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Campaigners welcomed the move - but called for him to go further, extending the ban to all existing smart motorways

Dr Krish Kandiah of the Sanctuary Foundation last week visited the country on a “fact-finding mission”, and said: "All these factors have been decades in the making. They need serious time and investment into undoing. But there are solutions."

The former Kajagoogoo singer, who shot to No 1 with debut single Too Shy, will share his personal story at the event, hosted by former Labour Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell.

Keir Mudie says that while giving a 'nothing speech' to some Conservative think-tank, former Prime Minister Liz Truss showed how Tories blame the ills of the world on everyone but themselves

Manchester United and England ace Marcus Rashford spent £240,000 to hire a Boeing 737 - that usually carries over 125 passengers - to whisk fiancee Lucia Loi to New York for a romantic break

Underneath a Twitter post of an online media report headlined “Woman raped in Plumstead park in early hours” - and which included a police comment - he wrote: “More likely that it's a punter that didn't pay”

Under new Labour plans, firms will be banned from roping customers into subscriptions that renew automatically as £130 million is spent each year on unwanted subscription plans

Nurses in England know they are worth more than the 5% pay rise grudgingly put forward by Health Secretary Steve Barclay - the proposed amount was clearly inadequate when inflation is more than 10%

Royal protection cops are planning the biggest security operation in a generation over safety fears as police say eco-warriors, terrorists, and anarchists are a danger

The Royal College of Nursing will hold a 48-hour walkout that will include A&E and cancer unit staff for the first time, before holding a vote on a further six months of possible strikes

Brian Reade reflects on the US President's successful visit to Ireland - despite what the Unionists and Tories were saying about him

As the Worker Protection Bill moves through the House of Lords, concern has been raised about it stopping free speech due to confusion around the new sexual harassment legislation

Conservative candidates standing in next month's local elections have been delivering leaflets boasting that they have taken their areas 'from debt free to debt ridden'

The Prospect union, which represents staff across the Civil Service, said walkouts will take place on May 10 and June 7. Thousands of civil servants will strike again in a row over a pay

The Tories are accused of trying to rig next month's May local elections by introducing new Voter ID requirements that will disproportionately hit younger people

Ukrainian hackers broke into Sergey Morgachev's AliExpress account and ordered several sex toys and gay pride flags in his name in an "symbolic act of moral humiliation"

Ministers had drawn up plans to make people separate rubbish into seven bins - one each for food, garden waste, glass, paper and card, metal, plastic, and general waste

Priti Patel boasted it would be 'biggest overhaul of our immigration system in decades' - but 12 months later Labour's Yvette Cooper has dismissed it as a 'Tory con'

Around 19 million of Britain's coldest homes will get extra insulation to help families save on their energy bills if Labour gets into power, the party has pledged

Instead of protecting the right to vote, the Conservatives have gone out of their way to undermine it

A Tory politician who allegedly claimed 'all white men should have a black slave' in a leaked voice recording has been suspended from his party as an investigation continues

Rival fans singing hateful songs about the Hillsborough tragedy took Charlotte straight back to the night her father never came home - on April 15, 1989, James Hennessy, 29, became one of 97 who lost their lives at a football match

A similar move was vetoed last summer but now Vladimir Putin is prepared to throw young lives into his war in Ukraine with new legislation to send 18-year-olds to the frontline

The PM attempted to defend the policy, saying it would help ensure elections are 'high-integrity processes' - despite any evidence of large-scale voter impersonation

Rishi Sunak swerved a question on whether the door was closed to Boris Johnson joining his cabinet in an interview by ConservativeHome's editor Paul Goodman this afternoon