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Viktoria Skripal refused UK visa after claiming Sergei and Yulia Skripal had food poisoning

The Home Office have refused Yulia Skripal's cousin Viktoria a visa to visit Yulia and father Sergei, a former Russian spy in Britain were they are recovering from poisoning. The refusal came hours after Viktoria who had previously released a tape purporting to be a telephone conversation with her cousin to Russian media, alleged that they had not suffered a chemical attack, rather food poisoning. "I will stick with a simple theory that they ate something wrong at the pub,...

Universal credit leading to “unprecedented” levels of debt and people “stealing” to survive

Appeals for the Conservatives to drop universal credit have been aired after new research revealed up to 100,000 children are set to miss out on free school meals because of new government thresholds. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned the roll-out of benefit system reforms ‘will create a substantial number of losers’ among families whose children receive free school meals. Up to 100,000 children from low-income families will lose out on free school meals because of the government’s method for...

Watch: Jeremy Corbyn accuses Boris Johnson of misleading public on the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal

  Jeremy Corbyn has accused the Foreign Secretary of “misleading the public” when he insisted that Britain's Porton Down chemical weapons research laboratory was “categorical” that the poison used to make a former Russian spy, his daughter and a British police man who attended them ill originated in Russia. The assertion that Russia had used the deadly banned Russian-made nerve agent Novichok, thought to have been destroyed to poison people in the UK has escalated a series of tit for...

NHS crisis: “Urgent investigation” launched after heart attack patient was transferred to another hospital by taxi – which was CLOSED

Colin Hewitt, 72, collapsed at home last Wednesday (28/3) after watching TV and was taken to his local hospital by ambulance after his wife Sue, 70, dialled 999. Because of a shortage of beds at Horton Hospital, in Banbury, Oxon., he was forced to spend the night on a trolley and managed only 45 minutes sleep. The next day he was transferred 28 miles away to John Radcliffe Hospital, in Headington, Oxford, for angioplasty surgery and to have a stent...

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