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The UK’s main parties have begun to announce their campaign promises ahead of a general election on 12 December. To help you decide who you might vote for, here’s a guide to where the two leading parties, Labour and Conservative, currently stand on key issues. Boris Johnson, Conservative. Top priorities Deliver Brexit on the deal…
Stephen Waterson, 26, was jailed for inflicting irreversible brain injuries on Alfie Lamb, his girlfriend’s son, in 2018. Waterson initially denied manslaughter but changed his plea to guilty before a retrial in September. Alfie had been sat at his mother Adrian Hoare’s feet in the rear footwell of the car at the time. She was…
Guy Fawkes Night originates from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed conspiracy by a group of provincial English Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and replace him with a Catholic head of state. In the immediate aftermath of the 5 November arrest of Guy Fawkes, caught guarding a cache of…
A teenage boy has died after a car involved in a police pursuit crashed into a building. Officers were pursuing a Ford Fusion on Burnage Lane in Burnage, Greater Manchester, at about 9:30pm on Sunday. Two people in the car were taken to hospital with injuries believed to be life threatening and one, thought to…
The government plans to “close” a legal loophole that has allowed drivers who use mobile phones for photography to escape prosecution. In July, a man overturned a conviction for filming a crash, saying he was “not using his phone to communicate”. The government is set to update the law to include internet use and other…
Jeremy Corbyn was cheered by members of his top team, as he made his announcement at Labour’s campaign headquarters in central London. He said: “I have consistently said that we are ready for an election and our support is subject to a no-deal Brexit being off the table. “We have now heard from the EU…
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