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Mural celebrates black blood donors as NHS calls for more in sickle cell fight
Artist Neequaye Dreph’s mural honours members of the black community who donate blood regularly, and encourages others to do the same.
Man who lives off grid in cow dung house in Ghana and shares life on social media says it is too good to keep to himself
He began living remotely in Ghana on a beach bed, with a mosquito net, tarpaulin and some tools
Ofcom to gauge public opinion on politicians presenting TV and radio programmes
It comes as three sitting Conservative MPs currently have their own segments on the GB News TV channel, and have interviewed other Tories.
No 10 defends partygate probe MPs after Johnson criticises ‘kangaroo court’
The Privileges Committee’s report on whether Johnson lied to Parliament with his partygate assurances could be released within days.
Johnson fires back at Sunak as the Tory infighting continues
The Prime Minister had accused his predecessor of asking him to overrule a vetting panel over his House of Lords nominations.
Sunak accuses Johnson of ‘not right’ peerage demands as Tory civil war continues
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his one-time Conservative ally asked him to ‘do something I wasn’t prepared to do’.
Nurses ‘struggling to live’, union leader warns amid new strike ballot
The Royal College of Nursing is currently balloting members in England on further strike action over pay.
Cost of living causing almost two million people to regularly skip meals
A YouGov poll of more than 6,000 people found 9.6 million Britons live in households classed as in ‘serious financial difficulties’.
Minister Paul Scully fails to make Tory shortlist to be London mayoral candidate
The list of candidates to take on London Mayor Sadiq Khan at next year’s election has been whittled down to three.