Lords to delay Sunak's bonfire of EU laws
deadline to scrap 4,000 pieces of legislation 'impossible'
Rishi Sunak will be forced by the House of Lords to abandon plans for a bonfire of European Union laws by the end of the year, The Times has been told. The government has committed itself to removing about 4,000 pieces of EU-derived laws from the British statute book by December. Ministers will...
'400 Russian recruits killed' in Donetsk missile strike
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Some 400 newly mobilised Russian army recruits were killed by a strike on a facility in occupied eastern Ukraine over new year, the Ukrainian armed forces have claimed. “Santa packed close to 400 corpses of pigdogs in his sack,” the strategic communications branch of Ukraine's armed forces wrote in a Telegram post last night, adding that...
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Ukrainian mother reunited with 'kidnapped' daughter in Russia
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There came a time when Lyudmila Kozyr thought she would never see her daughter again. Taken to Russia as fighting engulfed her village in the northeast of Ukraine, Veronika, 13, was just one of thousands of children who were removed from their families by the occupying Russian authorities. Like...
Treasury was alerted about funeral firm
rival raised concerns before Safe Hands collapse
The Treasury has acknowledged that officials were made aware of concerns about Safe Hands Plans five years before the pre-paid funeral company collapsed and left 46,000 customers with a combined £60 million shortfall. In response to a formal complaint from a customer about the scandal, the...
Britain's newest railway to arrive two years late as costs pile up
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Britain's newest railway, and one of its most expensive, is to arrive two years late and 33 per cent over budget. The Luton Dart, or direct air-rail transit link, between Luton Airport and the nearby Midland main line railway, aims to transform public transport access to the notoriously difficult-to-get-to Bedfordshire hub north of London.
Navratilova: I'll fight throat and breast cancer with all I have
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Martina Navratilova, the greatest player in the history of the Wimbledon tennis championships, has two forms of cancer, she has announced. The 66-year-old dual American-Czech citizen has had throat and breast cancer diagnosed after discovering an enlarged lymph node in her neck in early November. Tests found cause...