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RAAC: Parents protest school closures in Durham
Parents with children at a secondary school which has been largely closed for almost a month because of unsafe concrete have been holding a protest during a visit from the schools minister.
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Rosebank: UK’s largest untapped oil field approved for development
According to the government the Rosebank oil field will bring jobs, improve the UK’s finances and lessen our dependence on hostile oil producers like Russia.
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India involved in killing of Sikh leader say Canada
The Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has denied trying to escalate tensions with India – after suggesting that the government in Delhi could be linked to the assassination of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil.
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‘At some point negotiations have to end’, says health committee chair
We spoke to the Conservative MP Steve Brine, who chairs the Health and Social Care Committee.
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NHS strikes: unprecedented action by consultants and junior doctors in England
Now this year has been marked by repeated strike action across the UK: today it was England’s NHS consultants walking out again.
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Five Americans head home in £5bn prisoner swap deal with Iran
Five Americans who’ve spent years in jail in Iran are finally on their way home – after a prisoner swap deal was brokered by Qatar.
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North Korea meets Russia: Putin and Kim Jong Un to discuss arms and nuclear tech
A meeting of two isolated leaders, usually too afraid of leaving home. North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un left his country by armoured train for the first time in four years to meet President Putin in Eastern Siberia.
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Luis Rubiales resigns as president of Spanish FA over Jenni Hermoso kiss
Spain’s football chief Luis Rubiales has resigned, after prosecutors began criminal action against him for kissing a member of his country’s women’s team following their World Cup final victory.
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Rent crisis: half of renters would lose in one month home if they lost job
More than three million people in England who are in work and rent their own homes don’t have enough savings to pay their rent for a month, if they lose their job.
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Narco gang violence overshadows Ecuador presidential election
Presidential elections in Ecuador are going to a run off – after no candidate managed to get enough votes in the first round to be declared the winner.
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Saudi Arabian border guards accused of killing hundreds of migrants in new report
Saudi Arabian border guards have been accused of killing hundreds of migrants as they tried to cross the border from Yemen – with one person telling the Human Rights Watch group that they were “fired on like rain”.
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Manipur: The ethnic tensions behind the rapes and violence
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing a no confidence motion, in the wake of a video showing shocking violence which went viral round the world.
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“Not convinced by the evidence for a windfall tax on the banks”, says shadow chancellor
Labour wants banks to be compelled to follow a new set of rules – rather than just leaving it up to them.
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Farage bank row: ‘This is not the first case like this’, says David Davis MP
Earlier Matt spoke to the former Brexit secretary, David Davis, who’s described the decision to close Nigel Farage’s account as “thinly veiled political discrimination”.
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NatWest chief exec resigns for breaching customer confidentiality over Nigel Farage’s account
The boss of NatWest, Dame Alison Rose, has resigned after admitting she gave information to the BBC about Nigel Farage’s relationship with the bank, and had made a “serious error of judgement”.