Day: September 24, 2024

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Threat of legal action over homes with collapse-risk concrete

September 24, 2024

Homeowners are threatening legal action after being told the value of their properties could be halved because of potentially deadly concrete. More than 500 homes in Aberdeen are set to be demolished and reconstructed as part of the UK’s biggest RAAC-affected housing project. John Meiklejohn bought his house three years ago for £120,000 but has […]

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Kate planning Christmas carol service after finishing chemotherapy

September 24, 2024

The Princess of Wales has been working on her annual Christmas carol service – one of the highlights of the royal calendar, it has emerged. Kate was mentioned in the Court Circular after holding a meeting about the event with aides and members of her Royal Foundation at Windsor Castle on Tuesday. It is only […]

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St. Lucia’s first Olympic medalist returns home to cheers and calypso

September 24, 2024

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails As the first St. Lucian to win an Olympic medal, sprinter Julien Alfred already has poems, paintings and even a […]

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Starmer uses keynote speech to offer light amid gloom of fiscal black hole

September 24, 2024

Sir Keir Starmer on Tuesday vowed that his Government will “build a new Britain” with a crackdown on benefit fraudsters, a promise to house all veterans and by reducing the UK’s reliance on foreign workers. In his first party conference speech as Prime Minister, Sir Keir told Britons the “future will be better” but there […]

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Starmer promises to ‘rise above challenges’ to deliver new Britain

September 24, 2024

Sir Keir Starmer on Tuesday vowed that his Government will “build a new Britain” with a crackdown on benefit fraudsters, a promise to house all veterans and by reducing the UK’s reliance on foreign workers. In his first party conference speech as Prime Minister, Sir Keir told Britons the “future will be better” but there […]

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Creeslough families write to minister asking for public inquiry into explosion

September 24, 2024

Several families who lost loved ones in the Creeslough explosion have called on the Irish Government to set up a public inquiry into the tragedy. A lawyer representing the next of kin of seven of the 10 victims of the October 2022 blast in the Co Donegal village has written to Minister for Justice Helen […]

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Schoolboy stabbed to death in zombie knife attack in Woolwich named

September 24, 2024

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A schoolboy who was stabbed to death in Woolwich has been named as two men have been arrested on suspicion […]

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Body of journalist David Knowles who died in Gibraltar returned to family

September 24, 2024

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World needs to do more to bring about ceasefire in Middle East – Harris

September 24, 2024

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Boy, 15, stabbed to death is named for the first time as two men are arrested

September 24, 2024

Brooke DaviesPublished Sep 24, 2024, 4:32pm|Updated Sep 24, 2024, 6:13pm Two men aged 52 and 18 have been arrested on suspicion of murder over the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy in Woolwich. Daejuan Campbell was found by officers with a stab wound shortly after 6.30pm following reports of a disturbance in Eglinton Road, Woolwich, on […]

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