The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimates that lifting the two-child benefit cap would lift 500,000 children out of relative poverty The main section of the meeting this afternoon will ...

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In 2003, not long after retiring from the beautiful game, Geoff - who now lives in Worcestershire - was diagnosed with leukaemia. But his fighting spirit endures, and has been cycling through France ...

A Wells Fargo banker has been blocked from leaving China due to a criminal matter, the country's foreign ministry has ...

Tens of thousands of people were warned to flee the city, where many displaced Palestinians have been sheltering and it's ...

Lancaster teacher Sheila Dwyer has retired after 50 years at Nazareth House Day Nursery..

A review into England and Wales' water sector has issued 88 recommendations, which one campaign group criticised as "putting ...

Wales is to have its own water watchdog, the Welsh and UK governments have announced. It comes after a review called for the ...

A teenage boy has appeared in court charged with assault and firearms offences, after a 15-year-old boy was shot in Cardiff.

Helen Scott's parents bought the park in the seventies when it was just a few caravans ...

Essex captain Grace Scrivens is hoping improved performances in the One-Day Cup will follow a long-awaited win in their final ...

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