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Driscoll raises funds needed to pay for campaign after leaving Labour and announcing plans to run against former party. This live blog is closedJamie Driscoll quits Labour after snub in north-east mayor raceIn his interview for broadcasters this mornin…
Shopkeepers complain the number of thefts from stores is soaring. Is the cost of living crisis to blame or organised gangs?It could be laundry tablets, lipstick or even baby milk. According to shopkeepers in the UK the number of thefts is rising. The B…
Network enlists locals as they re-record mispronounced placenames for on-board announcementsThere are many things wrong with the north of England’s railway network: 11th-hour cancellations, dilapidated Victorian infrastructure, two-carriage trains that…
Mark Thurston to leave government-owned company as construction moves ‘into an exciting new stage’ The chief executive of the HS2 railway has resigned amid severe delays and soaring costs that have seen the project scaled back.Mark Thurston announced o…
Exclusive: Data shows policy, deepening poverty among low-income families, affects about 1.5 million children Labour has come under fresh pressure to vow to scrap the two-child benefit cap after it emerged one in four children in some of England and Wa…
Shocking figures gathered by the Observer show social care provision is dictated by money, not needNew children’s care homes are being disproportionately placed in cheaper and more deprived parts of England, according to an Observer investigation. .Ove…
People in Scotland, north of England and Northern Ireland may have best chance to view aurora borealisSky-gazers in parts of the UK may be treated to a display of the northern lights on Thursday night as solar winds race towards Earth at about 1 millio…
Mayor of Waverley, Sydney sent video message to support plan to bring lido on Longsands back to lifeThe mayor for Bondi Beach in Sydney is among those lobbying a council in north-east England to support ambitious plans to restore an outdoor swimming po…
Exclusive: Ranem Elkhalidi meeting Foreign Office officials this week as she continues fight to bring her son homeA woman whose seven-year-old son was kidnapped by his father and taken to Saudi Arabia has said lawyers in the country are too afraid to g…
Group issues 12-point plan calling for stricter immigration rules for care workers, students and refugeesRishi Sunak is facing demands from “red wall” Conservative MPs to slash the number of overseas care workers, foreign students and refugees allowed …