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Junior doctors ready to begin longest strike in NHS history
Tens of thousands of junior doctors in England are about to begin a five-day strike over pay, the longest industrial action of its kind in NHS history.
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No public service spending cuts under Labour vows Reeves
We speak to Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves, whose party came out with some new policy proposals on housing today.
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Sunak says public sector pay review will be ‘fair’ as unions plan more strikes
Another teaching union in England says its members have voted to strike in the autumn over pay and workload.
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The Sun must answer for BBC ‘scandal’ coverage, says Beeb Watch host
We spoke to Roger Bolton, who worked for 50 years as a producer, editor and presenter at the BBC, and now hosts the Beeb Watch podcast.
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Irish public service broadcasting needs ‘refounding’ says Finlan O’Toole
We spoke to Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole about the Ryan Tubridy scandal, and began by asking him whether parliamentary inquiries are always so popular they’re played in pubs in Ireland.
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RTE pay scandal: Ryan Tubridy appears before Ireland’s Public Accounts Committee
Ireland’s RTE has seen its highest paid star Ryan Tubridy appear before the Irish parliament’s public accounts committee.
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Zephaniah McLeod: ‘missed opportunities’ to intervene in unprovoked attack says review
Jacob Billington was 23 years old when he was killed by paranoid schizophrenic Zephaniah McLeod – who also stabbed seven other people.
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Extreme weather testing countries around the world
Across the world extreme weather is causing destruction and loss of life from floods in India and Japan to heatwaves in the US and Spain.
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Female firearms officer could receive £1.2m in employment tribunal payout
A female firearms officer who was told she would have to make do with body armour made for men could be in line for one of the biggest payouts of its type at an employment tribunal at England’s second largest police force.
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Pension incomes could be boosted by £1,000 a year under new government reforms
Pension incomes could be boosted by a thousand pounds a year, the government has claimed, under reforms which it is announcing this evening. The plan is to encourage the UK’s big pension funds to pump more money into smaller start up businesses – and the chancellor is setting out his ideas to the City this…
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Sudan conflict: Not much ‘hope’ for ‘peaceful resolution’, says OHCHR country office chief in Sudan
We spoke to Gillian Kitley, Head of the Office of the UN’s high commissioner for human rights in Sudan.
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Police say pioneering approach to investigating rape being rolled out in forces across country
Police say a pioneering approach to investigating rapes and other serious sexual crimes – dubbed Operation Soteria – is being rolled out in forces across the country. It’s a system in dire need of change – between April and December last year around 50,000 rapes were recorded by police in England and Wales. Yet just…
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‘No truth to it’: Young person at centre of BBC presenter scandal denies claims
A letter from a lawyer representing a young person at the heart of allegations against an unnamed BBC presenter has described the claims, reported in the Sun newspaper as “rubbish”. The Sun, which based its report on claims by the young person’s parents – said they had seen evidence to support those concerns. The Metropolitan…
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FactCheck: why is US decision to give cluster munitions to Ukraine controversial?
US President Joe Biden has announced the country will supply cluster munitions to Ukraine to help its fight against Russian forces. FactCheck takes a look.
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Unnamed BBC presenter accused of paying thousands to teen for explicit photos
The BBC has said it would treat any allegations very seriously, and had processes in place to deal with them.
