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What’s Behind the Increase in Fatal Accidents?
The new statistics for automobile accident deaths are out and the news isn’t good. The country saw fatal accidents rise in 2022 when experts thought they might decrease. The pandemic in 2020 significantly skewed accident data, but experts believed the pattern that...
Which US States Have the Worst Poaching Problems?
Think poaching is only a problem in other countries? Unfortunately, the capturing, killing, and exploitation of animals is an activity that is alive and well in the US. There are multiple motivations for why poachers partake in this illegal activity, and poaching...
Dear Joe Biden: Don’t Listen to Silicon Valley
Roger McNamee co-founded one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture-capital firms and was an important early investor in Facebook. But he has soured on Big Tech, arguing that it now promotes hate speech, undermines democracy and profits at society’s expense....
Britain Supports Gambling Restrictions
Like it or not, we can all agree that the British people do like to spend a dime or two on gambling. Many Times we hear about problematic gambling, and this has seen many casinos including the self exclusion policy within their sites. This is when you, as the player,...
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Police looking at allegations against MP Menzies
Lancashire Police have said they are reviewing information about allegations against suspended Tory MP Mark Menzies.Labour wrote to police on Friday morning calling for an investigation. The MP has been accused of misusing Tory funds and abusing his position after...
Antisemitic false quote cut from Liz Truss book
EPABy Sam FrancisPolitical reporter, BBC NewsLiz Truss's publishers have apologised and agreed to remove a false quote linked to an antisemistic conspiracy theory from her new book.The ex-prime minister's memoir includes a quote wrongly attributed to banking dynasty...
100 MPs to stand down at the next election
ReutersBy Oscar BentleyBBC Political Research UnitThe number of MPs who have said they will leave Parliament at the next general election has reached 100.Conservative Tim Loughton, who has represented East Worthing and Shoreham since 1997, became the 100th MP to...
Tory activist ‘appalled’ by party’s actions over MP
By Nick Eardley & Isabella AllenBBC NewsThe Tory activist allegedly called by an MP in the early hours of the morning asking for money has told the BBC she is "appalled" by the party's response.Katie Fieldhouse says Mark Menzies rang her at 3:15am one December morning...
Sunak to tackle ‘sick note culture’ in welfare speech
PA MediaBy James GregoryBBC NewsPrime Minister Rishi Sunak will call for an end to the UK's "sick note culture" in a speech on welfare reform.Mr Sunak is considering moving responsibility for assessing fitness to work away from GPs to "specialist work and health...
Labour unveils plans for new housing on ‘grey belt’
Getty ImagesBy Sam FrancisPolitical reporter, BBC NewsLabour has set out plans for building on the green belt to boost housing supply while improving "green spaces".Under new "golden rules," councils will be required to prioritise building on brownfield sites and...
Chris Mason: How mayors became the fashionable thing in England
PA MediaBy Chris MasonPolitical editor, BBC NewsThey are the novel innovation in how increasing swathes of England are now governed. Directly elected regional mayors. And there is one heck of a contest going on in the West Midlands.Conservative Andy Street, twice a...
Minister asked if incinerator plans could be blocked
By Helen Catt, Chris Mason & Henry ZeffmanBBC NewsEnvironment Secretary Steve Barclay personally intervened to ask for advice on whether ministers could stop incinerators being licensed across England, including a controversial project in his constituency, the BBC...
Peter Murrell charged with embezzlement in SNP probe
This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.By Katy ScottBBC Scotland NewsThe husband of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been charged in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the Scottish National...
EU proposes some free movement for UK young people
Getty ImagesBy Paul SeddonPolitics reporterThe EU wants to agree a deal with the UK that would make it easier for people aged between 18 and 30 to study and work abroad in the wake of Brexit. This would be a limited arrangement, not a restoration of free movement of...
Tory MP suspended over alleged misuse of funds
PA MediaBy Christy CooneyBBC NewsA Conservative MP has been suspended by the party following claims he misused campaign funds. Mark Menzies allegedly asked his former campaign manager for money to pay "bad people" who he said had detained him overnight in a flat, the...
Lords continue to insist on Rwanda bill changes
ReutersBy Paul Seddon & Jennifer McKiernanPolitics reportersThe government's showdown with the House of Lords over its Rwanda deportation bill continues.Peers have voted to demand changes to the bill, including an amendment which would ban sending people who have...