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Food bank charity hands out record number of emergency parcels
More than 820,000 emergency food parcels were given out in the last six months, with some 301,653 going to children.
Boris Johnson finally visits flood-devastated community and it hasn’t gone down well
Corbyn had said if the flooding had happened in Surrey, the Tory response “would have been a very different story” and Johnson was heckled as he finally visited Yorkshire.
Labour pledges to ‘end NHS crisis’ with £26bn real-terms rescue plan
The Labour Party is promising to spend £6 billion a year more than the Conservatives on the National Health Service.
Zimbabwe says 200 elephants have died in drought
Animals including giraffes, buffalos and impalas are also dying.
PRIME CUT – Cocaine worth £20 million found in frozen meat wagon
The illicit cargo was was seized at Harwich in Essex
Jeremy Corbyn leads tributes to former health secretary Frank Dobson
The 79-year-old Labour Party veteran passed away on Monday evening after a ‘longstanding illness’.
Government response to severe flooding woeful, Labour and Lib Dems say
Yorkshire and the East Midlands were worst affected after heavy rain hit parts of the country.
Labour accuses Javid of ‘running scared’ as TV election debate shelved amid Tory ‘fake news’ accusations
Labour said Tory accusations that their as yet unpublished manifesto would cost £1.2 trillion is ‘fake news.'
‘Venting machine’ opens up in London’s Canary Wharf
The pop up was commissioned after new research found the average Brit sees red three times a week.