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THE GOVERNMENT has announced that low skilled workers will not be eligible to apply for visas to work in the UK once the Brexit process is complete next year. The will come as a great disappointment to many owners and ...

KEN CLARKE, veteran Tory Minister, has been complaining about Dominic Cummings having a public profile. Would Cummings’s machinations be any more bearable – or the elected Government be more accountable – if this unelected official were less visible? “You can’t ...

HOSPITAL PATIENTS in Waltham Forest have long felt the poor relation in the Barts NHS Trust family – with a hospital that is well overdue for refurbishment. Now a Whipps Cross Hospital is to be delivered. Boris Johnson promised, before ...

BORIS JOHNSON has been trying to control the political advisers working at No. 11 Downing Street – but perhaps he should have been looking a little more closely over who was working back at No. 10. The rest of us ...

LIVERPOOL FC enjoy their time at the top of the Premiership. “I could tell in all the players’ faces that they weren’t nervous, they were enjoying it, and if one team was going to score it was going to be ...

IF A 40 YEAR OLD WOMAN has a string of intense but short-lived relationships and then appears to attack her boyfriend, don’t just charge her, bail her and send her home. Look after her. “We can confirm that our Caroline ...

THE CHRISTIAN Church has assigned most, if not all, dates in the calendar to the celebration of one saint or another. Most of them don’t impinge on our national consciousness – but St Valentine’s Day, on 14th February, has become ...

HOW MUCH OF New South Wales (NSW) has been lost in the Australian bushfires – measured in Waleses? •The area of Wales, one of the four countries in the United Kingdom, is estimated to be 2.0735 million hectares. •The NSW ...

REMEMBER: “survival of the fittest” means “survival of those most suited to the surrounding conditions” – not “survival of the best”. “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too), those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively ...

IT WAS A close ruling on the US Supreme Court which allowed US states to permit same sex marriages in their jurisdiction. “That intimate thing in our lives exists by the grace of a single vote on the US Supreme ...