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May 12, 2023

'Stubborn' inflation forces Bank to hike rates... again

Millions of Britons are facing painful increases in their mortgage costs after the Bank of England raised interest rates for the 12th time in a row to tackle \"stubbornly high\" inflation.

3 mins

Revealed: record 403,000 children waiting for surgery

Hospitals are failing to tackle spiralling children's surgery waiting lists as the backlog hits more than 400,000 for the first time.

3 mins

Sunak's Worsening NHS Pain Could Become Chronic

Figures from NHS England present a mixed picture of progress in dealing with the post-pandemic backlog. Rishi Sunak has made the reduction in waiting lists one of his five key pledges for progress in 2023, but what success actually means isn't entirely clear.

4 mins

Tories pledge 2p tax cut if more people return to work

Plans to slash the number of people who are economically inactive after Covid could allow Rishi Sunak the room to offer a pre-election tax cut, a cabinet minister has suggested.

2 mins

Morgan 'lies at the heart' of claims against the Mirror

Former Mirror editor Piers Morgan \"lies at the heart\" of allegations of unlawful information-gathering at the newspaper company, the High Court trial brought by Prince Harry and other celebrities has heard.

3 mins

Speaker rebukes Badenoch over plans to scrap EU laws

Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has scolded business secretary Kemi Badenoch over her handling of changes to postBrexit plans to scrap EU laws.

3 mins

Meghan's 'Woke Hang-Ups' Will Destroy Her Marriage To Harry, Says Labour Grandee

Meghan Markle is a "cuckoo" in the royal nest and her "woke Californian hang-ups" are likely to destroy her marriage to Prince Harry, according to a senior Labour politician.

1 min

BBC boss told editor not to query Brexit bus £350m

Senior BBC figure Sir Robbie Gibb told a news editor not to investigate the Vote Leave campaign's infamous claim that Brexit would mean £350m a week going to the NHS, according to a new book.

2 mins

Zelensky is barred from making Eurovision address

Volodymyr Zelensky has been barred from addressing the Eurovision Song Contest final because an alliance of international broadcasters fears it could politicise the event.

1 min

DCI Banks star cleared of GBH against drunk man

Actor Stephen Tompkinson has been cleared of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a man he confronted for drunkenly making noise outside his house.

1 min

Passengers face summer of strife as rail strikes resume

Forty-eight hours of rail chaos is about to get under way.

5 mins

Ukraine's 'D-Day' Plans To End The Russian Occupation

Bel Trew talks to the key players as Kyiv prepares to strike back against Putin - and break the war's brutal deadlock

6 mins

UK supplies Ukraine with long-range stealth missiles

Britain has supplied Ukraine with Storm Shadow stealth cruise missiles, giving Volodymyr Zelensky's government the capability to carry out long-range strikes against Russian forces.

2 mins

War And Climate Make More Than 70 Million Homeless

The number of people fleeing war and climate disasters hit a record high of 71.1 million in 2022, according to a report published yesterday by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

1 min

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