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BBC TV licence fee set to rise
The change was announced on Monday.
Top banker suspended for allegedly stealing food from staff canteen
Paras Shah has worked at the bank since late 2017.
Civil service chief urged to investigate Johnson’s treatment of media
Sir Mark Sedwill has been asked to look into the ‘deeply disturbing’ events which led to a boycott of a Number 10 briefing.
Climate summit chief sacked by Cummings slams PM’s failure on climate change promises
“This isn’t a pretty place to be and we owe the world a lot better” - former clean growth minister Claire Perry O’Neill spoke out
Grenfell firms demanding immunity at inquiry is an ‘affront to justice’ say firefighters
Stephanie Barwise QC said: “The timing of this application is highly disingenuous and bears all the hallmarks of sabotage of this inquiry. The firefighters were just as much at risk of prosecution under the Health and Safety at work Act and yet freely gave their evidence without seeking undertakings.”
Press boycotts Number 10 Brexit briefing after some journalists are barred
One witness described Downing Street’s actions as “sinister and sad”.
‘Neglect and underfunding’ leave UK bottom of list of countries for serious cancer survival
“We urgently need investment in research, symptom awareness campaigns, a focus on earlier diagnosis and better, faster pathways to treatment for patients if we’re going to close the deadly cancer gap” warns Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce
Streatham attack is an ‘ultimate failure of policy’ says London Bridge victim’s dad
He added that longer sentences would just allow ‘prisoners to radicalise each other and build greater resentment’.
Punctuation ‘ninja’ makes hilarious edit to racist Brexit letter
Lis Scott corrected the letter so it better reflects the Queen's English it claims to espouse.