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Tue, 24 Aug 2021 08:19:05 GMTUK needs its own slavery remembrance day, union tells government
Monday marks International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 08:12:43 GMTNewborn baby carried behind coffin of unvaccinated mother who died of Covid
Grieving husband urged people to get the jab ‘so you or your family don’t have to go through what I have had to’
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 08:11:42 GMTWarm and sunny weather forecast for Reading and Leeds festivals over Bank Holiday Weekend
High pressure system to ensure summery conditions for returning festivals
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 08:08:52 GMTAfghanistan: Extension to evacuation deadline ‘unlikely’, defence secretary Ben Wallace admits
Cabinet minister was security risk ‘goes up’ around Kabul airport as deadline approaches
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 08:01:47 GMTBoris Johnson facing corruption legal battle over £4.8bn ‘levelling-up fund’ that sent cash to Tory areas
High Court agrees to hear ‘arguable’ case
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 07:57:08 GMTThree dead after ‘serious’ collision on M25 motorway involving lorry, minibus and car
Section will remain closed anti-clockwise between junction 27 for the M11 and junction 26 for Waltham Abbey
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 06:13:23 GMTDerbyshire: Teenager dies after trying to ‘help friend’ in canal
Logan Folger, 14, died after becoming trapped underwater in Staveley
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:15:28 GMTMore than 800 migrants intercepted crossing English Channel in one day, Home Office says
Charities warn hardline approach to immigration is pushing people to take ‘extreme risks’
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:05:16 GMTAfghanistan: Six people posing ‘direct threat’ to UK detected among would-be Kabul evacuees
Four people on Britain’s ‘no-fly list’ were prevented from boarding planes, while one made it to Frankfurt before being intercepted, and one reached Birmingham
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:17:19 GMTYoung people say their career prospects are dwindling and wellbeing suffering after Covid, finds study
Survey reveals four in five feel their mental health has worsened after pandemic
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:17:15 GMTPolice not safeguarding domestic abuse victims as prosecutions collapse, watchdog finds
‘We fear that in five years’ time situation will not be much different to today,’ says solicitor
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:17:09 GMTManufacturers to get another year to comply with Brexit bureaucracy
UKCA mark deadline pushed back to 1 January 2023
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 22:10:49 GMTWestminster murders: Police issue CCTV images of man wanted in connection with two killings
Officers urge members of public to call 999 immediately if they see 49-year-old man
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 21:34:46 GMTBoris Johnson faces test of clout as he urges Biden to delay Afghanistan withdrawal
Emergency G7 summit called by PM is last hope to extend evacuation beyond end of month
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 21:11:53 GMTCovid: More than 4,000 cases could be linked to Cornwall music festival
Attendees were required to provide proof of their Covid-negative status to gain entry
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 21:09:22 GMTAnti-vaccine-passport protesters storm ITN studios
Demonstrators ‘issue demands’, threatening to return ‘next week with double the numbers’
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 20:04:41 GMTMothers at risk of premature birth could be identified as soon as 10 weeks into pregnancy, study finds
Findings mean that inflammation can be treated early to protect mothers and babies
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:30:09 GMTLabour demand sleaze inquiry over funding of Boris Johnson’s by-election jet flight
Claims taxpayer money used to boost Conservative candidate in crucial Hartlepool poll
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:58:50 GMTUK weather: temperatures set to rise in time for a sunny bank holiday
The warm, sunny and settled weather is expected to last throughout the August bank holiday weekend
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:42:02 GMTKatie Price hospitalised with face injury after alleged attack
Police say 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:12:55 GMT‘Parental leave system is broken’: Number of fathers taking paternity leave plunges to ‘10-year low’
‘New dads desperately want to spend time with their babies - but what message are we sending to them with a system that gives them just a fortnight?’
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:04:42 GMTGavin Williamson accused of creating ‘havoc’ as secondary schools set for delayed return
Labour blames education secretary for ‘chaotic decision-making’ over Covid testing plan
Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:31:15 GMTHow Streatham terror attack unfolded in front of stunned Sunday shoppers
‘I thought it was some sort of a prank that was happening, something that you see on YouTube ,’ says witness
Fri, 20 Aug 2021 14:37:44 GMTThe tycoon, the Royal Opera House and the controversial sale of an £11m Hockney
The inside story of how one of the cash-strapped institution’s most prized assets was auctioned off to its own board chair – who then stepped down
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 15:41:55 GMTWoman dies from Covid days after giving birth to daughter
Samantha Willis, 35, died from coronavirus after contracting an infection while pregnant
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 08:08:34 GMTBrexit: Cricket legend Ian Botham named UK’s new trade envoy to Australia
Peer who attacked ‘dying EU’ gets top job – as fellow Brexiteer Kate Hoey appointed to Ghana
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 15:20:00 GMTAfghanistan: Taliban warn of ‘consequences’ if withdrawal delayed beyond end of month
Boris Johnson to plead for extension to 31 August deadline from Joe Biden at G7 summit
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 15:15:59 GMTRail workers threaten to strike after legionella found on trains
Traces of legionella, a bacteria that can cause severe lung infection, were found on four Thameslink trains weeks ago, union says
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:22:21 GMTWaltham Forest killing: Murder investigation launched after 32-year-old stabbed in east London
No arrests have yet been made
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:30:51 GMTDiversity warning over sleaze watchdog after appointment of PM’s university friend leaves it all-white
Committee on Standards in Public Life chair writes to Michael Gove over ethnic make-up of panel
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:18:18 GMTDonations for Afghans ‘a tremendous act of love’ from Hertfordshire community
Rabbi Elchonon Feldman, of the Bushey United Synagogue in Hertfordshire sent a Facebook message to worshippers asking for donations
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:10:36 GMTUK will leave Afghanistan when US pulls troops out, says defence minister
Ben Wallace says evacuation operation in Kabul ‘down to hours’
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:41:46 GMTAfghanistan: ‘Far from certain’ Taliban will allow West to extend evacuation deadline, minister says
UK defence minister says airlift operation depends on US forces