All news for 2024-10-05

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British food companies lobbied to delay the £1.7 billion plastic packaging tax, as revealed by documents
New scheme to improve recycling rates and tackle pollution was pushed back by Tories after industry complaints
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Four migrants including child die while trying to cross English Channel
French minister Bruno Retailleau said the child was ‘trampled to death in a boat’
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Top Hamas official Saeed Atallah Ali was killed in an air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
An Israeli strike on a refugee camp in north Lebanon has killed Hamas official Saeed Atallah Ali and his family, the militant group has said.
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Five areas of Britain set to be slammed by polar blast
Temperatures are soon going to tumble - from the balmy 18C recorded by the Met Office on Friday in Santon Downham, Suffolk, to freezing in places, including across Perth and Kinross
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Orpington dog attack: Several out-of-control dogs mauled a woman and two children, aged 4 and 6
Two children aged four and six along with a woman have been savagely mauled by four dogs in a street in St Paul’s Cray, southeast London this morning and have been rushed to hospital
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British couple try to fight off Italian gangster over £67,000 designer watch
This is the disturbing moment a British couple attempted to fend off against a mugger in the Spanish island of Magaluf over a designer watch worth more than £67,000.
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Putin’s snipers are teaching schoolchildren that "killing Ukrainians is not murder"
Russian schoolchildren are being taught lessons by military snipers who claim killing Ukrainians is not murder.
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Moment a 14-year-old girl ’stabs two teachers and a pupil’ in a school playground knife attack
The moment a schoolgirl allegedly stabbed two teachers and a fellow pupil has been played to a jury.
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Murder for hire: Inside Iran’s proxy war with Israel in the West
The Islamic Republic’s long shadow war with Israel is playing out in the West with a rise in alleged Iran-linked murder and kidnapping plots, often with the help of hired assassins.
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NatWest, RBS, and Ulster Bank have experienced outages, leaving Brits unable to access their money through mobile banking
Several banks, including NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank, are all experiencing web outages according to DownDetector and customers can’t access their money as a result