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Latest News
- Government Wetherspoons statement in full as pub chain makes major change
- POLL OF THE DAY: Is free speech under attack in Britain?
- Renewed calls for inquiry into 1994 Chinook crash
- Giuffre thought she might 'die a sex slave' at hands of Epstein and his circle, memoir reveals
- MoD launches probe into claims Russian hackers stole files on RAF and Royal Navy bases
- Shabana Mahmood vows to ramp up migrant returns despite returning just 42 under deal
- New V-level courses to be brought in for students after GCSEs
- Hong Kong Emirates crash leaves two dead after cargo plane skids off runway
- Expert says 'never search these terms' or you may be hacked - full list
- North East mum quits job to launch makeup brand, inspired by YouTube obsession
- Woman who spent £40k testing food names one thing she'd never eat again
- Number of older volunteers has fallen by more than one million since 2019
- Archaeologists excited by Bronze Age ingots dating back 3000 years discovered in 'very unusual' find
- Inquiry announced into Leeds NHS maternity failings
- Inquiry announced to investigate Leeds NHS maternity failings
- Labour police chiefs publish pro-migrant ‘fact sheet’ in a bid to 'promote compassion' for new arrivals
- Behind the scenes of China's micro-drama boom
- Inquiry launched into maternity failings at 'inadequate' NHS trust
- Cargo plane slides off runway in Hong Kong killing two people
- Video shows cargo plane in the sea after Hong Kong crash which killed two people
- Woman took own life after buying kilogram of poison online - now her family and relatives of others have written to the PM
- Peers bid to overturn abortion up to birth clause
- Global Anglicans announce break in communion from Church of England
- Bonuses for betting shops staff if they ignore problem gambling
- CofE same-sex ‘wedding’ services on the ropes as Bishops bow to due process
- Aviva funds group promoting trans ideology to primary school children
- Debra Allcock Tyler: Volunteering is a human gift of compassion, not a bureaucratic test of worth
- Using volunteering as part of a test for settled status ‘undermines its value’, charities warn
- Scottish volunteering levels up by seven percentage points last year
- UK would become a ‘dystopian state’ without volunteers, report warns