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British Gas owner Centrica has posted operating profits of £1.34 billion in the six months to the end of June, an increase of five-fold on the same period in 2021.
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Labour backbencher Jess Phillips has said she may consider running for the party leadership if Jeremy Corbyn stands down.
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Breaking: Cambridge University has become the first UK institution to announce it is moving all lectures online until summer 2021
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Home Secretary Priti Patel has said it is "right" that people should speak English before moving to work in the UK
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Police officers have used a controversial tactic to halt a stolen motorbike which refused to stop for police, by ramming it with a car.
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“You’re stopping someone from getting to hospital… why the hell do you think this is the right thing to do?” Furious motorists clash with eco-mob Insulate Britain who have blocked access to the M25 again. Read more:
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Home Secretary Priti Patel has criticised London Mayor Sadiq Khan's visit to a legalised cannabis farm in Los Angeles, saying his time would be "better spent focusing on knife and drug crime in London".
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Labour MP Dawn Butler has been asked to leave the House of Commons for the remainder of the day after refusing to withdraw claims that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has "lied to the House and the country over and over again".
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The Home Office has confirmed 13 "serious foreign criminals" have been deported to Jamaica this morning despite a high profile campaign against the flight.
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Minutes before his arrival in the UK, President Trump took to Twitter to say Sadiq Khan has done a "terrible job as Mayor of London" and described him as "a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me".
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson confirms the UK is ‘past the peak’ of coronavirus
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Hertfordshire Police has admitted the arrest of LBC reporter Charlotte Lynch who was detained while covering a Just Stop Oil protest yesterday was not necessary.
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France says it will refuse another delay to Brexit in current circumstances, according to the country's Foreign Minister.
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Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg says Theresa May has made "active choices" to stop the United Kingdom from leaving the European Union and "needs to be held to account"
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The House of Commons has been suspended because of a sewage leak in the Chamber.
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London declares a major incident due to rising cases 🚨 Number of Covid-19 cases exceed 1000 per 100,000 🚨 35% more patients in hospitals than the April peak 🚨 800+ Covid admissions a day and rising Read the latest ⬇️
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"For someone like Churchill, who fought the biggest racist ever, I think it's extremely bad" Members of the public have told LBC News why they're cleaning graffiti off a statue of Winston Churchill this morning. Read more:
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Donald Trump's arrival with the First Lady at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland has been met with a protest from the air. A Greenpeace paraglider propelled past him with a banner saying 'Trump well below par' - it was in protest at his stance on green issues. Watch video here
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Drill music rapper Unknown T, whose real name is Daniel Lena, has been charged with the murder of a 20-year-old man at a flat party in Islington in north London in January 2018.
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It is understood Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has signed a "commencement order" triggering the end of the supremacy of European Union Law in the United Kingdom on October 31st.
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23 month-old Alfie Evans has died, more than four days after his life support was withdrawn by doctors at Alder Hey childrens' hospital in Liverpool. His parents say they are "heartbroken." Alfie died at 2.30am.
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“Go go go” Drivers are taking matters into their own hands, dragging eco-protesters out of the road and ushering traffic through. Read more:
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Campaigner Christie Elan-Cane, who claimed that the UK passport application process was "inherently discriminatory" as it requires individuals to state whether they are male or female, has lost a legal battle today.
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The Government has rejected a petition with more than 5.75 million signatures calling for Brexit to be halted by revoking Article 50.
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Nigel Farage’s final speech at the EU ended very dramatically when he was cut off for ‘disobeying the rules’ #Brexit
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Pc Andrew Harper's widow has written to the Prime Minister to ask for a retrial after her husband's teenage killers were cleared of murder
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Former Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon tells LBC he does not think Theresa May ever believed in the Brexit project.
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The frontman of The Prodigy, Keith Flint, has died at the age of 49. The singer, famous their 90s hit Firestarter was found dead at his home in Essex this morning.
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Joe Biden is projected to win the US presidential election after reaching the 270 Electoral College votes needed.
