Student nurse allegedly took bomb to work and plotted attack on RAF base
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I am Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. Police, prisons, law, crime and terrorism. Before that Moscow Correspondent so still tweet about Russia/Ukraine.
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Der Spiegel says Scholz WILL allow tanks to go to Ukraine
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Nach monatelanger Debatte hat sich Kanzler Scholz durchgerungen, Kampfpanzer an die Ukraine zu liefern. Auch die Verbündeten wollen offenbar mitziehen. Aus den USA könnten Abrams-Panzer kommen. spiegel.de/politik/deutsc
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Police think missing couple and baby may be sleeping in tent
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Missing two week-old baby: mother "Toots" Marten is from wealthy Dorset family, father is convicted rapist who served 20 years in prison in Florida.
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Lord Sumption in Hong Kong
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Lord Sumption, former UKSC judge and one of the non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal, is attending the opening of legal year in Hong Kong.
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Reading attack inquests will take place in London
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From this week, some passengers arriving at Heathrow from mainland China will be asked to take a COVID-19 test to help us get a fuller picture of COVID-19 worldwide.
Read more in our blog about this testing & why we’re doing it: ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2023/01/10/cov
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3/4 million views and rising....
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Anyway, we do have some spare copies of Spare if you want one
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A source close to Grant Shapps said: "Grant wasn’t aware anyone had edited the picture. He removed it as soon as it was pointed out. Obviously he wouldn’t endorse anyone rewriting history by removing the former PM from a picture."
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Grant Shapps appears to have now deleted a tweet that had deleted the former PM Boris Johnson from a photograph of the two of them...
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Why has former PM Boris Johnson been removed from this photo? @beisgovuk is working on a statement I'm told. twitter.com/grantshapps/st…
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And we thought 2022 was busy...
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So far in 1066:
• Edward the Confessor has died.
• Harold Godwineson has been named king instead of Edgar Ætheling.
• Edward has been buried.
• Harold has been crowned.
It's still only 6 January.
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The best data we’ve ever had on sexuality in England and Wales.
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43.4 million people (89.4%) identified as straight or heterosexual in #Census2021.
1.5 million people (3.2%) identified with an LGB+
orientation (“Gay or lesbian”, “Bisexual” or “Other sexual orientation”).
3.6 million people (7.5%) didn’t answer the question.
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Excluded at 12 and a school governor at 26 - spoke to me - her story below 👏 👏 👏
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We are go! The first orbital launch from UK soil is targeted for Monday night. #LauncherOne Rocket drop may occur just after midnight, just southwest of the Irish counties of Kerry and Cork. #CosmicGirl bbc.co.uk/news/science-e #StartMeUp
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This is President Putin's order that there should be a 36 hour ceasefire from 1200 tomorrow, to allow Orthodox Christians to celebrate Christmas (Russian, but translatable.) Make of it what you will.
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Amazing, assuming the source is good.
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Intriguing postcript to yesterday's Channel 4 U-turn. Whitehall source says the original privatisation plan appears to have been driven by 'Boris's anger at being replaced by an ice sculpture' in an election debate on the environment... twitter.com/ashcowburn/sta…
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More people are living in flats, fewer people own their own homes, more people are living in "communal establishments" compared to ten years ago according to the census ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati
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The BBC News app was the most downloaded news app in the UK in 2022.
The app was newly-installed 908,000 times, while the Sky News app came in second place with 607,000 installations.
Aggregators placed more highly in the US
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The moment Cristiano Ronaldo mistakenly called Saudi Arabia “South Africa”, while being unveiled for his new club Al Nassr. 😬 🤦♂️
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Nadine Dorries in full opposition mode
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Three years of a progressive Tory government being washed down the drain. Levelling up, dumped. Social care reform, dumped. Keeping young and vulnerable people safe online, watered down. A bonfire of EU leg, not happening. Sale of C4 giving back £2b reversed. Replaced with what?
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Police have arrested a 21-year-old man. Both he and the deceased were residents at the facility on Glen Road in Newham.
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A murder investigation has been launched after the death of a 34-year-old man at an adult care facility in East London.
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What is fun about ChatGPT is that it has frozen history (for now) in 2021.
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Wagner's Prigozhyn explains why he is unable to take Bakhmut - a line of defence every 10 meters, hundreds of lines of defence across the city. Russians lack armoured vehicles and equipment.
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Rhianan Rudd: MI5 had evidence teen terror suspect was exploited
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Iran’s revolutionary guard is set to be proscribed as a terrorist group
Security minister Tom Tugendhat and Home Sec both backing the move
Follows 10 plots to kidnap/murder people in UK last year (per MI5)
Major hardening in stance to Tehran
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An employee of the BND (German intelligence) has been arrested on suspicion of treason. The allegation is that Carsten L. was giving information to Russian intelligence generalbundesanwalt.de/SharedDocs/Pre
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The Brixton 02 academy has had its license suspended. It emerged there was a similar crush at a Naira Marley concert in February 2020
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Lord (Tom) Watson using his maiden speech in the Lords to apologise unreservedly to Lady Brittan parliamentlive.tv/event/index/d8
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Olly Stephens: Concerns about killer's violent nature raised before killing
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Government claiming it can "ensure no veteran should be homeless this Christmas". I don't see how they achieve that.
A bit further down it is caveated and changed to "This temporary referral scheme should ensure that no veteran WHO SEEKS SUPPORT is homeless at Christmas."
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Working with the brilliant @JohnGlenUK to secure £8.5m of new money, we have designed a scheme that ensures *no Veteran should be homeless this Christmas*.
Op FORTITUDE will *end veterans homelessness for good* next year. Proud of @VeteransGovUK
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'They said to my husband, "Take this woman home and punch her in the mouth. If she continues talking, break her teeth."'
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A woman seeking a divorce from her husband in Balkh province says the Taliban forces at the public court encouraged her husband to be violent with her.
rukhshana.com/en/no-justice-
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Horrendous news for Afghan women and girls. The Taliban have announced the closure of universities for women in Afghanistan, according to a letter by the higher education minister. It is expected to take effect immediately
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