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Top Tory told 'get back to work' and meet unions as rail strikes pile on misery
Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has written to Tory cabinet member Mark Harper after official records showed he hasn't met with the RMT or ASLEF at all in 2023
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'For the sake of grieving mothers like James Bulger's TikTok must act quickly'
The terrible abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool 30 years ago shocked the nation – and his mother Denise must be spared any further agony
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Brits who fought in 'forgotten war' reveal horrors they witnessed 70 years on
On Thursday, a Royal British Legion commemoration of the Korean War was held in London’s Horse Guards Parade 70 years after its armistice on July 27, 1953
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'Nigel Farage fiasco is all about Rishi Sunak running scared of party right'
How petrified of upsetting its own extremists must this government be that it drops everything to rush to the aid of Yesterday's Man Nigel Farage?
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Stalling Jeremy Hunt leaves infected blood victims 'disheartened beyond words'
The Chancellor refused to outline a much-delayed compensation scheme for victims of the infected blood scandal and their families - and admitted the dire state of the economy will impact the sums paid
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Tory cuts mean fire services 'not prepared for wildfires' after 2022 devastation
New figures obtained by the Lib Dems found fire services have lost an average of 12% in Government funding - sparking fears the crews aren't prepared for another summer like last year
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Matt Hancock loses complaint over way Mirror described him and Covid coverage
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) ruled in favour of this newspaper after Matt Hancock objected to being called a "a failed health secretary and cheating husband who broke the lockdown rules he wrote"
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Qatar takeover of Man Utd in doubt as mayor points finger at Premier League
The city's mayor said no one is "completely comfortable" about the prospect ofg the Old Trafford club being owned by a Qatari but believes football can simultaneously be a window to open dialogue around change
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Teen found holding dead baby in cell after biting through umbilical cord
WARNING: DISTRESS CONTENT An inquest into the death of a baby who was found dead in her mother's arms inside a prison cell, has slammed both the prison and hospital involved in looking after her pregnant teenage mother
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Tories accused of abandoning pledge to 'fix social care' after diverting cash
The Government announced on Friday that a previously-pledged £600 million funding pot will go to paying existing staff and trying to recruit more to fill gaps ahead of winter
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Tory-led councils lose High Court bid to stop Sadiq Khan's ULEZ expansion
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan plans to expand the Ulez zone to cover the whole of the capital from August 29 to boost air quality
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Donald Trump 'ordered staff to delete CCTV showing top secret files at his home'
The CCTV footage allegedly showed Trump's valet, Walt Nauta, moving boxes of documents in and out of a storage room at the ex-president's Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida
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Medal that Britain's nuclear veterans have waited 70 years for finally unveiled
The delayed and long-awaited nuclear test medal is finally in production, 70 years after Britain's first atomic bomb
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People smugglers 'given free pass by Tories' as convictions drop by a third
Labour has hit out after new figures showed just 253 people were convicted of people smuggling last year, compared to 398 back in 2010 - while the number of prosecutions plummeted by 25%
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'We need to re-think fast fashion as nature is paying the price'
The big household brands mustn’t wash their hands of responsibility - we are what we wear to some extent and paying a little more for clothes we’ll keep longer would benefit the earth
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We've got five extra weeks to protest crazy closure plan for rail ticket offices
Ticket office staff won't be redeployed on platforms like the rail firms claim, says Paul Routledge
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GP crisis as doctors quit in droves and patients can't get appointments
GPs warn primary care is being 'pushed closer towards the precipice' as patients find it harder to see their family doctor as more and more leave their job
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Two new DNA profiles turn up on estate of supermarket boss accused of slayings
Detectives found human remains on the property of wealthy Republican and suspected serial killer Herbert Baumeister, who was linked to the sex slayings of more than 20 boys
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Suella Braverman broke law putting lone children in hotels with 154 missing
In a High Court ruling Mr Justice Chamberlain said the routine housing of unaccompanied children in hotels was against the law, and said asylum seekers were treated "less favourably"
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Police probe 'ads placed by sex traffickers' in Suella Braverman's constituency
Dame Diana Johnson reported more than 70 online sex adverts on "pimping website" VivaStreet to Hampshire Police - which serves the Home Secretary's Fareham patch - after spotting ‘red flags’ suggesting links to trafficking gangs
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Expert claims he knows exact location of UFOs - and they're all near navy bases
Former intelligence officer turned UFO whistleblower, David Grusch, revealed in yesterday's UFO hearing before Congress that he knew the exact location of alien craft he alleges the government have been collecting and "reverse engineering" for decades
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Coutts boss quits following Nigel Farage bank account row
Coutts has come in for heavy criticism over its treatment of the former UKIP leader, with an internal memo showing bank officials had voiced concerns over his political views.
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War of words as Sadiq Khan brands Rishi Sunak 'desperate' in attack over housing
The Government announced it was ploughing £200million into building new homes on brownfield sites in the capital - but the London Mayor pointed out that Mr Sunak had caved in to Tory rebels over housing targets
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Withering Emily Maitlis slams Nigel Farage's 'utter entitlement' over NatWest
Former BBC journalist Ms Maitlis hit out at the "power of the populist" after Mr Farage voiced his anger at the "posh private bank" - saying he had turned "utter entitlement into victimhood" during the NatWest row
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Town council tells Nadine Dorries to finally resign as MP in savage letter
Flitwick Town Council in Bedfordshire said residents are 'desperately in need of effective representation' at Westminster and hits out ex-Cabinet minister's work on television