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UK Economy: day of price rises and new financial policies explained
The Easter weekend closes with a bang as many households see their council tax and bills go up on what’s been dubbed ‘price hike day’.
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Inside Northern Gaza: kids desperate for food and medicine
As the people of Gaza grow ever more desperate for food, pressure keeps growing on Israel. Top US Democrat Chuck Schumer has criticised Benjamin Netanyahu as an “obstacle to peace” and called for elections.
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Rishi Sunak hints he’ll squeeze benefits to pay for tax cuts
This Mothers’ Day several women started a hunger strike outside parliament to protest rising food costs and pressures on family budgets.
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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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FactCheck: what are the symptoms of whooping cough, why are infections rising and is there a vaccine?
Whooping cough cases are on the rise in England. FactCheck takes a look.
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FactCheck: 12-week waits for inpatient care in Scotland 125 times higher than a decade ago
The picture across Scotland’s NHS is stark.
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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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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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FactCheck: Rishi Sunak’s poverty claim explained
“There are 1.7 million fewer people in poverty than in 2010, including hundreds of thousands of children.” That was the claim from Rishi Sunak this week. FactCheck takes a look.
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FactCheck: has Rishi Sunak met his pledge to cut NHS waiting lists?
Has Rishi Sunak met his pledge to cut NHS waiting lists? FactCheck takes a look.
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UK Covid Inquiry resumes as government actions during pandemic under scrutiny
Lockdowns, travel restrictions and social distancing. The covid years generated a whole new lexicon of terms – familiar to us all – that were born out of Government measures to limit the spread of the disease.
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Russell Brand allegations: Police encourage complainants to come forward
Scotland Yard said they would be speaking again to the Sunday Times and Channel 4.
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FactCheck: will ULEZ expansion to outer London improve air quality?
We calculate the expansion will add 13 minutes to the average Londoner’s life expectancy in 2023.
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Would new North Sea oil and gas make Britain more energy independent?
The government will grant hundreds of new licences to extract oil and gas from the North Sea, Rishi Sunak said on Monday. The initial decision was announced last year, but Mr Sunak reiterated the plan this week alongside “millions of pounds” for so-called “carbon capture and storage” technology — which the government says would help reduce…
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FactCheck: were the Greek wildfires caused by climate change?
This summer has already been marked as another year with record-breaking heat right across the globe, from China to North Africa and North America to Europe. In the past week at least 34 people died from spreading wildfires in Algeria, while in the Greek island of Rhodes thousands were evacuated due to wildfires following extreme…