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Hard-right Tories push to delay environmental land management scheme
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The government’s plans to pay farmers for their stewardship of nature could be delayed or scrapped, it is feared, as hard-right Conservative MPs join the campaign against the environmental land management scheme (Elms...
‘Unacceptable and embarrassing’: Sorrell criticises S4 Capital results delay
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Sir Martin Sorrell has described the twice-delayed reporting of S4 Capital’s annual results as “unacceptable and embarrassing” and pledged to restore investor confidence in the advertising group after almost $1bn (£81...
Man accused of raping Brittany Higgins loses bid to delay Canberra trial
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The man accused of raping Brittany Higgins has lost his bid to delay the ACT supreme court trial. On Friday, Chief Justice Lucy McCallum rejected an application by Bruce Lehrmann for a temporary or permanent stay, al...
Police delay Partygate fine updates until after May local elections
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Police investigating breaches of lockdown restrictions at Downing Street have said they will not be providing any more updates on new fixed-penalty notices until after next month’s local elections. The investigation i...
Share price of Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital fall again after auditor delay
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The share price of Sir Martin Sorrell’s advertising business has fallen further after a surprise delay from its auditors caused the postponement of financial results and a dive in the company’s valuation. S4 Capital’s...
Wiltshire novichok victim’s family concerned at public inquiry delay
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The family of a woman killed in the Wiltshire novichok poisonings have expressed concerns that the start of public inquiry hearings into her death is set to be delayed and that and the issue of possible failings by th...
Biden heads to Poland to witness refugee crisis as Zelenskiy laments EU sanctions delay
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Joe Biden is due to see firsthand the scale of the Ukrainian refugee crisis on Friday when he visits Poland, which has taken in more than 2 million people fleeing Russian forces across the border. His trip comes hours...
Russia-Ukraine war latest: Zelenskiy urges ‘honest’ peace talks without delay; Russian forces tighten grip around Mariupol – live
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Ukraine president says time has come for ‘meaningful’ talks; Ukraine defence ministry says it has ‘temporarily’ lost access to Sea of Azov as fight continues for control of port city of Mariupol
British MPs urge global banks to close Russian offices ‘without delay’
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MPs are urging major banks to shut their Moscow offices, after campaigners accused them of “quietly profiting” off their Russian operations while other industries sever ties with the country. Some of the City’s larges...
If you don’t like it, go private: what my maternity clinic said over scans delay
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Alison, 38, gave birth to her son in June 2021 at a busy London hospital. “We had exemplary care during delivery, and the midwives looking after me during my antenatal care were likewise fantastic,” she recalls. “How...
Martin Rowson on the delay of the Sue Gray report into Downing Street party claims – cartoon
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Wolves flying high as Rúben Neves seals win at Brentford after long drone delay
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If you like delays then this match had them all. First there was a serious clash of heads that caused two Brentford players to be substituted with suspected concussions, before play was stopped again during the first ...
As Omicron rages around the world, Ardern deploys an old tactic – delay
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In her first press conference of the year, held outside in the central North Island sun, prime minister Jacinda Ardern was almost drowned out by a wave of cicada calls. The clamour is synonymous with New Zealand summe...
Campaigners warn against plan to delay Manchester clean air zone
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Clean air campaigners have warned leaders in Greater Manchester that pausing plans to charge polluting vehicles in the region “would be a serious blow for people’s health”. Greater Manchester authorities announced pla...
Immensa lab: month delay before incorrect Covid tests stopped
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The government’s health watchdog knew about anomalous tests at a private laboratory that gave at least 43,000 people potentially false negative Covid results almost a month before it took action, it emerged. The UK He...
The Great Furniture Delay: ‘We’ll be eating Christmas dinner on our camping tables’
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The £800 Townhouse dining table is an “elegant, sturdy classic” built for gathering round. Marsha Moore’s £20 melamine camping table, with a surface area of less than a square metre, is not, and certainly not where sh...