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Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England

Government proposals could mean some places become vape-free too, subject to consultation.

UK Toughens Anti-Smoking Law With Ban to Apply Outside Schools

The UK will publish landmark legislation to phase out the sale of tobacco products to create the first “smoke-free generation,” with the draft law also toughened to include a smoking ban in some outdoor spaces.

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Author: Ellen Milligan

More cases of deadly new strain of mpox detected in Britain

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Author: James Saunders

Farmers threaten ‘sewage strike’ over inheritance tax raid

Workers make call to ‘put your children’s futures first’ by halting all deliveries of sludge

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Author: Isabel Oakeshott,Fiona Parker

University students react to the government increasing tuition fees

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Author: Sky News

Don’t mess with farmers, Rachel Reeves. You’ll find yourself in the mud

Rural protest is coming to town – Britain may soon be witnessing scenes more familiar from France, the Netherlands and India

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Author: Isabel Oakeshott

Labour’s stopgap tuition fee rise is a further test of students’ faith

First lift since 2017 staves off fuller reckoning with higher-education funding but gives no confidence for the future

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Author: Sally Weale

Farm shop butcher who dismembered his landlady jailed for 19 years

Scott Paterson suffocated Annette Smith, 74, with a pillow, then sent Christmas cards in her name to hide her death

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Author: Samuel Montgomery

Bootle: Police called to reports of ‘grenade’ in car boot

The incident comes just over a week after two unexploded bombs were also discovered in Bootle.

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Author: @BBCNews

Hundreds evacuated from homes after ‘grenade’ found in boot of car

Emergency services are at the scene in Bootle.

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Author: Hannah Kane, Jon King

Family of girl, 10, killed by dog in North Yorkshire ‘shocked and devastated’

Tributes paid as girl named as Savannah Bentham, who suffered serious injuries in attack near Malton

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Author: Robyn Vinter

One third of farmers to be affected by budget, says Muir

Andrew Muir says Labour’s first budget in 14 years is “bad” for farmers.

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Author: @BBCNews

Small boat smugglers to be fast-tracked through courts like rioters

Yvette Cooper said the government’s approach marks a ‘huge step change’ in attempts to tackle the issue

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Author: Millie Cooke

Keir Starmer should ‘absolutely’ remove the whip from Dawn Butler, Tory MP claims

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Author: GB News

Nightclub owner says ‘I’m still alive’ after rumours severed head found on road

Edinburgh has been rocked by the discovery of the head, in a busy area on Saturday night (November 2), with police now begging for restraint online following a spate of misinformation and speculation

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Author: Harry Thompson

Anger over Badenoch’s ‘insulting’ Partygate claim as shadow cabinet named

New Tory leader makes first appointments as Starmer unveils new funding for Border Security Command

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Author: Tara Cobham

Starmer to give speech about ‘severity’ of illegal migration threat as Badenoch works on shadow cabinet

Starmer to urge world to ‘wake up’ to severity of illegal migration threat at Glasgow’s Interpol meeting

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Author: @AndrewSparrow

Should Labour fear Kemi Badenoch?

Downing Street believes that the new Conservative leader has made two early errors.

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Author: George Eaton

We’re supposed to ‘put politics aside’ to celebrate Kemi Badenoch – but how can we?

There is a ritual of withholding all criticism when someone from an ethnic minority takes a position of power. That ritual has now become farce, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Author: Nesrine Malik

Teens killed elderly lady with fireworks through letterbox as family ‘haunted’

Josephine Smith, 88, died of smoke inhalation as a result of a firework being posted through her letterbox by Callum Dunne, then 15, and Kai Cooper, then 18 – both have been found guilty of manslaughter

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Author: Paige Ingram

Nightclub owner forced to address sick online rumour after ‘severed head’ claims

John ‘Mick’ McWilliams is the owner of Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms and has been drawn into the online rumours surrounding an horrific incident in the city’s Cowgate on Saturday night

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Author: Ruth Suter