Category: UK
Royal Mail given go-ahead to make changes to second-class post service
Ofcom added it had also launched a review of the price of stamps
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Police incident shuts M42 in both directions near Birmingham airport
The major motorway is currently shut after an incident between junction four and five at Solihull
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‘Will you shut up’: Farage’s anti-Macron speech drowned out by hecklers
Nigel Farage was drowned out by hecklers as he criticised Emmanuel Macron during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 9 July.
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Britons should be forced to vote, says influential charity as turnouts drop
Britain is facing ‘a vicious cycle of unequal turnout, economic stagnation and political disillusionment’, the Constitution Society has said
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BMW worker was fired after bosses authorised secret filming over back pain
Mohamed Kerita, who worked in the firm’s manufacturing factory, suffered with back pain from 2017, the tribunal in Reading heard
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Starmer and Macron are up against a small boats crisis – but how many migrants cross the Channel and who gets turned away?
The prime minister wants a radical deal with French authorities as data shows migration on small boats is at its highest-ever levels despite 4 in 10 migrants being prevented from crossing the Channel. Alicja Hagopian reports
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Voices: ‘Who do they think they are?’ Readers clash over NHS doctor strikes
Our community is sharply divided over the upcoming doctors’ strike and their demand for a 29 per cent pay rise. While one reader blamed the NHS, calling it ‘a broken system,’ another said, doctors ‘should be ashamed’
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Appeal after £10,000 stolen from man at Paddington train station
British Transport Police have released images of three women as part of their investigation
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Former Tory chairman defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in blow to Kemi Badenoch
Sir Jake Berry, who was chairman of the Tories under Liz Truss and a staunch Boris Johnson ally has defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
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Starmer’s hopes of ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal hanging in the balance as talks with Macron continue
Government sources describe reports a deal has already been agreed as mere ‘speculation’
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