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Brits hit by 'car theft epidemic' with almost 80% of cases unsolved last year
Official Home Office figures revealed 100,258 car theft cases were closed in 2022 without a suspect even being identified across England and Wales - it means 275 instances were not solved each day
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'This is a blatant attempt by Tories to suppress vote by shutting people out'
Under new rules introduced by this Tory government you will need to show valid identification to vote in England’s local elections. This requirement will apply across the UK at next year’s general election
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Tories 'fake outrage' over Sue Gray in 'hypocritical attempt' to distract voters
Two thirds of the Conservative ministers who sit around the Cabinet table backed an attempt to rip up Westminster sleaze rules in a bid to save Owen Paterson
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BP makes £4bn in three months as Labour's calls for windfall tax are fuelled
BP’s latest profits, between this January and March, were around £560millon more than analysts who follow the company predicted it would make
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Woman, 93, will miss election for first time in her life because of voter ID
Oonagh Preece first went to a polling station in 1950 and has voted in every local and general election since. But the requirement for photo ID at polling stations now excludes her from democracy
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Coronation must be used as 'shot in the arm' for Commonwealth trade, says Labour
Shadow trade secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said Tory ministers are failing to grasp trading opportunities after Brexit as he urged them to take advantage of the Coronation
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Bid to boost social carers' pay and ease chronic crisis clears first stage
A Labour backbencher's Bill to enforce rules around carers being paid for travel time has passed its first Commons hurdle - and is due to back in front of MPs in six months
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Number of Brits turned away at polls due to Voter ID will never be known
The Electoral Commission has admitted it will 'not be possible to accurately quantify' the impact of the new rules by counting who does or doesn’t have ID at the ballot box
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Social care 'lowest paid of any job in Britain', spluttering top Tory is told
Care Minister Helen Whately faced a tough 90 minutes of questioning from MPs on the Commons Health and Social Care Committee over wage rates and chronic levels of vacancies
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NHS pay rise finally agreed but nurses and ambulance strikes could continue
The NHS Staff Council meeting of NHS Employers and 14 unions representing all staff except doctors and dentists took place from 1.30pm and saw a landmark vote on the 5% pay rise for 2023/24
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Tories now forecast to lose just 250 council seats as Rishi Sunak avoids wipeout
Senior Conservatives had feared up to 1,000 of their local councillors would be ousted in the Prime Minister's first big electoral test on Thursday
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Man tries to fool police into thinking he's Boris Johnson with driving licence
The fake Ukrainian document had a photo of Boris Johnson plus his correct birth date, but police said they were not fooled by the document
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Desperate Tories cook up Sue Gray 'dead cat' row two days before local elections
Keir Starmer accused Rishi Sunak of attempting to stoke a row about his decision to hire the former government ethics chief as he has nothing to say about the cost of living crisis
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Tory branded 'Nimby' in TV clash as he says 'no one wants' asylum centre nearby
Sky News presenter Kay Burley grilled Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on whether he was a 'Nimby' (Not in my back yard) after his local council tried to block plans to house asylum seekers on a disused airbase
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Keir Starmer says Labour will abandon vow to scrap university tuition fees
The Labour leader said the party was preparing to 'move on' from its commitment to free tuition, which was written into the last two manifestos under Jeremy Corbyn leadership
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'Rishi Sunak should look at France burning before raising retirement age'
In the UK, the Government is already increasing the retirement age, without proper consultation, to 67 from 2028. The PM now looks to bring forward to 2036 from 2046 the scheduled rise to 68 - he should take France as a warning
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Energy giants raking in £60 million a day profits as Tories fail on windfall tax
The Government has been accused of giving these companies “generous and untargeted handouts” by Labour as millions struggle through the cost of living crisis.
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More than 6.5million kids not getting yearly dentist check - a jump by a third
The NHS recommends under-18s see a dentist at least once a year because their teeth can decay faster, but the number who have had not had recent check-ups is soaring
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Paris police officers set on fire as millions take to the streets in protest
Protestors set fire to roads in Paris with containers pictured ablaze as police battled to contain the chaos with dozens of officers injured up and down the country
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Parents face 'cost of eating crisis' as price of school lunches rockets by third
Free school meals funding has failed to keep up with the rising cost of food meaning schools are forced to make up the difference from teaching budgets, it has been warned
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Putin's 'lover' sent more than 2,000 miles from palaces she shares with dictator
Alina Kabaeva, the dictator’s 39-year-old long-time mistress has traditionally preferred to hide away in Switzerland where she gave birth to one of his children in 2015, say reports
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Rishi Sunak's wife has stake in tech firm awarded £350k in taxpayers' cash
Multi-millionaire Akshata Murty's investment company has shares in Study Hall - which was last year boosted by a grant of £349,976, official records shows
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State pension revolt over threat to make you work longer - list of ages at risk
Rishi Sunak will be told to ditch his threat to bring forward the date when the State Pension age will rise to 68 at a campaign rally supported by Unite the Union
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Local elections: Double digit vote share win could show Labour on path to No10
Polling guru Professor Sir John Curtice pointed to both Tony Blair and David Cameron, who secured wins of more than 10% over their rival ruling party in local elections before they entered Downing Street
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4 in 5 modern slavery victims denied justice as law 'gives traffickers impunity'
Campaigners told The Mirror that new legislation has allowed traffickers to 'act with impunity', with former PM Theresa May among those voicing their alarm about the impact of the Nationality and Borders Act