Category: UK

Don’t put expensive items at front of stores because ‘people will nick them’, minister tells shopkeepers

The warning comes as chief of supermarket chain Iceland said shoplifting is getting worse because offenders appear to be able to act with ‘impunity’

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Tulip Siddiq’s anti-corruption trial formally begins in Bangladesh

Former British minister says she is ‘collateral damage’ in the fight between her aunt and Muhammad Yunus

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Players devastated after winning share of £1.6m then Gala Bingo takes it back

Players were incorrectly credited with a share of more than £1.6m over the course of two hours

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Teacher banned from the classroom after doing student’s coursework for them

She has been banned from teaching indefinitely, with the right to have the prohibition order reviewed in two years

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New suspect ethnicity guidance ‘may not stop spread of disinformation’, policing minister admits

Police have been encouraged to share the nationality and ethnicity of suspects if there is a ‘policing reason to do’, but not immigration status

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Flight attendant who was too stressed to fly wins discrimination claim over sacking

Jennifer Clifford had worked for British Airways for almost 40 years

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UK hasn’t seen poverty like this for 60 years, says Gordon Brown in call to scrap two-child benefit cap

The former prime minister backed reforms to gambling taxes in order to generate the £3.2bn needed to scrap the cap

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Interest rates live: Boost for mortgage holders as Bank of England cuts rate for third time this year

Monetary Policy Committee members have voted on a cut down to 4 per cent which will hamper savings but boost the mortgage market

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Homelessness minister facing calls to resign after ‘hiking rent at London townhouse by £700’

Rushanara Ali has previously criticised ‘private renters being exploited and discriminated against’

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Overflowing bins and climate change: Why might rats be getting bigger in the UK?

Adult rats can weigh up to 600g according to ecologists, and they probably became that big by eating our junk food

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