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Man denies ‘offensive’ tweet following death of Captain Sir Tom Moore
Joseph Kelly was charged under the Communications Act after the post on February 3 – the day after the war veteran died.
Liverpool hack offered early jab because NHS thought he was 6cm tall
“I'm not sure how he kept it together when he told me that this, combined with my weight, had given me a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 28,000. For reference, a BMI of 40 or more is considered morbidly obese - so I'm not sure what this would have made me.”
Brexit forces buyers in Northern Ireland to scrap orders for 100,000 trees
“It’s a disaster. They’re just stopping any exports from mainland UK over to Northern Ireland. We can’t get any trees over from any of the nurseries that would usually deal with."
Brexiteer hedge fund boss, accused of assaulting woman, appears in court
He netted more than £220 million from the Brexit referendum by betting against the pound.
Clergymen had ‘unrestricted access’ to abuse children in care ‘with impunity’
“Abusive Brothers had unrestrained access to the vulnerable children they wished to target."
One-in-six in England could end up on NHS waiting list by April
Researchers at think-tank Reform showed that patients waiting a year or more for treatment had risen by over 12,000 per cent since the start of the pandemic.
‘Boost it like Biden’ to recover from Covid-19, think-tank urges Chancellor
Researchers said £190 billion is needed to get the UK economy back on track - a figure which matches Biden's ambition, and is four times what Rishi Sunak has pledged.
University students forced to waste £1bn on empty accommodation
The average student has paid £1,621 in rent for empty rooms for which they have not received a refund.
Watch – ‘The greatest thing I’ve ever seen’ Moira Stuart reading out candidates in 1984 by-election
"Further proof that Monty Python was a documentary series."