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Ministers pass permanent emergency powers to handle Brexit lorry queues
“This is an admission that far from ‘teething problems’, the government expects supply problems from their rushed Brexit deal to continue indefinitely," Best for Britain's Naomi Smith said.
Food blogger calls for ‘curry’ to be cancelled
Piers Morgan said "if the word 'curry' is now deemed to be racist, then I need to leave this planet with immediate effect."
Chips and roast potatoes could be off the menu thanks to Brexit and climate issues
"For anyone who has worked in purchasing for some time, this is as significant and widespread a challenge as we’ve seen.”
Brexit forces garden centre to give away £100k of plants for free
The giveaway starts at 8am on Friday, August 13.
Angry reactions to revelations David Cameron made £7m before Greensill collapse
“He took away all our local advice services, thousands of local police officers, he reduced funding for refuges, took away access to justice, he made a killing from his failures, we had to suffer because of them," Jess Phillips said.
Can’t put a price on that! Inner city state school outperforms Eton in Oxbridge targets
“We are disadvantaged people and this school gave us a way to move up," one pupil said.
Twitter removed thousands of racists posts during Euro 2020 final – with UK by far largest country of origin
Far right commentators dismissed the racist claims at the time, saying "lots of tweets came from abroad".
REVEALED: Morrisons chickens filmed deformed and dying in pain
Charity Open cages said "you cannot sell them in your store, profit off their deformed, weak bodies, and then claim to take animal welfare seriously."
Anti-vaxxers lampooned after they storm BBC News building – 8 years late
"Anti-lockdown protestors are storming BBC Television centre, to protest to a TV company that isn't there any more about a lockdown that isn't on any more," wrote one Twitter user.