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Looking back: What made the headlines in Northumberland in years gone by?: A trip down memory lane, we take a look back at the stories to have hit the headlines ...
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Looking back: What made the headlines in Northumberland in years gone by?
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Looking back: What made the headlines in Northumberland in years gone by?: A trip down memory lane, we take a look back at the stories to have hit the headlines ...
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Looking back: What made the headlines in Northumberland in years gone by?
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The problem with the Angela Rayner story? No one actually cares: It is convenient for the Tories to have her in the public stocks
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The problem with the Angela Rayner story? No one actually cares
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Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher: Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher ...
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Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
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100 MPs to stand down at the next general election: More than 60 are Conservatives and they include former prime minister Theresa May.
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100 MPs to stand down at the next general election
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Rachel Woolford: Yorkshire fitness studio owner becomes Lord Alan Sugar’s latest business partner after win
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Rachel Woolford: Yorkshire fitness studio owner becomes Lord Alan Sugar’s ...
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Passions run high as Lords insist on Rwanda bill changes: Peers continue standoff with MPs over legislation enabling asylum seekers to be sent to east Africa.
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Passions run high as Lords insist on Rwanda bill changes
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Girl, 2, drowned in farm pond 'after being left unsupervised for 30 minutes': Two-year-old Masie Elizabeth Lomax-Newton tragically died after falling into a pond ...
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Girl, 2, drowned in farm pond 'after being left unsupervised for 30 ...
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Inflation set to fall again – what it means for you and your money: Experts predict Wednesday's figures will show inflation sitting at about 3.1 per cent
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Inflation set to fall again – what it means for you and your money
Quick Glance: Powell Warns of Lack of Progress on Inflation
  • Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell emphasized that the U.S. economy, while otherwise strong, has not seen a return of inflation to the central bank's target.

  • Powell mentioned that the current policy should remain in place as inflation has not declined quickly enough and there has been no further progress towards the 2% goal.

  • Since July 2023, the Fed has maintained its benchmark interest rate in a target range between 5.25% and 5.5%, the result of 11 consecutive rate hikes.

  • Financial markets have had to adjust their expectations for rate cuts this year as inflation has been higher than expected, and the Fed's policy continues to be dependent on data.
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Map shows '100-day cough' hotspots as UK cases surge 40% in a week: The highly contagious bacterial disease, also known as whooping cough, has had a major ...
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Map shows '100-day cough' hotspots as UK cases surge 40% in a week
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Protect children from smacking in England and Northern Ireland, say doctors: Physical punishment at home can have a lasting impact and end in abuse ...
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Protect children from smacking in England and Northern Ireland ...
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Labour leaders set out new housebuilding rules to identify 'grey belt' land: Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner visited Europe's biggest brownfield site
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Labour leaders set out new housebuilding rules to identify 'grey belt' ...
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Revealed: Tory MP allegedly demanded campaign cash to pay ‘bad people’: Mark Menzies, MP for Fylde, used thousands of pounds raised by donors for private ...
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Revealed: Tory MP allegedly demanded campaign cash to pay ‘bad people’
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Nursery worker jailed for abusing children at Staffordshire preschool: The 39-year-old was sentenced to 10 years behind bars at Stafford Crown Court.
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Nursery worker jailed for abusing children at Staffordshire preschool
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Stokies can book eighth Covid jab - from today: The Spring Covid vaccination programme starts next week
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Stokies can book eighth Covid jab - from today
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Girl in hospital after being mauled by suspected XL Bully in Truro: Girl, 10, remains in hospital after suffering serious injuries following bloody attack in ...
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Girl in hospital after being mauled by suspected XL Bully in Truro
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‘Landlady’ Angela Rayner lost it over smashed window, says neighbour: The Labour deputy leader, who has been accused of breaking electoral law by giving false ...
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‘Landlady’ Angela Rayner lost it over smashed window, says neighbour
Quick Glance: Neighbor Claims Angela Rayner Lost Control Over Broken Window
  • Angela Rayner confronted neighbors, demanding £240 and identifying herself as 'the landlady' after a window was smashed at the property she claimed as her main residence.

  • An investigation by Greater Manchester police is looking into allegations that the deputy Labour leader provided inaccurate information to the electoral register while residing between two houses in Stockport during the 2010s, and they have initiated interviews with neighbors at her previous residence.

  • Police intervention occurred following accusations by prominent Conservatives, including James Daly, the Conservative deputy chairman, of electoral law violations and questioning whether she owed up to £3,500 in capital gains tax on proceeds from the sale of her former council house in 2015.

