All news by author: Nick Sommerlad
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Rent at luxury flat owned by Jeremy Hunt soared by 18% amid housing crisis
Tenants who moved into Jeremy Hunt's apartment last summer were charged £300 more a month than previous ones. The 18% increase was almost twice the rate of inflation at the time
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British surgeon in last functioning Gaza hospitals says they are 'overwhelmed'
Professor Ghassan Abu-Sittah said he can only operate to save the dying, those who are “bleeding out”, as no-one will take his place if he leaves
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Tory donor's firm gets £11.5m contract to supply classrooms to RAAC-hit schools
A firm run by Conservative councillor David Wernick – who has donated £71,000 to the Conservative Party, either personally or through his companies – has been awarded an £11.5m contract to supply classrooms to schools struggling with RAAC
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Michelle Mone finally admits role in £200m PPE deal uncovered by the Mirror
Tory peer Baroness Mone has finally admitted to her role in a £200m government PPE deal alongside her billionaire husband Doug Barrowman after the Mirror exposed their involvement with firm PPE Medpro
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Concrete chaos leaves schoolkids still learning from home - some until next year
Among the worst affected is Scalby School, in Scarborough, North Yorks, where head Chris Robertson must wait until the summer term for his pupils to get temporary classrooms
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Russell Brand made disturbing joke about writing a sex addiction 'victims' list'
The comedian Russell Brand has been accused by Channel 4's Dispatches and The Sunday Times of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, which he has denied
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Captain Tom's daughter earned nearly £100,000 from his charity, accounts reveal
Accounts have shown Hannah Ingram-Moore, the daughter of fundraising hero Sir Captain Tom Moore who raised more than £39million for the NHS, was paid a substantial salary as interim CEO
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Tories shamed as nine schools in concrete crisis were denied funding last year
The Mirror can reveal that nine schools hit by the concrete crisis were denied rebuild funding, as thousands of pupils are starting their terms once again learning from home
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End of the Road Festival review - 'Three days of glorious sunshine and tunes'
Dorset's The End of the Road Festival 2023 featured artists such as Future Islands and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and was 'three days of glorious sunshine and tunes'
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Gillian Keegan's dept gave £1m from rebuilding pot to firm linked to husband
Deal with Centerprise was paid for from the same pot of cash earmarked to rebuild classrooms at risk of collapse because they contain potentially deadly concrete
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More than 100 schools told to shut crumbling buildings - days before kids return
The shock news could spark chaos for tens of thousands of pupils in England, who may be sent to neighbouring schools or even forced to learn remotely from home
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Dozens of UK school buildings ‘at risk of collapsing’ as pupils set to return
The risk to pupils’ lives has been known for five years after a primary school partly collapsed in Kent, but documents seen by the Mirror indicate there could be chaos ahead for thousands of pupils
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Top Tory had over £70,000 of shares in oil giant while Environment Secretary
The Mirror can reveal that Theresa Villiers owned large shareholdings in several firms for up to five years without declaring them, including when she was a Cabinet minister
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Calls to ban SUVs from built-up areas grow after school horror left girl dead
Researchers have claimed that children are eight times more likely to die if they are hit by an SUV compared to a normal passenger car
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'UK's Pablo Escobar' arrested at home of female prison warden he had fling with
Curtis Warren, a notorious drug dealer has been arrested by the National Crime Agency at the Tyneside home of his partner who he had an affair with while he was behind bars
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Notorious gangster Curtis Warren arrested as police mount dawn raid
Officers seized mobile devices, documents and a quantity of cash in the early-morning operation in Boldon Colliery, South Tyneside that saw the Liverpool criminal arrested
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'Fixers' offer to help women jump the council housing queue - for £5,000
During a two-month investigation, the Mirror spoke to a number of women from a Somali community in London, including a mum-of-five who has been in temporary accommodation for 12 years
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'Next could owe us £100m - our shop jobs are equal to men's in warehouses'
A tribunal agreed that the work of 2,000 female Next sales staff was of equal value to that of males in the firm’s warehouses who earn between £2 and £14 an hour more
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Vulnerable households have just days left to apply for £400 energy bills support
The Mirror can reveal two months after applications opened in March, just 13% of eligible families had applied. Now, there are just days left to apply - or households risk losing out on support
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British charity brings joy to hundreds of Bangladeshi babies born with a cleft
Thanks to the help given by the UK's CLEFT – Bridging the Gap to local doctors, children with the condition can benefit from world-class surgery and care
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Matt Hancock claims £3,000 rent from taxpayer for empty flat during jungle stint
Expenses claims for the disgraced former Health Secretary reveal he continued to claim rent on his flat last year while he was a contestant on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in Australia
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Hospital horror probe over 100s of drugs deaths - as 'cops told 25 years ago'
Police yesterday revealed they are looking into 19 suspects after a damning report found hundreds of patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital had their lives shortened through the use of opioids
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We bought this 15in machete online - with next-day delivery and no age checks
There have been five separate machete attacks in the UK in the last seven days - yet the deadly weapons are still readily available online as the Mirror discovered
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Mega-vapes as strong as 100 cigarettes can be bought by children through post
For around £15 per vape, R and M’s Tornado 9000 delivers nicotine eight times cheaper than other legal disposable vapes. We bought one of a China-based website and they carried out no age verification checks
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Vapes with as much nicotine as 100 cigarettes sold illegally to girl, 13, in day
Nearly half of shops sampled in a Mirror investigation sold a teenager a clutch of vapes containing large amounts of nicotine
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