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Home Office spent record £5.38bn on asylum over past year
The Home Office spent a record £5.38bn over the last year on asylum - more than a third higher than the previous year.
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UK ticket-holder comes forward to claim £177m EuroMillions jackpot
A UK ticket-holder has come forward to claim the whopping £177m jackpot from Tuesday's EuroMillions draw.
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Doctor suspected of killing eight patients and setting homes on fire to cover up evidence
A doctor in Germany is suspected of killing eight patients and in some cases trying to cover up his alleged crimes by setting their homes on fire.
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Some say migration is going up, others say it’s going down – who’s right?
If you've been following the news today, you might have noticed something slightly odd in the coverage of the latest migration figures, just published by the Office for National Statistics.
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Australia passes social media ban for under 16s
Australian senators have passed a world-first law that bans under 16s from having social media accounts.
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Woman and two teens jailed for murder of man killed with machetes after being lured to park
A woman and her two teenage accomplices have been jailed for a combined 48 years for the murder of a man who was lured to a park, ambushed and hacked…
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Former Tory minister joins Reform UK
Former Tory minister Dame Andrea Jenkyns has joined Reform UK, Nigel Farage has announced.
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Acting chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police suspended
Jim Colwell, the acting chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, has been suspended pending an investigation into allegations of breaching professional standards.
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Putin threatens to hit ‘decision-making centres’ in Kyiv with new missile
Vladimir Putin has said a "massive" attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure is in response to Western long-range missiles being used to strike inside Russia, threatening that "decision-making centres" could be…