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All news for 2024-07-25

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National alert from NHS over blood type shortages
The alert means blood stocks have fallen to under two days’ worth for one blood type - resulting in an urgent callout for members of the public to book donation appointments.
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DWP error means thousands of people born in these years are owed substantial amounts
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has revealed that thousands of Brits are missing out on an average of £7,293 each due to a state pension error - and some could be owed even more
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Harm from problem gambling in Great Britain ‘may be eight times greater than previously estimated’
Largest survey of its kind shows estimated 2.5% of adults have struggled with problem gambling
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Thousands of modern slavery victims in the UK feared to be back with traffickers after seeking help
Data shows that last year more than 2,000 people referred to support body the NRM had been referred before
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North Korea-backed cyber espionage campaign targets UK military
National Cyber Security Centre warns of global hacking effort to obtain nuclear and defence intelligence
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FBI director questions whether Trump was hit by bullet or shrapnel in shooting
Ronny Jackson, former White House doctor who examined Trump after shooting, pushes back: ‘It was a bullet’
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Liz Truss chaos helped drive over 300,000 people into poverty, bombshell study finds
A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found ex Tory PM Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget helped make the impact of soaring mortgage rates even worse
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Huge number of weapons, drugs and phones found in prisons crisis
Concerns have been raised about the performance of dozens of prisons in England and Wales as there has been a large increase in the number of weapons, drugs and phones seized
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Woman charged with murdering baby found in woods near Gulliver’s World
Joanne Sharkey, 55, appeared in court charged with murder and endeavouring to conceal the birth of a child after the baby, who was later named as Callum, was discovered in woodland in Warrington in 1998
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Company behind global IT outage leaves people furious again after latest issue
The company behind a global IT outage which knocked hundreds of millions of computers offline, caused travel chaos and crippled healthcare systems have offered their partners £7.75 gift cards to say ‘sorry’.