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Experts say young people are at risk from inhaling nitrous oxide, or “laughing gas”, claiming 17 deaths have been caused by the so-called legal high. Others say the warnings are a load of hot air.
Politicians have hijacked warehouses this election but do young adults calling for better housing policies want to vote for them?
Alex Thomson
This is something close to adoration, and this cannot be faked – as a seasoned correspondent you report what you see, and I have never seen this in a UK election. Never.
Gary Gibbon
The Tories are in danger of desperately gnawing through the very lifebelt they may need after 7 May. Put that to senior Tories and they acknowledge the problem but feel they can do no other.
Jonathan Miller
Mirvat and her family fled Syria, eventually arriving in the UK via Lebanon, Egypt, Libya and Calais. She has begun a new life – but cannot forget what she went through to get here.
Britain’s biggest food bank charity says more than 1 million needy people received free food in 2014/15, the biggest number on record. The Trussell Trust says it gave food aid to 1,084,604 people compared to 913,138 in 2013/14 – a 19 per cent increase. Jeremy Paxman tried to corner David Cameron on the growing use…
Trader Navinder Singh Sarao faces an extradition hearing after being accused of helping to trigger a stock market crash on Wall Street from his London home.
Victoria Macdonald
There’s the married couple, Jeremy Hunt and Norman Lamb. Then a third person, Andy Burnham, comes a long to spice things up. That’s what today’s #healthdebate looked like.
Cathy Newman
Labour spinners frantically retweeting the hen party selfies (#Ed #henparty #adorable #lovely) should remember what happened to Cleggmania in the privacy of the ballot box.
Alex Thomson
What the SNP have to guard against is Acquired Sheffield Syndrome and one N Kinnock’s disastrous triumphalism.
At least nine people, including four Unicef staff, are killed in an attack that has been claimed by militant group al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Jon Snow
The DPP says Lord Janner’s dementia renders him incapable of standing trial on charges of historic child sex abuse. But is the DPP right?
Ed Miliband’s latest election stop was far from the open campaigning of years gone by, when Harold Wilson or Ted Heath would do genuine walkabouts.
Negotiations over a new bailout for Greece are approaching a critical stage. And if the country runs out of cash, it might just feel like the end of the world for many Greeks.
David Cameron is accosted during his first on-camera walkabout of the election campaign, by a man with a ukulele who tells him – in somewhat colourful language – to go “back to Eton”.