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Evening Standard

Politics

Craig Paton

Government announces urgent review of ‘anomalous’ business rates hikes

Jenny Gilruth

The Scottish Government has commissioned an independent review into “anomalous” business rates hikes.

Ministers had come under pressure earlier this year to halt a rates revaluation which saw the cost to some increase by large sums.

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Man finishes voting for the Brazilian presidential election at Miami Dade College. Then he allegedly puts on an ICE costume to intimidate voters

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A New Orleans judge wanted to press charges against a TV news station. But it hadn’t violated any law

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