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Parents split as 'Britain's strictest headteacher' brought in at school

Students at King's Leadership Academy staged a protest to raise their concerns about Barry Smith's methods

Liverpool Echo

'Britain's filthiest home' sells for £115,000 more than its £60,000 guide price

The three-bed home is in need of total refurbishment after suffering extensive fire damage

Wales Online

Britain, Malta sign deal covering defence, migration

Britain and its former Mediterranean colony Malta signed a wide-ranging cooperation agreement on Friday covering areas including security and defence, migration, education, health and trade.

Reuters

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Pupils protest as 'strictest headteacher in UK' brings 'military' methods into school

Barry Smith, once dubbed "Britain's strictest headteacher" was brought into the King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool as a freelance consultant. However his controversial methods has angered many students and parents

Daily Mirror

Chinese spy balloons have likely spied on UK and 'would have been shot down too'

UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace confirmed it's highly likely that Chinese high-altitude spy balloons - like the one shot down off the coast of North Carolina last week - have soared over Britain and collected intelligence signals from below

Daily Mirror

GDP: No recession yet, but Britain’s not out of the woods

Break in Premier League games helps fuel economy slowdown

Evening Standard

Britain is addicted to the wrecking ball. It’s trashing our heritage and the planet

The obliteration of 50,000 buildings a year is crass vandalism, says Open City chief executive Phineas Harper

The Guardian - UK

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Pupils stage protest as 'strictest headteacher in Britain' brought in to Liverpool school

Bosses at King's Leadership Academy say claims about consultant Barry Smith are "unfounded"

Liverpool Echo

Probe launched into Clarkson’s vile Meghan column

Britain's media watchdog has launched a formal investigation into TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson's visceral column about Meghan Markle.

The New Daily

UK recruiter of debt-hit Indonesians loses seasonal workers licence

Some of the over 1,450 people brought by AG Recruitment owed thousands to unlicensed brokers

The Guardian - UK

Take AstraZeneca’s warning seriously. The UK is missing out in life sciences

Big pharma has choices about where to make new investments and, increasingly it seems, it is not choosing Britain

The Guardian - UK

Dear Lee Anderson: Derek Bentley was innocent and hanged. We scrapped the death penalty for a reason

There were moral and practical considerations to ending the barbarity of state executions in Britain. They are still relevant today, says writer and former Guardian crime correspondent Duncan Campbell

The Guardian - UK

World War 3 is only way to halt Vladimir Putin and 'stopping for him is death'

The terrifying warning was made by exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky who now lives in Britain after falling foul of Putin. In 2001 he founded Open Russia, an organisation advocating democracy and human rights

Daily Mirror

Blue Jean review: A striking, prescient British debut that resists all ‘lesbian drama’ clichés

Crucially, Georgia Oakley’s film may be set in 1988 but doesn’t embrace the myth that modern Britain is on a steady path of betterment

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Daily Mirror

New Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch fuels fears about collapse of steel industry

Some steel industry insiders believe the Government is determined to 'manage decline' of the once-thriving industry amid sky-high energy costs and moves to slash pollution

The Guardian - UK

After Brexit, if Sunak really wants a ‘science superpower’, he must fix these three things

Science now has a cabinet seat, but Britain’s world-leading reputation is fading fast, says public health professor Devi Sridhar

Reuters

Britain says it paid $2.8 billion to EU to settle Chinese import fraud case

Britain's finance ministry said on Thursday it had paid 2.6 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to the European Union, after an EU court ruled that the former EU member should pay billions of euros it failed to collect due to fraud on imports from China.

Manchester Evening News

Britain’s ugliest dog Peggy ‘treated like a queen’ as she undergoes weekend of pampering

Peggy enjoyed a blueberry facial and hydrobath

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Reuters

UK will keep working with UN on Syria-Turkey earthquake response - Cleverly

Britain will continue to work with the United Nations and others to support Turkey and Syria following earthquakes there, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Thursday, describing the situation in Syria as "considerably harder."

Reuters

Britain sanctions seven Russians over cyber crime

Britain said on Thursday it had sanctioned seven Russians over cyber crime in co-ordinated action with the United States, as the pair seek to crack down on those they blame for ransomware attacks which have paralysed businesses, schools and hospitals.

Evening Standard

Putin’s spring offensive in Ukraine set to ‘fail in bloody fashion,’ says ex-head of British Army Lord Dannatt

Lord Dannatt believes Ukrainian armed forces, supplied with heavy weapons from West, will be ready to launch counter-offensive as Putin’s troops are ‘reeling’ from battlefield setbacks

Reuters

Britain defends possible talks with governor of China's Xinjiang

Britain on Thursday defended the possibility that officials will hold talks with Erkin Tuniyaz, the governor of the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, amid outrage from lawmakers who have highlighted alleged rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims there.

Daily Mirror

France becomes latest country to clamp down on whip use by jockeys as chiefs send warning

France Galop has announced the number of strikes allowed by jockeys will be cut to four from five this year following changes being introduced in Britain and Germany

The National (Scotland)

Scotland's tax and benefits system more progressive than rest of UK, report finds

SCOTLAND’S tax and benefits system is now considerably more progressive than elsewhere in Britain, a report has found.

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak rebukes Tory vice-chair for backing death penalty

Lee Anderson, who was given role on Tuesday, also called for a naval ‘standoff’ in the Channel over small boats

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