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Natural England to Focus Planning Advice on Complex Environmental Cases
STORY Natural England has changed how it provides advice on planning applications, with its specialists now concentrating on proposals presenting the greatest risks or opportunities for nature. The Government said the revised approach would…
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Angela Rayner – 2026 Statement on Grenfell Tower
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Dan Jarvis – 2026 Speech at the International Security Expo
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Andy Burnham – 2026 Speech to Labour Party Conference
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Shabana Mahmood – 2026 Speech to Labour Party Conference
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Jonathan Reynolds – 2026 Speech to Labour Party Conference
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John Healey – 2026 Speech to Labour Party Conference
From Parliament
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Andy Burnham – 2026 Speech to Labour Party Conference
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Keir Starmer – 2026 Resignation as MP Statement
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Greg Hands – 2026 Statement Confirming Not Standing at Next Election
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Andy Burnham – 2026 First Speech as Prime Minister
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Keir Starmer – 2026 Final Answer at PMQs
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Ed Davey – 2026 Comments on Keir Starmer at the Final PMQs
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British politics 100 years ago
Contemporary reports from Britain’s political past.
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One hundred years ago
NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 29 September 1926
29 SEPTEMBER 1926 The House of Commons decided to continue the emergency regulations in operation. Further discussion of the mining situation took…
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One hundred years ago
NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 28 September 1926
28 SEPTEMBER 1926 The coal dispute was discussed in the House of Commons, the principal speakers on the Government side being the…
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One hundred years ago
NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 27 September 1926
27 SEPTEMBER 1926 Towards the end of the final meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva, news was…