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NHS could swallow up most of the £12 billion raised by PM’s social care tax, IFS warns
"That could leave little if any of the tax rises announced yesterday available for social care.”
‘What’s wrong with that?’ Tourists pretend to be homeless to avoid spiralling accommodation costs
"What's wrong with that? They're not here buying second homes. Perhaps they resent having to pay ridiculous money grabbing campsites."
Wetherspoons hit by toast shortage as Brexit bites into supply chains
Spoons customers last week reported beer shortages at the Brexit-backing pub giant amid supply chain chaos.
On the lamb? Prince Andrew flees to Balmoral ‘to avoid being served sex assault papers’
Andrew has not yet responded to lawsuit filed in US by Jeffrey Epstein's former sex slave Virginia Giuffre.
Texas governor says rape and incest victims have six weeks to get termination as Mexico rules abortion isn’t a crime
The decision comes one week after a Texas law took effect prohibiting abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity in the foetus.
#FreeBritney: Father files to finally end singer’s conservatorship
Jamie Spears said his daughter had made it clear she wanted to be freed from the arrangement.
‘Your proposal is whack’: Council unwittingly rejects planning applications
A junior staff member thought they were making dummy rulings, but actually made real, legally binding planning decisions.
‘More deaths, longer lockdowns and lower wages’: The north of England’s pandemic
Regional health inequalities before Covid have resulted in an unequal pandemic, with higher rates of ill health, death and despair in the North.
‘Badger blame game:’ Culling zones to be extended in England
“The Government has wasted an estimated £70 million of public funds shooting badgers across England from Cornwall to Cumbria but have produced no reliable evidence to show that this mass destruction of a protected species is having any impact on lowering bovine TB in cattle in or around the cull zones."