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More than 150 violent offenders granted taxi licences in Midlands city last year
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More than 150 violent offenders granted taxi licences in Midlands city last year

FoI data reveals that 438 people with criminal convictions were given licences in Wolverhampton, UK’s ‘taxi capital’More than 150 people convicted of violent crimes were granted taxi licences last year by Wolverhampton city council, dubbed the UK’s “taxi capital”, data has revealed.The Guardian obta...

Neha Gohil Midlands correspondent
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Breast reductions in UK overtake enlargements for first time, data shows
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The Guardian · World

Breast reductions in UK overtake enlargements for first time, data shows

Reduction procedures and implant removals reflect shift toward comfort and more active lifestyles, surgeons sayBreast reductions and implant removals have overtaken enlargements for the first time, data shows, as experts link the shift to more active lifestyles.The latest annual audit from the...

Sarah Marsh Consumer affairs correspondent
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RFK Jr agenda suffers another loss as trans advocates hail ‘huge step forward’
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RFK Jr agenda suffers another loss as trans advocates hail ‘huge step forward’

Judge’s repeal of Trump ban on gender-affirming care for children ‘a meaningful win for patients’, experts sayA federal judge overturned the Trump administration’s ban on gender-affirming care for children on Saturday, decrying Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “wanton disregard” for the law that “causes very r...

Melody Schreiber
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Spanish conservatives revive regional pacts with far-right Vox party
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The Guardian · World

Spanish conservatives revive regional pacts with far-right Vox party

Hard line on immigration adopted by People’s party as right seeks to overthrow socialist government in 2027Europe live – latest updatesSpain’s opposition conservatives are rekindling their regional pacts with the far-right Vox party by adopting the latter’s hard line on immigration. It comes less th...

Sam Jones in Madrid
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Bibby Stockholm asylum barge contractor admits overcharging UK government £118m
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Bibby Stockholm asylum barge contractor admits overcharging UK government £118m

Australia’s Corporate Travel Management is ‘negotiating commercial arrangements’ to refund the moneyThe Australian company that ran the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge has admitted it overcharged the British government by £118m.Corporate Travel Management (CTM) said its auditor had found evidence of “e...

Lauren Almeida
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