Category: UK
£600 million injected to extend support for poorer children during school holidays
The Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme is being extended for three more years
Read MoreThe ‘one-off scheme’ which could see asylum hotels close next year
It would allow people from certain countries likely to be recognised as refugees temporary permission to stay
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Starmer could end asylum hotel use in six months with this one move, charity claims
The prime minister is under pressure to close asylum hotels after a series of violent protests
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Police slammed as more than 285,000 crimes were not recorded last year
More than two thirds of unrecorded crimes are offences that disproportionately affect women and girls
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Wartime bombs explode as fire rips across Yorkshire moorland
Residents warned to prepare to flee homes as smoke fills air and emergency crews call in back-ups from other areas
Read MoreRNLI lifeboat crew rescue pet rottweiler stranded on rocks in Cornwall
Volunteer swims with dog back to rescue boat
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Ed Davey to boycott King’s banquet for Trump over ‘horrifying’ Gaza war
Lib Dem leader suggests US president and Keir Starmer are hoping to ‘close their eyes and wish this away’ rather than act on escalating humanitarian crisis in the Strip
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Chick-fil-A set to open first UK restaurant years after anti-LGBT+ controversy
Chick-fil-A confirms it will open its first permanent restaurant in Leeds this autumn
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Warning Labour’s benefit changes will create two-tier system lasting ‘decades’
The reforms are ‘difficult to justify,’ an influential think tank said
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Mum wins £3,500 payout after police laughed at her sex toys during drugs raid
Officers’ actions found to be ‘unacceptable and unprofessional’ but down to immaturity rather than spite, investigation finds
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