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Getting children to school is becoming a thorny issue for councils to deal with.
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Anger and distress at the treatment of the stabbed teenager is widely shared. But the online amplification of myths and grievances must be tackledTo learn of the last minutes of Henry Nowak’s life would be shocking and distressing under any circumstances. The stabbed teenager begged officers for help, as they handcuffed him before realising their mistake. To watch those final moments, on the police body-cam footage released this week, is all the more immediate, and unbearable. The outrage is wid
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11 Sikh MPs say the killing was about "a man carrying an offensive weapon and committing a brutal murder".
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The attorney general suggested some other politicians' policies on small boats amounted to letting people "drown in the sea".
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Ten years after the vote, our economy is battered – and our national conversation darkens by the day. Still, there is reason for hopeWhen the anniversary comes, later this month, few will be in the mood to look back. All the political talk will be of the Makerfield byelection, of the future of this government and this prime minister. And yet, it would be wise to reflect on what happened on 23 June 2016 – if only because the choices Keir Starmer and his would-be successors face, indeed the entire
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Omar is married to a British woman, has a British son and was given a single non-custodial sentence nine years ago. Nonetheless, the Home Office was determined to deport him – whatever the costA year ago, Omar was living in the UK with his British wife and was determined to be a positive, consistent presence for his 10-year-old son, a British citizen from his first marriage. Omar is devoted to his child and has always been committed to guiding him to adulthood.But today, Omar, 40, lives in Egypt
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Compare his response, or lack of, to three murders over the past decade – Jo Cox, Sarah Everard and Henry NowakWhich murder victim’s ambulance does the would-be statesman chase? Can you be said to “speak for England” if there are other times you wimp out on speaking at all, either out of self-preservation or moral smallness, or just not actually giving much of a toss? The questions arise after Nigel Farage moved himself into pole position with an explicitly incendiary speech in the wake of the a
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What stood out from the Question Time exchanges between candidates in the Makerfield by-election?
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Russian incursions into UK defences risk crossing a line, Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton tells the BBC.
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Andy Burnham takes round one of the big byelection bout while Reform’s Rob Kenyon takes aim at himselfSeconds out … Round one. In the left corner we have the middleweight King of the North … Andy Burnham. In the far-right corner we have the total lightweight … Rob “The Plumber” Kenyon. On the undercard, we have three nonentities we can barely bring ourselves to mention. Mike “The Tory” Winstanley, Sarah “The Green” Wakefield and Jake “The Lib Dem” Austin. And if you think these three are dopey,
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It said it was "unacceptable" the Home Office could not keep track of all whose asylum claims had failed.
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Ben Goldsborough says Karl Catchpole's posts are "unacceptable".
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The prime minister's future has been called into question following poor election results for Labour.
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In an interview for a BBC Radio 4 documentary, England's Identity Crisis, the Conservative leader warned of rising tensions as groups on the left and the right.
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The Greater Manchester Mayor would need to win the by-election in Makerfield to be a possible candidate.
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Some Labour MPs want Sir Keir Starmer to step down following last month's poor election results.
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Exclusive: Greater Lincolnshire mayor walks out on cabinet minister after row over social media role in community tensionsAndrea Jenkyns walked out of a meeting on Thursday with a cabinet minister and several other metropolitan mayors after a heated discussion about the murder of Henry Nowak and the civil unrest that has followed.The Reform mayor of Greater Lincolnshire walked out of the meeting with the communities secretary, Steve Reed, and other regional leaders after a row over the role soci
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While huge donations are nothing new in UK politics, some fear electoral finance is distorting democracy itselfKeir Starmer may be relaxed about allowing millions from cryptocurrency billionaires to flow into Reform UK’s coffers but Labour MPs are tearing their hair out every time the quarterly data on electoral finance drops.“I look at it through my fingers,” says one MP, as the latest figures show a further £7m went to Reform UK from just two men – Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo. Continue r
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer mets the family of Henry Nowak at 10 Downing Street.