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Archeologists discover evidence of cheesemaking at earliest site of salt manufacture ever found
They crossed the Channel from Calais without papers in small boats 6,000 years ago.
Windrush scandal: Victim on 38-year battle to return to the UK
Imagine going abroad to visit your in-laws and suddenly being told you have no right to go back to Britain because of a mistake in your passport.
‘Evidence is mixed’ over vaccine passports, says public health professor
The UK government has said it intends to introduce vaccine passports for nightclubs and large-scale indoor venues in England at the end of this month.
Thousands of Black, Asian and minority ethnic NHS mental health staff in England face abuse and racism at work, analysis says
Harassed, bullied or abused at work by members of the public, colleagues and their own managers - that's the experience of thousands of ethnic minority staff working in mental health trusts around England.
Former Royal Marine reunited with Afghan interpreter after decade apart and escape from Taliban
Two men who last saw each other in Afghanistan 10 years ago when they served alongside each other with the British military have been reunited, after Afghan translator Nazir Ahmad Muslim and his family managed to escape the Taliban.
Government migrant plans ‘wrong-headed, appalling and putting lives at risk’, says shadow home secretary
We were joined by Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds.
‘I’m not surprised the home secretary has upped the stakes’, says Conservative MP
We spoke to Conservative MP for South Thanet, Craig Mackinlay, and began by asking him if he understands French objections to the government’s proposals.
France accuses Britain of ‘financial blackmail’ over Channel migrants
The diplomatic war of words across the Channel has escalated fast.
“By saying race has nothing to do with unemployment, you can’t fix the problem” – Lord Woolley
We spoke to Lord Simon Woolley, who's founder and director of Operation Black Vote and a former senior government adviser on race equality.
Ministers under fire for being unable to explain surge in unemployment among young Black people
MPs have accused the Department for Work and Pensions of being unable to explain why there's a "shocking inequality" in UK unemployment, after the jobless figure among young Black people soared to more than 41% during the pandemic.
Sir David Attenborough meets Climate Assembly members
A year after their hard-hitting report demanding action to tackle the climate crisis, the 100 members of the public who've been part of the UK's first Climate Assembly are back in Westminster, asking when that action is finally going to happen.
Families fear hunger and cold when universal credit is cut
More than a million people in the UK fear they will go hungry or be unable to heat their homes, if the government goes ahead with plans to scrap the £20 weekly uplift to universal credit, brought in at the start of the pandemic.
The public ‘don’t like parties that break their promises’, Tory peer says
MPs have voted to back the government's £14 billion tax rise to fund extra spending on the NHS and social care.
Johnson wins vote on new 1.25% health and social care levy
MPs have voted to back the government's £14 billion tax rise to fund extra spending on the NHS and social care.
Covid: The unvaccinated patients in intensive care
Covid booster jabs could start being handed out later this month, according to the Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who says he's now just waiting for advice on who should be eligible.