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telegraph.co.uk | Rosa Silverman |Meike Eijsberg
In Knowsley, unemployment rose to 4.3 per cent between 2022 and 2023, compared to 3.7 per cent across Britain in the same period, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data. Economic inactivity - people who are neither employed nor seeking work - rose to more than a quarter (26.1 per cent), compared with just over a fifth nationally. However, Knowsley is not an outlier. Fit notes, introduced in 2010, have been following an upward trajectory during the past decade.
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buff.ly | Melissa Lawford |Meike Eijsberg
Clyde Anderson has a thick, raised scar, three centimetres wide, that runs down the centre of his chest where his ribcage was cut open. In 2020, surgeons extracted veins from Anderson’s leg and grafted them to his heart in a quadruple bypass. His original coronary arteries had become so clogged with fat that he had had a heart attack. “I was truck-driving and eating when I could, eating fast food,” says Anderson, 54. At the time, he weighed around 19 stone (120kg).
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Melissa Lawford |Meike Eijsberg
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Melissa Lawford |Meike Eijsberg
As RFK Jr declares war on obesity, cheap food is killing people in this impoverished Mississippi countyClyde Anderson has a thick, raised scar, three centimetres wide, that runs down the centre of his chest where his ribcage was cut open. In 2020, surgeons extracted veins from Anderson's leg and grafted them to his heart in a quadruple bypass. His original coronary arteries had become so clogged with fat that he had had a heart attack.
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2 weeks ago | 
afr.com | James Crisp |Meike Eijsberg
James Crisp and Meike EijsbergJun 8, 2025 – 8.36am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Poland’s new president is a Trump-inspired nationalist. The government in the Netherlands has just been felled by an anti-migrant firebrand. Loading...
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | James Crisp |Meike Eijsberg
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3 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | James Crisp |Meike Eijsberg
With Donald Trump determined to 'Make Europe Great Again', the radical Right has the momentum as crucial elections loomPoland's new president is a Trump-inspired nationalist. The government in the Netherlands has just been felled by an anti-migrant firebrand. Right-wing parties are already in government in Hungary and Italy, and in Berlin, the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is the main opposition after it was endorsed by JD Vance and Elon Musk in the February elections.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | James Crisp |Meike Eijsberg
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3 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | James Crisp |Meike Eijsberg
Geert Wilders has brought the Dutch government to the brink of collapse after pulling out of the governing coalition because it would not back his plans for tougher migration rules. The Dutch hard-Right leader withdrew his Party for Freedom (PVV) from the Right-wing alliance, formed eight months after his victory in the November 2023 general election. The country now faces fresh elections or it must scramble to find a majority to form a new coalition.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Allegra Mendelson |Meike Eijsberg
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