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Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:45:47 GMT
Teenager charged with killing 86-year-old army veteran in Preston
Former Royal Engineer died in hospital on Saturday

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:44:47 GMT
Stonehenge to undergo first major repairs in 60 years to fill cracks and holes in monument
Weather has taken its toll on 4,500-year-old circle

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:43:11 GMT
Boris Johnson news – live: UK threatens to suspend NI protocol in new Brexit row, as PM mourns mother’s death
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Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:02:36 GMT
Welfare and immigration policies driving racial disparity in housing, new study shows
Exclusive: Welfare and immigration policies are contributing to “sharply unequal access” to affordable housing among Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has highlighted.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:57:44 GMT
Brexit: UK government threatens to suspend Northern Ireland deal
EU ‘would be making a significant mistake’ to ignore our threats, Lord Frost says

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:53:44 GMT
Home Office refuses to provide clarity on fate of thousands of Afghans waiting in UK asylum system
Minister Victoria Atkins says Afghan asylum seekers in Britain will ‘remain within system as usual’

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 06:43:32 GMT
When is Boris Johnson giving his winter Covid update?
Prime minister said to be ‘dead set’ against further lockdowns but preparing for infections surge

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 06:38:22 GMT
Boris Johnson’s mother Charlotte Johnson Wahl dies aged 79
The prime minister once described her as the ‘supreme authority’ in his family

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 06:26:22 GMT
Britain can ‘live with the virus’, says Boris Johnson as Whitty warns of difficult winter
PM sets out plan for winter without lockdowns despite warnings of pressure on NHS

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:43:09 GMT
Police launch legal action against government amid row over pensions and pay freeze
Priti Patel to defend police pay freeze and crime policies in speech to conference on Tuesday

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:16:45 GMT
Pandemic police powers disproportionately threaten minority ethnic communities, says report
‘Policing too often threatens rather than protects public safety, particularly for people of colour’ says one of report authors

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:47:20 GMT
Rare 400-year-old coin could fetch £50,000 at auction
Rare and costly 60 shilling coin only minted by Charles I during Civil War exile in Oxford

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:33:09 GMT
Most teachers in England do not know when the Holocaust began, study says
Researchers have warned that pupils could develop a ‘skewed’ impression of the period

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:17:00 GMT
Foot fetish man avoids jail for 1,263 nuisance calls to NHS 111
Richard Cove pretended to be elderly woman on phone to indulge sexual obsession with feet

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:16:03 GMT
Terry Lubbock: Father of man found dead in Michael Barrymore’s swimming pool is ‘gravely ill’
Terry Lubbock says new inquest is his ‘dying wish’, after two-decade campaign for justice

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:05:02 GMT
‘I have no rights in this country’: Rochdale groomer complains about treatment in UK at deportation tribunal
The tribunal is intended to determine whether the decision to deport two men convicted of grooming and trafficking young girls is lawful

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:55:23 GMT
Minister tells MPs to stop raising cases of stranded Afghans
Desperate people should visit the government website, says resettlement minister in ‘disgraceful’ letter

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:40:12 GMT
Covid vaccine plan for 12 to 15-year-olds to begin in schools in England
Children aged 12 and over will now be offered the vaccine

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:02:29 GMT
Boris Johnson will show ‘absence of basic humanity’ if he cuts Universal Credit, Nicola Sturgeon says
Boris Johnson will display an “absence of basic humanity” if he allows the planned cut to Universal Credit to go ahead, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:00:46 GMT
Prince Andrew should go to prison, says Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s father
Duke of York no longer living in world when ‘royals can just do whatever they want’

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:47:25 GMT
Teenager arrested after army veteran dies in attack in Preston
Family pay tribute to 86-year-old victim whose ‘humour brought cheer to many’

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:11:35 GMT
Andrew Neil resigns as chairman and lead presenter of GB News
The presenter confirmed the news in a tweet tonight

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:10:34 GMT
Government says discrimination against black people and Travellers ‘objectively justified’ with new laws
Documents defend disproportionate impact of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:07:54 GMT
Boris Johnson faces Tory discontent over tax-raising plan
Prime minister aims to force £12bn health and social care levy through Commons in single day

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:10:31 GMT
Border Force carries out ‘pushback drills’ using jet skis to divert dinghies in Channel, footage suggests
‘We saw the jet skis either side and at the rear of the boat and then collide with the vessel to actually spin it around. It looked dangerous,’ says director of Channel Rescue

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:22:30 GMT
Revealed: Michael Gove’s sexist jibes, racist jokes and homophobic slurs
Exclusive: Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster made the comments in Cambridge Union debates in the late 1980s and early 1990s

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:59:11 GMT
Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey under fire for universal credit cut gaffe
Cabinet minister wrongly claims just two extra hours of work can recoup a £20-a-week loss – but refuses to admit mistake

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:41:17 GMT
Footage shows lorry driver with a mobile phone to each ear on motorway
Driver spotted by police in unmarked HGV while ploughing along M4 at speed

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:50:33 GMT
Children forming ‘new generation of extremists’ in UK as terror threat shifts, Cressida Dick warns
Senior police officer warns that ‘young and vulnerable’ people being incited to commit attacks by terrorists

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:47:15 GMT
Prince Andrew’s lawyers ‘will not attend pre-trial hearing into sex claims’
The Duke of York’s lawyers claim that legal papers delivered to his Windsor home were not properly served.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:41:04 GMT
Brixton shooting: Man killed and two women injured in south London
Detectives appeal for public’s help in gathering information on incident

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:40:32 GMT
Wiley: Rapper in court charged with assault and burglary on former kickboxer
The rapper Wiley has appeared in court accused of breaking into an east London flat and assaulting a former kickboxing world champion

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:30:00 GMT
UK weather: The latest Met Office forecast
Watch the latest UK weather forecast from the Independent for today.

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:48:55 GMT
UK ports caught in Brexit storm as border ‘impossible’ to construct in time
Exclusive: One port operator has had to demolish building work for new checks, while other crucial customs sites do not even have planning permission yet

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:37:30 GMT
Booster Covid jabs for adults are ‘going ahead’, Boris Johnson announces
Leading scientists have criticised third doses as unnecessary for most people – arguing the UK should save lives in the developing world instead

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:29:30 GMT
Work more hours, minister tells Universal Credit claimants facing £20-a-week cut
But Thérèse Coffey accused of getting her facts wrong – because people earning more lose a big chunk of the ‘tapered’ benefit

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:23:07 GMT
Institute to combat future pandemics launches in Liverpool
The Pandemic Institute launches on Monday

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:20:08 GMT
Venues and businesses should still demand Covid passports if ‘necessary’, government minister says
‘It is sensible of organisations, employers to do the checks they think are necessary in order to protect public health’

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:10:32 GMT
Brighton marathon organisers apologise to runners after making course ‘too long’
The event was 568m too long

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:09:29 GMT
Man denies murder of Islington flower seller Tony Eastlake
James Peppiatt will remain in custody until the trial begins next July



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