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Former Tory politician unapologetic after telling free school meals campaigners ‘if you can’t feed, don’t breed’
"Many of these so-called impoverished children have smart phones and we expect the taxpayers to dip into their pockets to feed them."
Dover chaos – Man arrested as stranded lorry drivers clash with police
Dozens of drivers at the Manston site can be seen standing outside of their lorries waiting for food and water. Others have been honking their vehicle’s horns in unison to demonstrate their feelings.
Germany’s Lufthansa to airlift fresh fruit and veg to UK amid port chaos
The airline is carrying 80 tonnes of food from Frankfurt to Doncaster Sheffield Airport in a Boeing 777, as almost 3,000 lorries remain stuck in Kent.
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.