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Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:58:50 GMT‘Gambling is an escape’: Pandemic leads to sharpest ever rise in women seeking help for addiction
Exclusive: ‘She is trying to get her money back. Also by this stage, her real life feels so scary and so dark she can’t face it so she is continually seeking to escape it,’ says psychotherapist
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 01:15:00 GMTRail passengers ‘face largest fare hike in a decade’
Train tickets could rise by an average of 4.8 per cent in 2022
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 08:26:52 GMTDominic Raab criticised for laughing during emergency Afghanistan debate
Foreign secretary is already under fire for holidaying in Greece as Kabul fell to the Taliban
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 08:08:01 GMTRaab faces calls to resign after ‘failing to make call on evacuation of Afghan interpreters’ while on holiday
‘What could possibly have been more important than safeguarding the legacy of two decades of sacrifice and hard-won victories in Afghanistan,’ says Lisa Nandy
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:53:38 GMTInquest to open into Plymouth shooting as questions remain over shotgun licence
Senior officer leading investigation expected to give evidence
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:54:31 GMTForeign ‘enemies’ strengthened by UK ‘caving in’ to Black Lives Matter, Tory peer claims in Afghanistan debate
Tory peer criticised for ‘divisive and despicable’ reference to BLM during emergency debate
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 23:26:27 GMT‘Lightning rod to increase hate’: Politicians weaponise violence against Afghan women and girls to ‘legitimise racism’
‘Despite misogyny being fundamental to the worldview of the far right, there are now extremists out there who are pretending to care about women’s rights,’ says expert
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 23:21:26 GMTHarry and Meghan believe Queen has not taken ‘full ownership’ of royal race row, biographers claim
Palace’s ‘recollection may vary’ statement reportedly ‘did not go unnoticed’ by Duke and Duchess of Sussex
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:16:30 GMTRates of physical and psychological domestic abuse soared in pandemic, study finds
Physical violence soared from two acts each year before Covid crisis hit to 15 bouts of violence each year
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:56:41 GMTAfghanistan: UK’s refugee resettlement programme ‘confusing and disingenuous’, experts warn
UNHCR and others warn most Afghans fleeing Taliban will not be able to access scheme
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:16:11 GMTBoris Johnson urged to expand UK’s ‘total farce’ scheme for Afghan refugees
Britain must accept ‘tens of thousands’ of Afghans in months ahead, say MPs and charities
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:12:12 GMTScotland’s soaring budget black hole casts fresh doubt on Scottish independence
Doubling in deficit ‘not a barrier’ to independence, says Nicola Sturgeon
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:52:50 GMTAustin Mitchell: ‘Larger than life’ former Labour MP dies aged 86
Keir Starmer pays tribute to his ‘big sense of humour and deep Labour values’
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:46:03 GMTArrest after £30,000 raised by BLM campaigners ‘goes missing’
A woman in her twenties has been arrested by Avon and Somerset Police after more than £30,000 raised via GoFundMe for a Black Lives Matter charity allegedly disappeared
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:02:15 GMTGurkha on hunger strike outside Downing Street rushed to hospital with heart issues
The 60-year-old from Basingstoke is back in his wheelchair in Whitehall after being discharged
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:01:47 GMTGeronimo the alpaca to be slaughtered after owner loses High Court bid to save him
Animal and Plant Health Agency representative tells court they will not seek to execute warrant on Wednesday evening and would give owner opportunity to make her own arrangements for animal’s destruction
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:59:57 GMTBoy dies falling from hotel window in Sheffield
A child has died after falling from a window at the Sheffield Metropolitan Hotel on Blonk Street in the city centre
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:24:47 GMTBoris Johnson isolated as MPs on all sides rage at UK’s ‘weakness’ and ‘shame’ in Afghanistan
Tories fail to rally behind prime minister accused of ‘hoping on a wing and prayer it would be all right’
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:19:24 GMT‘Where is Global Britain on streets of Kabul?’: Theresa May condemns UK failure to form alternative alliance after US withdrawal
‘I do find it incomprehensible and worrying that the United Kingdom was not able to bring together not a military solution but an alternative alliance’
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:17:44 GMTAfghan interpreter finally granted UK asylum, but his family still hiding in Kabul
Mohammed Nabi Wardak, an ex-interpreter for the British Army, pleads for his family to be allowed to join him soon in the UK
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:29:22 GMTAnti-vax protesters attempt to storm studio at BBC Television Centre
Demonstrators gather outside west London complex, which corporation ceased broadcasts from in 2013
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:57:51 GMTDomestic fires surge amid increased demand for ‘shoffices’
Domestic blazes rose by 16 per cent last year, figures suggest
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:53:33 GMTLast ditch legal fight to save Geronimo continues
Owner Helen Macdonald seeks temporary injunction to halt killing
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:17:53 GMTTaliban want an ‘inclusive’ Afghanistan, British army chief claims
Militant group will be judged on ‘actions not words’, says Boris Johnson
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:49:05 GMTPolice release CCTV in ‘vital’ search for man after sexual assault on London bus
‘It is vital we identify him,’ Detective Chief Inspector says
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:15:35 GMTMatt Hancock becomes unlikely TikTok star after being mobbed on District line
Social media user posts video of friends accosting Tory MP on Tube
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:13:23 GMTAfghanistan: Just 5,000 offered UK refuge over next year as it’s ‘very rare’ to flee home country, No 10 says
‘It’s very rare that people want to leave where they live and start life in another country,’ Boris Johnson’s spokesman insists
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:30:36 GMTAfghan refugees should be resettled before ‘they have been executed’, says Labour
‘What are the 15,000 meant to do? Hang around and wait until they have been executed?’ Labour MP asks
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:19:05 GMTTory MP criticises Afghans for ‘queuing at the airport’ and fleeing Taliban
Former minister challenges Labour leader on whether he would want to fight in ‘resistance’
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:02:27 GMTTory MP who served in Afghanistan tells parliament he feels ‘anger, grief and rage’ in emotional speech
‘This week has torn open some wounds,’ Tom Tugendhat says
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 12:22:41 GMTHow Covid passports could deal fatal blow to Black nightlife venues
Nadine White speaks to nightlife managers about how deadline for compulsory Covid passports has left them ‘in limbo’
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 11:10:30 GMTPolice examine Plymouth shooter’s link to ‘incel’ movement
Devon and Cornwall police announce inquiry into shooter’s gun licence
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 10:19:29 GMTAfghanistan evacuations: Next 24 hours ‘critical’ says UK general, as 2,200 diplomats flee Kabul
At least seven aircraft are expected to head Kabul and bring back another 1,000 people today, General Sir Nick Carter said.
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:52:59 GMTBoris Johnson says Taliban will be judged on ‘actions not words’ after regime claimed it has changed
Prime minister criticised for chaotic withdrawal from Kabul – and for being on holiday at the weekend, when capital fell
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:27:52 GMTMany MPs without face masks in crowded parliament as house recalled to debate Afghanistan
Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer are among those seen without a face covering