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Thousands killed and injured amid fighting in Ethiopia
Concerns are mounting for the welfare of tens of thousands of people who have fled fighting in the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray into neighbouring Sudan.
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FactCheck: ministers’ confusing free school meals defence
The government is facing pressure to change course – including from some Conservative MPs.
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Councils promise free school meals after footballer Marcus Rashford’s campaign
Conservative MPs voted down a Labour move to extend the voucher scheme this week.
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Critics of UK government’s post-Brexit farming plan fear food safety could be affected
Its supporters claim it will protect the UK’s farming industry after Britain leaves the European Union at the end of this year. But critics of the Agriculture Bill, which went back before Parliament today, say it could end up compromising food safety and animal welfare after Brexit unless key standards are enshrined in UK law.
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FactCheck: can parents keep children home once schools return?
Schools in England are expected to open their doors to some year groups from 1 June.
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage will not stand for election
A Brexit Party whose leader won’t be running for Parliament and who says Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal is ‘virtually’ worse than staying inside the EU, a Conservative party promising a welfare spending spree, and Labour going all-out for older voters… the 2019 election campaign is already full of surprises. But with both main parties vying…
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Tony Smith, former UK Border Force, on Essex lorry deaths: ‘This is all about money, international organised crime’
Satbir Singh is chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Richard Burnett is chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, and Tony Smith is the former director general of the UK Border Force.
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MPs say single-parent families and disabled people being pushed into poverty
MPs have warned that an “unacceptably bleak” picture is emerging of the impact benefit cuts are having on the most vulnerable people in the country, with single-parent families and disabled people hit the hardest.
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MPs call for next PM to protect people living on breadline
Two MPs are calling for the next Prime Minister to adopt a programme of reforms to protect people living on the breadline.
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FactCheck: Labour rulebook doesn’t mention IHRA antisemitism definition or examples
The party said in September that it had adopted all 11 examples of antisemitism recommended by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
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NAHT’s Emily Proffitt: ‘Schools seeing increase in need’
Emily Proffitt is a primary school head in the West Midlands, who also represents the National Association of Head Teachers, and Mark Lehain is the founder and former principal of a free school in Bedfordshire.
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Britain on the breadline: Two MPs tour country on fact-finding mission
Independent MPs Heidi Allen and Frank Field say the Chancellor must end the freeze on benefits when he delivers his spring statement next week.
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Rudd links rise in food bank use to Universal Credit
Today the government acknowledged that the introduction of the benefit could have contributed to rising use of food banks.
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British academic jailed in UAE for spying ‘failed’ by UK government
Has the UK Government put its economic interests in the United Arab Emirates above the rights and welfare of Matthew Hedges, the British academic jailed for spying there yesterday?
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Police officers sacked after arrested man left paralysed
Julian Cole was a 19-year-old sports science student when he went for a night out in Bedford in 2013. He ended up brain damaged and paralysed after a scuffle with nightclub doormen and police officers. Now three of the Bedfordshire Police officers involved in his arrest have been sacked after being found guilty of gross misconduct. A…
