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India trade deal will mean accepting increased migration to UK, PM indicates
Martin Lewis says you should check your savings account as soon as possibleMoney saving expert Martin Lewis has warned anyone with money in a savings account to “check it now” as they could be underpaid.
Atheists in Greece hold meat-eating feasts on Good Friday
Dozens of vegans in Athens protest the “barbaric” custom of skewering lamb for Easter
Stowaway cat rescued from North Sea platformA stowaway cat has been flown ashore from a North Sea platform after being found in a shipping container.The Scottish SPCA was alerted to the unusual feline find on Thursday.He is believed to be a stray nicknamed "one-eyed Joe" who has been fed by prison staff in Peterhead for several years.
Cat-loving Blackpool couple ordered to remove 'catio' - despite 26,000-signature petition to save feline fairground"We couldn’t keep them cooped up in the house all day long; it’s not fair on them because they need fresh air but they deserve to be safe," says one of its owners
Holy Fire to arrive on Saturday from JerusalemThe Holy Fire, carried to Greece each year from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, is set to arrive on a special Aegean Airlines flight on Saturday afternoon, in time for the Easter midnight mass... the plane is expected to land at Athens international airport at approximately 6 p.m.
Supermarkets set limits on sale of cooking oilOlive, rapeseed and sunflower oils are included in the limits being put in place by some supermarkets, both in-store and online.
Priti Patel accused of misleading parliament over refugee pushbacksThe home secretary has been accused of misleading parliament after a high court ruling revealed that unpublished parts of a controversial policy to push back migrant dinghies in the Channel said the tactic would not be used against asylum seekers.The pushbacks policy was finalised in autumn 2021, yet in January this year Priti Patel said pushing back migrant boats was “absolutely still policy” when she gave evidence to the Lords justice and home affairs committee. She has been accused of giving that evidence even though she knew about the unpublished clauses in the policy not to use pushbacks against asylum seekers.
Priti Patel accused of ‘hypocrisy’ over plans to place asylum seekers on RAF site in rural villagePriti Patel has been accused of “hypocrisy” over her department’s plan to place asylum seekers in a rural Yorkshire village.The home secretary announced plans last week to open the UK’s first bespoke asylum reception centre, set to house upwards of 500 people while their claims are considered, at a former RAF site in Linton-on-Ouse, which has a population of 1,200 and is 10 miles from the nearest town.But charities and the village’s Tory MP have said the move is contradictory, pointing out that only two years ago the home secretary ordered that asylum seekers be removed from a hotel in her constituency on the basis that the area was too rural and not in close proximity to a town or city.
QuoteStowaway cat rescued from North Sea platformA stowaway cat has been flown ashore from a North Sea platform after being found in a shipping container.The Scottish SPCA was alerted to the unusual feline find on Thursday.He is believed to be a stray nicknamed "one-eyed Joe" who has been fed by prison staff in Peterhead for several years.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-61187052
‘One-eyed Joe’: cat that went missing for five years found on Scottish oil rigA cat that was missing for five years has been reunited with its owner after being found on an offshore oil rig.The cat is believed to have been living as a stray around Peterhead prison in Aberdeenshire.SPCA animal rescue officer Aimee Findlay said... “After checking him for a microchip, it turns out his real name is Dexter.”
Exclusive: France and Germany evaded arms embargo to sell weapons to RussiaParis and Berlin sent Moscow £230m of military hardware, including bombs, rockets and missiles, that is likely being used in UkraineFrance and Germany armed Russia with €273 million (£230 million) of military hardware now likely being used in Ukraine, an EU analysis shared with The Telegraph has revealed.They sent equipment, which included bombs, rockets, missiles and guns, to Moscow despite an EU-wide embargo on arms shipments to Russia, introduced in the wake of its 2014 annexation of Crimea.The European Commission was this month forced to close a loophole in its blockade after it was found that at least 10 member states exported almost €350 million (£294 million) in hardware to Vladimir Putin’s regime. Some 78 per cent of that total was supplied by German and French firms.Berlin defended its use of an ambiguity within the EU’s 2014 arms blockade, insisting that the goods were sold only after the Kremlin guaranteed they were for civilian use, rather than military application.