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The £340m deal will see five common conditions added to the list of things pharmacists can prescribe medication for from this autumn.
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His guilty plea means motive will for ever be a mystery. It just proves that the world can look as hard as it likes at someone’s marriage and never know what’s going onIt sounds like the haul of an unhappy trophy wife, filling her empty days with retail therapy. Three Fortnum & Mason advent calendars, seemingly priced for those to whom money is no object; a pair of incomprehensibly expensive Lalique crystal salt and pepper grinders; several hundreds of pounds’ worth of Le Creuset; and no few
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In the week when the hottest May days were recorded, environment editor Fiona Harvey examines a new Climate Change Committee report on how the UK can better withstand extreme heatTemperatures across the UK and Europe this week have shattered May heat records. As the environment editor Fiona Harvey points out: we might expect heatwaves in July and August – but 30C in spring?Fiona talks to Nosheen Iqbal about a report from the Climate Change Committee warning that the UK is unprepared for extreme
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The Home Office says the tool will make it easier to identify adult migrants "attempting to game the system".
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Colleges and placements can help the 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds who aren’t earning or learning. But what they need most is workFor a few days at least, political attention is focused on young people aged 16-24 who are not in education, employment or training (known as Neets). A report from the commission led by Alan Milburn, a former health secretary, shines a bright light on a group that needs it. The document concentrates on analysis, with recommendations due in the autumn. Describing probl
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Clean power remains essential. But until it arrives, Britain must stop LNG made scarce by the Iran war setting gas and electricity prices The US-Israel war on Iran will drive household energy costs in Britain to their highest level in two years over the summer. This has given fresh impetus to calls for the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, to change course. The cabinet minister is vulnerable because he promised cheaper bills if Britain embraced his clean, green power plan.Critics, including Labour’
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The former first minister said she was "coming to terms with being married to someone she did not know" after Peter Murrell's guilty plea.
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A landmark report has warned that the UK risks a ‘lost generation’ of young people, as new figures show that more than 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK were not in education, employment or training.The former Labour cabinet minister Alan Milburn said youth disengagement was a mounting economic risk to the country, and urged a fundamental reset of policy covering schools, the health service and the welfare state.Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, Richard Pa
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Former Labour PM Sir Tony Blair has accused the government of having "no coherent plan" for the country.
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Peter Walker is joined by pollster Luke Tryl of More in Common to discuss Sir Tony Blair’s intervention in the Labour leadership saga and the party’s prospects in the Makerfield byelectionPlease send your questions and messages for Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey to politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com Continue reading...
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Makerfield by-election Green candidate Saraf Wakefield pledfdaction on two" big buckets of issues"
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What’s Carol Vorderman moaning about? All I said was how fit she was online … must be going through the menopauseAnother sweltering sub-Saharan summer’s day in late spring. If this is global warming, I say: “Bring it on.” I go outside to the van, turn on the engine and leave it running. This is the kind of day you want to burn as many fossil fuels as possible. Back indoors, I turn on the radio where Tony Blair is talking. There’s a politician who talks sense.Bollocks to net zero. That’s what I
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Lib Dem Makerfield by-election candidate Jake Austin says only his party is bringing normal politics.
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Peter Murrell, the former SNP chief executive, has admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the party.
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The former MP has pleaded not guilty to all 18 charges he faces, including one count of rape.
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Only the Greens can actually counter Reform UK – Labour is out of touch and partly responsible for the hard right’s riseThe Green party of England and Wales has announced Sarah Wakefield as its candidate for the upcoming Makerfield byelection. The constituency is split between Greater Manchester and Wigan, and the latter’s council saw a surge in support for Reform in the latest local elections, with the party taking 24 of the 25 seats up for grabs.The showdown between Labour’s Andy Burnham, the
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Alan Milburn warns of ‘lost generation’ after number of young people not in work or education rises to more than 1mBritain risks a financial hit worth £125bn a year from a worsening crisis in youth worklessness after a rise in the number of young people not in employment or education to more than 1 million.In a landmark government-backed report, Alan Milburn warned Britain’s economy and the public finances were losing billions of pounds a year amid the growing risk of a “lost generation” of youn
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First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth answers quickfire questions at the Urdd Eisteddfod
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The constituency is suddenly at the epicentre of British politics - and the by-election result could decide the next prime minister.
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Rhun ap Iorwerth said the Brynglas Tunnels in Newport are an "economic problem for Wales".