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This is an inaccurate headline that will only fuel community concerns.

The decision to cover the memorial was taken by park authorities, not the police.

As the paper’s own article makes clear, it is a precaution Royal Parks have taken for a number of different events.

*sighs wearily*

A reminder, if election were announced Monday, you’ve still got a week or more of washup of Parliamentary business

We looked at post 2 May announcement with Parliament dissolved two weeks later.

Election is 25 working days from dissolution, not announcement

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There’s a book to be written on how Sunak got to a place where his Rwanda policy with its unworkable, cruel, expensive, law breaking nationally embarrassing contradictions- Rwanda is safe but it’s a deterrent etc, etc- became his make or break policy in a country where public

Just astonishing garbage from the government. Claiming they're spending £75bn on defence, while also claiming it will only cost £20bn, by using different baselines.

Alice Through the Looking Glass maths.

Finished #OneDay .
There’s artistic licence of course, but surely it’s a stretch to think Sara Cox was playing ‘Weather With You’ by Crowded House on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show in 2002? 🧐

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Did someone pull the plug?

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From blackouts to broadcast blockbusters – BBC Two turns 60 this weekend.

To mark the occasion, here’s a #Newsnight mash-up of some of its best moments.

Made by Stuart Denman 🏳️‍🌈

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Who is ready for Owen Jones/@Guardian to be forced into a humiliating retraction over his latest piece? One that exposes how lazy he is as a 'journalist', who is so committed to his own ideological bubble that he has published an egregious error.
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Break: The leader of West Northants Council, Jonathan Nunn, has resigned. It follows our investigation this morning into allegations he assaulted and abused five different women. In a statement he said the story had become 'a huge distraction to him and the work of the council.'

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'Why won't you say?' asks Sky's Beth Rigby

Conservative James Daly MP refuses to answer multiple times when asked what he thinks Angela Rayner has done wrong, despite being the person who contacted the police about her.

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In 2024, the release of Wannabe in 1996 is as long ago to us as the moon landing was to people in 1996

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A spokesperson for Chief Whip Simon Hart said:

“Following a call with the Chief Whip, Mark Menzies has agreed to relinquish the Conservative whip, pending the outcome of an investigation.”

This is astonishing. The MP who made the complaint to police about wrongdoing by Angela Rayner 🌹 won’t or can’t say what she’s alleged to have done wrong. It’s not sub judice; as far as we know no charges are imminent. So why not just say. Bit weasely, no?