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Children’s hospice issues a closure warning
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Children’s hospice issues a closure warning

A charity has warned that children’s hospice in England will be forced to cut services or shut unless the NHS increases its funding.  One of the hospices, Acorns, has said it will have no choice but to close later this year unless it can raise more than £1.5 million. If it closes this means more…

MP calls for an end on ‘throwaway clothes’ era
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MP calls for an end on ‘throwaway clothes’ era

A report by an MP is urgering the UK government to end the era of throwing away clothes plus poor working conditions in the fashion supply workplace. The MPs’ proposals are designed to force the fashion industry to change its ways. They have listed 18 recommendations covering environmental and labour practices. It is not just…

Heathrow reveals expansion plan
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Heathrow reveals expansion plan

Heathrow Airport will create a third runway by 2026 and complete its expansion by 2050 according to the “masterplan” which has just been published.  The plans include diverting rivers, moving roads and rerouting the M25 through a tunnel under the new runway. Heathrow have said the plans will have low emissions zones and congestion charges…

Banana Bank Robber Sentenced
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Banana Bank Robber Sentenced

A man who robbed a bank with a banana has been jailed for a year and 2 months.  Dorset Police said Laurence Vonderdell entered the bank and approached one of the tills on the morning of 25 March, with a covered banana in a plastic bag (trying to disguise it as a gun), pointing it…

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