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Parents across the UK have criticised the delayed implementation date of September 2024 for funded childcare from ages nine months to two years old.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a pre-recorded message to the Society of Editors Media Freedom Conference on Wednesday.

The Royal College of Nursing accused the Chancellor of ‘not yet gripping’ the issue.

Sammy Wilson raised concerns over personal income tax.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has unveiled his latest spending plans.

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

The Chancellor said forecasts the economy would avoid a recession was ‘proving the doubters wrong’ as he unveiled his Budget.

Union officials warn that industrial action will continue throughout spring and summer unless the disputes are resolved.

The Government should be investing in retrofitting homes and homegrown clean energy as a way to remove fossil fuel dependence, critics said.

Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell was shot a number of times in Omagh last month.

Minister Steve Baker said all public services in Northern Ireland would suffer without the return of Stormont.

Union leaders say the rally, which took place on the afternoon Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Budget, was attended by at least 40,000 people.

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

The Budget has produced groups who will be better off as well as those who may see their finances squeezed.

Jeremy Hunt has said working parents in England with children as young as nine months will be able to access 30 hours a week of free childcare.

Living standards in 2027/28 will still be below pre-pandemic levels.

The Chancellor said that £10 million would be awarded to help streamline approvals for new medical products.

The FTSE 100 top tier index dropped by close to 4% on Wednesday amid fears for European giant Credit Suisse.

The new work, titled Morning Has Broken, was confirmed in three photographs on the secretive graffiti artist’s Instagram account.

Khayri McLean, 15, was stabbed while making his way home from North Huddersfield Trust School on September 21 last year.