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Paramedics, call handlers, drivers and technicians from the Unison and GMB unions were taking part in staggered strikes across a 24-hour period.

A statement said it was temporarily unable to despatch export items.

Matthew Corry, 45, appeared before a judge at Bristol Crown Court accused of murdering Beatrice Corry, 84.

Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and Prospect will walk out on Thursday.

A computer outage caused thousands of flights to and from the US to be delayed and cancelled.

Andrew Bridgen had the Tory whip removed after appearing to compare the vaccination campaign with the Holocaust.

Simon Midgley, 32, and his partner Richard Dyson, 38, died in a blaze at Cameron House Hotel on the banks of Loch Lomond in 2017.

Evri has apologised to customers across the UK who are still waiting for delayed Christmas deliveries.

The Care Quality Commission said there has been a ‘concerning decline’ in results from its maternity survey over time.

The Department for Work and Pensions overpaid an estimated £8.6 billion in benefits in 2021-22.

There are now 15 independent MPs in Parliament, all of whom have been suspended from their former parties.

Medics were supposed to meet the Health Secretary on Wednesday morning but the meeting was called off.

William Curtis denies the charges against him.

Secondary schools across Scotland have been closed after teachers walked out in their ongoing pay dispute.

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald accused the British Government of ‘Tory petulance’ after she said she was excluded from political talks.

It shows a young cluster of stars NGC 346, which is more than 200,000 light-years from Earth.

Rishi Sunak will travel to France for talks with Emmanuel Macron covering a range of issues including the small boats crossing the Channel.

Some 2.1 million people in the UK are suffering from long Covid.

At the first Prime Minister’s Questions of the year, the Labour leader focused his line of attack on the NHS strikes.

Andrew Bridgen claimed a medic had told him the vaccines were ‘the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust’.