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PM does not need to apologise to Queen over prorogation – Jacob Rees-Mogg
The Commons Leader travelled to Balmoral last month to seek approval from the Queen to suspend Parliament until October 14.
BBC climbdown – boss Lord Hall overturns Naga Munchetty decision
The BBC director-general personally reviewed the decision.
Video – Chimps think just like us
They understand the mental state of others - known as a 'theory of mind'
Anti-abortion billboard targeted at Labour MP Stella Creasy removed
Advertising agency Clear Channel, which owned the billboards, apologised and said it was taking immediate action to remove them.
Watch PM refuse to apologise for ‘spaffing’ slur on child abuse inquiry and pretend he has contacted Jo Cox’s family
A lawyer representing Rotherham child abuse victims said the PM had “juvenile thinking."
Facebook removes Conservative adverts with fake headlines
The ads with doctored headlines were viewed between 220,000 and 510,000 times according to Full Fact, an independent charity who work alongside other organisations on Facebook's Third Party Fact Checking programme which discovered the Tory slight of hand.
Despite Boris Johnson’s vows, state schools set to be worse off in 2020 than they were in 2015
Four in five state schools will be worse off financially next year than they were five years ago, analysis by the School Cuts coalition has calculated.
Soldiers embrace as Iraq and Syria re-open key border crossing
Qaim and Boukamal were controlled by the so-called Islamic State group until 2017, when Syrian and Iraqi troops captured the towns from the extremist.
Hospitals told to use Experian to check whether patients eligible for NHS care
An email was sent to 51 NHS trusts which are being supported to recover money from patients who may not be eligible for free treatment.