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Drivers are being told to slow down on the A827 by Ballinluig from today to give the maintenance crew space to work on the bridge. They’ll be bringing the speed down to 30 mph from today (October 25) until December 17 while the works are being carried out. A spokesperson for the Perth and Kinross …
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The organisation, which has caused misery for drivers with protesters sitting on the M25 motorway and other major roads, has said the pause to its “campaign of civil resistance” runs out on October 25. A spokesman, who would not give details of what further action would be taken on Monday, said “there are things happening” …
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Adele’s comeback song, Easy On Me, is on course to score a second week at number one. Last week, the track notched up 217,300 chart sales, the highest total since Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You came out in January 2017. It was also streamed a record-breaking 24 million times, smashing the previous record for the …
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Ripping up Sure Start centres for people with young families was an “act of criminality”, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed. Chancellor Rishi Sunak insisted the newly announced “family hubs” scheme was different from the Labour policy, but Ms Reeves branded the Government’s investment in early years a “pale imitation”. Ahead of Wednesday’s autumn Budget, …
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Scotland has recorded 2,528 cases in the past 24 hours, the latest Scottish Government figures show. A further 21 deaths have been recorded, but the figures released on Sunday are for the previous 48 hours, after a “data issue” meant death numbers could not be reported on Saturday. The Scottish Government said 20 of the …
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A neighbour has described hearing shouts and someone “yelling out in pain” from the scene of a suspected double murder in Essex. Police were called to the address at Regency Court in Brentwood at around 1.30am on Sunday morning. They found three injured people, including two teenage boys who later died from their injuries. The …
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The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has gone on hunger strike for the second time in two years due to the Government’s “inaction and failure” in its handling of her case, their MP has said. Richard Ratcliffe is beginning a hunger strike outside the Foreign Office in London and intends to sleep in a tent at …
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In a letter to the Sunday Times, England and Manchester United forward Rashford joined with supermarket bosses and food industry leaders to demand ministers continue providing the meals to vulnerable children, even when they were not in the classroom. The signatories said that doing so during the earlier stages of the pandemic, after campaigning from …
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Former Premier League footballer Jay Tabb will experience another kind of sporting thrill when he takes to the saddle for the Fitzdares Racing Welfare Charity Flat Race at Wincanton on Sunday. The 37-year-old enjoyed a 16-year career as a midfielder, working his way through Crystal Palace’s youth academy before undertaking spells at Brentford, Coventry, Reading …
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