Image copyright Citizens Advice Image caption Christine says victims of scams need to speak up about their experiences When two men knocked on Christine’s door saying her gutters needed cleaning and roof tiles needed replacing she agreed, and handed them £520. That was a mistake. “When they were finished one said he’d give me a […]
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French Open champion Ash Barty’s first Grand Slam title allowed her to rise to a career-best No. 2 on Monday, almost three years to the day after she re-entered the WTA rankings following a hiatus from tennis while she played professional cricket. Barty moved up six places and now trails only reigning U.S. Open and
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The Conservatives would be “annihilated” if there was a general election before Brexit is delivered, Jeremy Hunt has warned. Making his bid to be the next party leader, the foreign secretary said Conservatives need to “get real”, and added there was a “deal to be done” over Brexit which would get through Parliament. Tory MPs
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Image copyright SWNS Image caption Lucy Letby was first arrested in July last year A nurse has been rearrested by police investigating the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit. Lucy Letby was first arrested in July last year on suspicion of the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder
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Adrian Mole the musical opens in the West End on Saturday. Author Sue Townsend’s novel of the puzzled and perplexed pupil aged 13¾ has sold more than 20 million copies since it was first published in 1982. After seven years development in regional theatre it opens for a three-month run at the Ambassadors Theatre in
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Image copyright Greenpeace/PA Wire Image caption The rig was being towed out to sea in the Cromarty Firth when it was boarded Two environmental campaigners have boarded an oil rig as it was being towed out to sea in the Cromarty Firth. Greenpeace activists said they scaled the Transocean rig Paul B Loyd Junior, contracted
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A look at some of the anniversaries this year at the U.S. Open: 100 YEARS AGO (1919) The U.S. Open resumed after a three-year break because of World War I, and Walter Hagen prevailed after a night on the town in Boston with Al Jolson and plenty of champagne. The 1919 U.S. Open at Brae
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It is, Justice Ginsburg said, “a case of huge importance.” “Census Bureau analyses predicted that adding the question would depress the census response rate for noncitizen and Hispanic households, resulting in poorer census data,” she said, adding that evidence in the case undercut Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s explanations for why he had decided to add
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Image copyright PA Image caption US lawyers representing Grenfell survivors and victims’ relatives are expected to file a lawsuit More than 100 Grenfell survivors and relatives are taking legal action in the US against three firms they blame for the fire, the BBC has been told. The lawsuit will target the cladding maker Arconic, insulation
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Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and three of his former colleagues on Monday took their fight against being extradited to the U.S. to New Zealand’s top court. The Supreme Court began hearing arguments in the seven-year-old case after Dotcom and the others lost several previous court rulings. But even if the men lose their latest appeal,
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