National News
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Labour say there's been a 'massive increase' in NHS appointments - this begs to differ
"The target was never particularly ambitious," says the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) about Labour's plan to add two million extra NHS appointments during their first year in power.
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Starmer's winter fuel cut U-turn claim 'not credible'
Sir Keir Starmer's claim he is U-turning on cutting winter fuel payments for pensioners because he now has the money is not "credible", Harriet Harman has said.
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British taxpayers' £10.2bn loss on bailout of RBS
British taxpayers are set to swallow a loss of just over £10bn on the 2008 rescue of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as the government prepares to confirm that it has offloaded its last-remaining shares in the lender as soon as next week.
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Energy price cap drop is welcome - but eyes will be on Trump, Ukraine and the weather ahead of winter
The latest energy price cap announcement brings a welcome if modest reduction in prices for 22 million consumers, and valuable context to the politically corrosive debate over the Winter Fuel Allowance.
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Moment wife of OceanGate CEO hears Titan sub imploding
The wife of OceanGate's chief executive asked "what was that bang?" as she unknowingly heard the moment the Titan submersible imploded.
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Hunt for thief who smashed ambulance window in London and stole backpacks
Police are on the hunt for a man who smashed the window of a locked ambulance and stole backpacks belonging to paramedics while they were treating a patient.
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Two teenage boys die in motorbike crash in Salford
Two teenagers have died in a motorbike crash in Greater Manchester.
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Armed police swarm Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after 'man enters with crossbow'
Armed police were called to Glasgow's super hospital after a man was reported to have entered the building with a crossbow.