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Protests in support of Black Lives Matter are to be held across the UK this weekend, in solidarity with recent anti-racism demonstrations in the US
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The Prime Minister says the UK should get ready for a no deal Brexit in January
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A British school teacher who moved to Wuhan in China last year has told LBC the #CoronavirusPandemic over there seems to be calming down.  Shell Buchanan is still trapped outside of her home in Wuhan after the city's borders shut. Read more:
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"Did the Prime Minister agree to the Chancellor writing off £4.3 billion of fraud?" Boris Johnson: "No of course not Mr Speaker" #PMQs |
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Whetherspoon has announced the price of a pint of beer in its pubs is being cut by an average of 20p from today as an example of how leaving the EU's Customs Union can reduce costs.
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This was the moment Labour MP Dawn Butler was kicked out of the House of Commons for saying Boris Johnson has "lied to the House and the country over and over again"
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Former Prime Minister Sir John Major has said the public should be allowed to vote again on whether to leave the European Union because Leave presented a "fantasy case" at the 2016 referendum. Sir John was the guest speaker at tonights annual lecture organised by David Miliband
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Hertfordshire Police faces criticism after LBC reporter Charlotte Lynch was arrested while covering a Just Stop Oil protest on the M25 yesterday.
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A speech by London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been disrupted by protesters shouting pro-Brexit and Pro-Donald Trump slogans
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MPs have voted by 289 to 202 to approve regulations to allow agency workers to replace those on strike.
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A report by the Central Bank of Ireland has found that London is likely to remain a very large global financial centre (GFC) even in adverse Brexit scenarios, and the impact of Brexit on London's GFC could be very small due to the "premium" London enjoys.
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Sky News has cancelled its planned Conservative leadership debate as Boris Johnson has refused to take part.
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Actor Laurence Fox, leader of the Reclaim Party, has announced he is running against Labour's Sadiq Khan in May to be the next mayor of London.
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Sadiq Khan will call on senior EU officials later to allow Brits who are "heartbroken" by Brexit to keep their EU citizenship.
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MPs have rejected by 304 votes to 228 a Labour attempt to force the Government to release documents detailing the cost of the scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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There've been nearly 400 arrests at Notting Hill Carnival - and 30 police officers have been hurt. That's more than last year - despite extra safety measures in place to try and curb violence.
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An 84-year-old sex offender has become the first British prisoner to die after contracting coronavirus.
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Stormzy has pledged to give £10 million to organisations and charities working to end racial discrimination; bring about judicial reform, and empower the black community
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Shamima Begum - one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria to join so-called Islamic State - has lost the first stage of a legal challenge against the decision to revoke her British citizenship.
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The Government announces it has secured a free trade agreement with Japan - the UK's first major post-Brexit trade deal.
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Matt Hancock announces life assurance scheme for NHS and frontline workers, giving £60,000 to the families of those lost to coronavirus
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Crowds have been spotted fleeing London's train stations on the eve of the capital being plunged into strict Tier 4 restrictions.
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MPs have voted by 340 votes to 225 to reverse a Lords amendment to the Fire Safety Bill aimed at stopping building owners from being able to pass on remediation costs, such as the replacement of dangerous cladding, to leaseholders and tenants.
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Sir Rod Stewart has unveiled the unbelievable model railway city which has taken him 23 years to build.
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The Maldives has rejoined the Commonwealth just one hour and one minute after Britain formally left the EU
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Furious drivers have turned violent after eco-mob Insulate Britain blocked roads at an industrial park near the Dartford Crossing. Read more:
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A legal challenge in Belfast High Court that argued the Government's Brexit strategy will damage the Northern Ireland peace process has been dismissed.
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Another 1,564 people who had tested positive for Covid-19 have died in the UK, the highest daily figure since the pandemic began, taking the total death toll to 84,767. A further 47,525 positive cases have also been recorded in the latest 24 hour period.
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At least 2 people are dead and 14 injured after a mass shooting in upstate New York. Police in Rochester say a firearm's been recovered but there's been no arrest.
