Scottish Daily Mail
NOW TRUMP DELAYS CHAGOS SURRENDER
SIR KEIR Starmer pulled his deal to surrender the Chagos Islands last night. Just days after Donald Trump blasted the UK for ‘an act of great stupidity’ in signing the strategically important archipelago away, Labour withdrew the legislation from a...
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BUG DEATH HOSPITAL IS STILL A THREAT TO PATIENTS
THE hospital at the centre of an infection scandal still poses a risk to patients, it was claimed last night. Families of those who caught bugs linked to ventilation and water at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital say they still ‘don’t believe...
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TRUMP: I’ve struck a deal for my big, beautiful piece of ice
DONALD Trump last night dropped his threat to invade Greenland following a furious bust-up with Britain and other Nato allies. Speaking after talks with Nato chief Mark Rutte, the US President said he had agreed ‘the framework of a future deal’...
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A HOLLOW APOLOGY OVER NHS SCANDAL
HEALTH chiefs at the centre of a child death scandal yesterday issued a ‘hollow’ apology after years of denials and ‘cover-ups’. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde finally admitted last week that dirty water at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital...
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STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER AND END THE LABOUR NIGHTMARE
ROBERT Jenrick threw a hand grenade into the politics of the British Right yesterday as he defected to Reform just hours after being outed as a Tory turncoat. On a dramatic day at Westminster, the former Conservative leadership contender became the...
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ANOTHER SPITEFUL SNP RAID ON SCOTS STRIVERS
HARD-WORKING Scots have been hit by another SNP Budget hammer blow after ministers refused to ease the strain on their finances and introduced controversial new levies. Finance Secretary Shona Robison yesterday rejected widespread calls to cut income...
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Shot dead, Robina, 23, a victim of the mullahs’ death squads
A STUDENT protester was shot in the back of the head during the Iran regime’s brutal crackdown on dissent. Robina Aminian, 23, was killed at close range as she left college to join one of the dozens of demonstrations sweeping the country. As human...
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SLASH TAXES OR KILL OUR HIGH STREETS
SCOTLAND’S town centres face the threat of mass shop closures unless action is taken to cut their tax bills in next week’s Budget, SNP ministers have been warned. A huge list of leading retailers and trade bodies have backed a plea for a permanent...
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DEEP FREEZE TO GET WORSE
JOHN Swinney has been urged to call in the Army to help snowbound Scots after deep-freeze weather warnings were extended across Scotland for a sixth day. A plea for additional support was made to the First Minister as a ‘major incident’ was declared...
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GREENLAND RAID WILL FINISH NATO, TRUMP IS WARNED
DONALD Trump was last night warned that any attempt to seize Greenland would spell the end of Nato. The US President has hinted that the minerals-rich island could be next on his hit list following a dramatic raid on Venezuela at the weekend. In a...
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PM FACES REVOLT BY LABOUR’S MADURO APOLOGISTS
LABOUR was tearing itself apart last night as MPs demanded the Prime Minister condemn the US attack on Venezuela. Sir Keir Starmer has refused to describe the capture of president Nicolas Maduro as an illegal act in breach of international law. But...
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GIRL FROM UK SCHOOL MISSING IN SWISS FIRE
A SCHOOLGIRL educated in Britain is among dozens missing following the Swiss ski bar inferno that killed at least 47. Charlotte Niddam, 15, babysat for pocket money in Crans-Montana but has not been heard from since the fire in the early hours of New...
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CHAMPAGNE SPARKLERS BLAMED FOR INFERNO THAT COST 47 LIVES
A SPARKLER in a champagne bottle is believed to have caused a Swiss ski bar inferno that killed at least 47 revellers yesterday. Families face an agonising wait to find out whether loved ones died in the early hours at Le Constellation in...
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DIGITAL IDS FOR BABIES
NEWBORNS could be allocated digital IDs in a ‘sinister’ expansion of the controversial policy. Ministers have privately raised the prospect of issuing the new technology to children at birth, along with the ‘red book’ of health records given to new...
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‘EXTREMIST’ IS STILL WELCOME IN UK, SAYS STARMER
DOWNING Street faced a furious back- lash last night after saying a controversial Egyptian dissident was ‘welcome’ in Britain. No10 defended Keir Starmer’s handling of the case of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, amid calls for him to be stripped of his British...
