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Elon Musk’s election talk sparked concern in swing state, emails reveal

BritishDevaDecember 15, 2024

Elon Musk’s claims about the risks of voter fraud in the United States presidential election prompted a flurry of concerned correspondence to election officials in a key swing state, newly...

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U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. has condition that makes counting bars ‘like climbing Everest’

BritishDevaDecember 15, 2024December 15, 2024

Drummer Larry Mullen Jr., a founding member of Irish rock band U2, has revealed that he has a learning difficulty that makes counting musical bars feel like climbing Mount Everest....

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Turkey has emerged as a winner in Syria but must now use its influence to help build peace

BritishDevaDecember 15, 2024

No other crisis has redefined Turkey’s place in regional and international politics as much as the Syrian conflict. Turkey shares its longest land border with Syria, over 900 km. Syria...

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Labour plan for 1.5m new homes is not feasible, housebuilding firm says

BritishDevaDecember 15, 2024

Labour’s plan to build 1.5m homes during this parliament is not achievable because of a severe skills shortage, an ageing workforce and Brexit, the head of Britain’s largest housebuilding company...

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Small boat crossings would be ‘thousands higher’ under the Tories, Yvette Cooper says

BritishDevaDecember 15, 2024

Small boat crossings would be “thousands higher” under the Conservatives, the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said, though they remain 20% higher than this time last year. But Cooper declined...

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Foreign Office admits it does not know how much money has been spent on Chagos deal so far

BritishDevaDecember 15, 2024

The Foreign Office has admitted it doesn’t how much money has been spent on the Chagos Islands deal. The admission was made after The Independent submitted a Freedom of Information...

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Thousands of Syrians escape horrific conditions of besieged camp

BritishDevaDecember 15, 2024

Living in mud-brick huts in the middle of the desert, under the toughest siege of Syria’s civil war, the 8,000 displaced people left to rot in the isolated Rukban camp...

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Starmer seeks to relaunch premiership with new promise to crack down on crime

BritishDevaDecember 5, 2024

Keir Starmer will attempt to reset his premiership with a series of pledges to show he is “delivering change”, including 13,000 extra neighbourhood police and a named “bobby on every...

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Home-working parents may be behind rise in school absence, Ofsted warns

BritishDevaDecember 5, 2024

Parents who have been working from home since the pandemic are keeping their children off school with them, the chief inspector of Ofsted has suggested. Sir Martyn Oliver, who has...

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CEO of Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group says budget felt like being ‘kicked in the face’

BritishDevaDecember 5, 2024

The chief executive of the high street retail giant Frasers said that “we felt we’d been kicked in the face” after Rachel Reeves’ autumn budget. Frasers said it had witnessed...

Month: December 2024

Elon Musk’s election talk sparked concern in swing state, emails reveal

U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. has condition that makes counting bars ‘like climbing Everest’

Turkey has emerged as a winner in Syria but must now use its influence to help build peace

Labour plan for 1.5m new homes is not feasible, housebuilding firm says

Small boat crossings would be ‘thousands higher’ under the Tories, Yvette Cooper says

Foreign Office admits it does not know how much money has been spent on Chagos deal so far

Thousands of Syrians escape horrific conditions of besieged camp

Starmer seeks to relaunch premiership with new promise to crack down on crime

Home-working parents may be behind rise in school absence, Ofsted warns

Elon Musk’s election talk sparked concern in swing state, emails reveal

U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. has condition that makes counting bars ‘like climbing Everest’

Turkey has emerged as a winner in Syria but must now use its influence to help build peace

Labour plan for 1.5m new homes is not feasible, housebuilding firm says

Small boat crossings would be ‘thousands higher’ under the Tories, Yvette Cooper says

Foreign Office admits it does not know how much money has been spent on Chagos deal so far

Thousands of Syrians escape horrific conditions of besieged camp

Starmer seeks to relaunch premiership with new promise to crack down on crime

Home-working parents may be behind rise in school absence, Ofsted warns

CEO of Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group says budget felt like being ‘kicked in the face’

Brianna Ghey’s killer tries to have sentence reduced due to his ‘immaturity’

Prison population in England and Wales set to exceed 100,000 by 2029