United Kingdom
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The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said that six million people would be hit by ‘stealth taxes’, like freezes for tax thresholds, over the next five years, boosting government coffers by £120 billion. The independent economic analysts said this would be the equivalent of a 4p increase in the base rate of tax. The UK’s…
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Around 40,000 junior doctors in the United Kingdom began a three-day walkout on Monday that is expected to be even more disruptive to the country’s healthcare system than recent industrial action by nurses and ambulance staff. A wave of strikes has disrupted life in Britain as workers react to decades-high inflation that reached 11.1% in…
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Bristol Airport has reopened after heavy snow saw all flights suspended this morning – but disruption remains. All flights were suspended until just before 11am this morning (Wednesday 8 March). While snow has now been cleared from the runway, disruption remains. A total of 10 flights due to depart from the airport have been cancelled…
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Club captain Martin Odegaard lent his captain’s armband to Oleksandr Zinchenko for our win at Leicester on Saturday, on the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. After the game Mikel Arteta explained that the decision was led by the players themselves, to show unity with our Ukrainian defender. “It was great because it was…
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Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani on Saturday called on the European Union (EU) commission to help his cabinet combat corruption, extradite wanted persons, and recover stolen assets. Prime Minister al-Sudani’s remarks came during a meeting with the EU commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference (MSC59) in…
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Secret letters written by Mary Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned in England by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I have finally been decoded. According to the codebreakers, the letters, which were feared to be lost for centuries, reveal fascinating insights into her captivity. Experts said the decoders’ work was the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years.…
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Former pop star Gary Glitter was released from prison in England on Friday (local time) after serving half of a 16-year prison sentence for sexually abusing three young girls in the 1970s. The 79-year-old singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was freed from a prison in Dorset, in southwest England. It is common for offenders in…
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A man has pleaded guilty to a charge under the Treason Act after being caught in the grounds of Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow and admitting intent to harm the Queen. Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, pleaded guilty to three charges on Friday at the Old Bailey on London, relating to an incident that took place on…
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The UK in the midst of a prolonged cold snap, with temperatures plunging below freezing and many areas seeing heavy snow in the past week. A series of Met Office warnings were in place on Sunday over freezing fog, which carried the risk of increased air pollution and difficult driving conditions. While the colder conditions are forecast to lift in the week ahead, some news outlets have reported…
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Dame Ann Gloag, co-founder of Stagecoach Group, has been charged in connection with a human trafficking investigation. A Police Scotland spokesman said: “On 19 January 2023, four individuals were charged in connection with an investigation into alleged human trafficking and immigration offences. A report will be sent to the prosecutor fiscal.” A spokeswoman for the 80-year-old businesswoman strongly…
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Nadhim Zahawi says his tax error was found to be “careless and not deliberate” after Labour called for him to be sacked over his finances. The Tory chairman and cabinet member released a statement saying he wanted to “address some of the confusion” about his finances. He said his father took founder shares in YouGov and…
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The fallout over Home Secretary Suella Braverman telling a Holocaust survivor she “won’t apologise” for her language around immigration intensified on Saturday, with the Home Office accused of violating the Civil Service Code over its defence of the Tory MP’s comments. During an event in her Fareham constituency on Friday, Ms Braverman was confronted by…
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Speak to most BAME employees in the UK and they will have a story where they have felt excluded from their workplace because of a comment from a colleague. “Where are you actually from?” “You’ve got great hair; can I touch it?” “Sorry, I thought you were working in security.” Comments such as these may…
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied planning to scuttle Nigeria’s 2023 elections. Some publications claim he wrote to the United Kingdom to back off the polls and allow Nigerians to decide the outcome. Obasanjo allegedly warned the UK authorities against interference, adding that it will not be business as usual. The former Head of State…
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Prince Harry spoke on American television for the first time about his upcoming memoir, “Spare,” in a 60 Minutes Interview with Anderson Cooper. These were some of the revelations from their chat. Harry describes how he found out about his mother’s death Harry was 12 when his mother, Princess Diana, was killed in a car crash…
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A senior Taliban leader has told Prince Harry that the militants he killed in Afghanistan were “not chess pieces, they were humans”. Responding to revelations in Harry’s forthcoming memoir that he killed 25 Taliban fighters, Anas Haqqani, a senior aide to the interior minister, tweeted: “Mr Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were…
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