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Kemi: I don’t want people who hate our country coming here
KEMI Badenoch today calls for the deporta- tion of an Egyptian dissident, declaring: ‘I do not want people who hate Britain coming to our country.’ Tory leader says Alaa Abd El-Fattah – whose arrival in the UK was celebrated by Keir Starmer – should...
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‘GHOST’ NUMBER PLATES SCANDAL
NUMBER plates invisible to road cameras are being sold by DVLA-registered suppliers, the Daily Mail has found. Up to one in 15 cars could have ‘ghost plates’ designed to evade detection by automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras. Britain’s...
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REEVES’£1bn BOXING DAY SALES SLUMP
LABOUR has been accused of sounding a £1billion death knell to the High Street, with shoppers expected to shun today’s Boxing Day sales. Struggling retailers will lose out on the much-needed revenue as consumer confidence collapses amid Rachel Reeves’...
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STARMER’S HUMILIATING U-TURN ON FARM TAX
KEIR Starmer yesterday watered down the family farm tax in yet another humiliating capitulation to his backbenchers. The threshold at which inheritance tax will apply to farmers will more than double from £1million to £2.5million, halving the number...
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Ex-councillor ‘drugged and raped wife with other men’
A FORMER Tory councillor is due in court today charged with drugging and raping his ex-wife for 13 years. Business consultant Philip Young, a father-of-three, will appear before magistrates alongside five other men, all accused of carrying out sex...
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THE ONLINE CHILD SEX PREDATORS OUR POLICE CAN’T CATCH
MORE than 90 per cent of ‘sickening’ sextortion scams targeting Scots children go unsolved, police figures show. The schemes see victims – mainly young men – enticed into sending explicit photos or videos to someone who has befriended them online by...
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NHS bosses wanted to destroy my life over trans row
NURSE Sandie Peggie has revealed for the first time the threats, vilification, isolation and abuse she has faced battling state-sanctioned harassment at the hands of Scotland’s NHS. In an exclusive interview with the Scottish Daily Mail, the
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SNP ROCKED AFTER MSP’S OFFICE WAS BUGGED BY OWN STAFF
A NATIONALIST MSP was bugged by a member of her own staff at her office in the Scottish parliament, it was claimed yesterday. The former worker is alleged to have placed listening devices in the office of the unnamed politician but remains an office...
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FREE BBC IF YOU LIVE ON BENEFITS ST
MIDDLE-CLASS families face paying more to watch the BBC to help fund free licences for benefit claimants in plans unveiled yesterday. Favourites such as Strictly Come Dancing and The Traitors could be placed behind a paywall and advertising introduced...
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SCOTTISH JEWS ‘LIVING IN FEAR’ OF HATE ATTACKS
SCOTLAND’S Jewish community is ‘living in fear’ after the anti-Semitic terror attack in Australia which left at least 15 dead and dozens wounded. The shooting at Bondi Beach on Sunday was the bloodiest in the country in three decades. Among the dead...
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HERO OF THE BONDI BEACH MASSACRE
THE hero who disarmed a gunman during the anti-Semitic rampage in Sydney that killed 15 has been praised for saving countless lives. Fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, risked his life to wrestle with the terrorist and help bring the attack on Bondi...
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CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR CHARLES IN HIS CANCER FIGHT
THE King last night revealed he had received a major boost in his cancer battle, describing it as a ‘personal blessing’. In an unprecedented video message, Charles, 77, said his treatment will be significantly scaled back in the New Year. A...
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SNP’S WHITE FLAG OVER DRUG ABUSE
MORE than 1,200 ‘slap on the wrist’ warnings were given out by police last year to people caught with Class A drugs – allowing them to escape without punishment. Ministers were condemned for forcing through decriminalisation ‘by the back door’ in 2021...
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ASYLUM FIASCO WITHOUT END
THE Home Office has no idea how many asylum seekers have gone missing since arriving in this country. A damning report today reveals yet more woeful failings in Britain’s asylum process, with huge gaps in systems and key data that does not exist. The...
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NHS CHIEFS DID HARASS NURSE IN TRANS MEDIC ROW
HEALTH bosses harassed a veteran nurse after she complained about a transgender doctor in the women-only changing room, a landmark tribunal has found. NHS Fife had given permission for trans-identifying medic Dr Beth Upton to use the room at Victoria...
