UK news
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PM accused of ‘manifesto meltdown’ but insists ‘nothing has changed’ after introducing plan to cap people’s social care costsPM accused of ‘manifesto meltdown’ but insists ‘nothing has changed’ after introducing plan to cap people’s social care costs
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Michel Barnier plays down suggestions talks with UK may collapse, as EU agrees position ahead of June negotiations
Michel Barnier plays down suggestions talks with UK may collapse, as EU agrees position ahead of June negotiations
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Marcus Hutchins says he will have to move house after newspaper identified him and published his full addressMarcus Hutchins says he will have to move house after newspaper identified him and published his full address
culture
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The art of gardening is celebrated this week at the Chelsea flower show, one of the world’s largest horticultural festivals
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Turner prize-winning artist says he hopes posters are self-explanatory – especially after Theresa May’s social care U-turn
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70,000 people sign up to support Sara Rowbotham, played by Maxine Peake in Three Girls, a BBC dramatisation of abuse scandal
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Author of Alex Rider novels was disturbed to be advised against creating a black character because he was white
spotlight
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Guidelines for moderators set out in detail what can and cannot be shown on Facebook
analysis
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The Tory manifesto explicitly rejects a cap on costs, so the PM is wrong to claim that ‘nothing has changed’
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In-work poverty disproportionately concentrated in households in private rented housing as rising living costs bite
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on this site
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CrimeCrimeStealthing isn’t a ‘sex trend’. It’s sexual assault – and it happened to meDeliberately removing a condom during sex without a partner’s consent is said to be increasingly common – yet unlike elsewhere, it’s not seen as a crime in the UK
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A protester was arrested in Wrexham as the prime minister arrived to launch the Welsh Conservative manifesto. The man, who said his name was Connor, shouted: ‘This is a fascist state, Theresa May’s police state.’ Police then said he was under arrest for disturbing the peace
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Foreign secretary Boris Johnson suggests Theresa May promised to give the NHS an extra £350m a week in the Conservative party manifesto, when neither she nor the document made any such promise
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Work and pensions secretary says pensioners will have to wait for result of consultation after election to find out whether they would lose payment
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The Labour leader takes to the stage on Saturday at the Wirral Live music festival, where the Libertines and the Coral were also to perform
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Brendan Cox talks to Owen Jones about The Great Get Together
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Jamie Oliver tells Channel 4 the Tory plan to end universal free school lunches for primary school children in their first three years is awful and shortsighted
BBC Some over-75s could lose free TV licences under new plans
BBC Some over-75s could lose free TV licences under new plans