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Farage mocked for vowing Manston Airport won’t ‘become lorry park’
"We in UKIP do not want to see the Ramsgate area become a lorry park," Farage tweeted in 2015.
Xmas and Covid ‘heightening risk of domestic abuse’ as ‘thousands of children’ at risk
One in five offences – more than a quarter of a million – recorded by police during and immediately after the first national lockdown in England and Wales involved domestic abuse.
Sikh community rallies to the aid of stranded Kent lorry drivers
Volunteers from Khalsa Aid, from Maidenhead, Berkshire, travelled over 80 miles to help provide more than 800 meals to the truckers.
Drivers clash with police in Dover as lorries are further delayed by Covid travel ban
It comes as Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick warned it may take a “few days” to clear the backlog of around 4,000 lorries waiting to cross the Channel.
Brexit extension needed to avoid plunging NHS into chaos, health leaders say
The NHS Confederation says the Government ‘should be under no illusion that the NHS will be harmed’ by the potential failure to agree a deal.
Watch – *Do they know it’s Covid time*
'There'll be less aid to Africa this Christmastime because we've given all your cash to all our friends.'
Take it one day at a time to tackle lonely Covid Christmas, charities say
“A lot of them will be very stoic and resilient, but for some it will really be the worst Christmas since the Second World War."
The stories behind the best photographs of 2020
“For me this image sums up the frustration in the UK and across the world of the treatment of black people and their struggle to find a voice amid the Black Lives Matter movement."