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Mar 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal
“I think there’s something very natural about bringing young children and older people together, and yet in the UK it’s not the norm any more,” Helen Pidd, the Guardian’s north of England editor, tells Nosheen Iqbal. Is the UK missing out on the benefits of intergenerational living? Helen visits Belong Chester, a multigenerational care home in Chester’s city centre.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Jon Dimaggio |Nosheen Iqbal
A ransomware site on the dark web has allowed criminals to extort hospitals, businesses and schools for years. By encrypting data or threatening to post data online, hackers have cost companies millions of pounds. It’s called LockBit, and it was very successful until one day last month when hackers who logged on to the site found it had been hacked by authorities including the UK National Crime Agency and the FBI.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal
Last week two men were acquitted by a London court of making illegal payments to Saudi officials. The verdict was the culmination of a case that has been more than a decade in the making and was brought by the Serious Fraud Office. The case revolved around the dealings of a company few have heard of: GPT Special Project Management.It specialised in providing military-grade communications equipment and it had only one client: Britain’s Ministry of Defence.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal
On Wednesday, Jeremy Hunt presented his budget to parliament. It included a 2p cut to national insurance, more money for the NHS to update its IT systems and the abolition of non-dom tax status. This budget is expected to be the last chance the government has to make a difference to voters’ finances before the general election, and the political strategy was clear. Hunt used the moment to paint Labour as the party that could not be trusted with the economy.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Tony Naylor |Nosheen Iqbal
“The problem we have right now in restaurants is that with the increased rents, the increased rates, the increased heating bills, fuel bills, the money ends up going into the price of the food,” the Guardian’s restaurants critic and Comfort Eating podcast host Grace Dent tells Nosheen Iqbal.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal
Lee Anderson is no stranger to controversy. While deputy chair of the Conservative party he earned the nickname “30p Lee” after chastising food bank users for not budgeting well enough and claiming that meals could be made for 30 pence each. He’s called for the reinstatement of the death penalty and told the Daily Express that if asylum seekers didn’t like their treatment they could “fuck off back to France”.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal
Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Merope Mills; produced by Natalie Ktena and Rudi Zygadlo; executive producer Phil Maynard Tue 20 Feb 2024 22.00 EST Following a campaign by her family in memory of Martha Mills, the NHS is introducing Martha’s rule giving hospital patients in England access to a rapid review from a separate medical team if they are concerned with the care they are receiving How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know When Martha Mills fell off her bike on a family...
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal
Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Amelia Gentleman; produced by Courtney Yusuf, Ned Carter Miles and Solomon King; executive producer Elizabeth Cassin Sun 18 Feb 2024 22.00 EST In 2014, the Home Office revoked the visas of 35,000 students accused of cheating in an English language exam. The consequences for those wrongly accused was devastating.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal
Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Helen Pidd; produced by Lucy Hough and Rudi Zygadlo; executive producer Phil Maynard Thu 8 Feb 2024 09.00 EST A year on from the murder of Brianna Ghey in the UK, her killers have been sentenced and her mother is leading an extraordinary campaign of compassion.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal with |Nosheen Iqbal
Pakistan’s elections are usually noisy affairs – with raucous rallies, trucks blaring campaign slogans and politics dominating conversations. But, says journalist Mehreen Zahra-Malik, today’s election is one that feels like no other. While the PML-N’s Nawaz Sharif is predicted to be the winner, it is Imran Khan who is said to be the country’s most popular politician. Yet after vocally opposing Pakistan’s powerful army, he is in jail having received multiple prison sentences.