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PUBLIC NO LONGER TRUST NHS OVER DEMENTIA CARE
THE public do not trust the NHS to cope with the dementia crisis, a damning survey reveals. Many Britons are living in fear of the disease amid concerns they could be neglected in a failing hospital or care home. The Daily Mail and Alzheimer’s...
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DEMENTIA KILLS 1 IN 9. IT’S TIME TO END CRUEL INJUSTICES
THE Daily Mail is today launching a new campaign to defeat dementia. With no clear national pathway for people with the condition, the support they get can vary hugely depending on where they live. Yet it is now the UK’s biggest killer, accounting...
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DOCTORS’ WARNING AS SCOTLAND HIT BY DEADLY FLU CRISIS
SCOTLAND is in the grip of its worst flu crisis in years as hospitalisations and infections surge with a mutant strain sweeping the country. The H3N2 influenza strain, which is already known for causing more severe illness, has taken hold north of the...
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MEGHAN’S FATHER ‘FIGHTING FOR LIFE’
THE Duchess of Sussex’s father is fighting for his life after emergency surgery in the Philippines. Thomas Markle, 81, who has been estranged from daughter Meghan since her 2018 marriage to Prince Harry, was rushed to hospital on Tuesday after...
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‘CUT-PRICE’ ROYAL RENTS UNDER FIRE
ANDREW Mountbatten-Windsor’s rent scandal yesterday triggered a probe dragging in other senior royals. MPs announced an inquiry into all royal homes owned by the Crown Estate, following public outrage at Andrew’s ‘peppercorn’ rent at Royal...
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THE FALL GUY FOR REEVES’ BUDGET LIES
RACHEL Reeves was accused of using the head of the financial watchdog as a ‘human shield’ last night after he was forced to quit over last week’s Budget shambles. Richard Hughes resigned
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FARAGE: REEVES MUST FACE SLEAZE PROBE OVER BUDGET LIES
RACHEL Reeves is facing the prospect of a sleaze probe for the second time in a month. The Chancellor was reported to the ethics watchdog yesterday by Nigel Farage over false claims that there was a black hole in the public finances of more than...
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‘LIAR’ REEVES MUST GO NOW
RACHEL Reeves faced angry calls to resign last night after ‘lying’ to the nation in the run-up to the Budget. In an extraordinary move, the fiscal watchdog yesterday revealed that the Chancellor was told months ago that there was no hole in the public...
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Spiteful raids on strivers — to lavish billions on Benefits St
RACHEL Reeves dropped a £30billion tax bomb yesterday as she bowed to Left-wing demands to boost benefit handouts. The Chancellor shattered Labour’s manifesto pledges with a £13billion, three-year freeze on income tax and National Insurance...
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Reeves faces chorus of condemnation for ‘pricing young people out of work’
AN inflation-busting hike to the minimum wage threatens to push even more young people out of work, Rachel Reeves was warned last night. On the eve of today’s Budget, the Chancellor faced a huge backlash over the ‘bonkers’ rise to both the national...
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NOW REEVES HITS PRUDENT SAVERS
RACHEL Reeves is set to slash tax-free saving pots in her Budget tomorrow. In a major blow to millions of hard-working savers, the Chancellor will significantly cut the annual £20,000 cash Isa allowance to £12,000, it emerged last night. Ms Reeves is...
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CAMERON REVEALS HE’S HAD PROSTATE CANCER
DAVID Cameron has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. The ex-PM was urged to get a prostate test by wife Samantha after she heard a radio interview with Soho House founder Nick Jones in which he told how a check had picked up his...
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OUSTING PM WILL TRIGGER AN ELECTION, STARMER’S ALLIES WARN
ALLIES of Keir Starmer warned Labour plotters last night they could trigger a general election if they oust him. As rumours of a leadership challenge swirled at Westminster, friends of the beleaguered Prime Minister claimed any new leader would ‘need...
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1,000 JOBS A DAY NOW LOST UNDER REEVES
RACHEL Reeves was last night blamed for triggering a ‘jobs bloodbath’ – with workers being axed at a rate of 1,000 a day. More than 180,000 have been left on the scrapheap in the past year, with 64,000 losing their jobs in the past two months. In a...
