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A railway bridge built over a two-lane road in Oxford has finally completed after three years of delay, not before costing more to construct than major landmarks and engineering feats such as the Titanic, Eiffel Tower and London Eye.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is understood to be actively weighing plans to hike capital gains tax (CGT) to as much as 45 per cent in a £14billion raid.

A convicted murderer is reportedly seeking £10,000 after his feelings were hurt when a prison officer allegedly called him a ‘daft c***’.

Almost 9,000 Brazilian migrants have received golden goodbye payments of up to £3,000 to leave Britain - though most small-boat arrivals ignore the offer.

Harry and Meghan will still not be classed as working royals despite their return to the UK, the King has made clear.

A council has spent over £2million in taxpayer money to translate materials for people who do not speak English.

A council is set to spend £850,000 on planning permission for a local swimming pool, which might not even go ahead.

An illegal migrant being deported back to Bangladesh was given a first-class ticket for his flight.

Andy Burnham has splashed £1,000 of taxpayer cash on a replica Downing Street door - which will not even face the street - at No10 North.

More than £500,000 a day is spent detaining illegal migrants and moving them around the country, The Sun can reveal.

Taxpayers in Wales will be forced to spend £600,000 to support tavellers living on sites with their energy costs.

Reform has vowed to ban all foreign nationals from claiming benefits in a new plan to slash the ballooning £50billion welfare bill.

Council staff taking sick days are costing taxpayers £3million a day, new research has revealed.

A brand new school that cost £31million to build is set to be demolished in a shocking “waste of taxpayers’ money”.

Benefit claimants were overpaid almost £10bn last year amid a rise in fraud by welfare cheats.

Ministers have already spent hundreds of millions keeping British Steel afloat. Nationalizing the struggling steelmaker is set to cost taxpayers billions more, multiple steel industry figures.

Donald Trump has unveiled the design for his 250ft ‘triumphal arch’ which could see taxpayer money used for its construction.

From the outside, 123 Victoria Street appears to be just another glass-and-steel office block along the busy route to Parliament Square.

Councils will be prohibited from permitting staff to work four-day weeks on full pay if the Tories win the next election.

There are concerns that hundreds more inmates and staff may have been exposed to hazardous levels of cancer-causing gas, with the Ministry of Justice now investigating 42 prison and probation sites, The Independent can reveal.

Approximately 700 Albanian families might be offered more than £3,000 to leave the UK, as ministers handle a rising immigration bill.