A “network-wide” computer failure is being blamed for the meltdown of the UK’s air traffic control causing chaos at airports with hundreds of thousands of passengers left stranded. Thousands of flights have been cancelled or delayed on one of the busiest days of the year for travel by a technical glitch across the air traffic […]
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MPs who lose their seats in the next general election are set to receive a bumper payout of almost £20,000 – double the current rate for exiting members of parliament. The more than 70 MPs standing down at the next election will also receive the £19,756 payment – equivalent to four months pay compared to […]
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The UK owes £20 trillion in reparations for its involvement in the slave trade, a United Nations judge has said. “Once a state has committed a wrongful act, it’s obliged to pay reparations,” judge Patrick Robinson told the BBC before his keynote speech at Unesco’s Day for Remembering the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition at […]
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The government is looking to change the law and compel offenders to attend sentencing hearings after former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was given a whole-life term for murdering seven babies. Letby – the most prolific child killer in modern British history – refused to attend court to hear relatives of the murdered newborn babies read […]
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The Labour party has taken a 28 point lead over the Conservatives among women voters according to a YouGov poll of more than 5,000 people, which gives Sir Keir Starmer a 21 point lead among men. Money worries is the driving factor for women, especially those aged under-50, according to analysis by thinktank Labour Together, […]
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Conservative MPs are furious with the Home Office over the Bibby Stockholm fiasco after legionella bacteria was detected on board the controversial barge being used to house asylum seekers. All 39 asylum seekers have been evacuated from the barge, just five days after being moved on to the vessel that is docked at Portland, South […]
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The cost of the junior doctors’ strike to NHS England will be more than awarding them the 35% pay rise they are demanding. The revelation comes as junior doctors begin their latest round of industrial with a four day walkout from 7am on Friday to 7am on Tuesday. Meanwhile, official figures released by the government […]
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Downing Street has backed Lee Anderson’s message to asylum seekers after the deputy chairman of the Conservative party told them to “fuck off back to France” if they don’t like barges. A refugee charity said Anderson’s “dehumanising and inflammatory” language was putting people seeking sanctuary in the UK at “real risk”. However, No 10 said […]
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British Airways workers are to be awarded a 13.1% pay rise and one-off £1,000 payment to be paid over an 18 month period. Members of Unite have voted overwhelmingly to accept the offer which the union called “significant” and said was a reversal of cuts to pay made during the Covid pandemic. Pilots and managers […]
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The government is turning to the private sector to cut record waiting lists in the biggest expansion of private capital in the NHS since Tony Blair’s New Labour government. NHS England will be able to perform almost 750,000 more checks and tests through 13 new “one-stop-shop” diagnostic centres – more than half of which will […]
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