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  • NewsSky News

    Ken Clarke should be stripped of peerage, victims of infected blood scandal say

    Victims of the infected blood scandal have called for former health secretary Ken Clarke to be stripped of his peerage. Lord Clarke was heavily criticised in a report by Sir Brian Langstaff, chair of a seven-year inquiry into the scandal that killed more than 3,000 and infected more than 30,000 Britons with HIV and Hepatitis C with infected blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s. The politician was a health minister in Margaret Thatcher's government from 1982 to 1985, then health sec

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  • NewsHuffPost UK

    Tories Shamed Over UK's Polluted Water Supply: 'They Turned A Blind Eye'

    "The government will of course be flailing around, desperate for someone else to blame, but this crisis is theirs," Labour's Emma Hardy said.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    UK politics - live: Gove warns UK over antisemitism as MPs could face prosecution for infected blood scandal

    Rishi Sunak says illegal migration is one of the defining issues of our time and vows to convince more EU countries to implement Rwanda policy

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  • NewsEvening Standard

    Staff at 'inadequate' London school to strike over plans to turn it into academy

    A North London primary school is set to close for a further five days over the next two weeks after staff agreed to take strike action against government plans to turn it into an academy. A recent Ofsted report highlighted a ‘marked deterioration’ at Byron Court in Wembley after its rating plummeted from ‘outstanding’ in 2012 to ‘inadequate’ following inspections on November 28 and 29 last year. This triggered an automatic response from the Department for Education (DfE), with the school force

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  • NewsKameraOne

    Bear joins restaurant customers for a meal

    This is the moment a black bear climbed over a restaurant's railing in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on May 16 and joined the customers for a meal.

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  • NewsHuffPost UK

    Ken Clarke Facing Calls To Be Stripped Of His Peerage Over Infected Blood Response

    The former Tory cabinet minister was criticised in the report into the scandal.

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  • NewsThe Northern Echo

    Teenager announced dead after being found seriously injured by police

    A teenager has been announced dead after being found seriously injured in South Tyneside

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