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Nurses said they are striking because they cannot provide safe care in current conditions.

Elizabeth II became monarch on February 6 1952 after the death of her father.

The current funding deal to keep services running despite the fall in demand sparked by the coronavirus pandemic expires at the end of March.

Health unions in Wales have largely suspended strike action.

Emma Pattison died with her daughter Lettie and husband George at their home in the grounds of Epsom College in Surrey at the weekend.

The 48-year-old was sacked from the force after being unmasked as one of the country’s most prolific sex offenders.

Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland have been taking rolling strike action.

Total UK retail sales increased by 4.2% in January, less than half the 11.9% rise seen a year earlier, according to the BRC-KPMG retail sales monitor.

Britishvolt was founded in 2019, but collapsed just three years later and is now on the cusp of being bought by an Australian company.

Some 850,000 people in the UK are living with type 2 diabetes but are undiagnosed.

The influential S&P Global/CIPS construction purchasing managers’ index scored 48.4 last month, slipping from 48.8 in December.

The former home secretary said she feels ‘abandoned by the party as far as those of us who can see the truth about Brexit is concerned’.

At an inquest last December, the 11 men who died in 2015 were found to have been unlawfully killed.

The consumer group said banks ‘should not be leaving these open doors for scammers to exploit’.

It is the only union taking action in Wales today.

Nurses and ambulance staff are walking out together for the first time.

Rate setter Catherine Mann said it was too soon to pause increases, warning that there are still big risks that inflation may prove stubborn.

Golf seemed to have the biggest effect on blood fats and the metabolism of glucose, which keeps blood sugar levels stable.

Some 131,994 new cars were registered last month, up 14.7% on January 2022.

Specialist Group International will help police in the search for the mother-of-two.