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Thousands of people have signed our petition demanding that former postmaster Alan Bates get a knighthood or CBE for his decades-long fight to expose the Post Office scandal

At least nine former Cabinet ministers, including Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, are seeking to amend the Rwanda Bill during crunch debates next week

Since 2012 – more than a decade after the Post Office accounting scandal began – the public sector has awarded Fujitsu almost 200 contracts worth £6.8billion in total, analyst says

The Government of Great Britain would be much, much better – not hard, admittedly – if it were run like BBC TV show The Traitors - with regular Banishments to keep the cast fresh, and always on their toes

Dame Andrea Leadsom made the baffling remark during a debate on the chronic shortage of NHS dentists, with MPs told Taylor Swift tickets are easier to get than an appointment

Labour Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper estimated that the Government has pledged almost £400million to Rwanda, with additional payments of around £200,000 per person sent there

The ex-postmaster Alan Bates who led the decades-long fight to expose the scandal previously said he would not accept an award while former Post Office boss Paula Vennells had a CBE

TV presenter and TalkTV host Alex Phillips has taken to social media to share that she was attacked by a mugger on a bike as she walked along London's Oxford Street

Japanese technology firm Fujitsu is still being allowed to bid for lucrative Government work even after its faulty Horizon software led to innocent postmasters being sent to jail

Alexander Rybin, 39, was discovered by a roadside in Russia’s Rostov region and is the latest in a string of mysterious media-linked deaths - he died after a visit to occupied Mariupol

Recently, surveys have indicated that over half of South Koreans wanted dog meat to be banned, and the majority no longer consume it - but farmers were extremely upset by the bill's passage

Tens of thousands of people have signed the Mirror's petition calling for a general election now to allow voters deliver their verdict on the last few years of Tory chaos

London Mayor Sadiq Khan unveiled £140 million plans to extend universal free school meals for the 2024/25 school year, after piloting the approach in state-funded primaries across the Capital from September

The Housing Secretary Michael Gove said the law will force landlords to fix homes 'within strict new time limits and take immediate action to tackle dangerous damp and mould to help prevent future tragedies'

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson vowed to crack down on long term absence after the number of children repeatedly missing class shot up following the pandemic

Touring flooded homes in Loughborough afflicted by Storm Henk Labour leader Keir Starmer slammed the Government's response to the disaster which he says wasn't fast enough

In a shocking video, flames are seen rising from the home of Roman Putin, 45, who is sanctioned by the West for links to his cousin, the Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin

The doctors' union, the British Medical Association, has threatened further industrial action if Health Secretary Victoria Atkins does not return to the negotiating table

The superstar advocacy of Idris Elba helping to draw attention to the scourge of knife crime will help the conversation, writes Mirror columnist Darren Lewis, but real action begins at home

Defence minister Andrew Murrison was accused of a "disgraceful response" on whether the government holds records of blood and urine tests on its own troops

Rishi Sunak has been criticised for getting a plane from RAF Northolt to Warton Aerodrome near Preston just minutes after top Tory Sir Alok Sharma launched a scathing attack on his environmental record

Paul Scully, who was Post Office Minister, said the Treasury demanded a value for money exercise was done before agreeing to giving further money to victims including Alan Bates

Almost 30,000 asylum seekers made the perilous voyage across the English Channel in 2023, despite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledging to 'stop the boats' more than a year ago. As such, almost 2,000 Mirror readers say the PM has failed to deliver on his promise

Hollywood star Idris Elba has launched a campaign to ban knives and fund community programmes, says Fleet Street Fox. He wouldn't have to if the country was run by a truly representative Parliament

It comes as a petition calling for ex-Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells to be stripped of her CBE attracted more than one million signatures