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Metal detectors find 'suspected shell' in field : It was uncovered this morning
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Metal detectors find 'suspected shell' in field
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Searches in Leicestershire for man police think was murdered: “Frank’s family are distraught and their grief is compounded by the fact that his body has not yet ...
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Searches in Leicestershire for man police think was murdered
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Harborough district wind farm aims to blow people away with family fun day: Swinford Wind Farm is hosting an event at South Kilworth Village Hall, on May 20 ...
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Harborough district wind farm aims to blow people away with family fun day
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'Delighted and surprised' Lutterworth volunteer named as a Coronation Champion: Adam Jones is among 500 winners selected from almost 5,000 nominations across the ...
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'Delighted and surprised' Lutterworth volunteer named as a Coronation ...
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Popular Swinford boozer one of just 15 nationwide to reach finals of Community Pub Hero Awards
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Popular Swinford boozer one of just 15 nationwide to reach finals of ...
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Lower bills in the offing after MPs give green light for onshore wind farms: Rishi Sunak has announced plans to allow the building of new onshore wind turbines ...
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Lower bills in the offing after MPs give green light for onshore wind ...
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Welfare and pensions set to rise with inflation: Rishi Sunak is expected to increase pensions and benefits in line with inflation in an effort to ensure the ...
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Welfare and pensions set to rise with inflation
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Billions more needed to insulate homes and cut bills, Jeremy Hunt told: Jeremy Hunt has been told that the government will miss its new target to cut energy use ...
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Billions more needed to insulate homes and cut bills, Jeremy Hunt told
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Suella Braverman broke security rules on emails six times: Suella Braverman was facing more questions last night over her conduct after she was forced to publish ...
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Suella Braverman broke security rules on emails six times
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Human remains found in wooded area in Talladega County: The discovery was made about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6.
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Human remains found in wooded area in Talladega County
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Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt: Households face threat of higher council tax: Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are weighing up plans that would increase council tax and ...
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Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt: Households face threat of higher council tax
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Public sector workers face 2% pay rise in bid to balance books: Millions of public sector workers face a pay squeeze next year as the government seeks to fill a ...
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Public sector workers face 2% pay rise in bid to balance books
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No rise in defence spending as Jeremy Hunt tightens belt: Jeremy Hunt is considering plans to freeze defence spending over the next five years to help plug a ...
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No rise in defence spending as Jeremy Hunt tightens belt
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Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre is dropped from peerage list: Paul Dacre, the former editor of the Daily Mail, has been dropped from a list of more than 20 ...
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Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre is dropped from peerage list
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Simon Clarke interview: ‘Truss is enjoying her chance to pull Britain out of its fool’s paradise’
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Simon Clarke interview: ‘Truss is enjoying her chance to pull Britain out ...
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Scrapping 45p tax rate was right choice, Kwarteng tells Tory MPs: Liz Truss initially resisted plans to issue an official statement to calm the markets when the ...
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Scrapping 45p tax rate was right choice, Kwarteng tells Tory MPs
Quick Glance: Truss defends unpopular tax cuts as the UK sits on the verge of bankruptcy
  • The world is in "very, very difficult economic times," according to British Prime Minister Liz Truss.

  • The Bank of England will spend up to £5 billion each day for the next two weeks, warning of "material risk" to UK stability and pension markets amid the uncertainty that has driven government borrowing prices skyrocketing and compounded sky-high inflation.

  • Kwarteng stated that he was "working at pace to align our spending policy to show the markets there is a clear plan"

  • Truss stated that Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, is working "very, very closely" with the Bank of England.
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Pay pain for workers as public sector squeezed: Millions of public sector workers face a two-year pay squeeze before the general election after Kwasi Kwarteng ...
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Pay pain for workers as public sector squeezed
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Liz Truss unveils energy bill price cap — follow live: Key moments PM will announce plan at 11.30am to freeze energy bills for up to two yearsPolicy will cost ...
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Liz Truss unveils energy bill price cap — follow live
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Liz Truss plans big package to help with energy bills: Liz Truss accepts that the energy crisis will be the defining issue of her premiership if she wins the ...
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Liz Truss plans big package to help with energy bills
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Poorest struggling with energy bills ‘are more vulnerable this flu season’: Flu season could hit elderly people more severely this winter as they struggle to pay ...
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Poorest struggling with energy bills ‘are more vulnerable this flu season’
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Poorest struggling with energy bills ‘are more vulnerable this flu season’: Flu season could hit elderly people more severely this winter as they struggle to pay ...
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Poorest struggling with energy bills ‘are more vulnerable this flu season’
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How households will get their £400 energy bill discount: Households will receive their £400 energy bill discount in six monthly instalments from October ...
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How households will get their £400 energy bill discount
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Rishi Sunak ‘scaremongering’ over interest rates, says Liz Truss: Liz Truss has accused Rishi Sunak of “scaremongering” amid warnings that her economic policy ...
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Rishi Sunak ‘scaremongering’ over interest rates, says Liz Truss
Quick Glance: Liz Truss says she will repeal Blair's prohibition on grammar schools.
  • The foreign secretary, whose own children attend a grammar school, supports restoring Tony Blair's 1998 prohibition on new selective schools.

