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The questions this grooming gangs inquiry must finally answer

Liberal authoritarianism, where opinions disliked by the Government are routinely dismissed, must not now stand in the way of the truth

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Author: Nick Timothy

Emergency services warn of wildfire risk ahead of expected UK heatwave

Temperatures forecast to reach 32C in London on Saturday as authorities issue reminder to check on vulnerable people

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Author: Ben Quinn

Police to collect ethnicity data for all cases of child sexual abuse

Requirement made as review finds ‘over-representation’ of Asian men among grooming gang suspects

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Author: Pippa Crerar

Scottish pensioners to get ‘at least the same’ winter fuel payment as England

First Minister’s pledge on the means-tested benefit is a ‘humiliating U-turn’ for the SNP, say Scottish Tories

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Author: Simon Johnson

Man, 92, was charged after police found DNA match almost 60 years on, jury told

Ryland Headley, who raped two women a decade after the death of Louisa Dunne, denies the charges against him.

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Author: Claire Hayhurst

Carer’s allowance: woman who won case against DWP calls for end to ‘sickening harassment’

Nicola Green, 42, speaks out after significant legal victory against department that accused her of fraud UK politics live – latest updates

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Author: Josh Halliday

Tory MP ‘cupped’ two women’s breasts at Groucho Club

Patrick Spencer, now sitting as independent, denied two counts of sexual assault

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Author: Tom McArdle

Nursery worker ‘punched and kicked’ children while high on marijuana

Roksana Lecka ‘can’t remember’ the attacks on 21 children because cannabis was ‘affecting her memory’, the court heard

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Author: Telegraph Reporters

Two skydivers killed in Devon airfield tragedy named

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Author: Claire Hayhurst

Skydiving instructor killed alongside mum named after ‘chute failed to open’ in tragedy

The instructor who died after a tandem skydiving jump went wrong has been named by police asAdam Harrison – who was 30 and worked at Skydive Buzz – the company say they are ‘heartbroken’

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Author: Alex Driscoll

Treasury minister Reynolds struggles over Lower Thames Crossing answers

Emma Reynolds faced questions about the cost and location of the flagship infrastructure scheme.

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Author: David Hughes

Reeves ploughs another £590m into over-budget Lower Thames Crossing

Tunnel was first proposed in 2009 but is at least six years behind schedule and costs have rocketed

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Author: Tony Diver

Treasury minister forgets where new Thames crossing being built

Emma Reynolds, who also couldn’t give cost of Kent-to-Essex tunnel, said she ‘had an early morning’

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Author: Genevieve Holl-Allen

Minister talks of ‘Dartmouth Tunnel’ as £590m pledged for Lower Thames Crossing

The Lower Thames Crossing aims to cut congestion at the Dartford Tunnel

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Author: Nicholas Cecil

Treasury minister unable to answer basic questions on £10bn infrastructure project in car crash LBC interview

A Treasury minister was skewered on LBC this morning over a key part of the government’s 10-year infrastructure plan.

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Author: @ashermcs

Britain appoints first female head of MI6 spy agency

Britain on Sunday named Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer, as the first female head of the Secret Intelligence Service, the foreign spy service known as MI6.

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Author: Suzanne Plunkett

European leaders clamor to be the G7’s Trump whisperer

The British prime minister’s love-bombing of President Donald Trump is very deliberate. But will it work?

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Author: Stefan Boscia

‘Feral’ roof-hopping girl gang on Prosecco rampages leave locals terrified

Locals in Exeter have claimed that they are being terrorised by a gang of teenage girls who have been climbing on roofs, screaming abuse and breaking windows as they run riot

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Author: Tom McGhie