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The government will resume bank checks on accounts opened by people suspected of living illegally in the UK in a bid to deter illegal immigration

Public satisfaction with the NHS has plummeted to the lowest level ever recorded by the long-running British Social Attitudes survey, with only 29% saying they will be satisfied in 2022

The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt, one of Scotland’s fox hunts which first met in the 1700s, has come to an end after 252 years following the introduction of new law on hunting which prohibits killing wild mammals with dogs except in few circumstances

British intelligence (MI5) could have foiled the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing says a public enquiry after three years of research and testimony from 267 people

Labour has decided to scrap Corbyn, with current leader Starmer announcing that he will not re-elect his predecessor who led the party to its worst defeat against Johnson; they are now 20 points above the Conservatives in the polls

According to the Sun, Buckingham Palace has decided to also invite Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, to the coronation of King Charles III on 8 May

Brexit has caused the loss of 330.000 workers from the UK economy, according to new research published by thinktanks UK in a Changing Europe and Centre for European Reform

The Church of England has apologised for past links to slavery by a related financial body, now engaged in an extensive process to compensate victim communities

Bingo Allison is the first non-binary clergyman in the Anglican Church, a reverend of a Liverpool church and a native of Yorkshir; Bingo is now visiting schools in Merseyside to raise awareness of Lgbtq+ issues among students

Pound notes featuring King Charles have been unveiled and will enter circulation in 2024 coexisting with current ones; Charles is only the second monarch to feature on the paper currency first issued in the 17th century

Introduced by 70 companies, short week seems to be a great success, as shown by researchers from Cambridge University, Boston College and Oxford University in measuring the impact on productivity and well-being in a study to be published in February