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The baby who can’t cry — tomorrow’s Sunday Mirror front page. Special report from Somalia with powerful pictures by
@PhotoRowan
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EXC: A charity set up in the name of Captain Sir Tom Moore tried to appoint the fundraiser’s daughter as its CEO on a six-figure salary before the watchdog intervened to block the move, The Independent understands.
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Exc: The brewery which praised Rishi Sunak after he visited for his election campaign is owned by a Tory, we can reveal.
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Neighbours of man who overheard loud row between Boris Johnson & his partner Carrie Symonds, prompting a late-night police callout, have corroborated his account of incident with one saying the “tear-up” led him to believe that someone was being murdered:
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The Guardian captured footage of
@CarolineRussell
being cheered as she was taken away in handcuffs by police officers.
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“It was a proper tear-up. Glasses being smashed, screaming and a lot of arguing. I thought someone was being murdered," said neighbour Earl McDermott, who heard the altercation.
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Exc: An ex-Kremlin minister attended the cash-strapped Tories’ summer fundraising bash – just days after Rishi Sunak blasted Vladimir Putin.
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Exc: The Royal Family spent more than £13m of public money on private chartered flights and helicopter journeys in less than a decade before leading calls at Cop26 to combat the climate crisis, it can be revealed.
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators are taking to the streets across Britain, including here outside the gates of Downing Street, in protest against Boris Johnson’s move to suspend parliament.
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EXC: Boris Johnson joined Downing Street officials for No 10 party during first Covid-19 lockdown last year - with the prime minister telling one attendee they deserved their drink for “beating back” the virus, Independent told. By
@Annaisaac
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Earlier, Russell was among demonstrators sitting in the road refusing to move while chanting: “You shut down the Parliament, we shut down the streets.”
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Delighted to say that I’m joining The Independent as chief reporter at the end of the month. Story tips welcome, DMs open!
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EXC: Rishi Sunak's old teacher has given his former pupil a fail – and revealed he is voting Labour.
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@sianberry
on the arrest of London Assembly member
@CarolineRussell
after she blocked traffic with other protesters at Trafalgar Square: “I’m proud that Caroline has been at the forefront, with others, of showing that determination, she said.
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EXC: Billionaire Tory donor’s firm continued to claim millions of pounds’ worth of taxpayer-funded furlough money after recording a £75.3million profit, The Independent can reveal.
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Credit to
@Iainlee
who kept suicidal caller to his show on the line for half an hour while emergency services tracked him down after he revealed he had taken an overdose:
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BREAKING: The neighbour who contacted the police over a late-night altercation between Tory leadership favourite, Boris Johnson, and his partner, Carrie Symonds, has gone public with his side of the story.
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EXCLUSIVE: Tory general election candidate in a key marginal seat wrote on social media that she believed people on the reality TV show Benefits Street needed “putting down”.
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Exc: Tory leadership hopeful Esther McVey has spent nearly £9k of taxpayers’ money claiming for a personal photographer on expenses, Guardian can reveal.
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Media bidding war under way for exclusive rights to tell-all interview with Jennifer Arcuri, US businesswoman at the centre of a conflict of interest row involving Boris Johnson. Her lawyer tells Guardian: "The price has to be right, that’s the way it is."
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Delighted to be joining The Times as social affairs editor in February. Sad to be leaving talented colleagues at Guardian, where I’ve had a fantastic two years, but excited to get started in new role.
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EXCLUSIVE: Two Conservative local election candidates & woman honoured with MBE among 40 new self-professed Tory members who have shared or endorsed racist and inflammatory Facebook posts including Islamophobic material, the Guardian has learned.
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Exclusive: Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick travelled to visit his parents at the weekend despite repeatedly urging the public to stay at home during the lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. by
@JoshHalliday
and me
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Delighted to be joining the Guardian’s top lobby team as a political correspondent for the next six months. Looking forward to getting stuck in covering the twists and turns in Westminster when I start on Monday. DMs are open and email in bio for any story tips!
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Exclusive: US businesswoman embroiled in conflict of interest row over close friendship with Boris Johnson won highly sought after entrepreneur visa to stay in the UK after securing PM's endorsement for her firm, the Guardian has learnt.
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EXCLUSIVE: Twenty-five sitting and former Tory councillors exposed for posting Islamophobic and racist material on social media, according to a dossier obtained by the Guardian.
