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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has described herself as a "classic old school Conservative", setting out her guiding political principles and echoing Margaret Thatcher.
Angela Rayner has criticised government proposals to change waiting times for permanent residency, saying the plans are unfair because they "change the goalposts". The comments come ahead of the Labour conference.
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Cardiff is preparing for a global influx of fans ahead of the 11 December Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua fight, expected to give a big economic boost, though the bout is reported to be 'in jeopardy'.
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The Home Office issued a record £66m in emergency security funding for mosques and related community sites in the UK after violent disorder followed the 2024 Southport attacks. Further figures show about £41m issued for 2025-26 under the protective security scheme.
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Camden council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali is Labour's candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection for Keir Starmer's former seat, focusing her campaign on local issues amid a Green party challenge.
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A total of 781 migrants arrived in the UK by small boat on Wednesday, a daily record for 2026, though the yearly total remains below the same point in 2025.
Read full story ↗The Oxford English Dictionary has added more than a dozen words long used in Bermuda and across the Caribbean, including 'vex money' and 'bimpert', a Bermudian term for a stupid or foolish person.
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Airtel Money, the mobile money arm of Airtel Africa controlled by Indian billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal, plans a $9bn IPO on the London Stock Exchange, one of the biggest UK listings in years. The business operates across Africa and the listing is seen as a boost for the struggling London market.
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Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood, 68, has been charged with two further offences: indecently assaulting a girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham in 1991 and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in 2004. He will appear at Westminster magistrates court on a date to be fixed.
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Veteran BBC Africa correspondent Mark Doyle has died. He was best known for reporting on African conflicts in the 1990s and 2000s, notably in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
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Dr Vincent Brown has appeared in court charged over the 1994 Rwandan genocide, following a seven-year British investigation, in a UK first.
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The remains of slave trader Edward Colston are likely to stay interred at All Saints church in Bristol, which may be repurposed as a community space. The dean of Bristol, the Very Rev Mandy Ford, said the remains would probably stay where they are.
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Josh Babarinde, the 33-year-old president of the Liberal Democrats, sets out a combative agenda targeting big tech and crypto billionaires and returning power and money to the public as the party gathers in Brighton.
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused Andy Burnham of "fiddling while Europe is at risk of burning", repeating her call for the prime minister to cut the welfare budget to fund increased defence spending.
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Reform UK MP Danny Kruger said asylum seekers arriving on small boats are 'wealthy men' who do not deserve help from the British state, arguing that paying people smugglers thousands of pounds shows they are well off. Refugee charities immediately dismissed the claim.
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Nusrat Osman, a British woman kidnapped outside her home in Blantyre, Malawi on 11 September, was rescued by police in a shootout in which four of her alleged abductors were killed. Police had offered a 30m kwacha (£12,950) reward for information.
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British rapper Sway, known for hits including Still Speedin' and Level Up, has died aged 44. He was living in Ghana at the time of his death.
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More than 180 writers, including Nobel laureates Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee, have signed a PEN International letter to Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki demanding proof of life for 12 writers detained incommunicado since a 2001 crackdown on the independent press. Signatories include Ben Okri, Elif Shafak, Colm Toibin and Tsitsi Dangarembga.
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Home secretary Shabana Mahmood described anti-asylum activist Daniel Thomas as "a far-right and outright racist" who would face "the full force of the law" if his organisation commits crimes near contested asylum sites such as Piddington. She also sought to reassure villagers that asylum seekers moving into a former defence site would have self-contained facilities.
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