69 h. ago Labour refuses to back controlled drug use rooms despite ongoing pilot

Ministers were accused of ‘condemning thousands of people to death’ over their stance

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3 d. ago Kennedy has ordered a review of baby formula. Here's what you should know

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1 week ago Kennedy says COVID vaccines no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women

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1 week ago Labour could refuse to keep killers, burglars and rapists behind bars. They'll be free to violate your home

The first duty of any government is to protect its people. But how can that be when the criminals that deserve jail-time, instead remain free among the very people whose security they threaten?

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1 week ago Inside story of Corbie Walpole, who doused her friend Jake Loader with petrol and set him on fire because of an insulting comment: Chain of events that led to disastrous moment

Corbie Walpole and Jake Loader had been friends since their school days at St Paul's College near Albury but lost control when he 'antagonised' her during a booze and drug-fuelled reunion.

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2 w. ago Pregnant news anchor goes into labour live on air but refuses to leave set for hours

A pregnant news anchor went into labour whilst on air but decided to carry on with her broadcast.

Society

2 w. ago Labour DWP chief Liz Kendall refuses to rule out winter fuel payment u

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has defended the decision to take winter fuel payments from 'millionaire pensioners', but did not rule out changes to eligibility thresholds

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3 w. ago Taxi driver in France charged with stealing from David Lammy and his wife

Driver allegedly stole luggage and cash from foreign secretary and Nicola Green after ride from Italy to French ski resort A taxi driver has been charged by French police with stealing luggage and cash from the UK’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, and his wife, Nicola Green. The driver took the couple more than 600km (370 miles) from the town of Forli in Italy to the French ski resort of Flaine, Haute-Savoie, last month. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said Lammy and his spouse were victims in the case and that the driver has been charged with theft after driving off with their luggage. It also denied that the Labour MP for Tottenham had refused to pay the driver. Whitehall sources said no sensitive material was in the pair’s holiday luggage. Prosecutors opened an investigation into a “commercial dispute” in Bonneville after the driver filed a complaint. The Bonneville prosecutor, Boris Duffau, told the BBC the taxi driver was being charged with theft. He sai...

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3 w. ago Cassie Ventura to resume testimony in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex

Former girlfriend says she endured years of physical abuse, control and violence at music mogul’s handsSinger Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, a former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs and a key witness in the federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial of the music mogul, will return to the witness stand on Wednesday morning, as the high-profile trial enters its third day.Ventura, who is eight and a half months pregnant, testified on Tuesday that during her decade-long on-and-off relationship with Combs, she endured years of physical abuse, control and violence and detailed drug-fueled sexual encounters involving male escorts that she said were directed by Combs. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Welsh First Minister says she will not use ‘divisive language’ on immigration

Welsh Labour leader Eluned Morgan refused to say whether she supported the Prime Minister saying the UK risked becoming an ‘island of strangers’.

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3 w. ago US health officials advise older travelers not to get a chikungunya vaccine

The U.S. government is advising that international travelers age 60 and older not get a chikungunya vaccine as it investigates possible side effects

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3 w. ago Trump says friend in UK on ‘the fat shot drug’ inspired plan for price controls and tariff threats to lower prescription costs

Trump is ordering the government to consider punishing countries that negotiate lower drug prices for their single-payer health systems

Economics

4 w. ago Lefty Labour MPs create new headache for Starmer by refusing to back benefit cuts despite warning party must break fiscal 'doom loop' to see off Farage

Fourteen MPs who entered the Commons just last year are among the signatories of a letter demanding he and Chancellor Rachel Reeves U-turn on cuts due to be voted on next week.

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