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Wesley Akum-Ojong had told peers he was anxious about jumping into the river, an inquest was told

Missing Pieces Project maps buildings in 189 locations where African American abolitionists spoke against slavery

Warning comes after Rachel Reeves’s record tax-raising budget sent tremors through financial markets

Voting has closed in contest to lead Britain’s Conservative Party after its crushing election defeat

The trouble with Halloween isn’t just, as Rachel Johnson points out today, that it’s the occasion for large scale larceny by the young and conspicuous ghoul-related consumption by adults on an indecent scale; it’s also a loathsome revenant of its former self. I grew up with Halloween in its old…

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A ban on protesting outside abortion clinics has gone into effect in England and Wales

Headlines featured numerous ‘nightmare’ allusions for budget delivered the day before Halloween

Former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's youngest son, who fled to Britain to seek asylum from what he describes as a campaign of persecution, says the city-state has become much more repressive and that corruption has worsened in the decade since his father died

Chancellor’s solutions to improving economy and public services will be a radical change for country

ANALYSIS: Business will bear the burden of this Budget, so the chancellor must hope it delivers a better economy, says Howard Mustoe