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FactCheck: Rachel Reeves’ claim that ‘the average family will be £870 worse off’
FactCheck takes a look.
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Iran elections: voting expected to be at record lows as polls close
Here in Iran, they’ve just extended voting in their parliamentary elections til midnight. The regime kept the polls open in the hope more people would show.
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FactCheck: Over 18,000 patients a month wait more than 8 hours in Wales A&Es
The elective care waiting list has nearly doubled since 2013.
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Girls and gangs: radical approach to break cycle of violence
Tens of thousands of girls across England are at risk of serious violence and exploitation, often within gangs.
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FactCheck: Starmer claims ‘nobody feels better off than 14 years ago’
Most people have slightly more money in their pocket, according to the latest data.
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Post Office scandal: Fujitsu says it has ‘moral obligation’ to compensate victims
Until now, Post Office and Fujitsu bosses had avoided the cameras over the Horizon IT scandal. That scandal saw more than 900 subpostmasters wrongly prosecuted for theft, false accounting and fraud between 1999 and 2015.
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FactCheck: who are the Houthis, why has the UK used air strikes in Yemen and how is it linked to Israel and Gaza?
RAF Typhoons joined air strikes against targets in Yemen last night.
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Post Office investigators accused of ‘Mafia-style’ bullying of sub-postmasters
A former Post Office investigator has told the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal that he and his colleagues did not “behave like mafia gangsters”.
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Inside Gaza: The reality of being displaced in Rafah
Every day more people flee their homes – and often have to flee again.
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Fujitsu: Tech firm facing calls to pay Post Office victims compensation
Fujitsu, the Japanese technology firm which manufactured the faulty Horizon software, will be quizzed by MPs next week about their role.
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Post Office scandal compensation cannot cover ‘hell I’ve been through’, says wrongly convicted former postmaster
One of the wrongly convicted postmasters was Vijay Parekh. He was falsely accused of stealing over £70,000 and spent four months in prison.
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FactCheck: what is antibiotic resistance and could a new drug overcome it?
The overuse of antibiotics has led to the emergence of “superbugs”.
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FactCheck: do you have to pay tax for selling secondhand on Vinted or eBay?
What do the new changes mean for sellers and will you have to declare tax? FactCheck takes a look.
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An alternative prison where mothers can live with their children
One charity is trialling a community alternative to prison, where women live alongside their children and get help to break the cycle of reoffending.
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Australia floods: record rainfall and a captured crocodile
Hundreds of people have been rescued from floods in Northern Australia, after a cyclone triggered a month’s worth of rain in a single weekend.