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The National Union of Students penned the letter to the Chancellor slamming him for the" complete

The tax levy will raise approximately ￡12billion and will be used to fund Covid recovery for the NHS in the first few years and later to make much-needed reforms to the social care system.... In his most important policy announcement of the year, Mr Johnson said:" We will do all this in a way that is right and reasonable and fair.”------------------Mr Johnson pledged that the funding would be spent on" capping the Covid backlogs by increasing hospital capacity to 110 percent and enabling nine m

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PETALING JAYA: While students and parents are anxious about the reopening of schools and higher learning institutions next month, educators have called for proper implementation of rules to ensure the safety of all parties. Tertiary students have also suggested that they be given an option to go back to campus or stay back home in areas with high Covid-19 cases. Parent Haris Hazim, 40, said he was glad that schools were finally reopening in October, adding that his Fifth Former son had been stud

BEIJING( REUTERS)-China's leisure and tourism businesses are feeling the bite of the country's zero

A GROOM-to-be who was punched in a near-fatal attack on his stag has told how he feels “ robbed

The world is not complete without Russia. This play on a popular quote from Andrei Platonov neatly sums up what President Putin said at the Valdai forum.