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"I just wanted to save my life," says Dhanabal, who got here to Britain from India to review. But it was solely the visa that got here with the college place that him, and his plan was all the time to remain on after it expired.The 26-year-old depends on cash-in-hand jobs to outlive, ready in Sheffield for a name from a thriller man he calls "the boss" to provide him building or cleansing work for "pocket money" and meals."I had no idea when I came to the UK how my life would be - I just wanted to leave India," says softly spoken Dhanabal, who's sporting a gray tracksuit, with a neat haircut and beard. "I didn't think about what it would be like here."Dhanabal - we're not utilizing his household identify - says his politics received him into hassle with the Indian police and...

President Biden on Monday ordered that the headquarters for the brand new U.S. Space Command will keep in Colorado Springs, Colorado, overturning a Trump administration determination to relocate the command to Huntsville, Alabama. ...

Wine and gin drinkers should shell out extra from immediately as alcohol taxes rise.The shake-up goals to encourage drinkers to chop again by taxing all alcohol based mostly on its power, fairly than the earlier classes of wine, beer, spirits and ciders. The enhance will see responsibility rise by 44p on a bottle of wine - one thing introduced just a few months in the past within the funds.When mixed with VAT, the actual enhance per bottle will likely be 53p, the Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) stated.Cost of residing - newest: Scale of housing market downturn Chancellor Jeremy Hunt stated in March {that a} freeze on alcohol responsibility would finish on 1 August and enhance consistent with the Retail Price Index measure of inflation, wh...

House Republicans launched an investigation Monday into how the Justice Department bungled a plea take care of Hunter Biden so badly {that a} choose despatched them again for a mulligan. ...

More than 2,000 prisoners have escaped, absconded or been launched by mistake over the previous decade - together with 142 up to now 12 months alone, figures present.Labour - which highlighted the statistics - has accused the Conservatives of being "soft on crime" after the social gathering discovered that greater than three inmates have left jail unlawfully each week since 2012. The Ministry of Justice information for England and Wales covers the interval March 2012 to March 2023.It confirmed that since 2012, 146 criminals have escaped from jail, 1,634 have absconded - that means an escape that doesn't contain overcoming a bodily safety restraint akin to a wall or fence - and 672 had been launched in error: a complete of two,452.In response, a Conservative Party spokesperson...

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Rishi Sunak appeared to battle to call members of the Scottish Conservatives' shadow cupboard throughout a go to to Aberdeenshire - as he blamed a latest reshuffle.The prime minister mentioned he was attributable to meet with Scottish Tory chief Douglas Ross throughout his go to north of the border. When requested by journalists if he may title 4 of the Scottish Tory entrance bench, which is the second-largest social gathering in Holyrood, Mr Sunak mentioned he had been in Scotland "six times in the last 12 months" and met Mr Ross and "multiple members of this team" throughout that interval, however didn't point out any of the shadow cupboard by title.Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, who accompanied the prime minister within the go to to Aberdeenshire to announce help for bra...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, of Alabama, stated Monday that she has returned dwelling from the hospital and is recovering after a non-life threatening situation induced sudden numbness in her face. ...

Free authorized recommendation can be supplied to assist the 38,000 folks a yr who're susceptible to shedding their houses as the federal government seems to be to bolster rights for tenants and owners.The new government-backed scheme launches in the present day in England and Wales and is aimed toward these dealing with both eviction or repossession. The recommendation, which can be freed from cost, can be accessible as soon as a tenant or home-owner receives a written discover, resembling an e mail from a landlord or a letter from a mortgage supplier.The help is a part of an additional £10m a yr that's being put apart for housing authorized help, the Ministry of Justice stated.Those affected can even be capable to obtain authorized illustration in courtroom, no matter their...

A federal appeals courtroom is permitting Kentucky to implement a lately enacted ban on gender-transition look after younger transgender individuals whereas the difficulty is being litigated. ...