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Tory aristocrat uses £300k from government’s Levelling Up Fund to fill potholes on his driveway
Boris Johnson announced the fund to show his administration was "putting its arms around people at a time of crisis".
Brexit anniversaries are ‘a wake, not a celebration’, Vince Cable says
“Therein lies a paradox that troubles many Brexiteers: if 'success' is avoiding the costs of divergence , why did we leave in the first place?," the former Lib Dem leader asked.
RSPCA analysis of UK government’s trade deal with Australia goes viral
"No wonder the Aussie trade minister was so fulsome in his praise for Liz Truss. The Aussies can't believe their luck in negotiating the fastest trade deal in history," one person said.
New 2022 roaming fees kick in next month for UK travellers to the EU
It comes as UK phone providers have been allowed to bring back roaming charges from next year because the Brexit trade deal signed by the government did not say otherwise.
Alexa tells girl, 10, to touch live plug with coin
Metals are electricity conductors and putting them into live sockets can lead to electric shocks and fires.
Government ministers draped in Union flags ‘cheap, tawdry and totally un-British’ – Matthew Parris
"Mrs T didn’t do this, nor Harold Wilson; Harold Macmillan would have regarded the habit as unspeakably vulgar."
Brexit forces disabled people into blue badge uncertainty in EU countries
Although the government promised to negotiate their recognition with individual European nations, a year later there is still uncertainty over the most popular holiday destinations.
Insulate Britain protests cost police £4.3 million
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he was ‘appalled’ by the bill, which was disclosed by police forces.
The sad reality of this year’s Christmas number 1
In 1984 we raised money for starving people in Africa. This year, we raised money for food banks in the UK.