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RAF Scampton could be transformed into housing for asylum seekers - but locals aren’t happy

Row as historic RAF base could be used to house 1,500 asylum seekers

What is a freeport? New UK economic zones explained (image: AFP/Getty Images)

Explainer Freeports explained - how tax break hubs work and where they’ll be

TikTok has been banned on government phones in the UK (Image by Getty Images)

Parliament blocks TikTok from its devices in ban over security fears

A siren-like emergency warning message will be sent by the Government to mobile phone users across the UK next month to test a new public alert system. (Photo credit: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Explainer Date emergency alert text will be sent - and if you can turn it off

Key workers are struggling to afford even the most basic food items, according to the Food Foundation (image: Getty Images)

Charity report finds NHS staff and teachers ‘struggle to afford food’

Calls for transparency around Jeremy Hunt’s Economic Advisory Council

Rocketing rates of UK inflation are denting consumer spending power (image: Shutterstock)

Explainer RPI vs CPI: what’s the difference between ONS cost of living indexes?

UBS has bought out Credit Suisse in a Swiss government-brokered deal (images: AFP/Getty Images)

Analysis Credit Suisse’s road to failure explained as UBS completes buyout

Nurses striking in January outside Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. Photo: Alex Shute

NHS pay rises will not come at patients' expense, govt says

Evening sunshine in Kigali, Rwanda (Pic: Getty Images)

Suella Braverman ‘encouraged’ by talks with the ECHR

Regions outside London to get almost £60m in arts and culture funding

Calls to end asylum outsourcing as private firm’s profits boom to £34m

Jeremy Hunt will give his Spring Budget 2023 speech on Wednesday (images: PA/Getty Images/ Adobe)

Jeremy Hunt Spring Budget preview - 9 things to expect from speech

How did my MP vote on Suella Braverman’s Illegal Migration Bill?

Gary Lineker is to return to presenting sport on the BBC after he was taken off air over a tweet in which he seemingly compared the UK government’s controversial new asylum policy to Nazi Germany. Credit: Getty Images

Gary Lineker back on BBC after asylum seeker row - what happened?

Silicon Valley Bank invested in startups and wineries in the US (image: AFP/Getty Images)

Why Silicon Valley Bank collapsed as HSBC buys UK arm of American bank

HSBC Bank has bought the UK arm of SVB (image: AFP/Getty Images)

HSBC’s ownership explained following Silicon Valley Bank UK takeover

MH370 The Plane That Disappeared is on Netflix now

What happened to Flight MH370? Was Malaysia Airlines plane found

A mobile user browses through the Chinese owned video-sharing TikTok app on a smartphone (Photo: MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Danish public broadcaster DR bans TikTok from employee phones

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Tuesday (7 March) formally unveiled their new plan to tackle the small boats crisis - and it has already proved highly controversial. Credit: Mark Hall / NationalWorld

Analysis Is Rishi Sunak’s plan to tackle the small boats crisis legal?

UK’s Rwanda deportation plan ‘fails to meet international standards’

Many well known companies in the UK are still failing to close the gender pay gap (Image: Adobe/NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

International Women’s Day: 18 companies with huge gender pay gaps

Parents who allow their children to die will now face life behind bars (Photos: Shutterstock)

Abusive parents who let their children die now face life in prison

The government says the cash will support people to get out of debt (Photo: Adobe)

£76m in forgotten accounts to provide help with rising living costs

A senior Tory has called for Hancock to be hauled before the Commons for questioning (Photo: Getty Images)

Hancock ‘discussed withholding funding for disability hub’

Which? research has found the cost of living crisis is having a major impact on living standards (image: AFP/Getty Images)

One in seven skipping meals due to cost of living crisis, Which? finds

‘Think again’ on ‘anti-strikes’ law, says cross-party committee

An online portal has opened to help 900,000 more households with energy bills (Photo: Adobe)

900,000 more households to receive £400 energy bill support

Ofgem has been criticised by MPs for how it has run the UK energy market (image: Getty Images)

Energy price cap explained as new Ofgem limit set for April 2023

Energy bills set to rise by £500 despite Ofgem price cap drop

The legal marriage age has risen to 18 in England and Wales (Photo: Adobe)

Legal marriage age rises to 18 in England and Wales

The government is planning to soften its hardline position towards striking NHS workers in a fresh bid to bring the long-running dispute to an end, reports suggest. Credit: Getty Images

Ministers ‘soften’ approach to NHS strikes in bid to end union dispute

Chair of Net Zero Review takes £80k role with decarbonisation firm