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Strictly Come Dancing star is banned from his kids school parents' evening
BBC's Strictly Come Dancing star Ed Balls has revealed that he was banned from his kids' school parents evening as they were so embarrassed by his stint on BBC show
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This Morning star Matty Lock cause of death shared following inquest
Labour councillor and regular This Morning guest Matty Lock died in September this year, with ITV stars paying tribute to the teenager from Merseyside following the tragic news breaking
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Nuke veteran, 86, delighted to get his medal from the King's man
Great-grandad Jackson Hasson was presented with the nuclear medal by his local Lord Lieutenant, but Tory ministers are still stalling on arranging a Royal event for other survivors
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Mortgage rates hoped to be nearing a peak as UK banks go under the spotlight
Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest Group are due to update shareholders on their third-quarter earnings and outlook for the year
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Red Arrows displays grounded four times in two years by faults in ageing jets
High-octane shows by the RAF's famous aerobatic unit had to be scrapped or scaled back because of engineering problems with the Hawk aircraft, according to a freedom of information request
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'Rishi Sunak is about to step up the destruction of Britain - to spite Labour'
Rishi Sunak knows he will lose the next General Election. Fleet Street Fox argues that he will abandon hope of saving his party, and instead do all he can to spite Keir Starmer
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American Airlines posts $545 million loss for third quarter as revenue flat
American Airlines posted a disappointing loss for the third quarter of the year
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Joanna Lumley and Ricky Gervais blast Rishi Sunak on trophy hunting import delay
A string of stars have signed at letter to the Prime Minister urging him to deliver on the Tories' 2019 election manifesto, which promised a ban on trophy hunting imports
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Exact date when a UK cap on refugee numbers comes into force
The Home Office wants an annual quota agreed with councils for the number of refugees coming legally - but the move will do nothing to tackle small boats' Channel crossings
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Moment Tory strops off stage as both losers make swift by-election exits
Both the Conservative candidates for Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire rushed off the stage and were ushered out by Tory activists after suffering embarrassing by-election defeats
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Laughing pal of Tory says 'I only back winners' in video - hours before he loses
A woman named Thea tells the Tory candidate for the Tamworth by-election she 'only ever backs winners' and that she always gets 'what I want because I'm that kind of a girl'
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Tory plan to curb teachers' strikes 'hostile act' and 'attack on basic freedoms'
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has written to union leaders demanding talks over a deal so teaching can continue in classrooms even while other teachers walkout
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'PM's nickname of Dr Death is no joke - his scheme may have fuelled Covid'
Thanks to the Covid Inquiry, we now know the Government’s own advisers had strong reservations about the programme - and one professor referred to Rishi Sunak as 'Dr Death'
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Shoplifters strike on average 1,000 times a day as retail theft scourge soars
There were 365,164 offences in the year to June, up from 292,584 in the previous 12 months, prompting retailers and unions to urge the police to do more to tackle the menace
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Commons by-elections are a shameful symbol of our rotten national politics
Groping allegations, watching porn in the chamber, strops over peerages... change can't come soon enough says Paul Routledge
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Pensioners could be left £760m worse off over Rishi Sunak decision
The benefit for 12 million pensioners across the country is due to rise by 8.5% in April under the triple lock pledge - unless the Tories go ahead with a tweak to the system
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Train strikes set to continue until Easter in fresh rail misery for commuters
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union announced a massive majority of its members had approved the action - for the fourth time in a row since the summer of 2022
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MP tells of 'terrifying' moment she feared dying in childbirth in Commons speech
Tory MP Theo Clarke received a rare round of applause from the public gallery in the House of Commons from mothers and campaigners as she called on the Government to do more to help women who experience traumatic births
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House of Commons may lie empty for 20 years because of building's hidden problem
The Houses of Parliament faces a raft of urgent issues, including crumbling reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac), asbestos, holes in the floor and leaking ceilings
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Starmer's message to Labour councillors as several quit over Israel-Gaza stance
In a letter to councillors the Labour leader said 'you have my word' the party will call for the immediate access of food, water, electricity and medicine to people on the Gaza Strip
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Billionaire BlackRock boss backs Keir Starmer saying Labour offers 'hope'
Multi-billionaire Larry Fink, who heads the Wall Street giant, praised the party leader for hauling Labour back to the centre ground of British politics following Jeremy Corbyn's premiership
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Starbucks and workers union sue each other over pro-Palestinian post
Starbucks and the SEIU union that is organizing its workers sued each other Wednesday in a standoff sparked by a pro-Palestinian social media post from a union account early in the Israel-Hamas war
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'Labour leadership fears unity starting to fray over Israeli-Hamas conflict'
'Amid claims that Labour’s support among Muslim communities is in free fall, Keir Starmer held a meeting with Labour council leaders on Monday to reassure them,' writes the Mirror's Jason Beattie
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Asylum seeker due to return to Bibby Stockholm tells of fears of going back
The unnamed migrant is among dozens of men taken off the three-story Bibby Stockholm barge in August after deadly Legionella bacteria was found in the water supply
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MP Layla Moran's responds to GMB's Richard Madeley's 'ignorant' Hamas question
Richard Madeley and co-star Susanna Reid were joined on the ITV breakfast show by Layla Moran, Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West & Abingdon, as she discussed her relatives being stuck in Gaza