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The end of the humble spare: just 3% of new cars come with a back-up wheel in the boot as standard say RAC

Only 3% of new cars on sale in the UK today come with any form of spare wheel as standard...

Monday, 20 November 2023 00:01

Time to end the hire and fire ‘football manager’ culture in schools, IPPR urges

Education advocates call today for a transformative shift in school inspections, urging policy makers to move away from high-stakes, top-down accountability, towards a system that combines high standards...

Monday, 20 November 2023 00:01

Culture Secretary brings creative industries together to discuss impact of AI

The future of artificial intelligence in film, music and television will be discussed today (Monday 20 November) at a roundtable led by Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer and attended by key figures in the creative industries...

Monday, 20 November 2023 00:01

Boost for UK’s life sciences sector as West Yorkshire hosts England’s third Investment Zone

The government has today (20 November) launched England’s third Investment Zone in West Yorkshire focussed on Huddersfield, Bradford and Leeds...

Monday, 20 November 2023 00:01

Yousaf tables Gaza ceasefire motion

SNP Leader Humza Yousaf has called on Scottish Labour to “stand firm and back an immediate ceasefire” as he tabled the Parliamentary motion...

Monday, 20 November 2023 00:01

Lisa Nandy responding to the launch of the Government's International Development White Paper

Lisa Nandy MP, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development, responding to the launch of the Government’s International Development White Paper...

Monday, 20 November 2023 00:01

Labour will be “tirelessly committed to the hard diplomacy required to help deliver lasting peace” says Lammy as he makes visit Israel and the West Bank

Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy MP is on a visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the Labour Party’s first visit since Hamas' appalling terrorist attack...

Sunday, 19 November 2023 22:30

‘This must stop,’ UN chief says as deaths, displacement ripple across Gaza

Spikes in casualties, attacks on schools and shelters, including the death of a UN worker, and crippling fuel shortages blocking aid deliveries rippled across Gaza over the weekend...

Sunday, 19 November 2023 21:02

Unacceptable and alarming: Deteriorating school buildings prompt urgent warnings, say MPs

The lack of basic information from the Department for Education (DfE) on the concrete crisis in schools is both shocking and disappointing...

Sunday, 19 November 2023 00:01

Sarwar: Scandal-hit hospital chair cannot be government adviser

Anas Sarwar has urged Humza Yousaf to remove the outgoing Chair of scandal-hit Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board as the government’s adviser on NHS good governance...

Sunday, 19 November 2023 00:01