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‘The link between hard work and fair pay is broken,’ says Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

1.4 million requests for care turned down since PM’s historic pledge to deliver plan two years ago

Government accused of ‘absurd hypocrisy’ for taking Brussels cash with strings

Five hundred pound explosive will be detonated in controlled blast

Fatuma went missing on Thursday evening, taking many trains alone and arriving at London Euston at 1.13am Friday

Plan to let some critical workers avoid self-isolation ‘confusing’, say union and business chiefs

London Ambulance Service also attended the scene, treating five people and taking one 20-year-old woman to hospital with a minor injury

The warning comes after transport secretary Grant Shapps gave the green light for plans to build a dual carriageway tunnel under the landscape, costing £1.7bn, to go ahead

Authorities will have the option to offer extra testing and provide logistical support to maximise vaccine and testing uptake

“This has been an emotionally challenging and incredibly complex case, in part, due to the ages of all involved,” Chief Inspector James Stock said.

Economists said fresh indications of a slowdown fitted with other data like transport usage

‘These issues should be looked at systemically – not dismissed as just a few bad apples. Sexist and racist cultures in policing need to be tackled head-on,’ campaigner says

Exclusive: ‘The menopause is a very difficult time emotionally for many women,’ says lawyer

‘I’d like a full forensic search of the ship and a real full-on one,’ father says

Police believe Ben had died in an accident involving a digger on the Greek island of Kos

The death is not being treated as suspicious

‘If there are things government would do if they knew they worked, they are the priority’

‘This is all rather convenient,’ said Good Law Project campaign group

Some inmates left ‘helpless and without hope’ by confinement measures, report warns

Eight in 10 Brits say food allergies appear to be far more commonplace now than they remember from when they were younger

‘It doesn’t seem to be enforceable at all. And if you do say anything, people get very angry,’ one Tube passenger tells Joanna Taylor

“We’ve had them so long they’re just part of the family now...we’re gutted, really gutted,” said Ms Haylett

No evidence to suggest it causes more severe illness, PHE says

Ministers ‘flying by the seat of their pants’, manufacturing union warns

Exclusive: Prime minister accused of relying on error-strewn newspaper article for policy advice on Covid

In the two years leading up to the attack, representatives from British Transport Police were only present at three out of nine local resilience forum meetings held for the area – meetings held to prepare public services for emergencies

Slovenia Prime Minister Janez Janša has accused a European Union official of being a liar in the wake of the publication of an annual report on adherence to the rule of law in the bloc

Former Manchester United midfielder denies charges of assault and controlling and coercive behaviour

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29 killed and more than 200 injured in explosion that rocked the world

“The tent, that’s somebody’s son in there,” Jones said.

Mr Justice Mark Horner recommends a human rights compliant probe into 1998 attack

Exemptions will be made on ‘case-by-case basis’ following UK government’s exemption plan

The deaths occured in England and Northern Ireland, where temperatures have soared

The policy is not a ‘blanket exemption’ for all workers in a sector, the government warns

‘Special exception’ for 10,000 key workers in food supply chain, says environment secretary

People living in humanitarian crises and struggling to subsist in extreme desperate poverty will be hit

Campaigners say site’s impact on environment not properly assessed

Alternative to 10-day isolation could reduce absence by 39 per cent, researchers say