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Northern MPs express anger as Government prepares to scrap Leeds leg of HS2
“This is Boris pulling the whole damn rug from under our feet and ripping up the floor behind him.”
Ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon surrenders to FBI over Capitol riots
The 67-year-old was indicted on Friday on two counts of criminal contempt.
Fewer people are living climate-conscious lives since Covid
People are less concerned about the impact of the products they buy and the services they use, an Ipsos survey found.
Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties
Cignpost - which sells £35 tests for holidaymakers - sells DNA from Covid swabs on to third parties.
Express quotes ‘Pished Artist’ and ‘Ruffles The Guinea Pig’ in article prophesying Irexit
The right wing paper named three sources in the piece. They were two of them!
England’s crucial carbon-storing peatland is owned by just 124 landowners
A new report says the burning of peatland by grouse moor estates is contributing to the climate emergency.
‘Gross’ Elon Musk criticised for ‘inhumane’ Bernie Sanders tweets
The Tesla and SpaceX owner lashed out at Sanders after the 80-year-old senator said that billionaires should pay more tax.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital: Hero cab driver ‘saved his city’ – reports
Taxi driver David Perry is believed to have locked a bomb-wielding passenger in his car outside the hospital on Sunday.
UK patients die or come to ‘severe harm’ because of hospital delays -report
The report, which revealed NHS data which was previously secret, said “it is entirely predictable and almost inevitable that some level of harm will arise.”