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Prince Harry's lawsuit over allegations of unlawful information gathering against the publisher of The Sun can continue to a High Court trial, a judge has ruled.
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Conservative sources tell LBC's Political Editor if Theresa May does not secure majority she will step down
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At least 16 people have been killed after a gunman dressed as a police officer went on a rampage across a rural northern part of Nova Scotia in Canada. It's the deadliest attack of its kind in Canadian history.
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David Starkey has resigned from his position at The Mary Rose Museum, which said it was “appalled” by his comments on slavery
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Breaking: Shamima Begum unable to return to UK as Government wins bid to appeal
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has called on the United Kingdom to "get your act together" over Brexit.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has formed the Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm which will review statues and landmarks across the capital to ensure they reflect the capital's diversity.
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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has told LBC if the EU doesn not agree to scrap the Irish border backstop, the UK will leave the bloc "on World Trade Organisation terms."
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Boris Johnson has won a High Court challenge against a court summons to face allegations of misconduct in a public office over claims made during the referendum campaign that the EU receives £350 million a week from the UK.
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MPs cheer as Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal receives royal assent
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Grime star Stormzy has said he believes the UK is '100 per cent' a racist country
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NHS workers are marching in cities across the UK, holding placards including "heroes shouldn't have to use food banks" and "NHS hero but my purse still says zero"
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Boris Johnson has judged that the ministerial code was not breached by Priti Patel amid allegations of bullying despite a report by his adviser on Ministerial Standards saying that the Home Secretary had "not consistently met the high standards expected of her".
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Women should not have to share public toilets because "there are a number of very strange men in this world", the House of Lords has been told.
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Two Met Police officers have been fired after posting offensive messages in a group chat, including a racist joke about the Duchess of Sussex
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TfL have said whilst they “appreciate the sentiment of encouraging people to wear face coverings", they have removed Banksy's latest work from one of their trains, saying "we’d like to offer Banksy the chance to do a new version in a suitable location."
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan tells LBC he thinks the six-month Brexit extension "won't be enough" and Theresa May should have "taken away all the panic" by revoking Article 50.
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Cuadrilla has suspended fracking at its Lancashire site after a 0.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded this morning.
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Sadiq Khan's said, "if people want to spend their Saturday looking at me in a yellow bikini they're welcome to do so - I don't really think yellow's my colour though", after City Hall gave permission for a giant balloon depicting the Mayor to be flown over Parliament Square.
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Brexit minister Chris Heaton-Harris has resigned from the Government, telling the Prime Minister: "I truly believe we should have honoured the result of the 2016 referendum" and left the EU on March 29.
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The rescue of 49 suspected migrants in the English Channel has caused Tory MP for Dover Natalie Elphicke to say those trying to get to the UK illegally from France should be returned.
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Breaking: A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage by police investigating the pulling down of a statue of Edward Colston in Bristol in June
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The EU has confirmed it's launching four new legal actions against the UK government over post-Brexit deal changes.
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A large crowd was filmed partying at Piccadilly Circus last night and revellers even started playing cricket in a street in Peckham after the 10pm curfew
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"It makes me feel sad, powerless and confused." 13-year-old girl launched legal action against council policy she claims give her "no right to privacy from the opposite sex in changing rooms, loos or on residential trips."
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“I’m not going to be challenged... in this house, I'm in charge.” Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle loses his cool after Boris Johnson breaks #PMQs rules.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the creation of a new Office of Veterans' Affairs, to provide lifelong support to military personnel.
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A Banksy-funded refugee rescue boat is stranded in the Mediterranean Sea and emergency calls for immediate help have been ignored, ship leaders have said
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Labour says it would scrap prescription charges if it wins the next General Election.
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Transport for London has announced the Congestion Charge will return to its pre-pandemic weekday hours - with no fee after 6pm.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has encouraged people to "take to the streets" and attend demonstrations against the suspension of Parliament.
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Donald Trump has won Alaska in the US presidential election.
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