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Leon boss John Vincent has criticised Andy Burnham for excluding restaurants from business rate cuts, arguing it draws an “unfair” line between businesses facing the same financial pressures.Mr Vincent, who founded the restaurant chain in 2004, told The Telegraph: “We are very confused as to why restaurants are not covered.”They are suffering massively, just like pubs. We all compete in the same market and we have the same cost structures.” He said the distinction created “a false and unfair” divide between businesses serving the same customers.The Prime Minister’s package, due to take effect from April next year at an estimated…

Dozens of motorists have been warned of prosecution after a major road safety crackdown across Kirklees uncovered serious offences.West Yorkshire Police revealed that 101 drivers were reported for offences during less than four weeks of targeted patrols on local roads.The operation, known as Operation Trimburg, was carried out by Kirklees Police and the Roads Policing Unit throughout July. Officers targeted several areas, including Dewsbury, Mirfield, Cleckheaton, Heckmondwike, Liversedge, Gomersal and the Holme Valley.Police said local residents played an important role in helping officers identify areas where dangerous and illegal driving was causing concern. The most common offence was failing to…

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has told the she leads “a brand new party full of new people” – after it emerged in the Spectator, external that the former cabinet minister and Tory party chairman Sir Grant Shapps has been rejected as a Conservative Party parliamentary candidate.Sir Grant, who has declined to comment, served in nine ministerial roles in government as well as co-chairing the party.In cabinet, he served as home secretary, defence secretary, transport secretary, business secretary, energy secretary and net zero secretary.He was also a Foreign Office Minister, housing minister and international development minister, external.He lost his Welwyn Hatfield…

Katie said Ruairi had held a season ticket since birth and regularly attended home, away and European matches with his family.Supporting Man Utd was “all we do”, she said, adding that she met her husband at Old Trafford and had held her own season ticket for nearly 20 years, along with her late mother and siblings.”Since [Ruari] could walk, he’s had a ball at his feet,” she said. “He’s just football daft.”Katie said Ruairi had been a United mascot at Crystal Palace last season and had travelled to watch the team in Seville, Istanbul and Bilbao.A post on X, in…

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Axel Rudakubana, who murdered three children at a dance class in Southport, has been moved from prison to a secure psychiatric hospital.The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh to Broadmoor, the high-security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire.Rudakubana murdered Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and injured eight other children and two adults in an attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July 2024.He was given a 52-year prison sentence in January 2025 but the judge was unable to impose a whole life order due to Rudakubana being 17…

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