All news on the topic: Public services
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Rishi Sunak urged to slap down Dominic Raab for 'undermining' bullying report
The PM was blasted for allowing Mr Raab to resign - and put forward his version of events in a newspaper article - before the report into his behaviour was published by Downing Street
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'Unpleasant Dominic Raab could change his ways but it was too little, too late'
Keir Mudie says Dominic Raab's resignation letter was 'graceless' as there was 'no apology' but just a 'bizarre rant about how him leaving is no good for government'
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Girl, 12, dies of asthma attack at school as she stopped breathing for 8 minutes
Pearl Unu-Arubi was taken to the hospital when she stopped breathing for eight minutes on March 20, 2023. After spending 10 days in critical condition, the 12-year-old sadly died
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Five bombshell claims in the Dominic Raab bullying inquiry
The Deputy PM resigned on Friday after the long-awaited report by Adam Tolley KC concluded he engaged in an 'abuse or misuse of power' while at the Foreign Office
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Coronation seating plan upheaval as 'important non-royal' may no longer attend
One non-royal guest could throw the seating plan into disarray when King Charles is officially crowned alongside Camilla Queen Consort at Westminster Abbey next month
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Sickle cell disease fears spark urgent appeal for Black blood donors
Some of the most influential Black people in Britain - including Dame Sharon White and Lord Simon Woolley - have joined efforts to raise awareness of the shortage
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Cancer patients are waiting up to 18 months to start treatment, data shows
Figures for 2022 show someone in Somerset waited about a year and eight months for a test or scan when it should only be two weeks
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Rishi Sunak flounders over Tory boast public services in 'great shape'
Tory chairman Greg Hands provoked astonishment at the weekend when he claimed public services were performing well - despite strikes and long waits for NHS treatment
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Russian hackers 'trying to black out Britain' by targeting power stations
Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden will issue a 'call to arms' to energy providers when he addresses the annual CyberUK conference in Belfast later
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Top scientists warn Brits ‘the next pandemic is coming and we’re not ready’
Experts say Britain is no more prepared for another pandemic as it was three years ago when Covid struck due to defunding of research and dismantling of key services
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Cancer and A&E nurses will join 'super-strike' as Tories refuse to budge on pay
The Royal College of Nursing will hold a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday, April 30 to 8pm on Tuesday, May 2, including the Bank Holiday Monday
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Huw Edwards breaks silence on BBC job cuts with defiant champagne toast
BBC newsreader Huw Edwards has spoken out amid claims he's been offered voluntary redundancy by the corporation after nearly 40 years of service
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BBC News rocked as top stars including Huw Edwards served redundancy offers
The news may soon look very different as a string of presenters including Reeta Chakrabarti, Clive Myrie and Sophie Raworth have been given the opportunity to take voluntary redundancy
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'Striking nurses were offered a pay deal that amounts to a fart in the face'
This Prime Minister won't make Britain rich in the same way someone driving a Bentley doesn't pick up hitchhikers, says Fleet Street Fox. We're heading for a very storrmy summer
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Civil servants announce new strike dates as country faces 'summer of discontent'
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
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Rishi Sunak defends photo ID plan that will make it harder for people to vote
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
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'Government must be held responsible for cutting public health budgets'
In the past six years the number of people with diabetes has risen from 3.6 million to more than 5 million
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Tory politician says all white men should have black slaves in racist outburst
Andrew Edwards' comment can be heard in a 16-second clip that was sent to Rhian Young, the monitoring officer at Pembrokeshire County Council, as he referred himself to the Public Services Ombudsman
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'I started colouring in to escape abusive marriage, then it became £1m business'
Bonny Snowdon, 52, 'disappeared for hours' with her colouring book in a bid to cope with her abusive marriage, then transformed her passion into a £1million enterprise
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Inside illegal rave of 1,000 revellers before chaos and four rushed to hospital
Some people travelled more than 200 miles to attend the chaotic event called EggTech or EggTek at an industrial estate in Wales as clips showed ravers dancing at multiple stages
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Man who indulged in takeaways post-walk unrecognisable after losing 10st
Mike McCook rewarded himself with takeaways after walking, but when his weight ballooned following a breakup, he started watching his favourite TV shows on an exercise bike instead
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Prison officers 'at breaking point' as sick leave for mental stress surges
The Prison Officers Association blames the issue on poor pay and jails being overcrowded, violent and short-staffed. National chair Mark Fairhurst wants trained counsellors employed on-site at every prison
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New sewage scandal as data shows waste is dumped on to coast every three minutes
The Labour Party analysed data from the Environment Agency (EA) which it says shows 141,777 sewage dumping events across 137 of a total of 139 coastal constituencies in England and Wales in 2022
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Workers face £43billion extra tax on wages under Tories, warns Rachel Reeves
As the new tax year starts today, the Shadow Chancellor accuses the Conservatives of raiding people’s wage to pay for their mistakes during their 13 years in power
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'Thomas Cashman didn't have guts to hear of Olivia's family lifetime of grief'
The murderer of Olivia Pratt-Korbel did not have the guts to attend his sentencing in court - he could brandish a gun in the street but he was too pathetic to look her family in the eye
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