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1 yr. ago (E)
Millions of barrels of fuel made from Russian oil are still being imported to the UK despite sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, research claims.

A so-called "loophole" means Russian crude is refined in countries such as India and the products sold to the UK. #Uknews #business #Russianoil #BBC
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1 yr. ago
A former leader of the Labour Party in Scotland has admitted voting SNP.

Kezia Dugdale told a new BBC documentary she was "so mad about Brexit" she backed the party at the European Parliament election in 2019.

She said she had voted Labour at every election since.
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1 yr. ago
The financial crisis facing England's councils is "out of control" with even well-run local authorities at risk of going bust, MPs have warned.

A cross-party committee said the government must plug a £4bn funding gap to avoid a "severe impact" on services.

They also called for council tax to be reformed, describing the current system as "outdated" and "regressive"
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1 yr. ago
The Bank of England has held interest rates at 5.25% in a decision that saw its rate-setting body split three ways.

The Bank admitted it had discussed cutting borrowing costs, with inflation - which measures the pace of price rises - set to fall quickly this year.

Bank chief Andrew Bailey said it would wait for firm evidence that inflation was under control before it cuts rates.
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1 yr. ago
Shop prices rose at their slowest rate in more than 18 months in January, according to the latest report from the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

Inflation - the rate at which prices rise - has reached near-record highs in recent times, prompting a cost-of-living crisis.
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#BRC

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1 yr. ago
Britain is ready to bring forward the moment when it formally recognises a Palestinian state, the foreign secretary has suggested.

Lord Cameron said Palestinians had to be given a political horizon to encourage peace in the Middle East.

He is beginning his fourth visit to the region since being appointed foreign secretary in November.
#Uknews #BBC #latestnews
#Britain #lordcameron

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1 yr. ago
The growing trend of children as young as eight using skincare products could leave them with irreversible skin problems, the British ******* ociation for Dermatologists has warned.

Some children are asking their parents for luxury items after seeing them used by their favourite influencers on platforms such as YouTube and TikTok.
#Uknews #latestnews #health
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1 yr. ago
The number of illegal vapes seized at the border quadrupled last year as UK authorities wrestle with unlicensed imports amid a surge in youth vaping.

More than 4.5m vapes weighing nearly ten tonnes were seized over the last 12 months, four times more than 2022.
#Uknews #business
#BBC #vape
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1 yr. ago
Some BT customers are being signed up to, and charged for, Xbox Game Pass without their knowledge or consent.

An extra £10 per month was added to their internet bill, despite them not requesting the gaming subscription.

Customers have been complaining about the issue on BT's online forums for several months.
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1 yr. ago
King Charles has been admitted to hospital for treatment for an enlarged prostate, says Buckingham Palace.

The procedure is being carried out at the London Clinic private hospital, where Catherine, the Princess of Wales had surgery last week.

It's understood the King visited his daughter-in-law in the hospital on Friday morning, ahead of his own scheduled treatment.
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1 yr. ago
More treasure was discovered in Norfolk in 2022 than any other county, according to new figures.

Metal detectorists reported 95 finds in the county compared with 83 in Hampshire and 81 in Kent.

The British Museum, which runs the Portable Antiquity Scheme (PAS), said 2022 was a "record-breaking" year for reported finds.

Museum interim director Mark Jones thanked "the metal-detecting community" who recorded finds voluntarily.
#Uknews #BBC #britishmuseum #latestnews Norfolk

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1 yr. ago
Storm Jocelyn has been moving across the UK - days after Storm Isha hit and left at least two people dead.

Tuesday was marked by heavy rain in parts, with strong gusts across much of the country on Wednesday morning.

The strongest gust so far, 97mph, was recorded in Capel Curig, north Wales, while in Scotland trains stopped running on Tuesday evening.
#Uknews #BBC #stormjocelyn #stormisha #Scotland

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1 yr. ago
Healthcare workers are being told not to report women to the police if they believe their patients may have illegally ended their own pregnancy.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) says "deeply traumatised" women are being prosecuted following abortions.

By law, patients' data must not be disclosed without their consent.

The new guidance follows a recent rise in police investigations into abortions.
#Uknews #health #Abortions #RCOG

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1 yr. ago
The ***** ss of York has spoken of her "shock" at being diagnosed with malignantmelanoma, but says she is in "good spirits".

In an Instagram post, she said she was "grateful for the many messages of love and support".

The melanoma was discovered following the removal of a cancerous mole during treatment for breast cancer.
#Uknews #sarahFerguson
#cancerdiagnosis #BBCNews
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1 yr. ago
A building that was destroyed in a huge fire was occupied when the blaze started but everyone escaped safely, the fire service has said.

The blaze at warehouse belonging to Owens Group on Bridgend Industrial Estate broke out Friday evening.

South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the building, about the size of four football pitches, had almost collapsed within seven minutes.
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1 yr. ago
A dramatic change of weather is in store from this weekend, with weather warnings for strong winds and a new storm named by the Met Office.