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Labour shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, told the crowd: “This is a fight to protect our democracy. We know what Johnson is up to, it’s not very subtle, is it? He wants to close down our democracy to force through a no-deal Brexit.”
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A young Italian couple who live in Britain also took to the stage with their two young children to convey their disgust at the suspension of Parliament.
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Exc: A Tory election candidate has quit after being exposed for running club nights for kids as young as 13 – sharing a picture showing girls appearing to have the words “horny” and “b***h” on their chests.
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Guardian columnist Owen Jones made a passionate speech, asking crowd: “Are we going to stop our unelected prime minister thrashing our democracy like the Bullingdon club would trash restaurants?”
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At least two arrests made by police after protesters refused to leave.
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Couple Emma Beckingham and Charles Barker, both 23 and from Tooting, south London, sat in the road for an hour.
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Police have now moved in to clear protesters from blocking the road, many who have been there for more than hour, but some are reluctant to budge.
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A foundation set up in the name of Captain Sir Tom Moore paid tens of thousands of pounds to companies run by the fundraiser’s daughter and her husband – one of which was registered only days before the charity was incorporated.
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“Sit down for democracy,” a small group of protesters sitting in the road who refuse to leave chant. Most have now moved on.
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Both of the candidates – one of who claimed “Islamophobia was not surprising” in a rant about Muslims and said he would celebrate the death of anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller – have now been suspended.
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.
@Mohammed_Amin
, who is calling for Tory party inquiry into Islamophobia, says: “The serious question the Conservative party has to ask itself is: what is it about the image that it is projecting that causes people with these views to think they belong in the Conservative party?"
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Crowds have now moved on to Trafalgar Square where some demonstrators have been sat in the road blocking traffic for up to an hour. Scotland Yards says no arrests have been made.
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EXC: The Tory chair has been out election campaigning with a Conservative rising star filmed offering “fun flour” to a party guest on a signed David Cameron photo.
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Earlier, retired teachers Alan Costar, 65, Linda Abbott, 69 and Maureen Loney, 73, brandished banners & flags to convey their opposition to prorogation. Costar, who is half-German, said: “I have a dual national granddaughter and I’m here for her. She’s two and a half.”
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Exc: Tory MP spearheading efforts to promote the Covid-19 contact-tracing app trial on the Isle of Wight was at BBQ during lockdown last month also attended by the chairman of the Brexit party and political journalists, the Guardian has learned.
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Steve Ferguson, 43, a teacher from Bournemouth was at the protest with partner, Carly, 37, a mental health worker. The pair, wearing customised T-shirts depicting Johnson as a clown and calling for the defence of democracy, have four children whose futures they are fearful for.
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Shadow women and equalities minister, Dawn Butler, wearing a “defend democracy” sticker, geed up the crowd, chanting: “Wanna know what democracy looks like? This is what democracy looks like.”
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He added: “He also wants to try and convene a general election based upon this idea of his, he can frame it as people versus Parliament. Let’s make it absolutely clear... Boris Johnson, this is not about Parliament versus the people, this is about you versus the people.”
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Breaking: GLA refers Boris Johnson to Independent Office for Police Conduct so it can decide whether necessary to investigate former Mayor of London for criminal offence of misconduct in public office over conflict of interest allegations concerning US businesswoman.
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EXC: Companies running the country’s worst-rated care homes, including some responsible for a litany of Covid-19 safety failings, have banked more than £138 million in profits despite providing “inadequate” services, Times investigation reveals.
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Conservatives promised an independent investigation into Islamophobia – then watered it down. How high does the problem go? Disillusioned insiders – & former party chair Baroness Warsi – speak out. Read my in-depth piece in today’s Guardian:
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Laura Parker, Momentum’s national coordinator, told the crowd from a nearby stage: “This is our democracy and we will not let an unelected prime minister manage this power grab.
“He wants to shut the system down and hide... We know where you live, Mr Johnson.”
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Tish Mantripp, 31, was joined by boyfriend Luke Hallows, 32, carrying a home-made placard depicting Donald Trump as Dr Evil from Austin Powers movies and Johnson as the fictional villain’s side-kick Mini Me. Asked about suspending Parliament, Mantrap said: “It’s f**king nuts.”
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EXC: More than £132m in taxpayers’ money for housing the country’s most vulnerable people has been handed to providers that have been named and shamed by the regulator, joint investigation by
@Independent
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@openDemocracy
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Exc: At least four cabinet ministers have gone on election campaigning trips to endorse Tory candidates facing allegations of Islamophobia after the claims against them came to light, the Guardian has learned.
