All news for 2024-06-30

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UK haulage industry urges investment in electric truck infrastructure
There are just 300 electric HGVs in the 500,000-strong lorry fleet – and only one public charging point, says RHA.
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Farage denies ’stoking prejudice’ amid Reform scandal
Reform UK leader echoes Donald Trump in response to claim hostile state actors are backing his party
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Rishi Sunak claims the UK is a better place to live after 14 years of Conservative rule
Britain is “a better place to live” than when the Conservatives came to power in 2010, Rishi Sunak has insisted at the start of the final campaign weekend before the UK general election on Thursday.
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Former Honduran president receives 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced to 45 years in prison and given an $8 million fine by a US judge for drug trafficking offenses.
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British tourist in critical condition after being struck by a car while on holiday
A British cyclist is in ‘critical condition’ after a car crashed into the back of their bike on the Spanish island of Majorca.
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Jay Slater’s family ’devastated’ as police call off search for missing teen two weeks after his disappearance
Jay Slater’s family have said they are ‘devastated’ by the news that police have decided to call off their searches for the missing teenager.
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Revealed: 428-year-old secret dossier uncovers Elizabeth I’s spy network
For more than a century, it lay undisturbed in the National Archives: a single sheet of paper, headed The names of the Intelligencers, with the power to unveil a hidden network of secret Elizabethan spies.
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Two police officers hospitalized after being attacked by protesters at far-right AfD congress in Germany
Two police officers have been hospitalised after clashes with hooded protesters outside the congress of Germany’s far-right AfD, as the party met weeks after its record European Union election result.
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France heads to the polls for a high-stakes snap parliamentary election
Ballot could see Marine Le Pen’s National Rally form government as polls suggest support for far-right party has strengthened.
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Man killed, and five others injured after Tesla collides with double-decker bus
A man has died and five others have been injured after a crash between a double-decker bus and a Tesla in York.