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Asked about nationalisation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told BBC Breakfast: “The choice we’ve made in our plan is that every single penny that is needed for this plan will go directly to reducing the bills of families up and down the country. “If you go down the nationalisation route, then money has to spent on compensating shareholders and I think in an emergency like this, a national emergency where people are struggling to pay their bills, I think that the right choice is for every single penny to go to reducing those bills."
Their pledges came ahead the candidates heading to Perth to face Tory members at an official hustings on Tuesday.
More than 500 Galpin’s Road residents have been living in hotels paid for by Merton Council for a week.
South Korea must overcome historical disputes with Japan and achieve peace with North Korea as key steps towards bolstering the stability and security of the North Asian region, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Monday. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the 1945 end of Japan's colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, Yoon said Tokyo had become a partner in tackling threats to global freedom, and urged both nations to overcome disputes dating to those days. "When Korea-Japan relations move towards a common future and when the mission of our times align, based on our shared universal values, it will also help us solve the historical problems," he said in remarks prepared for delivery.
Bristol Balloon Fiesta: Dozens of hot air balloons fill sky as they take flight.Source: James Acres, Twitter
Authorities say migrants were stopped fewer times at the U.S. border with Mexico in July than in June, a second straight monthly decline
From TV commentators calling Camilla and Diana ‘friends’ to Robert Kilroy-Silk’s take on the royal, this programme’s archive footage shows society’s sordid relationship with her
Her sister remembered her as "a consummate, illustrious actress, mentor and director".
The Met Office has warned of torrential downpours and possible flooding over the next few days
Millions across country facing hosepipe bans after weeks of unusually dry weather
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The 17‑year‑old British gymnast Jessica Gadirova overcame moments of self-doubt to retain her European floor title
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A large police presence was seen in Pembroke yesterday (Sunday, August 14), as officers received an allegation of a sexual offence.
Electric scooter riders are nearly always drunk when they are injured in crashes at night, research has found, as experts pleaded for riders to wear helmets and abstain from alcohol.
A bolt of lightning was seen flashing in Le Grau-du-Roi, in France’s Gard department, as heavy storms struck the region on August 14.Quentin Rey recorded the moment when a bolt of lightning and the rumble of thunder made some passersby duck for cover. He also recorded a timelapse of a storm rolling towards the village of Beaulieu, to the north of Montpellier.Meteo-France issued an orange warning for the Gard region due to the risk of thunderstorms. France 3 reported that Montpellier suffered from flash flooding, heavy rain and lightning strikes. Credit: Quentin Rey via Storyful
IT was one-way traffic only as visitors flocked to see the ancient Fishergate Postern Tower today - one of only 21 days of the year when it is open to the public.
Scientists have successfully altered the blood type of three donor kidneys - a breakthrough that could increase the supply of kidneys available for transplant, particularly for ethnic minority groups who are less likely to find a match. A kidney from someone with an A blood type cannot be transplanted to someone with a B blood type, nor the other way around. University of Cambridge researchers used a normothermic perfusion machine - a device which connects with a human kidney to pass oxygenated blood through the organ to better preserve it for future use - to flush blood infused with an enzyme through the deceased donor kidney.
Analysis by data experts finds the figure has increased from about 16,000 at this stage of admissions process in 2019
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