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Will Andy Burnham’s everyday fixes be enough to get the public on his side?
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Will Andy Burnham’s everyday fixes be enough to get the public on his side?

The prime minister’s money-saving policies are popular but they are yet to convince voters he can take on the big thingsIt was last year that Martin Lewis, the money-saving guru, advised the government to find “100 small things that piss people off” and set about sorting them out.That approach has b...

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
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‘Abusive’ man found guilty of harassing Stella Creasy MP on tube train
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‘Abusive’ man found guilty of harassing Stella Creasy MP on tube train

Clifford Wilby, 63, started talking to Walthamstow MP about knife crime and her ‘failings as a member of parliament’A 63-year-old man has been found guilty of harassing the Labour MP Stella Creasy after he was “abusive and aggressive” on a tube train.Clifford Wilby, of east London, saw the MP for Wa...

Nadeem Badshah
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Probation staff vote to strike in blow to Burnham plans on early release
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Probation staff vote to strike in blow to Burnham plans on early release

Napo members overwhelmingly back action after union had criticised prisons proposals as rushedProbation staff have voted overwhelmingly to go on strike, in a potentially serious complication to Andy Burnham’s plans to tweak an early release scheme for prisoners to try to exclude more serious offende...

Peter Walker, Rajeev Syal and Caroline Davies
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University of Michigan to switch to pass/fail grades for first-semester students
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University of Michigan to switch to pass/fail grades for first-semester students

School said it is pivoting away from letter-grading system to ‘curb the mental health crisis’ among college studentsThe University of Michigan will pivot to a pass-or-fail-style grading system, instead of letter grades, for first-semester students in an effort to “curb the mental health crisis unfol...

Edward Helmore
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Russia frees ex-US marine four years after sentence disputed by his family
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Russia frees ex-US marine four years after sentence disputed by his family

Robert Gilman had been deteriorating rapidly in prison and was said to be in a catatonic stateRussia has freed a former US marine who had been in jail since 2022, after Vladimir Putin granted the ailing American a pardon on humanitarian grounds.Robert Gilman, 32, an English teacher who briefly serve...

Pjotr Sauer
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‘Real struggle’ to tame New Forest blaze as UK set for hottest summer on record
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‘Real struggle’ to tame New Forest blaze as UK set for hottest summer on record

Key tourist route closed and residents rallying round as battle against wildfire expected to go on for several daysThe battle to contain a large wildfire spreading across the New Forest will go on for several days, experts have said, as wind changes and a desiccated landscape fuel the flames.Smoke b...

Sandra Laville in the New Forest
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