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This ancient market town may not be as popular as its neighbours, but it does boast a certain charm making it well worth a visit.

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73 minutes ago Weird world of pig racing as champ Piggy Smalls' streak ended by porker who went ham

Five rapid pigs means thousands of cheering online fans, but who is the curator behind this mysterious craze of pig racing where favourites Bear Trotsky and Piggy Smalls battle it out?

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86 minutes ago Can the Chancellor REALLY promise no more tax rises? Fears Rachel Reeves will add another broken vow to Labour's U

Rachel Reeves made the tax commitment in an appearance at the CBI conference, as she tries to quell a mounting revolt over her £40billion 'tax-bomb' Budget.

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1 hour ago Judge me on mission to bring growth back to UK economy, says underfire Reeves

The Chancellor told the CBI annual conference the Budget had 'wiped the slate clean' and public services would now have to live within their means

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2 hours ago Arsenal star breaks rank as Mikel Arteta's comment on transfer target ignored

Arsenal have been tipped to sign Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyokeres, who'll look to add to his 24 goals this season when he faces Mikel Arteta's side in the Champions League

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3 hours ago Sir Keir Starmer admits 'Britain isn't working’ as Government job reforms announced

Extra NHS support and an overhaul of Jobcentres are among plans set to be unveiled on Tuesday

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4 hours ago Hotel Chocolat Christmas chocolate heavily reduced at one online retailer

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4 hours ago Don’t listen to opponents of assisted dying: a Labour government’s legacy must be freedom | Polly Toynbee

I have campaigned for the right to avoid a needlessly agonising death all my life. After this vote, I hope I will no longer have toThe time has come for a defining moment early in a Labour era that has so far lacked definition. This is the week a Labour parliament can make its mark in the long campaign for personal freedoms over birth, sex, life and death. If not, if MPs prove pusillanimous in the face of loud but thinly supported objections backed by organised religion, they will ignore the opinion of a public that is strongly in favour: the British social attitudes survey’s first polling in 1983 found 77% of people in favour of assisted dying, and that figure has hardly varied since then. After campaigning all my life on this, I feel: if not now, then probably not in my lifetime.Every...

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5 hours ago Regrets, feminism, and Trump’s ‘fascination’ with Putin: key takeways from Merkel’s memoir

The former German chancellor’s book Freedom gives insights on Brexit and her East German upbringingAngela Merkel was notoriously discreet and privacy-conscious as Germany’s chancellor, rarely veering off message during her 16 years in office.In her eagerly anticipated political autobiography Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021, she has hardly turned into a gossipmonger overnight. But across 721 pages – published on Tuesday in German and English thanks to nine different translators working on chunks of the book simultaneously – there are glimpses of a Merkel previously unseen. Continue reading...

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