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Labour plans clampdown on 'sweetheart deals' to close £36bn tax gapParty to ‘pour the disinfectant of sunlight’ on multinationals’ accounts by forcing big companies to publish full tax returns -
Sun suspends former editor after racial hate complaintPolice investigating column that compared Everton footballer Ross Barkley, who was punched in a nightclub, to a gorilla
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Corbyn's leadership under spotlight again as party loses council electionParty loses Coulby Newham seat to the Conservatives in Middlesbrough, a traditional Labour stronghold
culture
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The regeneration game: Doctor Who sets scene for dual departureShow returns on Saturday with series that will see star Peter Capaldi and head writer Steven Moffat bow out
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Harry Styles's solo debut single ends Ed Sheeran's 13 weeks at top of chartsOne Direction singer’s Sign of the Times outsells Shape of You by just 3,000 copies
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Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual realityArtist says VR will change our outlook as he prepares Somerset House display based on Henry Fox Talbot’s seminal exhibition
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Warren Beatty recalls 'chaos' of Oscars nightActor tells Graham Norton about handing the wrong envelope to Faye Dunaway, who announced the wrong winner for best film
spotlight
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How spice is ravaging homeless communitiesAs Manchester police report a spike in spice-related incidents, homeless people say highly addictive drug is causing deaths
analysis
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What is an ordinary working person? PM's grammar schools report has the answerGovernment consultation document on Theresa May’s education plan seems to exclude the very poor
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Boris Johnson: how he has flip-flopped over Russia and SyriaForeign secretary, who is under fire over his diplomacy, has had several changes of heart on how to deal with Putin and Assad
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'It's worse than heroin': how spice is ravaging homeless communitiesAs Manchester police report a spike in spice-related incidents, homeless people say highly addictive drug is causing deaths
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Once it was unimaginable. Now, thanks to Brexit, the pensioner’s Mediterranean lifestyle may soon be againEnd of an idyll: how the sun went down on Britain’s retirement dream
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NHSNHSDesperate hospitals beg doctors to take on extra shifts – at £95 an hourAmid warnings chronic understaffing is putting patient safety at risk, emails and texts highlight struggle to meet need
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CrimeCrimeMurdered teen's mother appeals to parents of killer: 'help us get justice'Linda Burke-Monerville, whose 19-year-old son Joseph was shot by gang, says fellow parents could help where police have failed
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video
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Rare baby giraffe takes first steps outdoors – video reportA rare Rothschild’s giraffe, born last week, takes its first steps on Thursday at Chester Zoo
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Passenger disarms alleged knifeman on London bus – videoAmateur footage shows a passenger allegedly disarming a man with a knife on a bus in north London on Tuesday afternoon.
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'Look at me when I'm speaking': Russian UN envoy chides UK ambassador – videoAt a meeting in New York of the UN security council, Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN speaks sharply to the UK’s ambassador
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Rail trespassers in near misses with speeding trains – CCTV videoThis footage of trespassers on railways involved in near misses with speeding trains was released on Thursday by National Rail and British Transport police in an effort to warn others of the dangers
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Drum'n'bass rave on London tube train carriage – videoMC Harry Shotta turns a tube carriage on the London underground’s Bakerloo line into the scene of a drum’n’bass rave
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Theresa May is more dangerous than Donald Trump – videoKehinde Andrews argues the British prime minister is a bigger unknown than the US president
NHS Desperate hospitals beg doctors to take on extra shifts – at £95 an hour
Rota gaps 'Night cover is almost always short-staffed. It’s terrifying'