Health Minister Robin Swann has issued a direct plea to his Stormont ministerial colleagues to find a way forward in agreeing a budget to help resolve the crisis in the health service.Mr Swann said that the failure of political parties to agree a three-year budget had “ cruelly robbed ” patients and health staff of the best chance in a decade of reforming services. The current strain on hospitals this week led the Northern Trust to declare a “ potential major incident ” due to severe pressures i

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said thousands of people stranded on the European Union's eastern border represent an attempt by Belarus to destabilise the bloc, rather than a migrant crisis, and as such call for a coordinated response. She told the European Parliament on Tuesday that the 27-nation bloc was standing in solidarity with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, who are bearing the brunt of what the EU says is President Alexander Lukashenko's ploy to engineer a crisis by flying in

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Truckers are said to have queued up to eight hours waiting to get through customs checks at Calais as delays affect deliveries.... It comes as new rules came into force this month with experts blaming the problem on Government systems.EU imports have to be processed by HMRC, but drivers report being unable to get reference codes accepted. Jon Swallow from logistics company Jordan Freight told The Independent:" We’ve been told by HMRC that they are just too busy to deal with it.... I’m expectin

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500, 000 workers and also facing cost inflation of 14% to 18%, said Ian Wright, head of the Food and Drink