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April 17, 2025
King hails love as important virtue across religions in Easter message
The King and Queen will attend a Royal Maundy service at Durham Cathedral on Thursday.
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April 17, 2025
Easter train journeys to be disrupted by more than 300 engineering projects
The most significant impact will be at London Euston, the UK’s 10th busiest railway station.
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April 17, 2025
Half of vessels in Scotland ‘invisible’ to marine tracking systems
The research comes from Heriot-Watt University.
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April 16, 2025
Schools paying for cookers and beds for families living in poverty, leaders say
More pupils are missing out on extracurricular activities and school trips as parents cannot afford them, it has been suggested.
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April 16, 2025
Plan to divert millions of patients from waiting lists with GP service expansion
Ministers said the move will ‘stop masses of people’ going to hospital for ‘unnecessary appointments’.
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April 16, 2025
Items that reflect ‘elegance and artistry’ of Barbara Taylor Bradford go on sale
The British-American author found fame with her debut novel, A Woman Of Substance, and went on to write 40 novels.
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April 16, 2025
Robotics with ‘potential to transform’ surgery approved for NHS use in England
The new technology could lead to shorter stays in hospital and faster recovery times, experts have said.
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April 16, 2025
Simon Armitage ‘excited to be northerner’ getting City of London freedom
He performed a reading at the ceremony.
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April 16, 2025
Charities and councils warn of children’s social care ‘breaking point’
Organisations providing support for children said they are working in ‘progressively challenging circumstances’.
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April 16, 2025
Invisible radio wave weapon downs ‘drone swarms’ in trial success
It is a type of Radiofrequency Directed Energy Weapon.
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April 16, 2025
Nitrogen-fertilised grassland more likely to trigger hay fever, study suggests
Authors say it is the first study to suggest a clear relationship between nitrogen fertiliser and pollen count and its ability to trigger al...
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April 16, 2025
Members of UK's largest Jewish advocacy group condemn Netenyahu
More than 30 signatories from the Board of Deputies sign letter condemning the Israeli government for the ‘renewed loss of life and liveliho...
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April 16, 2025
Bracelet by Scottish designer sells for almost three times estimate at auction
It went under the hammer on Wednesday.
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April 16, 2025
Revealed: Foods British tourists banned from bringing back from Europe
British tourists will not be allowed to bring meat and cheese back from the European Union to prevent spread of foot-and-mouth disease
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April 16, 2025
Ticket-holder scoops £5.2m National Lottery jackpot
It is the second jackpot win in April after another player pocketed £7.3 million earlier this month.
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April 16, 2025
Woman, 39, arrested after pensioner, 93, found dead in Manchester home
The case has also been referred to the police watchdog due to previous contact with the deceased
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April 16, 2025
Lib Dems urge ministers to suspend China visit after MP blocked from Hong Kong
Sir Ed Davey has written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy, urging the Government to take steps in retaliation for Wera Hobhouse’s deportati...
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April 16, 2025
Eddie Marsan dedicates his OBE to his east London community who all ‘stepped up’
Fellow actor Kevin Whately was also honoured at a Windsor Castle investiture ceremony.
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April 16, 2025
Probe launched after passenger falls from platform and dies at Ickenham Tube station
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch have launched an investigation into the death
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April 16, 2025
Colossal squid filmed alive for first time since its discovery a century ago
The Schmidt Ocean Institute captured rare footage of the juvenile near the South Sandwich Islands.
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April 16, 2025
EU names seven countries as 'safe' in plan to fast-track deportations
Migrants from Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia are now unlikely to be granted asylum
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April 16, 2025
Woman hit on golf course by van being pursued by police dies in hospital
The woman, in her sixties, was taken to hospital in a critical condition after the collision last week but died on Tuesday, police confirmed....jpeg?width=1200&auto=webp&quality=75&crop=5:3,smart)
Evening Standard
April 16, 2025
Could high-tech 'damp and mould sensors' act as 'early warning' for tenants?
Pilot scheme found sensors enabled ‘more efficient use of housing officer time’, though some tenants were reluctant to install the devices
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April 16, 2025
Mayor urged to find new allotment sites to help Londoners grow food
Data shared with the London Assembly reveals significant gap in stock of allotments between inner and outer London
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April 16, 2025
Murder investigation after woman, 93, found dead
A 39-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the discovery of the pensioner’s body on Wednesday.