  • Rayner asserted that the residence on Vicarage Road was her primary domicile.
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Meghan Markle’s American Riviera Orchard unveils strawberry jam as first product: The duchess follows in the footsteps of her father-in-law, Charles ...
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Meghan Markle’s American Riviera Orchard unveils strawberry jam as first ...
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First picture of mum, 27, stabbed to death pushing pram in Bradford: Kulsuma Akter, 27, was attacked in Bradford on Saturday afternoon.
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First picture of mum, 27, stabbed to death pushing pram in Bradford
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PMQs live: Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to clash as police say Angela Rayner facing ‘multiple’ allegations
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PMQs live: Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to clash as police say Angela ...
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Some of the top mundane anecdotes from Liz Truss's book: Liz Truss's new book Ten Years to Save the West features some brilliantly mundane anecdotes - here ...
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Some of the top mundane anecdotes from Liz Truss's book
Quick Glance: Liz Truss: From Premiership to Resignation in 49 Days
  • Liz Truss became Prime Minister and resigned after just 49 days, despite her husband's prediction that 'it would all end in tears'.

  • Truss assumed office on September 6, 2022, succeeding Boris Johnson, but faced early challenges and personal struggles.

  • Despite implementing economic measures and facing political turbulence, Truss resigned after a mini-budget led to a pensions crisis.

  • She reflects on her failed tenure, attributing blame to structural issues and drawing parallels to the controversial football manager Brian Clough.
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Disability benefits face cut as Sunak bets election on welfare blitz: Sunak set out plans for changes to disability benefits and tougher rules for people on ...
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Disability benefits face cut as Sunak bets election on welfare blitz
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The dangers of political prosecution: At the start of January, Donald Trump offered up a cheery new year message for Americans. ‘If I don’t get immunity ...
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The dangers of political prosecution
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Bevan Fought for the NHS — and so Must We: A new play at the National Theatre celebrates Nye Bevan’s titanic struggle to create the NHS — a fight we must ...
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Bevan Fought for the NHS — and so Must We
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Is Covid still a threat four years on from the first wave?: i asked leading Covid scientists about their reasons for optimism – and for concern – about the virus
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Is Covid still a threat four years on from the first wave?
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Labour vows to fund NHS pledges by tackling tax dodgers: The party says its plans would raise £5.1bn a year but the government claims Labour would still raise ...
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Labour vows to fund NHS pledges by tackling tax dodgers
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No trains on Essex line for 16 days this summer as 150-year-old bridge replaced: Greater Anglia, London Overground and Victoria Line services will be severely ...
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No trains on Essex line for 16 days this summer as 150-year-old bridge ...
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Cumbria's Mary James celebrates 100th birthday with family: Mary James was born at Riddings Farm in Howgill on April 9 1924, and was able to mark her centenary ...
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Cumbria's Mary James celebrates 100th birthday with family
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Prince William reduced King Charles 'to tears' with comment about the future: Prince William took over the massive Duchy of Cornwall estate when Charles became ...
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Prince William reduced King Charles 'to tears' with comment about the ...
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How much trouble is Angela Rayner in?: Rayner is under fresh pressure after the Mail on Sunday published a series of photos appearing to suggest Lowndes Lane was ...
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How much trouble is Angela Rayner in?
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A pastor vows to fight Satan’s influence at libraries in comic book hero's hometown
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A pastor vows to fight Satan’s influence at libraries in comic book hero's ...
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Rayner’s eldest child was registered at husband’s home: It’s been a busy time for police investigations across the country and Manchester is no exception ...
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Rayner’s eldest child was registered at husband’s home
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Sure Start could have changed everything for my family. Labour must be brave – and revitalise it
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Sure Start could have changed everything for my family. Labour must be ...
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Three charged after Gaza protest at Keir Starmer's home: Children's shoes were placed in the Labour leader's front garden in protest at the party's position on ...
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Three charged after Gaza protest at Keir Starmer's home
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Local hero pushes the boat out for gruelling charity challenge: Lutterworth man Stephen Lamb, team leader of Leicestershire Search and Rescue and former Royal ...
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Local hero pushes the boat out for gruelling charity challenge
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British youth smoking ban advances: A pioneering tobacco ban aimed at creating Britain's "first smoke-free generation" cleared a key hurdle in ...
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British youth smoking ban advances
Quick Glance: UK Lawmakers Support Groundbreaking 'Smoke-Free Generation' Bill
  • The British government's plan for a landmark smoking ban to prevent young people from ever smoking passed its first hurdle in Parliament despite opposition from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party.

  • The bill, announced by Sunak, would make it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009, creating one of the toughest anti-smoking measures in the world to establish the 'first smoke-free generation' in modern Britain.

