A new UK law will require schools to follow Government statutory guidance on school uniform costs. Is this a good thing? Are uniforms necessary or just an added unnecessary financial burden?

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Millions of households in the UK are bracing for a winter catastrophe of rising energy bills that experts say will plunge people into destitution and cause an increase in avoidable deaths - what is the remedy to this impending disaster?

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Bus, tube and train services have been underfunded for decades and are often overpriced, delayed or just nonexistent. Almost £400 million has been cut from local bus funding in the last decade alone, and rail fares in the UK are some of the most expensive in Europe. With strikes and public discontent on the rise, what is to be done?

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Mystery at Mar-a-Lago: What were FBI agents looking for and what are the consequences?

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Insects are proposed to be the future food of the planet. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) has been making continuous efforts to popularise entomophagy as a healthy, sustainable, and environment-friendly practice for years. Yuck!

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Swiss food giant Nestle has warned that it will continue to raise the prices of its products because of the rising costs of food.
The maker of KitKats and Nesquik increased prices by more than 5% in the first three months of the year.
The price rise helped Nestle to report sales growth of 7.6% in the period.
As costs rise, Nestle boss Mark Schneider said "further pricing and mitigating actions over the course of the year" will be required.
"We stepped up pricing in a responsible manner and saw sustained consumer demand," Mr Schneider added.
Food prices worldwide are at their highest since records began 60 years ago, according to the UN Food price index.

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The present Queen of England has been through quite a few Prime Ministers. With the prospect of a new one very soon, Mark and Pete do a review of she and they have done.

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Tyson Fury is coming back ... or is he? The WBC heavyweight world champion insisted he would be retiring after his sixth-round stoppage win over Dillian Whyte in April, but recently teased he would be persuaded to box again

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Russian and Ukrainian officials have signed a deal to allow grain exports from Ukrainian Black Sea ports, as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the agreement would help ease a global food crisis. Its this a good thing? Will it actually happen?

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A new Vincent Van Gogh hidden self-portrait has been discovered in Scotland using X-ray As it prepared for an exhibit, the National Galleries of Scotland found a previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, covered by glue and cardboard, on the back of another of his paintings.

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