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  1. Mandatory Credit: Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (14949064j) Pedestrians walk past the posters promoting the Assisted Dying bill at Westminster Underground station in London, Britain, 27 November 2024. The Assisted Dying bill is to allow adults who are terminally ill, subject to safeguards, to be assisted to end their own life. British MPs will vote on the assisted dying bill on 29 November 2024. Posters on the London Underground ahead of the Assisted Dying bill in Parliament, United Kingdom - 27 Nov 2024

    Map shows the parts of the world where assisted dying is legal

    Channel: UK UK 3 days ago By Craig Munro
  2. Full list of PIP disability benefit changes after Government unveils welfare reforms
  3. Five key takeaways from Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement - from welfare to defence
  4. I’m proud to be British - and I’m not embarrassed to admit it
  5. Most expensive pints in UK revealed after cost hikes push average price over £5

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Victoria Jones/Shutterstock (15222324j) Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer leaves No.11 Downing Street to deliver a spring statement in the House of Commons Spring Statement, London, UK - 26 Mar 2025

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Play Video Rachel Reeves MP, The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Leeds West and Pudsey, Labour)

Five key takeaways from Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement - from welfare to defence

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Everything that could be in Rachel Reeves' spring statement today

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TELFORD, ENGLAND - MARCH 24: (EMBARGOED until 00:01, Wednesday 26th March) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks to media during a visit to Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) on March 24, 2025 in Telford, England. Chancellor Rachel Reeves' is making the defence funding announcement while on a visit to Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL), a partnership between the United Kingdom's BAE Systems and Germany's Rheinmetall AG, which designs and manufactures military vehicles. (Photo by Jacob King - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

What time is Rachel Reeves' spring statement and how can I watch it live?

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (14949064j) Pedestrians walk past the posters promoting the Assisted Dying bill at Westminster Underground station in London, Britain, 27 November 2024. The Assisted Dying bill is to allow adults who are terminally ill, subject to safeguards, to be assisted to end their own life. British MPs will vote on the assisted dying bill on 29 November 2024. Posters on the London Underground ahead of the Assisted Dying bill in Parliament, United Kingdom - 27 Nov 2024

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Resident Douglas Debnam on Whitebarns Lane in the village of Furneaux Phelham in Hertfordshire. Photo released October 29 2024. Furious villagers embroiled in Britain's longest running pothole row have said they will refuse to pay nearly ??100k out of their own pockets to fix the road to their homes. Locals of Whitebarns Lane, in Furneux Pelham, Herts, are locked in a bitter dispute as the lane links the main road through to village to their cul-de-sac. Hertfordshire County Council said that Whitebarns Lane has always been a public footpath and not a road - meaning it cannot be repaired at public expense. However angry villagers say the lane is covered with 32 potholes and a dispute over the road surface dates back to 1960s.

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'The government should be ashamed of the £5,000,000,000 disability cuts - it is barbaric'

Channel: UK UK March 21, 2025 By Liam Coleman
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock (15189654dg) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions LIZ KENDALL, leaves Downing Street after a weekly Cabinet Meeting. Cabinet Meeting In Downing Street, London, England, United Kingdom - 11 Mar 2025

People who don't hit new Pip threshold 'to be more than £4,000 a year worse off'

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? Joel Goodman - 07973 332324 - all rights reserved . 15/02/2024. Staffordshire, UK . The home of ERICA CROMPTON (43) , pictured in the upstairs guest suite, and her partner Paul Nicholls (42), in Silverdale . Photo credit : Joel Goodman

I live with psychosis – cutting benefits won’t cure my life-long disability

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Play Video Screen grab of Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall making a statement on welfare reform in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Tuesday March 18, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Benefits. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Full list of PIP disability benefit changes after Government unveils welfare reforms

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The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Oil Islands) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Africa and Indonesia. The territory comprises a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual islands, situated some 500 kilometers (310 mi) due south of the Maldives archipelago. The largest island is Diego Garcia (area 44 km squared), the site of a joint military facility of the United Kingdom and the United States. Following the eviction of the native population (Chagossians) in the 1960s, the only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors, who collectively number around 4,000 (2004 figures). (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Bereavement leave for miscarriage will 'acknowledge the pain' of loss

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Play Video Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a Q&A session after delivering a speech where he announced NHS England will be abolished to "cut bureaucracy" and bring management of the health service "back into democratic control" during a visit to Reckitt Benckiser Health Care UK Ltd in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire. Picture date: Thursday March 13, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Starmer. Photo credit should read: Oli Scarff/PA Wire

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