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Concrete crisis: London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports found to use crumbling Raac concrete
London’s busiest airports – Heathrow and Gatwick – are the latest buildings to discover the presence of Raac concrete, which has caused so much chaos to dozens of schools. Safety precautions have already been put in place – and neither airport has reported any risk to the travelling public.
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Football fans protest ‘sportswashing’ Saudi Arabia friendlies at Newcastle United
The Great North Run this weekend will draw 60 thousand runners to the streets of Tyneside and a TV audience of millions. But there’s another international sporting fixture in Newcastle tonight that’s proving much more controversial.
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G20: Post-Brexit free trade deal with India “not a given,” says Sunak
The prime minister Rishi Sunak has warned that reaching a post-Brexit free trade deal with India is “not a given” as he joined other world leaders ahead of the G20 summit in Delhi.
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Daniel Khalife: ‘£20,000 reward might make people look a bit harder,’ says former counter-terrorism coordinator
We spoke earlier to Nick Aldworth, the UK’s former counter-terrorism coordinator.
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Hunt continues for terror suspect Daniel Khalife who escaped London jail
Scotland Yard’s counter terrorism commander says there have been no confirmed sightings so far of Daniel Khalifuh since he escaped from prison at 7.32 yesterday morning.
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Greece extreme weather: Widespread flooding just days after wildfires brought under control
Torrential rain has caused widespread flooding in Greece, just days after the deadly wildfires that raged across the country for weeks were brought under control.
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Manhunt underway as terror suspect escapes Wandsworth Prison
A former soldier accused of planting fake bombs at a military base has escaped from prison in south London.
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Birmingham City Council declares itself ‘effectively bankrupt’
Birmingham City council, the biggest local authority in the country, has effectively declared itself bankrupt with a formal notice of financial distress.
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School concrete crisis: Rishi Sunak accused of cutting spending on repairs as chancellor
The failure to fix dangerous concrete in school classrooms was today laid at Rishi Sunak’ s door after he was accused of cutting spending on school repairs when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Prime Minister insisted that was “completely and utterly wrong” – and claimed the majority of schools were unaffected. But a…
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‘Huge confusion’ over Manchester United sale, says football columnist
The latest stage of the Man United saga was reported by Mail on Sunday columnist Alex Miller.
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Manchester United takeover: Is the club really for sale?
Manchester United fans have reacted with fury to reports that the club’s deeply unpopular owners, the Glazer brothers, have decided to postpone its sale.
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‘Second amendment not more important than second graders’, says Tennessee state representative on gun violence
Justin Jones is a Democrat Tennessee state representative. In April, he was expelled from the chamber after calling for gun reforms during a protest on the House floor. But he told me he refuses to be silenced.
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Gun control activists tour the USA to honour the 1,206 children killed by guns this year
A staggering 1,206 children aged 17 and under have been killed by a gun so far this year in the United States. That’s according to the Gun Violence Archive, which says there have also been 480 mass shootings.
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Sugababes on reunions, dealing with fame and the state of the music industry
Almost 25 years after they first formed,the original Sugababes are back, with a one night comeback show at London’s O2. The band had to fight to win back the rights to their name – but they’ve never been shy of speaking their minds. Our culture correspondent Minnie Stephenson has been speaking exclusively to the Sugababes…
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UK economy bounces back from pandemic better than thought, says ONS
The UK economy bounced back from the pandemic much better than previously thought, according to revised figures from the Office for National Statistics. It means the UK is no longer the G7’s worst performing economy on that measure.