  • The bill also includes measures to crack down on youth vaping, such as banning the sale of cheap disposable vapes and restricting their flavors to prevent children from becoming addicted to nicotine.

  • The number of people who smoke in the U.K. has declined by two-thirds since the 1970s, but approximately 6.4 million people in the country still smoke, accounting for about 13% of the population. Smoking remains the number one preventable cause of death, disability, and poor health.
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York: Lauren Pawsey’s heartbreak as son dies after birth: A York mother said she has “no words” to describe the heartbreak of losing her son shortly after he was ...
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York: Lauren Pawsey’s heartbreak as son dies after birth
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Watch: Tory tax protestors target Rayner in Teesside: Try as she might to duck questions on her tax affairs, the issue just keeps following Angela Rayner around ...
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Watch: Tory tax protestors target Rayner in Teesside
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Victimise people who raise a voice in Britain? Then destroy their families? Not in my name
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Victimise people who raise a voice in Britain? Then destroy their ...
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Carers having to pay back thousands is very wrong, says Keir Starmer: Labour leader was responding to a question from the BBC about Vivienne Groom ...
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Carers having to pay back thousands is very wrong, says Keir Starmer
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Shannon Matthews' kidnapper dies in Yorkshire hospital: Shannon was later found under his bed
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Shannon Matthews' kidnapper dies in Yorkshire hospital
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Bosses Are Wasting Our Time: In a society where a third of workers think their job is meaningless, an alternative to constant toiling in unproductive work is ...
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Bosses Are Wasting Our Time
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Leeds man sentenced for supporting Hamas: Ozain Ibn Yousef admitted publishing pro-Hamas content on his X account last year.
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Leeds man sentenced for supporting Hamas
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Watch: Lloyd Russell-Moyle called out over his behaviour: Oh dear. Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, received a rather humiliating dressing ...
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Watch: Lloyd Russell-Moyle called out over his behaviour
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York: Protesters call for climate action in St Helen’s Square: Protesters marched in York demanding action against climate change.
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York: Protesters call for climate action in St Helen’s Square
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UK set to roast with 20C temperature jump and two English counties hottest: Temperatures look set to rocket by nearly 20C in just days as glorious sunshine ...
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UK set to roast with 20C temperature jump and two English counties hottest
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Reform UK sorry for not knowing York candidate had died: The party says it is "mortified" it dropped a candidate for being "inactive" without knowing he had died ...
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Reform UK sorry for not knowing York candidate had died
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David Lammy: Ofcom to investigate Labour MP's show on LBC: The broadcast regulator said it would examine whether an episode broadcast on Good Friday broke rules.
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David Lammy: Ofcom to investigate Labour MP's show on LBC
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'Missed opportunity to green these parts of York Central': Is the new York Central development green enough? This is the question posed by our letter writer ...
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'Missed opportunity to green these parts of York Central'
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Harold Wilson had affair while in No 10, advisers reveal: The Labour PM had a relationship with his deputy press secretary, two of his closest aides say.
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Harold Wilson had affair while in No 10, advisers reveal
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Jeremy Corbyn’s comeback and what it says about Keir Starmer: The political terrain is particularly fertile for a Corbyn resurgence
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Jeremy Corbyn’s comeback and what it says about Keir Starmer
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How mayors became the fashionable new thing in England: Ahead of elections in May, political editor Chris Mason looks at England's mayoral model.
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How mayors became the fashionable new thing in England
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The Tories deserve our contempt: The Telegraph reported at the weekend that the Conservative party appears to be attempting, in its selection process for ...
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The Tories deserve our contempt
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‘Tornado’ hits town in UK as Met Office issues severe wind warning: The ‘tornado’ left debris scattered across streets in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire ...
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‘Tornado’ hits town in UK as Met Office issues severe wind warning
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Never forget the politicians who pushed gender politics: Scores of MPs are seeking to carry out a rapid repositioning on gender politics in the wake of the ...
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Never forget the politicians who pushed gender politics
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Starmer accuses Tories of 'chasing a smear' in questioning Angela Rayner's taxes: The Labour leader discredited questions over whether Ms Rayner paid enough tax ...
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Starmer accuses Tories of 'chasing a smear' in questioning Angela Rayner's ...
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Rigging Britain’s Democracy: The allegations that Labour has used its online voting system to rig parliamentary selections suggest that Starmer’s addiction to ...
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Rigging Britain’s Democracy
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Met Office says temperatures of minus 2C to follow UK's hottest day so far: Get ready for a chill!
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Met Office says temperatures of minus 2C to follow UK's hottest day so far