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Extreme weather - travel disruption and floods
Today cars were submerged, two polling stations in Kingston and one in Barking were closed, and several people were rescued by boat, as flooding affected London and the southeast. Fire brigades attended more than 400 incidents…
Sir Cliff: 'illegal collusion'
Sir Cliff Richard believes the broadcasting of a police raid at his Berkshire home in 2014 was the result of ‘illegal collusion.’ The operation - broadcast live by BBC News - came after allegations that the…
Belfast school not to use gender words
The Girls' Schools Association (GSA) has issued advice to a Belfast school to ‘not use the terms girls, young women or young ladies’ when addressing pupils in certain circumstances. They say that ‘pupils’ or ‘students’ would…
'Islam has no place in my country'
Slovakia takes over the six-month EU presidency on 1July. Robert Fico, Slovakia's prime minister, says that ‘migrants change the character of our country’ and ‘multiculturalism is a fiction’. Fico has argued that Slovakia has no obligation…