Storm Isha - the ninth named storm of the season - will bring heavy rain and strong winds following the ice and snow of the past week.
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1 yr. ago
Parents of children with mental health issues have criticised a new campaign on school attendance.

The government wants parents to send their children to school if they are worried or anxious.

Katie Berrill says her son has not attended his secondary in Northampton for nearly a year due to severe OCD.
#Uknews #mentalhealth

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1 yr. ago
The Prince of Wales has visited his wife Catherine in hospital as she recovers from her surgery, says Kensington Palace.

The Princess of Wales is said to be "doing well" in her recovery.

Catherine has spent her second night in hospital after the operation in the London Clinic private hospital.
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1 yr. ago
Some children with cancer are receiving a new type of drug treatment far less toxic than chemotherapy.

Arthur, 11, is one of the first to try it, at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, for his blood cancer.

His family call the therapy "a little bit of sunshine", since it worked without making Arthur feel much sicker.

And because it could be given on the go, rather than just in hospital, he spent more time at home with his family, enjoying more of what he loves.
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1 yr. ago
Some children with cancer are receiving a new type of drug treatment far less toxic than chemotherapy.

Arthur, 11, is one of the first to try it, at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, for his blood cancer.

His family call the therapy "a little bit of sunshine", since it worked without making Arthur feel much sicker.

And because it could be given on the go, rather than just in hospital, he spent more time at home with his family, enjoying more of what he loves.
#health #cancertreatment#TopUKnews
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1 yr. ago
Temperatures fell as low as -14C (6.8F) making it the coldest night of winter, as new amber warnings are issued for heavy snow showers in Scotland later.

Tuesday evening was the coldest January night since 2019, the Met Office said.

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1 yr. ago
The Labour Party would need a record swing in votes at the next general election to win a majority in the House of Commons, according to **** ysis of the new electoral map.

The next election will be fought on new constituency boundaries, redrawn to reflect population changes and to try to even out voter numbers in each area.

An **** ysis of these changes for BBC News, ITV News, Sky News and the Press **** ociation suggests Labour needs a national swing of 12.7% to win with just a small majority.https://www.bbc.com/news/u...
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1 yr. ago
Schools have been closed and travellers are facing disruption following snowfall across parts of the UK.

Weather conditions led to more than 100 school closures in Scotland and dozens in Merseyside.

Met Office yellow warnings for snow and ice are in place for Scotland, much of northern England and north Wales throughout Tuesday

The UK is braced for sub-zero temperatures until the weekend with further snow warnings in place.
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1 yr. ago
Life expectancy across the UK has fallen to its lowest level in a decade, mainly owing to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, data shows.

Boys born between 2020 and 2022 can expect to live to 78.6 years, a decrease of 38 weeks compared with the same measure between 2017 and 2019. For girls, the expectancy for the same period was 82.6 years, having also fallen by 23 weeks compared with 2017 and 2019.

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1 yr. ago
UK researchers have been looking at how air pollution contributes to dementia and brain ill-health.

Stroke is the second-leading cause of death globally, accounting for about 11% of deaths. About 50 million people live with dementia, and the figure is expected to rise to about 150 million by 2050.

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1 yr. ago
Thousands of patients are being readmitted to NHS mental health units in England every year soon after being discharged, raising concerns about poor care, bed shortages and increased risk of suicide.

Experts say being discharged prematurely can be upsetting, set back the patient’s chances of making a full recovery and be “disastrous” for their health.

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1 yr. ago
The University of York has told staff to take a “more flexible approach” to admitting overseas students with lower-than-expected grades, in the latest sign that UK higher education is facing severe recruitment and financial pressures.

Staff at the Russell Group university were told: “In response to the current financial challenges, the university has decided to lower its tariff for all departments and programmes for overseas applicants,” according to an email reported by the Financial Times.

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1 yr. ago
Carol Vorderman has vowed to “cause a commotion” after joining LBC two months after quitting her weekly BBC Radio Wales show because of the corporation’s new social media guidelines.

LBC radio announced on Thursday that Vorderman would host her own weekly Sunday afternoon show from 4pm to 7pm, starting later this month.

Vorderman, who has worked on the station as a guest host in recent weeks, said she was delighted to join LBC alongside a “phenomenal stable of powerful voices”, including Nick Ferrari, James O’Brien, Shelagh Fogarty and Andrew Marr.

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1 yr. ago
FKA twigs has defended a Calvin Klein advertisement she featured in that was banned earlier this week by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

The singer appeared in the poster ad dressed in a shirt held across her semi-nude body. Following two complaints from the public, the ASA said the ad framed her as a “stereotypical ******* ual object” and the “image’s composition placed viewers’ focus on the model’s body rather than on the clothing being advertised.

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1 yr. ago (E)
Charleston, the home and studio where the artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant challenged convention to forge new models of creativity and ways of living, is launching a search for works by the Bloomsbury group held in private hands.

The radical group of artists and intellectuals, which also included the writers Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and EM Forster and the economist John Maynard Keynes, worked and socialised at the 16th-century farmhouse in East Sussex – now a museum – as well as Bell’s London home.https://www.theguardian.co...