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Support for a fully armed police service among the rank-and-file has jumped as forces confront an unprecedented terrorist threat, according to a major staff survey.
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The first signs of autumn are appearing as the equinox marks the start of the season, with hopes for a crescendo of colour in late October, experts have said.
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The decision not to issue Uber with a new licence to operate in London has split politicians with supporters of the move claiming it could be a “game changer for the gig economy” but critics claiming the the capital was turning its back on “free trade and innovation”.
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Uber has vowed to appeal after Transport for London said it will not be issued with a new licence and was “not fit and proper” to operate in the capital.
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A baby white rhino whose birth was hailed as an important step in the drive to save the species from extinction has been given a facial mudpack ahead of her first birthday.
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Prince Harry is to make his first official visit to Denmark next month at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Kensington Palace has said.
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The Grenfell Tower disaster triggered a mental health crisis of an “unprecedented” scale, a leading doctor has said 100 days on from the fire.
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A festival dubbed the “Tory Glastonbury” will see Conservative MPs and other leading figures on the right aim to plot the future direction of the party.
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Parents are concerned about the rising cost of sending their child to a state school, with many worried about increasing prices of uniforms, dinners and trips, according to a survey.
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Theresa May’s trip to Florence for her crunch speech on Brexit will be funded by British taxpayers, Downing Street has confirmed.
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The arrival into the Caribbean of Britain’s biggest in-service warship, dispatched to help with hurricane recovery efforts, has been branded “hugely significant”.
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The town immortalised by David Brent in the TV series The Office has been named the best in the country for jobs.
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Some of the UK’s biggest broadband providers have ranked the poorest for customer service failings such as poor speeds and connection dropouts.
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The eye of destructive Hurricane Maria which has unleashed devastation across the Caribbean is “now near” a British overseas territory, officials have warned.
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An 18-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and possessing explosives over the Parsons Green Tube terrorist attack.
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Red squirrels have made a remarkable comeback on an estate after nearly being wiped out by their grey cousins.
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Inter-city trains between Manchester and York could be the first in Britain to be digitally controlled, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling will announce.
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Parliament should take the lead in setting the UK’s foreign policy with committees of MPs taking on a greater role, a think tank has said.
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Long-running strikes by workers on Britain’s rail network have helped push industrial action in the UK’s private sector to its highest level for more than 10 years.
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Children with common ear infections should not be given antibiotics, a health watchdog has said.
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Labelling children as “average” could hide problems or extra abilities they have in subjects such as English and maths, a report has found.
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Access to legal aid should be significantly expanded amid concerns people are being denied access to justice, a report commissioned by Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leadership has said.
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Household chores such as vacuuming or floor scrubbing provide enough exercise to protect the heart and extend life, a study has shown.
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A sole surviving D-Day landing craft is to be restored with the help of £4.7 million lottery funding, it has been announced.
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Police chiefs are facing “very hard choices” as resources are increasingly focused on the massive counter-terrorism effort, the head of Scotland Yard has warned.
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Theresa May will tell European counterparts their shared political legacies depend on agreeing a good Brexit deal as she seeks to break the deadlock in negotiations over the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
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A seven-year-old boy has been found dead at a house in a Shropshire town.
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A UK task force chief says it is a “huge relief” the worst of Hurricane Maria swerved British overseas territories, but it is too early to be “counting our chickens”.
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Environmental activists have forced a cargo ship carrying Volkswagen diesel cars to the UK to turn around, Greenpeace said.
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A man has been jailed for life for killing two people after drinking alcohol and taking cocaine.
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Video footage of a couple having sex in a pizza delivery shop as staff worked on the other side of the counter has been shown to a court.
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A neighbour said she smelled a “weird barbecue” in the garden where a badly burned body was found.
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Two men have been sentenced to 10 years for planting a dissident republican bomb before a police recruitment event in Northern Ireland, a detective said.
