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January 17, 2025

BBC ‘should reflect on playing music of rapper who reportedly glorified murder’

Lisa Nandy reveals she has ‘put a lot of hours’ into video game Animal Crossing

Man arrested after woman dies and two-year-old girl seriously injured

Warning over snakes slipping into northern Europe in imported flowers and plants

General taxation not considered to replace BBC licence fee – Culture Secretary

Woman with Rapunzel-style locks gets world record for longest hair donation

LA wildfires ‘sheer hell’ – British actor prepares meals to support firefighters

Surprise flop in retail sales in December after ‘poor’ month for supermarkets

DFS profits rise but warns of rising costs post-Budget and weaker sofa demand

Listeners think some accents sound guiltier than others, study suggests

Some accents sound guiltier than others, researchers find

What the papers say – January 17

Calorie labelling on menus and food products has ‘small’ effect, review finds

Lammy and Nandy launch ‘soft power council’ to boost UK on global stage

Commons committee chairman says local roads are ‘riddled with potholes’

Army loads hundreds of vehicles on to ships ahead of major Nato exercise

Ofsted inspection reforms do not go ‘far enough’, school leaders’ union warns

Search for more than 30 ‘hidden’ fragments of Stone of Destiny after 1951 repair

Younger workers more likely to suffer burnout as generation gap grows – survey

Carbon dioxide rising at rates ‘incompatible’ with staying below 1.5C – study

National Trust planting 800 football pitches worth of woodlands over winter

Telecoms bills must now be in pounds and pence format to end ‘nasty surprises’

Best and worst energy firms revealed as customer choice slowly returns

RHS calls for compensation for ‘£6m loss due to road scheme near Wisley gardens’

January 16, 2025

PM: UK will discuss peacekeeping troops in Ukraine with allies

Family of Sara Sharif to lodge appeal against sentences for her murder

Keir Starmer to hold talks on new security treaty during visit to Poland

Tories will consider means-testing triple-lock, Badenoch says

Former Bank boss Mark Carney announces bid to replace Canada’s Trudeau

Grooming inquiry timetable will bring ‘fundamental change’, say campaigners

Local reviews into grooming will get answers and bring change, says Cooper

Thames Valley Police chief constable suspended amid misconduct investigation

Reporting of vaccine side-effects should be mandatory – Tory former minister

Revenue and Customs workers to strike in pay dispute

Elianne was standing up for friend ‘doing what she thought was right’

Anne to mark non-combat work by black South Africans during First World War

‘Beacon of light’ Hollyoaks actor Paul Danan died day before court date

Neo-Nazi satanist jailed for six years for encouraging girls to kill themselves

Sean Brown murder has left ‘indelible stain’ on British state, court hears

Cooper looking at ‘different ways’ to haul witnesses before grooming inquiries

Chancellor urges regulators to ‘tear down’ red tape in bid for growth

Labour MP calls for law change to protect children born from rape

Parents make knife crime vow as teenager convicted of Elianne Andam murder

Man charged after bus hit railway bridge

Fifth teenager charged over murder of 17-year-old near bus station

Former Pc cleared of rape found to have committed gross misconduct

Six and a half years for abusive ‘monster’ whose partner took her own life

Five youths jailed for ‘sickening’ transphobic attack

Who is Mike Amesbury, the Runcorn MP who admitted assault over street punch?

Home Secretary announces local reviews into grooming gangs

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