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Trump tells BBC: Grovel – or I’ll sue you for $1 billion
DONALD Trump last night threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion unless he gets a grovelling apology within days. As the embattled national broadcaster admitted to an ‘error of judgment’ when it doctored footage of a 2021 speech by Mr Trump, the US...
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BBC BOSSES QUIT IN DISGRACE
BBC director-general Tim Davie sensationally quit last night after a week of crises. An impartiality row rocked the national broadcaster after an internal report accused it of bias, censorship and doctoring footage of Donald Trump. Mr Davie admitted...
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SOCIAL MEDIA TROLLS FUELLED DELUSIONS OF ‘POLISH MADDIE’
AN army of online conspiracy theorists fuelled a Polish woman’s harassment of Madeleine McCann’s parents after she claimed to be the missing girl. Julia Wandelt, 24, gasped as a jury yesterday convicted her of tormenting Kate and Gerry McCann in a...
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SIX SCOTS PRIMARY PUPILS ON TERROR WATCH LIST
PRIMARY school pupils are among a record number of Scots who have been referred to the Prevent antiterror programme, shocking figures reveal. Police Scotland said the overall number of cases passed on to experts over radicalisation fears had leapt by...
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KEMI: GET BRITAIN DRILLING AGAIN!
SCOTLAND is facing an ‘oil and gas emergency’ due to ‘Net Zero fanati- cism’, Kemi Badenoch warned yesterday. As Keir Starmer flew off to the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, the Tory leader blamed the ‘anti-growth’ policies of Labour and the SNP for...
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Suits you, Sir! Becks’s tribute to King
IN a football career spanning more than two decades, he won countless matches, trophies and caps for his country. But a beaming David Beckham said his ‘proudest moment’ was receiving a knighthood from King Charles yesterday. Dressed in a charcoal...
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Why was train knife suspect free to roam the streets for 24 hours after marching into a barbers wielding a huge blade?
POLICE were under fire last night for failing to halt an alleged 24-hour knife rampage by the Huntingdon train attack suspect. Anthony Williams – accused of 11 attempted murders – is suspected of being behind three knife incidents in the 24 hours...
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‘THE DEVIL’S NOT GOING TO WIN’
A VICIOUS attacker who stabbed 11 people on a train to London chillingly told one passenger: ‘The Devil is not going to win.’ The violence lasted 14 minutes on the 6.25 from Doncaster as the knifeman went on a rampage through the carriages. But quick...
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WILLIAM AND KATE PUSHED FOR ANDREW TO BE OUSTED
THE Prince and Princess of Wales made it clear that a clean break from Andrew was the only way the Royal Family can move forward, the Daily Mail can reveal. Before he was stripped of his royal titles, William and Kate backed the King, saying that they...
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HUMILIATION FOR REEVES AS SHE CHANGES HER STORY
RACHEL Reeves faced humiliation last night after she backtracked over her illegal letting blunder. There were growing calls for the Chancellor to be sacked following an extraordinary day of contradictory statements. Last night the Prime Minister’s...
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REEVES ILLEGALLY RENTED OUT HER OWN FAMILY HOME
RACHEL Reeves has broken the law by renting out her family home without a licence since entering Downing Street. The Chancellor last night referred herself to the independent ethics adviser and had to admit her error to the Prime Minister after...
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AFGHAN HELD OVER MURDER OF DOG WALKER CAME TO THE UK IN A LORRY
AN AFGHAN who entered Britain illegally was last night being questioned by detectives after a dog walker was stabbed to death. The victim, 49, was killed in the street, with horrifying footage circulating online showing the knifeman repeatedly...
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SNP READY TO CLOBBER SCOTS WITH PUNISHING HOMES TAX
THE SNP government is proposing ‘jaw- dropping’ council tax rises of up to 72 per cent under new reforms. The most radical plan in the overhaul of the property tax since 1991 is a complex 14-band system which could see some bills soar to an...
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BILLIONS ‘WASTED’ ON HOTELS FOR MIGRANTS
THE Home Office ‘squandered’ billions of pounds on asylum hotels, a damning report reveals today. MPs blasted its ‘incompetence’ at handling a ‘failed, chaotic, expensive’ system. There was a ‘manifest failure’ by the department to get a grip on...
