71 minutes ago Liz Truss opposes assisted dying bill saying NHS should be ‘protecting lives, not ending them’ – UK politics live

The Telegraph, which first reported Truss’s stance, also said Theresa May and Boris Johnson were against the billGood morning. We have got PMQs later, which means party politics will probably dominate for much of the day in the chamber, but increasingly MPs are preoccupied with a free vote, non-partisan matter, the vote on the assisted dying bill on Friday. This morning there are at least two interesting developments on that story.Three former Conservative prime ministers are all opposed to the bill, the Telegraph is reporting. The paper has a quote from Liz Truss who says:It is wrong in principle: organs of the state like the NHS and the judicial system should be protecting lives, not ending them.No doubt, as we have seen in Canada, vulnerable people would be put under appalling pressu...

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73 minutes ago Stereophonics drummer Jamie Morrison hospitalised minutes before Nottingham gig

Morrision was playing with his other band, 86TVs, on Monday when the accident happened

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73 minutes ago David Coote reacts as FA investigate allegations referee discussed giving yellow card before match

The Sun claims the referee discussed with a friend booking a player before a game

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74 minutes ago Jason Manford says daughters made him change ‘weird’ Waterloo Road storyline

When the Salford-born comedian told his daughters the story, he said they told him he would be a ‘weirdo’ to take it.

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74 minutes ago Furious commuters hit out at Sadiq Khan as Elizabeth line is suspended AGAIN for second day in a row and four Tube lines are hit by disruptions

No trains could run between Abbey Wood and London Paddington again today due to a fault with the signalling system on the £19billion Elizabeth line which travels through the capital.

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75 minutes ago FTSE 100 Live 27 November: easyJet profits jump, Just Eat Takeaway quits LSE

Low-cost airline easyJet and the retailer Pets at Home have revealed contrasting fortunes in their latest results.

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85 minutes ago Jude Bellingham felt like a 'scapegoat' as Real Madrid star speaks out on England's Euro 2024 heartache

Midfielder admits he “lost” his smile during run to final this summer

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86 minutes ago Second day of London travel chaos as Elizabeth line services suspended until end of day

Four other Tube lines have been hit with a seperate issues while the weather is disrupting trains into the city

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87 minutes ago Best deals in the John Lewis Black Friday sale 2024: Offers on homeware, tech, accessories and more

Everyone’s favourite one-stop-shop is offering some smashing deals

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91 minutes ago The Taste of Mango review – powerful memoir of family secrets in Sri Lanka

Film-maker Chloe Abrahams combines documentary and memory in candid conversations with the women in her familyThe mango taste is bittersweet in this documentary-memoir of family pain and secrets from film-maker Chloe Abrahams. Using a small digital videocamera and her smartphone, Abrahams records intimate, candid conversations with her mother and grandmother, and the resulting movie is a lucid, emotionally honest account of trauma that lies beneath the smiles of family photos and wedding videos.Abrahams shows the crisis of loyalty and agony of an abusive marriage, but shows also how the generational trauma can be healed when the generations come together. It’s a quietly powerful film to put, perhaps, alongside Victoria Mapplebeck’s Motherboard or Lina Soualem’s Bye Bye Tiberias. Abraham...

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