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Chelsea manager Graham Potter has refused to address whether the Blues will continue to try and recruit in the January transfer window. Nearly £280m was spent on eight new players during the summer, with new owner Todd Boehly keen to revolutionize the squad. That included in excess of £40m on teenage trio Carney Chukwuemeka, Gabriel…
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Suella Braverman has defended the government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda after the High Court ruled earlier on Tuesday that the scheme is lawful. Making a statement in the Commons, the home secretary said the Rwanda policy is a “humane” and “practical alternative” for those who come to the UK through “dangerous, illegal…
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A second woman has died after being injured in a crush at a concert at Brixton Academy. Gabrielle Hutchinson, aged 23, died in hospital in the early hours of Monday, 19 December. She was working as one of the contracted security providers for the event that evening. Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, from Newham, east London, also…
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Britain’s High Court ruled Monday that a plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is legal but the government must consider the circumstances of each case before deporting anyone, a judgment that sets the controversial policy up for further legal battles. Eight asylum-seekers, aid groups and a border officials’ union filed lawsuits…
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Singer-songwriter Asake has said his “heart is with those who were injured” after an apparent crowd crush at his concert at the O2 Academy in Brixton. Four people are in a critical condition, the Metropolitan Police said, after eight were taken to hospital by ambulance on Thursday night. The Nigerian Afrobeats artist has said in…
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Another death of a young child from Strep A will send a chill down the spine of any parent. So what is the risk and why the spate of deaths now? Group A streptococcus is a common bacterium that usually causes sore throats. But it can also cause scarlet fever, which is highly contagious. It’s…
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There have been five recorded deaths within seven days of an invasive Strep A diagnosis in children under 10 in England this season, the UK Health Security Agency has said. A child under the age of 10 has also died in Wales after contracting the infection. Group A strep bacteria can cause many infections, ranging…
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The nation will fall silent on Sunday morning as the King leads a moving Remembrance Day service for the first time as monarch. King Charles will lay a new poppy wreath incorporating a ribbon of his racing colours, with the design paying tribute to the ones used by both his late mother and his grandfather George…
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An elderly man and woman have been killed in a head-on road collision which left another person injured in the Scottish Borders. The 79-year-old man was driving a red Kia Venga with the woman, 85, in the passenger seat when they were involved in a collision with a blue Kia Sportage on the A697 between…
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Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has said if the prime minister had a “shred of integrity left” he would call a general election. He was speaking to his party after the Liberal Democrat conference was cancelled due to the Queen’s death in September. Sir Ed also suggested the Conservative were scared they would lose…
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Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has accused the Federal Government of masterminding the ordeal of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu in the UK. Ohanaeze was reacting to the Friday ruling of a Federal High Court in Abuja ordering interim forfeiture of 40 properties allegedly linked to Ekweremadu. In a statement on Sunday,…
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With the Conservative government seemingly in a never-ending hellish cycle of crises, the online encyclopedia now has two separate entries for “UK government crisis” to differentiate the two in 2022. Earlier this year it was the turn of then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson to put the UK through the first of 2022’s government crises when he…
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Harry Styles is in squid mode for his new music video, Music for a Sushi Restaurant. The video debuted on Thursday featuring the third single off his third studio album, Harry’s House. But the contents of the video were unexpected, to say the least. Featuring Styles as a half-squid half-man creature, the video tells the story of a seafood…
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex has announced he will be releasing a memoir called Spare on 10 January this coming year and people are excited. The widely anticipated novel will cover everything from the death of his mother, Princess Diana, to his military service in Afghanistan to becoming a husband and father. “I’m writing this not as…
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The Coombe Hospital Dublin has apologised to a teenage boy with autism and his family for the failings in care after his birth. The apology was read out in the High Court as the young man, who cannot be named, has settled his legal action for €15m. His counsel Dr John O’Mahony SC, with Cian…
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British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned on Thursday after just six weeks in office. Truss’s resignation came after 44 days, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in U.K. history. Her successor will be the third prime minister to lead Britain this year. Speaking outside her official residence at No. 10 Downing St., Truss said that…
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