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Glenys Kinnock: Former Labour minister, MEP and wife of Neil Kinnock dies aged 79
The former minister and MEP, Baroness Glenys Kinnock, has died at the age of 79.
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“Very hot” atmosphere at COP28 after UAE questioned the need to phase out fossil fuels, sustainable energy expert says
After headline speeches from world leaders, attention turns to tough negotiations. The target – which seems to be rapidly melting away – keeping the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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What will Boris Johnson say at the covid inquiry?
Boris Johnson intends to apologise for mistakes the government made in the handling of the pandemic.
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‘Fiction has the ability to bypass our self defences’, Booker Prize award winner Paul Lynch says
This year’s prestigious Booker Prize has gone to the Irish author Paul Lynch for his fifth novel ‘Prophet Song’.
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Teens accused of murder of Brianna Ghey “had preoccupation with violence, torture and death”, court told
A court in Manchester has heard that two teenagers who were pre-occupied with violence, torture and death, murdered transgender 16-year-old Brianna Jai.
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Rishi Sunak announces £30bn of foreign investment into UK
Rishi Sunak has announced 29.5 billion pounds of foreign investment in Britain at a gathering of global elites in Hampton Court Palace.
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Govt failure to act quickly on autumn 2020 Covid wave led to preventable deaths, Chief Scientific advisor
The UK’s chief scientific adviser says the government’s failure to act quickly when warned about rising Covid cases in autumn 2020 led to preventable deaths, and said advice from scientists was ignored by the government.
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RSPB: Two-thirds of confirmed illegal killings of birds of prey last year linked to shooting estates
Around two-thirds of the confirmed illegal killings of birds of prey last year are linked to shooting estates. That’s according to the RSPB’s latest report on bird crime, which we can exclusively reveal. Buzzards, red kites, goshawks, hen harriers, peregrine falcons and white-tailed eagles have all fallen victim to shooting, trapping and poisoning – adding…
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Protesters’ attacks on police after child stabbings ‘disgraceful’, says Dublin MEP
Ireland’s Justice Minister has condemned what she called “an attack on innocence itself”, after three young children and a woman were injured in a suspected stabbing in Dublin. Police say a man in his 50s – who’s also being treated for injuries – has been detained, and they don’t believe the attack is terror-related. They…
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Most governments take the ‘easy option’ and borrow rather than cut spending, says leading economist
Paul Johnson is the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Cathy asked him whether or not the UK is about to face some rather painful cuts in government spending.
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‘Migration figures should come down, but we won’t set a specific target’, says Shadow Home Secretary
No government minister was available to talk about Immigration today, but Cathy went to Westminster to speak to the Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and began by asking her if Labour would cut net migration.
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UK’s rising migration figures, how did we get here?
Net migration hit a record high in 2022, after the Office for National Statistics revised its previous estimate. We look at the numbers.
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UK net migration from 2022 revised up from 606,000 to a record 745,000
Net migration hit a record high in 2022, after the Office for National Statistics revised its previous estimate. And it’s not a small revision. It now says net migration – which is the number of people coming to the UK minus the number leaving wasn’t 606,000 in 2022 as it previously estimated, but 745,000 –…
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Sir Horace Ove: BFI to celebrate work of pioneering photographer, filmmaker and activist
Now London’s BFI is celebrating the work of Sir Horace Ové – a pioneering photographer, film-maker and social activist – who brought the lives of Black people in Britain to mainstream television and film.
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Ashley Dale: four men guilty of murdering woman at her home in Liverpool
Four men have been found guilty of murdering a woman at her home in Liverpool, following a feud which they had reignited with her partner.