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  • NewsSky News

    Pension funds brace for £30bn hit from Gove leasehold reforms

    Pension funds are braced for a hit worth tens of billions of pounds as Michael Gove, the levelling up secretary, tries to salvage his ambition of overhauling Britain’s centuries-old property leasehold system. Sky News has learnt that the insurance and pensions industries believe that Mr Gove's now-favoured option of imposing a £250 cap on ground rent and transitioning to 'peppercorn' levels over a 20-year period will cost in the region of £30bn. The figure is understood to mirror the Treasury'

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  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    I’m sober, he’s a drinker, and it’s damaging our relationship

    To Chris*, it’s a deserved bottle of beer after a long day at work – but when his wife, Leanne*, catches sight of it, her shoulders draw together in annoyance. She’s spent the past two hours helping their children with their homework and getting them through bath time; when Chris, picking up on her irritation, offers to pour her a glass of wine, she shakes her head and returns to reading their three-year-old a story.

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Watch: Police threaten to arrest ‘openly Jewish’ man for walking near pro-Palestine protest

    Metropolitan Police officers threatened to arrest an “openly Jewish” man for walking in central London during a pro-Palestine protest.

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  • NewsThe National

    Humza Yousaf encourages voters to attend Scottish independence rally

    HUMZA Yousaf has encouraged voters to attend a Scottish independence rally over the weekend and said his priority is to continue making the case for independence.

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Overnight visitors to the Kent coast could face tourist tax

    A Labour council in a holiday hotspot is considering imposing a tax on tourists who stay overnight.

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  • PoliticsThe Independent

    Trump trial live updates: Full jury now seated in hush money case as he awaits hearing on potential testimony

    Twelve jurors and six alternates have been chosen to hear the historic criminal trial against Donald Trump

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  • NewsFrance 24

    Caught between Israel and Iran, Jordan clings desperately to stability

    After Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone attack on Israel on April 13, Jordan finds itself caught between the two enemies. Friday morning's suspected Israeli strikes in central Iran have intensified fear that the country could be dragged into an escalation against its will. Having been historically neutral in the two countries’ decades-old struggle, the Hashemite kingdom is now seeing its delicate balancing act threatened. It’s a balancing act years in the making. Jordan, long obsessed with

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