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Windrush: Payouts made to just 12% of compensation claimants as Patel says it is ‘complicated’
Windrush campaigner Paulette Wilson died, aged 64, just weeks after delivering a petition to Downing Street calling for action to address the failings that led to the scandal and demanding swift compensation for victims.
Covid: UK records highest weekly number of positive tests as Taiwan marks 200 days without a case
In UK 126,065 people tested positive for Covid-19 at least once in the week to October 21 – an increase of 23% in positive cases on the previous week.
Private school apologises for student’s viral TikTok vid bragging about “living off daddy’s money”
“You’re at a private school, a posh version of education, there’s nothing you can’t flex."
Big banks still funding tar sands despite net zero goals, campaigners say
The report’s authors likened banks’ commitment to oil sands to “picking up pennies in front of a steamroller” given the high risks and low returns.
Best answers after Marcus Rashford asked social media to explain virtue signalling
"It's front bench MPs insisting we all clap-clap-clap for the NHS workers while simultaneously voting against them having a pay rise."
Special procurement channels allowed ‘VIPs’ to sell PPE to Government at inflated prices
Successful contractors were guided through the process by the Cabinet Office, it has been revealed.
Which European countries are Brits most positive about?
How have 3 per cent of Brits never heard of Ireland?
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘summoned to court and told to pack a bag for prison’
It has been claimed Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being held to force the UK to settle on a debt dating back to the 1970s when the then-shah of Iran paid the UK £400 million for 1,500 Chieftain tanks.
Watch what happens to the UK on list of World’s largest exporters after 2016
And the worst could be still to come.