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How we got here: events leading up to Nadhim Zahawi’s sacking for breaching ministerial code
Timeline: from the initial HMRC investigation to Rishi Sunak’s ethics adviser saying former chancellor was guilty of breaking code of conduct

Josh Halliday and Heather Stewart

29, Jan, 2023 @2:18 PM

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Teenage boy charged with murder of Holly Newton in Northumberland
Holly, 15, was fatally wounded in the market town of Hexham in north-east England on Friday afternoon

Josh Halliday North of England correspondent

29, Jan, 2023 @12:24 PM

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Nadhim Zahawi: the extraordinary rise and fall of ‘the boy from Baghdad’
Sacked Tory party chair overcame many challenges but was unable to avoid questions over his tax affairs

Josh Halliday

29, Jan, 2023 @12:23 PM

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Gove admits ‘faulty’ guidance partly to blame for Grenfell fire
Minister says he wants to abolish ‘outdated, feudal’ system of home ownership by end of this parliament

Josh Halliday

29, Jan, 2023 @11:23 AM

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Nadhim Zahawi sacked as Tory party chair over tax affairs
Rishi Sunak fires Zahawi after he was found to have committed ‘serious breach’ of ministerial code

Pippa Crerar Political editor

29, Jan, 2023 @11:20 AM

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The car drew up. The children got in: UK child asylum-seekers’ narrow escape from kidnap
Alleged traffickers abducted three children from outside a Home Office-run hotel in Brighton last May. They were lucky to evade capture – many don’t

Mark Townsend

29, Jan, 2023 @6:30 AM

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Revealed: child migrants racially abused and threatened with violence at Home Office hotel
Whistleblower tells of threats and illegal detention in fresh revelations about failures that drove children into hands of criminals

Mark Townsend

28, Jan, 2023 @6:00 PM

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Zahawi should quit as party chair until tax inquiry ends, top Tory peer implies
Lord Young suggests ministers should feel able to step aside for the duration of any investigation

Kevin Rawlinson

28, Jan, 2023 @4:49 PM

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Sunak was warned of Zahawi reputational risk in October, say sources
PM allegedly given advice about inquiry into minister’s taxes when he appointed him Tory party chair

Anna Isaac and Pippa Crerar

28, Jan, 2023 @3:43 PM

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‘Incredible’ Roman bathers’ gems lost 2,000 years ago found near Hadrian’s Wall
Intricately carved stones that fell down drain at ancient pool uncovered by archaeologists in Carlisle

Dalya Alberge

28, Jan, 2023 @2:15 PM

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‘Like a sun on Earth’: Las Vegas warning if dazzling venue built in London’s East End
Stratford residents fear planned MSG Sphere concert hall will ruin their sleep with light pollution

Miranda Bryant

28, Jan, 2023 @1:30 PM

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‘The killer could still be among us’: two elderly siblings and a brutal crime that mystifies locals, nearly 50 years on
In December 1976, Patti and Griff Thomas were found dead at their Welsh farmhouse. The police said it was a murder-suicide. But locals say the evidence doesn’t add up …

Jenny Kleeman

28, Jan, 2023 @11:00 AM

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