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Exc: A private firm running more than 150 NHS Covid-19 testing centres, which recorded nearly £95million profit in just two years, is axing more than 5,000 jobs - letting all but 21 people go without a penny, The Independent can reveal.
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EXC: Some of the country’s biggest care providers have claimed hundreds of thousands of pounds in taxpayer-funded furlough money despite having banked millions in profits, Times investigation can reveal.
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Police have now cleared remaining demonstrators back from Trafalgar Square.
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At a time when social mixing was only allowed outdoors one-on-one between individuals from diff households – & strictly forbidden indoors - it is understood about 20 civil servants & advisers gathered on 15 May last year for celebratory drinks inside Number 10 and its garden.
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The group is understood to have drunk alcohol including wine, beer & coke mixed with spirits, & eaten pizza, with some staying late into the night. Revelations come to light following a joint investigation by The Independent and The Guardian with
@peterwalker99
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@rowenamason
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NEW: Portugal set to be added to the UK’s travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from the country will no longer have to quarantine, but Croatia and Trinidad and Tobago are being removed, the Guardian has learned. Official announcement expected this eve:
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EXC: Senior employee at leading Qatari sports academy posted homophobic video on Instagram ahead of the World Cup, it can be revealed. Doha-based Aspire Academy has been hailed by David Beckham.
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Leaked Whitehall report obtained by the Guardian reveals nearly £100m of public money has been spent on private consultancy firms recruited by the government to provide Brexit advice including no-deal planning:
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As rain starts to fall, police are now moving remaining demonstrators back down towards Whitehall.
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BREAKING: Carl Beech, former nurse whose false claims of a VIP paedophile ring in Westminster sparked a multi-million pound Scotland Yard inquiry, sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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.
@drrosena
gave shocking account this evening in the Commons about how her elderly father was left bloodied, bruised and unconscious at a care facility, claiming a senior council official subsequently told her “he had asked for it”.
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He said he brought a “message of solidarity” Corbyn, who did not attend the rally. Adds: “We have defeated dictators in the past in our history and we will defeat this dictator under Johnson.”
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Scotland Yard confirms there have been three arrests at protests in the capital today.
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Tomorrow’s Independent daily edition splash - Johnson ‘joined No 10 party’ in first lockdown
EXC: Boris Johnson joined Downing Street officials for No 10 party during first Covid-19 lockdown last year - with the prime minister telling one attendee they deserved their drink for “beating back” the virus, Independent told. By
@Annaisaac
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EXC: A Tory candidate in key battleground seat has quit the election race after being exposed for making lurid sexual comments about women.
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The gathering took place after then-health secretary Matt Hancock delivered a televised press conference, noting there had been 384 coronavirus deaths in the previous 24 hours & highlighting a gentle easing of restrictions.
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Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott also took to the stage to deliver a message from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was absent, saying that he “100% supports this demonstration” and would soon be in Number 10 as prime minister.
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EXC: The Mirror has tracked down the former Post Office IT chief the inquiry into the Horizon scandal insisted could not be found.
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Guardian investigation reveals how one of the country’s biggest providers of agency carers has been fining staff who phone in sick £50 — while banking millions of pounds in profits.
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A source close to Jenrick admitted he made lockdown visit, saying he was taking medicine & food to parents. Guardian understands that the local community has also been supporting Jenrick’s parents by delivering groceries to them in recent weeks.
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Exclusive: Business secretary Alok Sharma facing questions after a union health and safety inspection identified concerns over social distancing in his private office days before a member of his inner circle tested positive for Covid.
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Last Friday was my final day at The Independent, where I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to work with talented colleagues. Delighted to say I’ll be joining the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People at the end of next month as a senior news reporter.
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But some members of the crowd began to chant, “where is Jeremy?” before others drowned them out by shouting “stop the coup”.
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Exc: Tory general election candidate in Bradford shared messages on social media claiming Muslims “play" the “race card” & have a “nasty culture”.
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Exc: Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross reignites row over Dominic Cummings’ Durham lockdown trip by indicating that he could not see how the prime minister’s most senior aide did not resign over the incident
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EXCLUSIVE: The country’s largest dementia charity, the Alzheimer’s Society, accused of spending as much as £750,000 on payouts to staff who agreed to sign NDAs, according to a whistleblower complaint leaked to the Guardian.
