Tories: Farmers will have to stump up hundreds of thousands of pounds

Tories: Farmers will have to stump up hundreds of thousands of pounds

Farmers will have to stump up hundreds of thousands of pounds under Labour’s inheritance tax plans, the Conservative Party has claimed. Shadow business secretary Kevin Hollinrake warned Labour MPs who intend to have a pint in a local pub and a chat with farmers this weekend to “think again” following yesterday’s Budget. Greg Smith, Conservative MP for Mid Buckinghamshire, also described the Budget as a “full-frontal financial attack on our […]

November 1, 2024 2

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New image captures a ‘dark wolf’ in the cosmic sky

Astronomers have unveiled an image of a giant cloud of space gas and dust that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, the cloud is in the Scorpius constellation near the middle of the Milky Way, around 5,300 light-years from Earth. This image takes up an area in the sky equivalent to four full moons, but is actually part of […]

November 1, 2024 2

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Latest rise in London rough sleeping branded ‘shameful’

A rise in the number of people rough sleeping in London by almost a fifth on the same period last year has been described as “shameful”. A total of 4,780 rough sleepers were seen on the capital’s streets between July and September, according to the latest Combined Homelessness and Information Network (Chain) statistics which described it as a record level. This is an increase of 18% from 4,068 people in the […]

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Chinese online retailer Temu faces EU probe into rogue traders and illegal goods

Chinese online retailer Temu is facing a European Union investigation over suspicions it is failing to prevent the sale of illegal products, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm has said. The European Commission opened its investigation five months after adding Temu to the list of “very large online platforms” needing the strictest level of scrutiny under the bloc’s Digital Services Act. It is a wide-ranging rulebook designed to clean up online […]

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