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BBC receives 18,656 complaints over news report containing racist term
The news report featured on the BBC News Channel and local news programme Points West last week.
Serco boss defends lack of work completed by contact tracers
The average contact tracer has contacted just 2.4 people, reports suggest.
‘Fix the broken welfare system’ as number affected by benefit cap surges
Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said there are ‘no plans’ to review the policy.
Brexiteer fined after ‘threatening’ email referencing murdered MP Jo Cox
In the email, the pensioner wrote that the result of the EU referendum should be respected - and told Miss Soubry to "remember Jo", adding that she had been "shot and stabbed".
Wetherspoon to axe a third of head office staff, with up to 130 jobs at risk
The job cuts come as the pub chain scales back its expansion.
“You did a bloody s***** job” – Care home resident gives blunt verdict on Will and Kate bingo calling
"If only everyone was as honest as her", Prince William said after.
Britain First setting up ‘training centre’ in London
Paul Golding, who was found guilty of an offence under the Terrorism Act earlier this year, said that the property had been donated by a supporter, and would be equipped with a "fully-sized boxing ring, a huge matted area and every piece of equipment that we need".
Australian leader says US-China war no longer inconceivable
Canberra has been strengthening its defence relationship with Washington in the past few months amid rising Sino-US acrimony.
Caroline Flack ‘was seriously let down by authorities and hounded by press’
Flack's sister said sections of the press were “hounding her” and had paid the neighbours to inform them on her movements.