20 h. ago NHS emergency care crisis laid bare: 2025 set to be worst year on record damning figures show, as Labour is accused of being in 'total denial'

Over 452,000 people waited 12 hours or more for a bed from January to October after medics decided they were so sick they needed to be admitted to a ward.

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28 h. ago GRAHAM GRANT: As NHS waiting lists spiral, drug addicts are being handed free CRACK PIPES with taxpayers' cash in latest dystopian government scheme

The Thistle opened in January with the aim of getting drugs paraphernalia off the street - where it was (and still is) a public hazard - and giving addicts a safe space to shoot up.

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3 d. ago PETER HITCHENS: Kate's comments on drug addicts are proof of the wicked, destructive movement that has smashed our moral system. She and the royals must stay out

The Royal Family has keenly joined the side of the liberal Left, starting with the global warming frenzy and now moving on to the disastrous appeasement of the drugs lobby.

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3 d. ago Full list of cars you could save 'up to £3,750' on buying due to Government scheme

Buyers do not need to apply for the grant directly, as reductions will be included in the final purchase price

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4 d. ago Drug addiction surge in England blamed on new ‘potent’ cannabis

Most extensive NHS survey on mental health reveals drug addiction surge in last decade but autism rates remain stable - despite big increase in people being diagnosed

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5 d. ago What is Operation Allies Welcome? The refugee scheme that allowed DC shooting suspect into the US

Trump claims Biden-era scheme has let in ‘20 million unknown and unvetted foreigners’, but government figures reveal fewer than 200,000 people have entered US through resettlement program

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5 d. ago Rachel Reeves tells SNP to forget second referendum on independence and focus on bringing down NHS waiting lists

John Swinney has argued his party would have a mandate to stage an IndyRef2 if it wins a majority of MSPs at next May's election.

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6 d. ago Reeves claims to take £150 off energy bills...but taxpayers are set to shoulder some of the saving

The Chancellor said she would scrap an 'eco scheme' introduced by the Tories in government, which she claimed cost households £1.7billion-a-year.

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7 d. ago Trump may have inadvertently issued mass pardon for 2020 voter fraud, experts say

Pardons of Giuliani and others who participated in fake elector scheme were largely symbolic, but still could have a big effectDonald Trump may have inadvertently pardoned any citizen who committed voter fraud in 2020 when he granted a pardon to Rudy Giuliani and other allies for their efforts to overturn the election, legal experts say.The pardons of Giuliani and others who participated in the fake elector scheme earlier this month were largely symbolic since the federal government dismissed its criminal cases once Trump was elected. Many of those pardoned have faced criminal charges at the state level. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Government favours longer third runway scheme for London Heathrow expansion

Government favours longer third runway scheme for London Heathrow expansion  FlightGlobal

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8 d. ago Matt Willis says winning I'm A Celeb turned him into a 'full drug addict'

Matt Willis says being crowned King of the jungle led to him turning to drugs as he struggled to cope with the pressure of being famous.

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9 d. ago The first NHS vaping addiction clinic now has children as young as ELEVEN on a lengthy waiting list for treatment

Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool opened its pioneering e-cig cessation pilot earlier this year amid a surge of under-16s hooked on vapes.

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1 week ago 'I'm ill and have decided to fly to China for treatment instead of using NHS'

A frustrated British woman who says she has contributed £54,000 in National Insurance over the past five years believes it would be a much quicker and smoother process to seek treatment in the Far East

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1 week ago Mother, 30, became so addicted to codeine that she 'faked injuries' to keep getting prescriptions: 'It made me feel happy and content'

A mother-of-one has been battling a co-codamol addiction for nearly ten years, after she was first prescribed the drug following surgery on her ovaries.

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1 week ago Ukraine’s energy sector corruption crisis – what we know so far and who was involved

Anti-corruption investigators allege high-level kickback scheme involving EnergoatomUkraine’s national anti-corruption bureau, known as Nabu, says it has uncovered a high-level criminal scheme at the heart of government. It involves Ukraine’s nuclear energy body, Energoatom, that runs three nuclear power plants supplying Ukraine with more than half of its electricity. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Nearly half a million people on Universal Credit receive bonus payment of up to £1,200

Almost 40,000 Scottish households have joined the UK Government's Help to Save scheme.

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1 week ago NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns

Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investmentThe NHS has failed to cut waiting times as promised in its recovery plan despite billions of pounds in investment, the public accounts committee (PAC) has warned.The influential parliamentary committee’s verdict raises serious doubts over whether Labour can fulfil its key pledge to voters to “fix the NHS” by ensuring that patients can once again get hospital care within 18 weeks by 2029.Key NHS targets to improve access to both planned care and diagnostic tests by last spring “were missed”.NHS England had spent £3.24bn setting up community diagnostic centres and surgical hubs but had not achieved the aim of reducing delays.In July, 192,000 people had been waiting at least a year for care, despite a pledge to eradicate that practice altogether by March 2025.22% of patients were having to wait more than six weeks for a diagnostic test, even though that was due to be cut ...

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1 week ago Plans to reform NHS have ‘chilling echoes’ of HS2 failures, MPs warn

Public accounts committee warns that ‘poor practices’ seen in the project to build the high-speed rail link are being replicated in the health service

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2 w. ago Saudi leader’s entourage for US visit includes official implicated in Twitter spy plot

Senior aide to Mohammed bin Salman allegedly led campaign to identify users who were posting critically about Saudi regimeA senior official in Mohammed bin Salman’s entourage, who is understood to be accompanying the crown prince on his first trip back to the US in over a decade, has previously been accused by US prosecutors of playing a central role in a conspiracy to infiltrate Twitter and identify users who were posting critically about the Saudi regime.Bader al-Asaker, who has headed Prince Mohammed’s private office since before he became crown prince, has never been formally charged by the US government for his role in the 2014-15 scheme, but was named in court in 2022 by a US government lawyer as having led the campaign to find a “mole” who would be able to extract sensitive information from the social media company, which is now known as X. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Saudi entourage for US visit may include official implicated in Twitter spy plot

Senior aide to Mohammed bin Salman allegedly led campaign to identify users who were posting critically about Saudi regimeA senior official in Mohammed bin Salman’s entourage, who is expected to travel with the crown prince on his first trip back to the US in seven years, has previously been accused by US prosecutors of playing a central role in a conspiracy to infiltrate Twitter and identify users who were posting critically about the Saudi regime.Bader al-Asaker, who has headed Prince Mohammed’s private office since before he became crown prince, has never been formally charged by the US government for his role in the 2014-15 scheme, but was accused in court in 2022 by a US government lawyer as having led the campaign to find a “mole” who would be able to extract sensitive information from the social media company, which is now known as X. Continue reading...

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