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National Highways faces third intervention by a local authority over infilling, after burying Congham bridge in Norfolk in tonnes of concreteA controversial practice by the government’s roads agency of burying historic railway bridges in concrete has b…
Insurrection: A Work in Progress by Peter Brathwaite will highlight folk traditions as a form of resistanceA leading British opera singer is developing a work based on the music of his enslaved ancestors in Barbados as a way of examining complex histor…
Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance add their voices to Richard Curtis’s Make My Money Matter campaignFamous names including Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance have joined activists and businesses in calling on the UK’s big five banks …
Exclusive: Healthy Start scheme began switch away from paper coupons to digital system in 2021Struggling parents are having to wait more than a year for vouchers to buy healthy food for their children after the relaunch of an NHS scheme was plagued by …
Key Putin ally who founded Wagner mercenaries tried to ‘subvert sanctions and silence journalist’, says Pat McFaddenThe Treasury is reviewing its procedures after the Russian founder of a mercenary army was given permission to circumvent sanctions to a…
In a focus group, residents of Stoke-on-Trent describe the health service as an ‘absolute mess’ and say the PM has just disappearedUK politics live – latest news updatesRishi Sunak should pour money and staff into the “crippled” NHS, and reward strikin…
Recharge Industries, which also plans a factory in Geelong, says nonbinding offer is in the company’s interests, as well as that of ‘our friends in the UK’An Australian-based startup, Recharge Industries, has made a nonbinding offer for the collapsed U…
Index on Censorship lists UK as only ‘partially’ open’ in every key metric for the year 2021The UK has been ranked only in the third tier of a new global index of freedom of expression due to what was described as the “chilling effect” of government po…
Thinktank says of advanced economies, only Greece would have lower public and private investmentIf the north of England were a country, it would be second bottom of a league table showing levels of investment in advanced economies, according to a repor…
Polling comes amid Conservative backbench unrest at government plan to ban conversion practicesMore than 400,000 people who are gay, transgender or non-binary have been subjected to someone trying to change, “cure” or suppress their sexual orientation …