Ex-Tory MP Charlie Elphicke has been given until September next year to pay the £35,000 owed following his sentence for sexually assaulting two women. The 50-year-old former Dover MP (pictured)
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Food banks are experiencing a “sudden and worrying” increase in demand from people hit by the removal of the Universal Credit (UC) uplift and soaring food and energy prices before
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Omicron largely evades immunity from past coronavirus infection or two vaccine doses, and boosters are key to mitigating the impact of the variant, new research suggests. The risk of reinfection
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Almost two thirds of care home staff have not received a booster vaccine – rising to three-quarters in London where Omicron is thought to be the dominant coronavirus strain, figures
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A woman has been arrested after two sets of twin boys, aged three and four, died in a devastating house fire in south London. The 27-year-old has been held on
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A disabled 16-month-old toddler who had just learned to stand up drowned in a water trough when he was left unsupervised in the garden of his foster family’s home, an
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Migrants are still being held in “very poor” conditions after arriving on the Kent coast despite Home Office assurances of “significant improvements”, according to inspectors. Women who said they had
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Boris Johnson faced anger from Tory MPs and business chiefs about his chief medical adviser’s warning to reduce socialising as more than 88,000 Covid-19 cases were recorded – the highest
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A man who beat his mother to death with a cricket bat has been locked up in hospital indefinitely. Shanil Patel, 32, attacked 62-year-old retired hospital worker Hansa Patel (pictured)
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A coroner has expressed concern over the availability of information about suicide on the internet after a 15-year-old boy took his own life on his last day at school. Archie
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