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Half of A&Es and urgent care services ‘require improvement or are inadequate’
Overall, 22% of NHS acute services in the study were found to require improvement
Laura Hartley
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House sales jump by two-thirds as stamp duty deadline looms
Property professionals have previously reported seeing a rush of home buyers looking to complete deals in order to make stamp duty savings
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Alec Baldwin fired prop gun on set which killed woman
A spokesperson for Baldwin said there was an accident on the set involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks
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Top green energy suppliers revealed
Only a handful of the 33 energy suppliers it surveyed produced a large proportion of their own renewable electricity
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Jodie Kidd urges the chancellor to save 20,000 pubs ahead of autumn budget
Her message was loud and clear as she brought along a banner reading “20,000 PUBS AT RISK”
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Queen spent night in hospital for ‘preliminary investigations’ after rest orders
She was said to be disappointed not to be able to travel to Northern Ireland on Wednesday
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New 4.5hr London to Edinburgh train service launches
It is using five new Hitachi AT300 intercity electric trains with no first class section
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3.8m low-income households estimated to be in arrears with household bills
Working age households on low incomes, including those aged 18 to 64, were found to have been particularly hard hit,
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What is the Covid situation now and could we be facing another lockdown?
Currently, Plan A is in place, which focuses on following through with the vaccine programme
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Government will not implement coronavirus Plan B, Health Secretary says
The Health Secretary said England had reached a “milestone” of four million top-up jabs on Wednesday
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Baking queen Mary Berry to celebrate damehood with sandwich
Dame Mary has been married to her retired antiquarian bookseller husband since 1966
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Orionid meteor shower to light up night sky
The Orionid meteor shower is active throughout October but is expected to peak on Friday