Category: UK
Spending review a ‘huge blow’ for police and ‘will hamper efforts to recruit 13,000 neighbourhood police officers’
The government’s £2bn spending plans will cover ‘little more’ than basic pay increases for existing staff, police chiefs have warned
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Police deployed to tackle ‘dozens of youths causing serious disorder’ in Salford
Around 50 to 60 people gathered on Lower Broughton Road, using cars and wheelie bins to block off the road
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UK agrees post-Brexit deal with EU for ‘fluid’ border between Gibraltar and Spain
Agreement marks a breakthrough after five years of tense negotiations over the border with Spain that have been ongoing since Britain left the bloc in 2020
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Peter Tatchell on LGBT+ rights being under fresh threat: ‘I might retire from protest when I’m 95’
Across six decades of activism, Britain’s leading LGBT+ rights campaigner has faced death threats and even had a bullet through his front door. He talks to Emma Henderson about police who won’t apologise for past wrongs and why Hungary should face sanctions over its Pride ban
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New Reform chair David Bull calls for return of death penalty
Dr David Bull also called for burqas to be banned in the UK
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Teenager destroyed six new-build houses while on a stolen JCB rampage
The 16-year-old has pleaded guilty to all five charges and is due to be sentenced
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Rachel Reeves pledges to end use of asylum hotels by end of this parliament
Home Office looks to former student accommodation to house migrants instead of hotels
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Whitehall on lockdown while police investigate ‘abandoned vehicle’ near Downing Street
Officers are investigating after a vehicle was abandoned near Downing Street
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Land Rovers’ and Jeeps’ growing bonnet heights ‘a clear threat to children’
SUVs pose ‘no benefit to society and mounting evidence of harm,’ a damning report has claimed
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These are all the countries currently on the Foreign Office ‘do not travel’ list
Warnings against travel abroad from the UK have been issued for countries including Afghanistan, Belarus and Haiti
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