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Mum, 24, ‘watched as boyfriend beat daughter, two, before pair murdered her’

A MUM watched as her boyfriend “constantly” beat up her two-year-old daughter in the days before she was killed, a court heard. Little Isabella Wheildon allegedly died from her injuries…

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Author: Summer Raemason

GPs, care homes and hospices voice concern over Budget tax rises

The NHS is exempt from the rise in employer National Insurance contributions, but private providers are not.

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Author: @BBCNews

Mother 24, ‘watched as boyfriend beat daughter, two, before murder’

Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell, 24, told a court today how her partner Scott Jeff subjected her daughter Isabella Wheildon, two, to horrific beatings and cold showers before she died in June 2023.

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Author: Andrew Levy

Newspaper headlines: ‘Markets turn on Reeves’ and ‘rising sickness claims bill’

Investors’ reactions to the Budget and forecasts for the cost of sickness benefits lead the papers.

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Author: @BBCNews

Sara Sharif’s father ‘forced her to do sit ups all night’

Court hears new details of the ‘campaign of abuse’ the 10-year-old allegedly suffered before her death

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Author: Will Bolton

Reeves had pre-election briefings from Treasury despite claiming no knowledge of £22bn ‘black hole’

Questions raised over whether Chancellor was really in the dark over the scale of spending challenges, Tories claim

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Author: Ben Riley-Smith

Tories must reject the anti-growth mindset

There is space for the Conservatives to rediscover their Thatcherite roots

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Author: Telegraph View

Rachel Reeves’s spiteful inheritance tax grab will be disastrous for family farms across Britain

Plus: Asylum claims; UNRWA funding; litter thrown from cars; BBC edits; a Chinese dissident in need of support; and a visit from a hedgehog

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Author: Letters to the Editor

Watch: Hairdresser close to tears on live TV over Budget’s NICs rise

‘I am angry, sad and shellshocked – our industry is totally done,’ distressed Toby Dicker tells Kay Burley

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Author: Max Stephens

NHS pay and pension rises to swallow up half of Reeves’s £22bn spending spree

More to be paid out to cover the same pay rise the following year, with the figure set to exceed £14 billion – and it could rise further

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Author: Laura Donnelly

How Reeves’s farm tax could be a political flashpoint

We could be seeing noisy convoys of tractors in Parliament Square before too long, says Sean O’Grady

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Author: Sean O’Grady

Private schools to sue Government over VAT raid

Independent Schools Council announces launch of High Court action, arguing policy undermines some pupils’ human rights

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Author: Poppy Wood

Why Labour’s Budget is a ‘closure of the mines’ moment for British farming

Farmers united in disbelief over the Government’s tax grab on their livelihoods are worried it could be the end of the line for them

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Author: Guy Kelly

UK borrowing costs at highest for a year after Budget

Analysts say the rise in borrowing costs is a sign the markets aren’t happy about the increase in government spending.

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Author: @BBCNews

Shoppers told to expect higher prices after tax raid on farmers

British growers hit with steeper employment costs and an increase in NICs in the Budget

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Author: Hannah Boland

Starmer accused of lying to farmers with surprise budget ‘tractor tax’

Critics say the government’s decision to extend inheritance tax to family farms will destroy communities

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Author: David Maddox

SNP and Labour resembled a bunch of lottery winners with post-Budget bonhomie

Scottish Tories seemed to be only ones anyone interested in the plight of those badly affected by the Chancellor’s actions

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Author: Alan Cochrane

UK’s Reeves Seeks to Reassure Markets After Post-Budget Selloff

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves sought to reassure the financial markets after her budget on Wednesday triggered a selloff in UK bonds, saying that the “number one commitment” of the Labour government is “economic and fiscal stability.”

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Author: Joe Mayes,Lizzy Burden