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April 16, 2025
Whole ecosystems ‘decimated’ by weeks of wildfires, charities warn
Vast areas of habitat for small mammals and birds have been damaged across the UK by the recent wildfires.
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April 16, 2025
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April 16, 2025
Subpostmasters say their fight is still on as they are made OBEs
Seema Misra was eight weeks pregnant with her second child when she was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment in 2010.
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April 16, 2025
More children in northern cities getting places at preferred school
Hundreds of thousands of families across England are finding out which primary school their child will be joining this September.
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April 16, 2025
Explore London's surprising wildlife, including wallabies and snakes
From Hampstead to Regent’s Canal, here’s a guide to the most unexpected animals living in and near the capital
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April 16, 2025
Celebrations as campaigners welcome court ruling on definition of a woman
The ruling means transgender women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if ‘proportionate’.
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April 16, 2025
Grandfather of Jesse Lingard tells court he was not an ‘ogre’
Kenneth Lingard, 86, denies 17 counts of indecent assault.
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April 16, 2025
Over 10,000 London children miss out on first preference primary school
Overall, 87.9% of pupils in London received an offer from their first choice school, equivalent to 73,481 children, data revealed on Wednesd...
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April 16, 2025
Fewer London children secure top choice of primary school
The number of applications for places at primary schools in the capital has fallen again this year.
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April 16, 2025
Highest daily number of Channel arrivals so far this year
Latest Home Office provisional figures show 705 made the journey in 12 boats on Tuesday.
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April 16, 2025
Celebrations as campaigners welcome court ruling on definition of a woman
The ruling means transgender women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if ‘proportionate’.
Evening Standard
April 16, 2025
Lib Dems urge ministers to suspend China visit after MP blocked from Hong Kong
Sir Ed Davey has written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy, urging the Government to take steps in retaliation for Wera Hobhouse’s deportati...
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April 16, 2025
Man, 21, stabbed to death in Walworth street fight named by police
Giovanny Rendon Bedoya, 21, was attacked on Hillingdon Street after reports of group carrying knives
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April 16, 2025
Gatwick airport workers reject offer ahead of Easter holiday strikes
Gatwick Airport is bracing for disruption this Easter as staff walk out over pension schemes, late payments and ‘illegal’ shift patterns
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April 16, 2025
Council leader ‘outraged’ by Toby Carvery felling ancient oak without permission
The cutting down of the tree has been compared to that of the landmark Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland.
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April 16, 2025
Talks aimed at settling Birmingham bin strike adjourned without agreement
Members of Unite walked out on March 11 in a dispute over pay and jobs, leading to rubbish piling up in the streets.
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April 16, 2025
Drugs courier who smuggled £5.6m of cocaine into Scotland jailed
Kristopher Purvis, 35, of Durham, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars at the High Court in Edinburgh on Wednesday.
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April 16, 2025
Spotify down for many as firm investigates ‘issues’
The music streaming giant said it was ‘checking out’ the problem, but denied it was the result of a security breach.
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April 16, 2025
Scottish Government ‘keen’ to work with UK on gender reforms, says Robison
The Scottish Finance Secretary said there are no plans to bring forward new, revised gender reforms at the Scottish Parliament.
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April 16, 2025
Spotify down for many as firm investigates ‘issues’
The music streaming giant said it was ‘checking out’ the problem, but denied it was the result of a security breach.
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April 16, 2025
Road crime concerns: specialist unit only investigates 1 in 10 serious injury crashes
Concern that many victims are treated as lower priority and struggle to secure compensation
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April 16, 2025
Highest daily number of Channel arrivals so far this year
Latest Home Office provisional figures show 705 made the journey in 12 boats on Tuesday.
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April 16, 2025
Harry and Meghan are in their ‘happy bubble’ with Archie and Lili, source says
The Sussexes enjoyed a trip to celebrate Meghan’s business launch as Harry expressed his pride in his wife, People magazine reported.
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April 16, 2025
Anti-China rhetoric over British Steel is absurd, says country’s embassy
A spokesperson for the embassy said individual UK politicians have shown ‘arrogance, ignorance and twisted mindset’.
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April 16, 2025