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Catherine Poole tells prime minister to pay staff more, raising a finger and saying: ‘You need to try harder’ UK politics live – latest updates Rishi Sunak got a tase of how the “difficult decisions” he has said will guide spending cuts may go down with the public, when he was challenged by a hospital patient about nurses’ pay. During a tour of Croydon University Hospital in south London, Sunak met NHS workers and posed for smiling selfies with them, but was confronted by 77-year old Catherine Poole. Continue reading… ​Catherine Poole tells prime minister to pay staff more, raising…

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Rishi Sunak needs to clarify whether his home secretary’s security breach contained market sensitive data, Labour says UK politics live – latest news updates Rishi Sunak needs to clarify whether Suella Braverman leaked market-sensitive data before she resigned and then was reappointed as home secretary, Labour said on Friday. Amid further warnings that her re-appointment was a mistake, Pat McFadden, a shadow Treasury minister, said the prime minister needed to clarify urgently whether companies or individuals could have benefited financially from her security breach. Continue reading… ​Rishi Sunak needs to clarify whether his home secretary’s security breach contained market sensitive…

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Data suggests hospital admission rates among children under five have almost doubled in two weeks Parents are being urged to get their young children vaccinated against flu as data suggests hospitalisation rates among under-fives have almost doubled in England in the space of two weeks. Data suggests the UK could face a triple whammy of respiratory illness this winter. While experts are concerned there could be another Covid wave, levels of both flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are increasing. The latter is a common winter virus that typically affects young children and can cause bronchiolitis. Continue reading… ​Data suggests…

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Vasile Culea subjected Freda Walker and husband Kenneth to ‘savage attack’ in pursuit of money A man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 34 years for murdering Freda Walker, 86, after he broke into her home, attacked her and her husband, tied them up and abandoned them. Vasile Culea, 34, attacked Freda Walker and her husband, Kenneth Walker, 88, when he burgled their home in Langwith Junction, Derbyshire on 14 January after hearing they had stored a large amount of cash in the property. Continue reading… ​Vasile Culea subjected Freda Walker and husband Kenneth to ‘savage…

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Steven Craig served time in jail for 1998 petrol attack on Jacqueline Kirk and was re-arrested after her death in 2019 A man has been convicted of murdering his ex-partner, who died 21 years after he doused her with petrol and set her on fire. Steven Craig, now 58, inflicted horrendous injuries on Jacqueline Kirk in a car park in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, in April 1998. Kirk had burns to 35% of her body, required a tracheotomy and operations including skin grafts, and was in hospital for nine months. Continue reading… ​Steven Craig served time in jail for 1998 petrol attack…

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