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A missing 17-year-old girl is believed to be with a wanted man who has a history of violence, police said.
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An elderly woman has been left "absolutely traumatised" after she was sexually assaulted by an intruder who crept into her bedroom while she slept.
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Detectives investigating the disappearance of RAF gunner Corrie McKeague have released CCTV images of people they want to speak to almost a year after he vanished.
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Potentially deadly handguns were among almost two hundred weapons found in knife amnesty bins, officials have said.
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A teenage Islamic State fanatic who spread terrorist propaganda which said politicians, police and soldiers were the “best of all people to kill” has been jailed.
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A Labour-supporting university student has launched a Jeremy Corbyn Toby Jug – securing 50 orders within 24 hours.
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Using e-cigarettes is “definitely less harmful” than smoking tobacco, health experts have declared.
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The former Conservative MP and arch Eurosceptic Sir Teddy Taylor has died, his family said. He was 80.
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Moors Murderer Ian Brady died of natural causes, a coroner has ruled.
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Consumer credit grew at its slowest pace for more than a year last month as household finances remain under pressure, according to figures from the Bank of England.
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School pupils have been receiving lessons from their peers under a pilot scheme aimed at cutting violent crime.
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Suspected fraudsters hoping to profit from the Grenfell Tower tragedy initially slipped the net due to lenient council vetting of survivors, it has been claimed.
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The leader and deputy leader of far-right group Britain First have been charged with religiously aggravated harassment.
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A man has been charged with manslaughter by gross negligence after a woman he was on a date with was killed in a speedboat incident.
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Former chancellor George Osborne has taken on a seventh job since leaving politics as a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and dean’s fellow at its business school.
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The inquest of a young soldier who died at the notorious Deepcut army barracks can hear evidence alleging one of his former instructors bullied other recruits, a coroner has ruled.
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Theresa May will have the opportunity for an extended discussion with Boris Johnson about his views on Brexit when the pair share a seven-hour flight back to Britain from New York.
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The Grenfell Tower fire will mark a watershed “asbestos moment” for safety rules governing tall buildings, according to an industry leader.
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UK troops and residents are bracing themselves as “dangerous” Hurricane Maria sweeps through the Caribbean towards British overseas territories already battered by Irma.
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Prince Harry will hold a bi-lateral meeting with US First Lady Melania Trump when he travels to Canada later this week to host his Invictus Games.
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All of the children from a list of the missing compiled by police in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster have been formally identified, a coroner has said.
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Nicola Sturgeon has admitted she does not know when she will call another referendum on Scottish independence.
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The Duchess of Cambridge is hoping to make her first public appearance since news broke of her third pregnancy, by attending a Buckingham Palace reception next month.
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The UK is engaged in an “internal battle” over its Brexit position, the European Parliament’s negotiator has said.
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A cat that had trouble breathing was found to have a 15cm blade of grass stuck up his nose.
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The Queen has sent a message of sympathy to the president of Mexico following the devastating earthquake that has claimed hundreds of lives in his country.
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Thomas Cook pilots will strike on Saturday after five days of talks failed to resolve a dispute over pay.
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The fastest man to cycle around the globe has returned home to a hero’s welcome following his record-breaking feat.
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Prime Minister Theresa May has lobbied Donald Trump over the importance of preserving jobs at aerospace giant Bombardier in Northern Ireland, as the pair met for talks in New York.
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Boris Johnson has warned the situation in North Korea is “very, very serious” after referring to Donald Trump’s mockery of “Rocket Man” Kim Jong Un.
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An asylum seeker has accused Amber Rudd of “playing with my life” after he was allegedly sent back to Afghanistan in breach of a court order.
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The widower of a mother-of-two who was knocked over and killed by a bicycle courier has “fully welcomed” the announcement ministers are considering a new offence of causing death by careless or dangerous cycling.
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Theresa May has sought to draw a line under the question of whether she should apologise to her party as she prepares to face the Tory faithful for the first time since her disastrous general election campaign.
