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Wearing face coverings in shops to be made mandatory in England
- UK
- July 13, 2020, 20:16
Wearing a face covering in shops and supermarkets is to be made mandatory in England in a fresh move to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the UK gov(...)

The bestselling romance novel that bought its author a dream house
- Interiors
- March 7, 2020, 06:00
Best-selling author Josie Silver has a very nice home. The house, which she describes as rather dreamy, is a structure of two halves: an original 1853(...)

Denis Staunton’s UK election diary – Disastrous day for Johnson
- UK
- December 10, 2019, 07:59
It’s two days to Election Day. Boris Johnson will be campaigning in Staffordshire today, warning of gridlock at Westminster if there is another hung p(...)

'A country in paralysis': Irishwoman in Britain covering the election for TV
- Abroad
- December 6, 2019, 10:00
Although we all expected the British government to call a general election, and after the relentless onslaught of votes, delays, political machination(...)

UK election: ‘It’s a means to an end – I want Brexit done’
- UK
- December 5, 2019
There is a Porsche parked on a street in Pudsey outside the house that the local Labour Party shares with the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union. (...)

‘We’re heading towards turmoil’: UK’s young voters ponder uncertain future
- UK
- November 27, 2019, 19:00
This will be “the election of our lives” for Britain’s young people, the UK’s National Union of Students has predicted. If older voters were crucial (...)

The UK’s ‘grey voters’: ‘Corbyn will set the country back 50 years’
- UK
- November 26, 2019, 20:20
Tuesday is knit and natter day at the Community Hub and Cafe in Sedgley, a West Midlands village that can trace its history back to the Domesday Book (...)

UK Elections 2019: Brexit Party in election victory as voters flee Tories and Labour
- UK
- May 27, 2019
Nigel Farage’s newly formed Brexit Party is on course for victory in the European Parliament elections in the UK, sidelining the Conservatives and Lab(...)

Four children aged eight and under killed in house fire in England
- Irish News
- February 5, 2019, 08:55
Four young children were killed when a fire ripped through their family home in the English West Midlands early on Tuesday. Riley Holt (8), Keegan Un(...)

Police in Derry believe the dissident republican group the New IRA was behind an explosion outside the city’s courthouse on Saturday night. “Our pr(...)