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Education secretary urges transformation as English schools reopen, but Ofsted calls for caution -
British-Iranian woman’s five-year sentence in Iran is complete, but her lawyer says she will have to go to court to face new charges -
Construction only just started at the key livestock port of Portsmouth, while the facility at Dover is just ‘a muddy field’
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The government has been criticised after recommending a 1% pay rise for NHS staff, with talk of industrial action and protests among healthcare professionals
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Oprah Winfrey interview has been the subject of furious bidding wars and syndicated to 70 countries
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Exclusive: Anya Buckley’s aunt calls for facilities so festivalgoers can test drugs for contamination -
Two-thirds of librarians will lose their jobs in restructuring at London museum under new proposals -
A love of complex smells and flavours gave our ancestors an edge and stopped hangovers
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A furloughed bar manager, a self-employed magician and a retired dancer tell us how Covid has affected their lives
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Decorating the PM’s flat is always a costly affair, but Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds are moving up to a new luxury price point -
Analysis: as schools and colleges prepare to resume face-to-face teaching, experts say local Covid outbreaks are to be expected -
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Food, drama and poetry also part of efforts to reward NHS workers and improve conditions -
The homicide toll among women over 60 in Britain is horrifying. Many cases are dismissed as accidents and not investigated. For our End Femicide campaign, we ask why society fails these victims -
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Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday praised the ‘courage, commitment and selfless dedication to duty’ of frontline healthcare and public service workers across the Commonwealth in their response to the Covid pandemic
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After she was allowed to leave house arrest, the British-Iranian dual national was summoned to court to face a second set of charges, long threatened by the Iranians, on 14 March
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Boris Johnson said the interview was ‘quite late our time’ and that he would be focusing on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out instead
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A person who tested positive for the Brazilian variant of Covid has been tracked down to Croydon and appears not to have infected anyone else, the health secretary
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The health secretary said he has ‘huge admiration' for nurses as he defended the 1% pay raise offered to them
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Government accused of dereliction of duty over pay recommendation for more than a million staff
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