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December 08, 2022

Cumbria coal mine approval buries UK's net zero target

Decision condemned by government's own climate adviser

4 mins

Airport staff to strike for eight days over Christmas

Britons face further travel chaos over the festive period after staff at UK's largest airports voted for eight days of strikes over Christmas and the new year.

4 mins

Army should refuse 'strike break' plan, says union boss

A union leader has urged troops not to \"strike break\" as industrial action hits airports, hospitals, ambulances and ferries over the Christmas period.

3 mins

Labour MP McGinn is suspended after complaint

Labour MP Conor McGinn has had the whip suspended after a claim made about him to the party's independent complaints process.

2 mins

'Shocked' Sunak turns on Mone over PPE allegations

Rishi Sunak has turned on the scandal-hit Tory peer Michelle Mone, telling MPs he is \"absolutely shocked\" by the allegations about Covid contracts.

2 mins

PM wins the argument but the tide has turned on him

Keir Starmer failed to get past Rishi Sunak's defences in the Commons yesterday. The Labour leader called the prime minister a blancmange for giving in to his backbenchers by dropping compulsory national targets for house-building.

3 mins

Hancock told he's 'not fit' to represent constituents

Former health secretary will not stand as MP at next election

2 mins

Bus selling affordable food to NHS staff and patients.

A double-decker bus where people can buy affordable food will stop at a London hospital for the first time after demand from staff and patients.

2 mins

Germany arrests 25 accused of plot to overthrow state

The far-right extremists 'planned to storm the Reichstag'

3 mins

Putin says war in Ukraine could be a 'long process'

Vladimir Putin says the war in Ukraine could go on for a long time but he saw \"no sense\" in mobilising additional soldiers at this point. \"As for the duration of the special military operation, well, of course, this can be a long process,\" the Russian president said.

1 min

Peru's president ousted after alleged coup attempt

Peruvian president Pedro Castillo has been removed from office after trying to dissolve Congress to avoid impeachment over corruption allegations.

2 mins

Does Georgia represent a sea change in Deep South?

Despite the attempts at voter suppression, despite all the money expended by the Republicans, despite (or possibly because of) Donald Trump's approval of his candidature, Herschel Walker failed to take incumbent Raphael Warnock's Georgia senate seat.

2 mins

Xi in Saudi Arabia ahead of China-Gulf states summit

Xi Jinping has landed in Saudi Arabia for a three-day visit that includes bilateral meetings with the country's rulers and his Middle East counterparts.

2 mins

New Zealand court removes sick baby from parents who refuse 'vaccinated' blood

A New Zealand court yesterday ruled against the parents of a sick infant who refused to use \"vaccinated\" blood for the baby's surgery and instead gave the child's custody to the country's health agency.

2 mins

Always follow the money

The Covid-era business affairs of Baroness (Michelle) Mone, her husband Douglas Barrowman and the benefits allegedly derived from those activities by their family financial trust are extremely complicated. They're also controversial - not to say, indeed, potentially scandalous.

5 mins

Rebels smell weakness from a leader in search of identity

Another day, another climbdown by Rishi Sunak in the face of another revolt by his mutinous backbenchers.

3 mins

The Tories' failure to build homes is ballot-box poison

Everyone agrees that something needs to be done about housing in this country. However, when answers are presented, the same people roundly reject the proposed solutions. This week, the planning bill - a contentious bit of policy - had its resolve weakened by a backbench rebellion.

2 mins

Postcards from the edge

'Rosie Molloy Gives Up Everything' finds comedy and drama in the exploits of a Mancunian addict, writes Sean O'Grady

2 mins

House prices see biggest monthly fall since 2008

House prices in the UK plummeted by 2.3 per cent in November the biggest monthly fall since 2008, according to Halifax.

3 mins

Moonpig is one of many to feel a winter of discontent

Why buy a card if you can't bank on it getting to the recipient? This is the problem (beyond its control) facing Moonpig, the online greeting card and gift company, which has just slashed its full-year revenue forecast from £350m to £320m.

3 mins

'I always knew I'd find my form and regain my focus'

Maguire repays Southgate's faith with exemplary displays

4 mins

The chasing pack cut off by a World Cup glass ceiling

From Mexico to Japan to the USA, Richard Jolly looks at why some nations repeatedly fail to make the quarter-finals

3 mins

Morocco take over a World Cup they could have hosted

Morocco at last have their World Cup. The country that has spent so long trying to host the competition have probably gone one better and made themselves the story of this one.

4 mins

Qatar is reminding us why nine is the magic number

The way Gregg Berhalter put it: \"We lacked that offensive finishing quality.\" As the United States tumbled out of the World Cup, it may have been a more diplomatic, distinctly American way of saying his side needed a striker.

4 mins

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