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Britain could face a new “winter of discontent” as hard-pressed families count the cost of almost a decade of lost growth, the authors of a study into financial inclusion have warned.
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Police officers should not restrain people suspected of suffering from mental health problems, the police watchdog has said.
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The UK’s status as a champion of human rights is under serious threat, a leading watchdog will warn.
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Manufacturers must stop making fridges and freezers with potentially flammable plastic backing, a consumer group has warned.
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Patient care in the NHS could suffer because of a workforce “crisis” among doctors, leading medics have warned.
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An airport has launched an appeal to reunite young passengers with hundreds of teddies left behind on their travels.
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Campaigners have criticised “couch potato peers” after new research suggested more than 100 claimed almost £1.3 million despite not speaking in the House of Lords for a year.
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One in seven GP practices are still failing on safety even after inspectors have told them to improve, according to a new report.
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More university leavers are being hired by leading graduate employers, according to a report.
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Religious Education is about “understanding what it means to be human” and the subject should be as important in schools as history or geography, a senior Church of England official has said.
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Three-quarters of people are not concerned about the amount of water they use in the home and less than a third think they could make savings, a poll suggests.
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The average price of a pint of bitter in pubs has topped £3 for the first time, a new report has revealed.
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Poorly babies face a postcode lottery on whether they receive important aspects of care, a new report suggests.
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Girls overwhelmingly think that “sexism and gender stereotypes are entrenched in all areas of their lives”, a leading charity has said.
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Liam Fox has praised the EU-Canada free trade deal (Ceta) which his fellow Leave-backing Cabinet ministers are said to favour as a model for Britain’s relationship with Europe after Brexit.
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Police are continuing to question four people, including a 17-year-old boy, in connection with the Parsons Green terrorist attack.
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The widower of a mother-of-two who was knocked over and killed by a bicycle courier has “fully welcomed” the announcement ministers are considering a new offence of causing death by careless or dangerous cycling.
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The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator has issued a fresh warning that Britain must “settle the accounts” if it wants a free trade deal when it leaves the bloc.
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Millions of Britons may still be using their mobile phones while driving despite penalties for the offence being doubled, research suggests.
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A final aid drop has landed on a British overseas territory ahead of Hurricane Maria’s arrival, as residents stress a second storm is the last thing they need.
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Ryanair is planning to take back one week of their pilots’ block holidays to prevent any further flight cancellations, the airline’s chief executive has said.
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Police who closed a major road after a motorist spotted a suspicious item have said it was a realistic-looking fake severed hand.
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A suspicious substance that shut down part of the M1 on Tuesday may have been hydrochloric acid and could have been placed on the road intentionally, police said.
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Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has called for wealth taxes, as he insisted his party is not just “Ukip in reverse”, caring only about Brexit.
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A third man has been arrested in connection with the Parsons Green terror attack, Scotland Yard said.
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Theresa May is expecting Boris Johnson to remain in her Cabinet as Foreign Secretary, Downing Street has said.
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A port has stressed that “nobody outside the exclusion zone should be concerned” after firefighters returned to help deal with an acid leak for the second time in 24 hours.
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The criminal investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire may consider individual as well as corporate manslaughter charges, the Metropolitan Police said.
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Two protesters have been arrested as preparatory work got under way at a controversial fracking site in North Yorkshire.
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The Communities Secretary has spoken of the need for a fundamental rethink of social housing in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy as he announced a “top-to-bottom” review of the issues facing the sector.
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The northbound M1 has reopened after a nine-hour security alert caused by a “suspicious” object containing a corrosive material.
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Concerns that savers could be at risk of scams as people take up the new pension freedoms are being probed by MPs.
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The Duke of Cambridge has spoken to former addicts on the controversial topic of legalising drugs.
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The UK’s leading children’s hospital is owed £30m for treating overseas patients, figures show.
