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Kent could become ‘toilet of England’ as drivers face post-Brexit queues
“I’m worried Kent is becoming the toilet of England, not the garden of England. And we’re all braced for it getting much much worse.”
Lockdown 3? Reactions as Sunak hints at another ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme
"Stop posting spoilers for lockdown 3 I haven't finished the second series yet."
Carrie Gracie hits out at ‘whitewash’ investigation into BBC equal pay
The report said that “the processes, if not the outcomes, let women down” - and recommended that the BBC put in place improvements to rebuild trust.
‘Woke-washed’ heritage groups ‘perverted by political posturing’ of ‘militant BLM,’ says Tory MP
Jacob Rees-Mogg later said there has been “an avalanche of miserable Britain-hating nonsense filling the airwaves in recent months about our history and our culture”
Test and Trace struggling to reach more than 60% of contacts adding pressure on Dido Harding
Prime Minister Boris Johnson had pledged that by the end of June, the results of all in-person tests would be back within 24 hours.
‘This Tory thinks we don’t have culture oop narth’ – MP slammed over north-south comments
Northern Ballet claimed he was perpetuating “tropes that culture in the north is of less value than that in London”.
UK Covid death toll passes “shocking and sobering milestone”
Britain becomes the first European country to register 50,000 Covid19 deaths.
Video – Netting over 100-year-old badger sett at HS2 site to drive animals out of their homes
"It seems a very brutal thing to do to the badgers, with some of them likely already pregnant."
‘Deeply concerning’ as offshore asylum policy ‘does not work’, MPs told
“It wasn’t effective in the policy goal that it was seeking to achieve and on top of that, the legal and humanitarian concerns should be cause for great pause."