak into Queen's lying-in-state
Parliament's head of security revealed how officials worked to block certain individuals from attending the sombre vigil beside the Queen's coffin in Parliament's Westminster Hall
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PCSO numbers halve under Tories as people less likely to see officers on beat
A decade of vicious Conservative austerity has halved PCSO levels, with increasing numbers of the public saying they never see officers on patrol.
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Hundreds of Liberty Steel jobs at risk as firm announces fresh wave of cuts
The company delivered a fresh blow to the sector this morning as the industry battles high energy costs and struggles to compete with foreign rivals
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Local chemists suffering £67,000 annual shortfall, say pharmacists' leaders
The Company Chemists’ Association blasted the "truly broken" funding system and warned the Government that pharmacists needed extra cash to help ease the desperate NHS crisis
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GP numbers drop in Sunak's back yard as he faces private healthcare questions
The Conservative leader is expected to come under fresh pressure over whether he uses a £250-a-half-hour doctor when he faces MPs at Prime Minister's Questions
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Brazen Shapps says striking paramedics are 'risking lives' in 'poison' crackdown
The Business Secretary is accused of 'demonising' striking ambulance workers as he turns his fire on the unions - and publishes a Bill to enforce minimum service levels on unions
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Steelworkers warn of risk of job losses as Tories cut back energy support
The Government is curbing help for firms hit by surging energy prices - raising fears for the future of the UK's fragile steel industry amid sky-high costs
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NHS staff told to work harder as pay talks with Tories branded 'an insult'
Health Secretary Steve Barclay was today accused of insulting NHS staff, who the Tories roundly hailed and applauded for their dedication at the height of Covid
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Plan to move 3,000 hospital patients into care homes branded 'sticking plaster'
Health Secretary Steve Barclay said he 'regretted' patients' experience but blamed a surge of flu in England's hospitals as he unveiled a plan to discharge thousands within weeks
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Use UK steel in British warships to avoid 'double betrayal', urge campaigners
Unions and MPs reacted furiously last year when the Ministry of Defence handed a £1.6billion contract to build three new vessels to a consortium led by a Spanish company
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10 election target seats where Lib Dems could topple Tories in 'Surrey shuffle'
Insiders in Sir Ed Davey's party believe they have identified a phenomenon where Labour-supporting voters moving out of London to the shires and suburbs switch to the Lib Dems
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Rishi Sunak can't solve Channel migrant crisis, says majority of voters
A poll for GB News showed the hueg scepticism with which the public treats the Prime Minister's claim he will stop small boats bringing migrants to the UK across the Strait of Dover
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