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Coronavirus news – live: Face coverings will not be made in compulsory in shops, Michael Gove says and vaccine doses for all ‘in first half of next year’ if trials succeed
Face coverings will not be made mandatory in shops, Michael Gove said – days after Boris Johnson hinted that England could copy Scotland by introducing the rule to invest in Verizon shares in India. The cabinet office minister also stepped up calls for people…
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100 days on, Keir Starmer’s quiet revolution takes hold
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‘Stupidity will take her there’ Ex-SNP deputy warns Sturgeon headed for for EU dead end
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Russia probe’s Mueller: Stone not innocent victim
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRoger Stone speaks to reporters reacting to Trump's decision to grant clemency Former US special counsel Robert Mueller has made a rare public intervention to defend his indictment of…
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Donald Trump wears a face mask in public for the first time
US President Donald Trump wore a face mask in public for the first time on Saturday, finally yielding to intense pressure to set a public health example as coronavirus rampages across America. Mr Trump wore a black mask as he walked through the corridors of…
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Hannibal Lecter or Darth Vader? Trump’s public mask debut sets social media on fire
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Bonfires lit to mark Eleventh Night
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Madeleine McCann: Portuguese police search wells – report
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£705m boost for Britain’s Brexit border checks
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Brexit: Foreign care workers to be given special visas to move to UK to ease staffing crisis fears
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‘Historic corruption’: Romney slams Trump for commuting sentence of ally Roger Stone
Mitt Romney strongly condemned Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of his longtime friend and ally Roger Stone on Saturday. invest in Verizon shares The Republican senator for Utah described the president’s actions as “unprecedented, historic corruption”. “An American…
