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'I left my husband after 24 years for a man 18 years my junior - all I left was a note'

A woman decided to leave her husband of 24 years whilst he was working, leaving nothing but a note - and her devastated children decided not to attend her wedding to her new man

Daily Mirror

Glasgow man loses legs after being electrocuted and set on fire on train track

Paul Johnson had to crawl onto the train track, while his legs were on fire, to call an ambulance after he fell onto the track and was electrocuted in a horrific accident.

Glasgow Live

Scots amputee electrocuted on train tracks hails charity for turning life around

Paul Johnson, 29, was forced to crawl with his legs on fire to reach a phone after the freak accident near his home in Pollokshields.

Daily Record

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Plans for 150-room hotel at Cavern Walks to go ahead

Two other major city centre developments were also signed off

Liverpool Echo

Jury retires in trial of former NSW minister Milton Orkopoulos

Milton Orkopoulos, 65, pleaded not guilty to 28 charges including sexual offences against four underage boys he allegedly supplied drugs to over a decade, ending in 2003.

Newcastle Herald

Jury retires in trial of former NSW minister

Former NSW minister Milton Orkopoulos is waiting for a jury's verdict after he pleaded not guilty to 28 charges, including sexual offences against boys.

AAP

'Improbable' Orkopoulos would party with skating teens, jury told

"Do you really seriously see the member for Swansea having ... a whole bunch of skateboarding teenagers coming down to the office for a party?"

Newcastle Herald

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'Improbable' ex-MP would party with skating teens

Milton Orkopoulos' lawyers have said it was unlikely the ex-MP would hang with skateboarding teens as they urge jurors to find him not guilty of sexual abuse.

AAP

Milton Orkopoulos paid young men to protect his reputation, lawyer says

The then-MP for Swansea had a reputation to protect and would have good reason for not wanting it revealed he was bisexual or took drugs, Paul Johnson told jurors on Friday.

Newcastle Herald

Ex-NSW minister paid to protect reputation, lawyer says

A barrister defending former NSW minister Milton Orkopoulos against sexual assault allegations involving teenaged boys says the complainants are unreliable.

AAP

Minister ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ with young boys

Milton Orkopoulos used his position as a councillor and government minister to gain the trust of young boys before giving them drugs and sexually abusing

The New Daily

Dallas prosecutors brought homicide cases to trial knowing police evidence was deleted

DALLAS — Dallas County prosecutors allowed homicide cases to go to trial in recent weeks even after learning that evidence related to the crimes was permanently deleted, according to records obtained by The Dallas Morning News.

Tribune News Service

‘Back to work’ pensions reform risks costing Treasury £100,000 a job, think tank warns

IFS says policy is ‘sledgehammer to crack a nut’

The Independent UK

Budget expert warns cutting nurses' real pay will hammer morale and services

The Institute for Fiscal Studies delivered its scathing verdict on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Budget, warning that slashing public sector pay in real terms would have damaging consequences

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Evening Standard

Forget post-election tax cuts, we’re stuck in a lost decade, says IFS

The IFS has cast its eye over Jeremy Hunt’s Budget as millions of Britons face being dragged into paying more income tax

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt is helping rich instead of helping people into work, says thinktank

IFS says budget pensions giveaway could open up loophole for avoidance of inheritance tax

Evening Standard

Labour would scrap Chancellor’s ‘gilded giveaway’ to wealthy pensions savers

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves would reverse the ‘pensions bung for the 1%’

The Guardian - UK

Hunt’s ‘budget for growth’ gives top 1% a pension bonus but ignores public services

No money for nurses, doctors or teachers note critics as Starmer says UK is on ‘path of managed decline’

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The Independent UK

Freezing fuel duty is a ‘political choice’ by Hunt, says IFS

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the £6 billion could have funded an inflation-matching pay offer to public sector workers.

Daily Mirror

Jeremy Hunt blasted for ignoring public sector pay demands in 'betrayal' Budget

Nurses, teachers and paramedics have responded with fury at the Chancellor's failure to hike public sector pay, with one union claiming he had 'stuck up two fingers to workers with this Budget'

The Independent UK

Billions spent to stop 15,000 workers retiring is ‘huge giveaway to wealthiest’

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s pensions move as a boost for the ‘richest 1%’.

Wales Online

Spring budget: Cutting fuel duties rather than funding nurses is 'a choice'

Paul Johnson at the Institute for Fiscal Studies described the Chancellor's decision to continue to lower fuel duty as 'absurd'

The Guardian - UK

Budget 2023: Jeremy Hunt announces changes to childcare, pensions and disability benefits – as it happened

Chancellor abolishes lifetime cap on amount workers can save in pensions without paying tax

The Guardian - UK

The Tories could raise billions in this budget and not spook the markets – but they haven’t got the guts

Rational reforms of our wildly unjust tax system could harvest huge sums, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

ABC News

Alleged 13yo victim of former NSW Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos invited to office party, mother says

The trial against former Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos hears from the mother of one of his alleged victims, who says the minister and another man came to her house looking for her son.

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