Michael Crick
Election 2015: the ten teenagers running for parliament
If you’re 18 today, or before next Thursday, now’s your chance to make history. You could become youngest parliamentary candidate since 1832.
Search results for ‘croydon’
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Vicar ‘ran sham marriage conveyor belt’
The UK’s largest ever sham marriages trial begins with prosecution claims that bogus weddings at a church in south London were conducted on an “industrial scale”.
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Fair fares? Cost of rail tickets rises as wages stagnate
Rail passengers will have to pay an extra 3.5 per cent for their season tickets in January on top of the big increases they have seen since the last election.
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Bottoms down? ‘Booze tags’ for drunken criminals
People who commit booze-related crimes in four London boroughs will soon be forced to wear US-style ankle tags that monitor their drinking, under a new pilot scheme.
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When Roy Hodgson was ‘a kind of god’ (1994)
Managing England is not the easiest job in the world, as Roy Hodgson knows. But in 1994, having led the Swiss to their first World Cup finals in 28 years, Hodgson was a popular man in Switzerland.
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Michael Crick
Seven reasons why success breeds success for Ukip
Are Ukip’s results the sign of an earthquake or a tremor? Their share of the vote may be slightly down, but the party has learned a lot in time for 2015.
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Local elections 2014 – the key questions
You could be forgiven for thinking Ukip won the council elections. It didn’t, but a strong showing from Nigel Farage’s party has sent shockwaves through the Tories, Labour and Liberal Democrats.
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Ukip local poll breakthrough – but not quite an earthquake
The local election results produce Ukip successes in Tory Essex and Labour Rotherham, while Labour is the big winner in London. The Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, lose control in Portsmouth.
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Steel band at Ukip carnival ‘not happy’ to play
It was supposed to be a carnival in Croydon to rebuff allegations of racism – but it didn’t go to plan for Ukip after the steel band stopped playing when they were told who had booked them.
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Tory candidate quits over ‘anti-Islam’ comments
A Tory council candidate has resigned from the party with immediate effect after posting anti-Islamic and homophobic comments on Twitter.
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How safe are our schools?
After teacher Ann Maguire was stabbed in a school in Leeds on Monday, the clamour has begun for safer schools to stop the tragedy ever happening again – but experts warn against knee-jerk responses.
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Storms cause travel chaos
At least four people have died, thousands of homes are without power, and the transport network is in chaos, as storms batter the UK.
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FactCheck: are free schools failing to open in areas of need?
Has the government’s revolutionary free schools movement failed by opening schools where there is already a surplus of places? FactCheck swots up on the facts.
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Cheap as chips? EasyJet sets up budget supermarket chain
From check-ins to checkouts – easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is setting up a budget supermarket chain to take on the might of cut-price grocery giants Aldi and Lidl.
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FactCheck: Black mark for Labour on primary school places
Parents are in for a “summer of worry”, says Labour, because this September there will be a shortfall of 120,000 primary school places. FactCheck gets out its red pen.
