All news for 2024-07-01

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A Tory MP who used Nigel Farage on a campaign leaflet has had a spectacular falling out with the Reform party
Reform candidate tells Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns that his party’s leadership are ‘a***holes’ as she falls out spectacularly with the right wing party
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Labour energy chief Ed Miliband is facing backlash over local solar projects
If the polls are correct, Ed Miliband will be U.K. energy secretary by Friday, overseeing Labour’s ambitious push to back clean energy projects like solar and wind farms all over the country.
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Spain’s Supreme Court has refused to grant amnesty to Carles Puigdemont
Long-standing arrest warrant for Catalan independence leader to remain in effect.
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Kuwait flight hostages are suing British Airways and the UK government
Passengers and crew held hostage after a 1990 British Airways flight landed are suing the airline and the UK government for “deliberately endangering” them.
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Military horses have run loose again in central London
Military horses have broken free and run loose through central London for the second time since April.
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Neil Foden, a former headteacher who ’abused trust,’ has been jailed for ’shocking’ sex offences against four girls
Sentencing Foden to 17 years in prison, Judge Rowlands described him as "a man looked up to by many" who had "managed to hide a dreadful secret".
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Biden’s family reportedly urged him to stay in the presidential race, shifting blame to his advisers
The US president met with his family at Camp David, after a disastrous debate performance last week led to calls for him to drop out of the election
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A major search is underway for a 14-year-old schoolboy who got separated from his friends while swimming
A 14-year-old boy has gone missing while swimming with his friends at a beach on the River Mersey.
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Rush hour disruption affected a major London Underground line due to a fire alert
Commuters have been warned of severe disruption to their morning journeys across the London transport network.
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Banksy has claimed credit for a migrant boat artwork displayed in the crowd at Glastonbury
The art installation drew criticism from government ministers after Rishi Sunak made "stopping the boats" one of his five priorities.