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A BLUNDER THAT BEGGARS BELIEF
BUNGLING prison staff yesterday wrongly freed a ‘dangerous’ Channel migrant who had sexually assaulted a schoolgirl. A police manhunt was under way last night for sex offender Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu after he was accidentally released back into the...
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NOW END THE WITCH HUNT
FURIOUS veterans demanded last night that Labour halts the witch hunts against them after a paratrooper was cleared of Bloody Sunday shootings. Former soldiers and ministers slammed the case against a veteran in his seventies known only as Soldier F,...
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CYNICAL SNP ‘ARE AT IT’ OVER TRUMP POLICE COST ROW
SNP ministers were last night accused of being ‘at it’ amid a furious cross-Border row over the policing bill for Donald Trump and JD Vance’s recent trips to Scotland. The Scottish Government insisted the UK Government should pay the £24million cost...
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SNP PLAN TO SPLIT UK ‘A WIN FOR PUTIN’
THE SNP blueprint for tearing Scotland out of the UK would be a win for Vladimir Putin, according to a defence minister. Luke Pollard said the plan to remove nuclear weapons from Scotland in a new SNP government independence paper would put national...
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JUST HOW CAN ANDREW AFFORD ROYAL LODGE?
PRINCE Andrew is not believed to have received any significant inheritance from the Queen or Queen Mother – raising fresh questions about how he can afford to stay in Royal Lodge. Contrary to popular belief, the former Duke of York is not thought to...
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KING’S THREAT TO SHAME ANDREW BY STRIPPING TITLES
THE King threatened to have Prince Andrew officially stripped of his titles unless he ‘saw sense’. Charles, 76, made clear he would not hesitate to take decisive ‘further action’ if his brother refused to give up his dukedom and other honours after he...
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ANDREW FALLS ON HIS SWORD
PRINCE Andrew was last night finally forced to relinquish all of his remaining royal titles. After another week of scandal, he announced he would no longer be known as the Duke of York and was stepping down from membership of the Order of the Garter –...
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ANDREW AND ‘SPY CHIEF’ AT HEART OF CHINA SCANDAL
PRINCE Andrew met the alleged ‘spymaster’ at the heart of the collapsed China spy case at least three times, it emerged last night. The Duke of York became embroiled in the scandal engulfing the Government as pictures showed him shaking hands with the...
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CHINESE STOLE SECRETS FROM No.10 FOR YEARS
CHINA stole Britain’s state secrets for years using a backdoor into sensitive Whitehall computer systems, it emerged last night. The Daily Mail understands that in a catastrophic blunder, the Chinese were allowed to buy a company that controlled a...
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LABOUR ISN’T WORKING (AGAIN)
BRITAIN’S economy faced a grim quadruple whammy yesterday, piling more pressure on Rachel Reeves just weeks from the Budget. A stark report from the International Monetary Fund warned that inflation in the UK will be the highest for any advanced...
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NOA’S HERO IS HOME
RESCUED Israeli hostage Noa Argamani’s reunion with her freed boyfriend was sealed with a kiss last night. On a historic day in the Middle East, 20 surviving hostages were released from Gaza, sparking jubilant scenes across Israel and beyond. But...
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Claire gives new film the bold shoulder
IN her latest film, she plays a woman who raises a hawk to help her cope after her father’s death. And there was certainly something bird-like about Claire Foy’s outfit as she landed on the red carpet for its London premiere last night. Ms Foy, 41,...
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THE ‘CHINA SPY’ IN MY OFFICE, BY TOP TORY
A PARLIAMENTARY researcher accused of spying for Beijing was at the ‘heart of government policy on China’, it can be revealed today. Chris Cash received highlevel briefings from former MI6 spies, ambassadors and ministers, gaining extraordinary...
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BLESSED IS THE PEACEMAKER
DONALD Trump last night proclaimed ‘everlasting peace’ as he clinched a historic deal to bring home Israeli hostages and end the bombardment of Gaza. The US President’s ‘momentous breakthrough’ was hailed by Israeli families, Palestinians and world...
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Victoria Beckham: I secretly suffered from an eating disorder for years
IT WAS the night Victoria Beckham had always dreamed of. And even the notable absence of her estranged, yet beloved, son Brooklyn couldn’t stop her from smiling as she hosted the star-studded premiere of her much-anticipated Netflix documentary simply...
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