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Anti-abortion billboard targeted at Labour MP Stella Creasy removed
Advertising agency Clear Channel, which owned the billboards, apologised and said it was taking immediate action to remove them.
Watch PM refuse to apologise for ‘spaffing’ slur on child abuse inquiry and pretend he has contacted Jo Cox’s family
A lawyer representing Rotherham child abuse victims said the PM had “juvenile thinking."
Facebook removes Conservative adverts with fake headlines
The ads with doctored headlines were viewed between 220,000 and 510,000 times according to Full Fact, an independent charity who work alongside other organisations on Facebook's Third Party Fact Checking programme which discovered the Tory slight of hand.
Despite Boris Johnson’s vows, state schools set to be worse off in 2020 than they were in 2015
Four in five state schools will be worse off financially next year than they were five years ago, analysis by the School Cuts coalition has calculated.
Soldiers embrace as Iraq and Syria re-open key border crossing
Qaim and Boukamal were controlled by the so-called Islamic State group until 2017, when Syrian and Iraqi troops captured the towns from the extremist.
Hospitals told to use Experian to check whether patients eligible for NHS care
An email was sent to 51 NHS trusts which are being supported to recover money from patients who may not be eligible for free treatment.
Dominic Cummings’ wife denies Boris Johnson groped her too
Downing Street has been forced to deny claims that Boris Johnson squeezed the thighs of two women under the table during a private lunch.
World’s largest gathering of Nigels meet to stop the name Nigel dying out
After no Nigels were born in 2006, landlord Nigel Smith, 56, decided to reverse the trend with a world record breaking event.
Johnson: “I don’t want to see Sturgeon anywhere near” Glasgow climate summit
"I don’t mind seeing a saltire or two on that summit, but I want to see the union flag", he said.