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Labour gains control of Nuneaton and Bedworth council after Conservative loss
We’re in one area that switched from Tory to Labour last night. Before yesterday, the Conservatives were in control of Nuneaton and Bedworth council in Warwickshire. But they lost 11 seats and Labour gained power by winning 15.
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Calls for better monitoring of antipsychotic drug linked to hundreds of deaths
The families of people who have died while taking an antipsychotic drug have told Channel 4 News there needs to be a wholesale change in how it’s monitored.
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HMP Woodhill ‘has never been able to recruit enough staff to run safely’ claims former Prison Service boss
We spoke earlier to the former director general of England and Wales’ Prison Service, Phil Wheatley. We started by asking him who should be held accountable for Robert Fenlon’s death.
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‘I lost my childhood, my loved ones and my leg’: The young Gazans permanently scarred by war
Some in Gaza have been expressing their thanks to American students for their support – but it is a ceasefire that they long for.
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Dublin police clear hundreds of asylum seeker tent
In Dublin, police have moved in to clear a tent encampment set up by asylum seekers.
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‘Pro-Palestine protests have sparked a nationwide movement’, says Columbia University professor
Joseph Howley is an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University, and supports the pro-Palestinian protests on his campus.
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Hundreds arrested after Gaza clashes sweep US campuses
Columbia University in New York has been the epicentre of a growing protest movement across America’s universities.
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George the Poet on systemic racism, classism and going from council estate to Cambridge
George the Poet has gained a following of millions as a spoken word artist who writes about social justice.
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Why ‘no win, no fee’ solicitors are taking on councils over social housing
Council tenants in England whose homes are plagued by leaking roofs, subsidence, damp and mould are turning to legal firms for help.
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Sunak ‘not interested’ in accepting returned asylum seekers from Ireland
Some of the missing asylum seekers we heard about earlier could be in Ireland, where politicians have raised questions over the number of people arriving from the UK to avoid deportation to Rwanda.
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Hainault attack: ‘We need to legislate against the purchase of such weapons,’ says leader of local council
We spoke to the leader of the local council, Jas Athwal, and we began by asking him how he heard about the attack and what his immediate reaction was.
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Rishi Sunak refuses to rule out July general election, again
Rishi Sunak has again refused to rule out a July general election, amid speculation that a disastrous set of local elections results, this coming Thursday, could force his hand. The Prime Minister said he would not “say anything more” than he had already said, which is that the national poll is likely to be in…
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Local elections: every Dorset council seat is up for grabs
Millions of voters will get their last chance on Thursday to cast a ballot before the general election. Around 2,600 councillors will be elected in 107 local authorities across England. Labour are expected to make gains – and some polls predict that the Conservatives could lose around half the seats they are defending. There will…
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Teachers to be allowed guns in Tennessee schools
Divisions in the United States over gun control will be amplified in the run up to November’s presidential election. That has been particularly stark in the state of Tennessee. A year ago a shooting at a school in the state capital Nashville that left three nine-year-olds dead sparked protests in the legislative building. Democrat representative…
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Sunak dismisses questions about defence spend increase
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is back from his visits to Poland and Germany, hoping that his pledge to increase defence spending has gone down well at home – not least with his restive backbenchers.