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• 'Broken social care will in the end break the NHS,' says Burnham

  27-09-2026 11:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Andy Burnham said the proposed care service would be laid out in detail and put on the ballot at the next general election.
  
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• Tories pledge to build 50,000 new prison places

  03-10-2026 16:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The party says its proposals would stop prisoners being released early and cut crime.
  
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• Uproar at defence minister's claim about those who fight for Britain

  03-10-2026 15:29 via express.co.uk
  Veterans minister Calvin Bailey said it is 'part of the population that is traditionally Labour that is going to be the people fighting'
  
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• Cut taxes to beat Burnham! Kemi handed blueprint for election shock in new research

  03-10-2026 15:29 via express.co.uk
  Major new polling show the public are in no doubt about what Kemi Badenoch needs to do to win back trust for the Conservatives with working Britons
  
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• Police name two men who died in workplace incident near rural road

  03-10-2026 15:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It happened on the Ballygowan Road in Crossnacreevy at about 10:45 BST on Friday.
  
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• Alison Hammond returns home from hospital after rushing off This Morning

  03-10-2026 15:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The This Morning presenter said she believes she experienced a panic attack on Friday's show.
  
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• Newcastle Gin boss blasts Burnham for high tax hammering UK economy

  03-10-2026 15:16 via express.co.uk
  Newcastle gin entrepreneur warns that a 'Geordie on holiday pays less tax on a British spirit abroad than at home'
  
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• New Health Secretary to investigate delay in ending bone disease postcode lottery

  03-10-2026 15:15 via express.co.uk
  The Health Secretary appeared 'genuinely surprised' when told about the glaring lack of services to identify osteoporosis across England
  
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• 'Ideological net zero goals' at heart of NHS condemned as new requirements loom

  03-10-2026 15:15 via express.co.uk
  Labour denies the requirements are taking cash from patient care but action is demanded for 'million' of people 'stuck on waiting lists'
  
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• Police searching for mum of baby girl found on shoreline tell her not to be afraid to call

  03-10-2026 15:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police searching for the mother of a newborn girl whose body was found urge her to contact them.
  
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• Teenager taken to hospital after Glasgow shopping centre gang attack

  03-10-2026 14:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The assault in the St Enoch Centre came just days after dispersal zone powers to crack down on anti-social behaviour were extended.
  
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• Homemade bomb part of alleged plot on Manchester's Jewish community, court told

  03-10-2026 14:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two men were arrested on the eve of Yom Kippur, considered the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
  
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• Greens would offer two-year jobs to unemployed under-24s

  03-10-2026 14:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Co-deputy leader Mothin Ali tells the party's conference many young people are "bored, desperate and lost".
  
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• 'I served Royal Family - late Queen scolded Prince William after he left staff terrified'

  03-10-2026 13:20 via express.co.uk
  Anne Glenconner, former lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret, recounted how she had heard "raised voices" outside Balmoral Castle
  
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• Bluetongue restriction zone extension a 'positive thing' for farmers

  03-10-2026 13:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The whole of Scotland is now a restricted zone but the agriculture minister says it will make it easier to get livestock to market.
  
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• 'You're in utter denial!' Outrage as Labour minister hits out at small boat 'lies'

  03-10-2026 12:58 via express.co.uk
  Jake Richards said that anyone who says pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights will help stop small boats is telliing lies
  
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• UK-Iranian dual national arrested over RAF Fairford released on bail

  03-10-2026 12:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 25-year-old man was arrested in the London borough of Westminster on Thursday.
  
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• Derelict 'church in the woods' sold at auction

  03-10-2026 12:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  St Mary's In The Wood United Reformed Church on Commercial Street in Morley sells for £100,000.
  
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• Kemi Badenoch has cemented her image. Now she wants to put her party back on the big stage

  03-10-2026 12:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Conservative leader is expected to set out a return to core conservative principles at the party’s annual conference.
  
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• Horror as 16-year-old dies after e-bike crash that leaves boy in hospital

  03-10-2026 11:59 via express.co.uk
  The police are still searching for the motorbike that the teens riding
  
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• Horror as baby, 9 days old, dies in hotel from cocaine in her mum's breast milk

  03-10-2026 11:50 via express.co.uk
  The use of cocaine had "put their baby daughter's health at risk".
  
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• Kemi Badenoch is stronger than ever but faces fight of her life to be Prime Minister

  03-10-2026 11:47 via express.co.uk
  Her poll ratings have been transformed in a year but leading the Conservatives back into power would be one of the greatest comebacks in modern times
  
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• Trains cancelled after bedbugs found on board

  03-10-2026 11:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Southeastern said the insects were discovered in drivers' cabs, with the trains removed for cleaning.
  
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• Boy, 6, who died in van crash was 'loved more deeply than words could ever express'

  03-10-2026 11:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Harrison Jones was killed after being struck by a Ford Transit Tipper outside his home in Llanfairfechan.
  
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• Suppliers pile pressure on government over energy bills

  03-10-2026 10:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.
  
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• Widdecombe suspect charged with planning terror act against Farage

  03-10-2026 10:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Counter terror police say the further charge comes after a "hugely intensive and complex investigation".
  
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• Victorian bridge hidden under reservoir is revealed

  03-10-2026 08:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Bessom Bridge on Exmoor was flooded nearly 50 years ago when Wimbleball Reservoir was created.
  
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• Man desperate to find teen he saved 30 years ago

  03-10-2026 08:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lee Heyes says he was 15 when he jumped in Eccleston Delph to rescue a teenager from drowning.
  
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• How rapist priest exploited charisma to abuse his 'cult-like' congregation

  03-10-2026 08:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chris Brain, who led nightclub-style services in the 1980s and 90s, is convicted of rape.
  
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• An uneasy peace – how a week of the Drumcree parade dispute has unfolded

  03-10-2026 07:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sometimes in Northern Ireland, the definition of success is "nobody got hurt," writes BBC News NI's community correspondent.
  
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