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Households burn cat litter to heat homes amid wood pellet shortage (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Sunak plans to announce legislation to mandate a proportion of union members to continue working to retain "minimum service levels" in six sectors. (www.msn.com)
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Shop closures in UK hit highest total for five years (archive.ph)
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Health chiefs plead: ‘Don’t get sick if you can avoid it’ as NHS faces ‘major crisis’ (www.standard.co.uk)
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There is the possibility that by Christmas up to 1.5 million UK workers will be on strike. The last time that many workers were on strike in the UK at the same time was the General Strike of 1926. (www.socialistalternative.org)
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£3.2bn warship HMS Prince of Wales spends longer in dock than at sea (www.thetimes.co.uk)
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UK military spending to rise by more than a billion as people are freezing and starving across the country. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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A story in 4 parts - LeopardsAteMyFace (lemmy.ml)
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‘HMRC gave me £775,000 by mistake – and it’s turned into a nightmare’ (www.theguardian.com)
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showing that the London Met police are ‘institutionally corrupt’ - for those who didn't know this already (www.theguardian.com)
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Police don't know which officers unlawfully stormed student flat (www.bristol247.com)
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20 police officers entered a student flat without a warrant, but police are "unable to locate any Body Worn Video footage... as a list of... officers... who were assisting with the operation, was not retained"

Apparently "several learnings will be implemented" but it doesn't sound like anyone is facing any actual consequences.

Apparently the police & crime commissioner for Avon & Somerset, Mark Shelford (@ShelfordMark on twitter), has been asked to investigate, but he's not quoted in the article and I haven't seen any comment from him.

Note that this is not the same event as when police broke into a student's flat and handcuffed them in a state of undress, even though they'd got the wrong flat (and also faced no consequences), that was a different incident: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/17/it-was-humiliating-police-apologise-for-handcuffing-undressed-student-in-raid