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BREAKING: Samaritans, the suicide prevention charity, has abandoned the appointment of its new CEO after a Guardian investigation revealed claims that the Alzheimer’s Society paid out as much as £750,000 to staff who signed NDAs during his tenure there.
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My last shift at The Mail on Sunday today after six fantastic years. Delighted to be joining the Guardian next month as a news reporter. Sad to be leaving brilliant colleagues but looking forward to next chapter.
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Guardian investigation reveals Spice Girls T-shirts sold to raise money for Comic Relief’s “gender justice” campaign were made at a factory in Bangladesh where women earn 35p an hour during & claim to be verbally abused & harassed. My report from Gazipur:
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Treasury select committee member
@rushanaraali
said: “This goes against the whole spirit of the furlough scheme. It is unjust and immoral for a billionaire Tory donor’s firm to take taxpayers’ money to pay staff when their business is not in need…”
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Guardian investigates latest on Tory Islamophobia — 15 suspended councillors quietly reinstated after inflammatory comments & five new self-professed members exposed for anti-Muslim diatribes. By
@fperraudin
& me here:
And here:
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Exc: Former Tory shipping minister Nusrat Ghani facing criticism for taking up a £60k role at firm leading maritime consortium which successfully bid for publicly-funded £33m grant that she lobbied a fellow minister for while she was serving in government.
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EXC: A former senior Tory MEP claims he overheard a serving minister plotting to use his Muslim faith against him politically - and today calls for the Conservatives to mount an investigation, pledging to name names.
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The Guardian has established that Jenrick – who has made media appearances urging people to save lives by remaining in their properties even if tempted to see loved ones – went to see his parents at their Shropshire home, 40 miles/an hour’s drive from his own.
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Today’s Independent daily edition splash - Tory donor’s firm took millions in furlough cash despite profit of £75m
EXC: Billionaire Tory donor’s firm continued to claim millions of pounds’ worth of taxpayer-funded furlough money after recording a £75.3million profit, The Independent can reveal.
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Massively chuffed to win New Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards
#BJA2015
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Malcolm Healey’s company, Wren Kitchens, used public funds to help bankroll its staff costs during the Covid pandemic even though it banked tens of millions of pounds’ worth of pre-tax profits in its 2020 accounts.
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Guardian investigation reveals how some of the country’s worst care homes are owned by private firms making staggering £113m profit despite vulnerable people they are supposed to look after being neglected:
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BREAKING: Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers' plans have been plunged into chaos as gov confirms France will be removed from travel corridor list. Ministers had been mulling decision & now acting after another post-lockdown record rise in daily Covid cases across channel.
Exc: Netherlands, Malta, Turks & Caicos Islands and Aruba set to be removed from England’s travel corridor list but ministers still mulling over a decision on France, Guardian has learned.
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Exclusive: Newly-appointed chair of government’s commission on race and ethnic disparities, Tony Sewell, forced to apologise after the Guardian unearthed controversial comments he wrote referencing “tortured queens playing hide and seek”.
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Exc: Vulnerable children and families are still being seen by social workers over video call rather than in-person long after the end of lockdown – raising fears that abuse could be slipping through the net. by
@maybulman
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Exc: A Reform UK candidate is today shamed for sharing a stage with a Hitler fan.
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Exc: A fundraising event billed “Captain Tom Day” has been postponed in the wake of disclosures about the finances of a charity set up in the name of the veteran, The Independent has been told.
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Exc: A Tory election candidate posted an “antisemitic” cartoon depicting men with hooked noses at the white cliffs of Dover carrying bags of “false hopes”.
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Exc: A Tory election candidate in Margaret Thatcher’s old seat once belittled a groping allegation against Boris Johnson.
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Francesca O’Brien, selected last month in open primary to stand in target constituency of Gower, South Wales, wrote series of inflammatory comments about the Channel 4 programme which have been unearthed from her Facebook page.
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Exc: Hungry kids were denied food at a children’s home owned by a fatcat with a new kitchen at his pad.
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Forced apart by the Covid crisis after 57 years of marriage, the simple act of holding her husband Alan’s hand was one of the things Judi Heath missed the most. But today, when they were reunited at his care home, she was able to clasp it once again.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senior HMRC civil servant sacked after facing a catalogue of sexual misconduct claims by five junior female employees, the Guardian has learned.
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