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• Sara Sharif’s grandfather vows to keep her siblings in Pakistan as vigil is held

  15-12-2024 23:44
  
  Muhammed Sharif goes to high court in Lahore and says ‘safest place’ for his other grandchildren is with himSara Sharif’s grandfather said he will fight to keep her siblings in Pakistan, calling it the “safest place for them”, as a vigil was held for the murdered 10-year-old in Surrey.Muhammad Sharif said he would appeal to the high court in Pakistan to stop Sara’s five siblings from being returned to the UK. Continue reading...
  
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• At last, a group of MPs intent on reforming our madly unfair council tax | Heather Stewart

  15-12-2024 14:15
  
  The system relies on valuations from 1991, when Gorbachev was in power, but has become politically untouchable“It’s a fairness thing. Just the idea that somebody sitting in a two-bedroom house in Hartlepool is paying more council tax than somebody who’s living in a mansion – it’s just offensive.”The Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash, Hartlepool’s MP, is on a mission to draw attention to an issue he jokingly calls “the third rail of British politics
  
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