  • Grammar schools continue to be a touchstone issue for many Tory members.

  • Truss has stated that she is a "huge supporter of grammar schools" on the Conservative Home website.

  • "My two daughters now attend a grammar school," she continued, "and I want people all over the country to have the option that we have to send our daughters to a grammar school."
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Parents pull children out of school over head's behaviour at meeting: The meeting to discuss why wraparound care at Swinford Primary School turned into an ...
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Parents pull children out of school over head's behaviour at meeting
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Simon Clarke interview: ‘We need discipline to get through this’: This summer, Simon Clarke finds himself at the centre of a battle that will shape Boris ...
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Simon Clarke interview: ‘We need discipline to get through this’
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Boris Johnson to delay his cabinet reshuffle until autumn: Boris Johnson will delay a cabinet reshuffle until autumn after ministers warned him against ...
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Boris Johnson to delay his cabinet reshuffle until autumn
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MP grilled by parliamentary pupils during visit to primary school in Swinford: South Leicestershire MP Alberto Costa was grilled by parliamentary pupils when he ...
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MP grilled by parliamentary pupils during visit to primary school in ...
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Michael Gove: We can’t help everyone with cost of living: Britain must accept that there will be “pain” to come and that the government cannot help everyone ...
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Michael Gove: We can’t help everyone with cost of living
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Homes sold in new right to buy will be replaced, Gove insists: Johnson to let benefit claimants buy their houses
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Homes sold in new right to buy will be replaced, Gove insists
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Teachers should not pander to trans pupils, says Suella Braverman: Schools do not have to accommodate children who want to change gender, the attorney-general ...
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Teachers should not pander to trans pupils, says Suella Braverman
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Rishi Sunak offers £1,000 to eight million households in cost-of-living boost: More than eight million households will receive more than £1,000 in additional ...
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Rishi Sunak offers £1,000 to eight million households in cost-of-living ...
Quick Glance: What fresh assistance has Rishi Sunak offered to aid with the cost of living crisis?
  • Mr Sunak promised a £300 one-time payment to retirees who receive the winter fuel subsidy.

  • The loan for electricity expenses has been canceled.

  • In his cost-of-living package, the chancellor also announced universal support for all households.

  • The chancellor introduced this policy in February to aid people with their rising energy expenditures.
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Lord Geidt threatens to resign as Boris Johnson’s ethics chief over parties: Adviser says PM faces legitimate questions about whether he broke the ministerial ...
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Lord Geidt threatens to resign as Boris Johnson’s ethics chief over ...
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Swinford villagers roll out the barrel – with the help of a mini brass band – to help raise money for charity
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Swinford villagers roll out the barrel – with the help of a mini brass ...
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Rishi Sunak open to more spending as Tories split on windfall tax: Rishi Sunak has opened the door to more spending to ease the cost-of-living crisis further but ...
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Rishi Sunak open to more spending as Tories split on windfall tax
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Rival shops in row over booze sale plans in Brum as petition created: Swinford News, Birmingham, applied for the licence in order to sell booze between 8am and ...
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Rival shops in row over booze sale plans in Brum as petition created
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No 10 official saw parts of Sue Gray’s report a day earlier: A senior official in No 10 was given an advance look at excerpts from Sue Gray’s report into ...
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No 10 official saw parts of Sue Gray’s report a day earlier
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Boris Johnson says no option off the table as Rishi Sunak looks to windfall tax: Boris Johnson has suggested that he could push ahead with a windfall tax on oil ...
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Boris Johnson says no option off the table as Rishi Sunak looks to ...
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Nadhim Zahawi: ‘Be proud of private education’: Britain should be “very proud” of its private schools and not “tilt the system” to ensure more pupils from state ...
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Nadhim Zahawi: ‘Be proud of private education’
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We’ll have to look at windfall tax on energy giants, Boris Johnson says: Boris Johnson has said he will look at introducing a windfall tax on oil and gas ...
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We’ll have to look at windfall tax on energy giants, Boris Johnson says
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Bath's toll bridge makes more than £1m each year: Scores of people use the crossing every day
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Bath's toll bridge makes more than £1m each year