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    The crisis-hit NHS will receive an extra £20bn a year by 2023, Theresa May will announce but she will warn the public that taxes must rise to pay for the boost. The extra funding to mark the 70th birthday of the health service will mark a dramatic break with eight years of austerity and follows a difficult battle with the Treasury for more funds. However, it appeared the annual real-terms increase will be little more than 3 per cent, not the 4 per cent pleaded for by Simon Stevens, the outspoken NHS England chief executive. The prime minister will also invite ridicule and allegations that she is using the NHS crisis to score political points by claiming the funding will come in part from a Brexit dividend, because the UK will no longer be paying huge sums for EU me...

    Theresa May has intervened after a Tory MP derailed moves to legislate on upskirting. Theresa May has moved to soothe anger at the actions of one of her party’s longest-serving MPs after he blocked a bid to criminalise upskirting. The Prime Minister, who last month signalled her support for the campaign to ban people from taking pictures up someone’s clothing without their consent, pledged the Government would back moves to get the anti-upskirting legislation through Parliament. The move was triggered when Tory grandee Sir Christopher Chope, the 71-year-old MP for Christchurch in Dorset, shouted down the Voyeurism (Offences) Bill at the second reading stage in the Commons on Friday, prompting derision from his Conservative colleagues and campaigners alike. The PM ...

    Rizlaine Boular, 22, has been jailed for a minimum of 16 years, and her mother, Mina Dich was jailed for six years and nine months Members of the first terror group made up entirely of women have been jailed for planning to carry out a knife attack in Westminster. Rizlaine Boular, 22, has been jailed for a minimum of 16 years, and her mother, Mina Dich was jailed for six years and nine months. Dich will spend a further five years on licence. A third member, Safaa Boular, 18, is to be sentenced at a later date. A fourth person, Khawla Barghouthi, who was a friend of Rizlaine, faces jail for not alerting authorities to the plot. Boular planned to stab random members of the public around the Palace of Westminster to cause widespread panic, injury and death, the Old ...

    Army sergeant Emile Cilliers twice tried to murder his wife Victoria An army sergeant who tried to murder his wife by tampering with her parachute and sabotaging a gas valve at their home has been jailed for at least 18 years. Emile Cilliers, 38, twice tried to kill his wife Victoria Cilliers so he could claim her £120,000 life insurance and start a new life with his Tinder lover. His initial plot to murder his 42-year-old partner in an explosion at their home was foiled when she smelled gas. Their two young children were home at the time. Cilliers pretended he knew nothing about the gas leak before suggesting veteran parachutist and instructor Mrs Cilliers go skydiving the following weekend - when he sabotaged her kit causing her to plummet 4,000ft to the ground. ...

    You should probably have sorted your holiday plans by now but if you’ve left it until the last minute, here’s what you need to do to ensure that you don’t miss out on that well-earned break. How much will a new passport cost? A standard 34-page adult passport costs £75.50, a jumbo 50-page adult passport costs £85.50, a child’s passport costs £49 and for those born before 2 September 1929 can obtain passports for free. These fees are for online applications only expect to pay approximately £10 more if you choose to complete a paper application. Renewing or replacing an adult passport If you’re in the UK you can renew or replace your passport and change the details on your passport. This should take approximately three weeks, but may take longer if your applica...

    Meghan Markle Wearing a Givenchy oat-coloured cape dress for her first solo engagement with the Queen yesterday morning, Meghan Markle looked confident and poised as she held her own with Her Royal Highness. During her visit to the North of England, the Duchess of Sussex greeted onlookers who took the time to share their well wishes for the newlyweds, and shared several jokes with the Queen. The outing also gave Meghan the first opportunity to gush about her new husband. Royal fan Sharon Briscoe reportedly asked her Meghan how she was enjoying her new life in the UK. ‘It is wonderful,’ Meghan told her, according to People. ‘I’m really enjoying it.’ Two royal fans, Jean and Heather, corroborated the quotes to Sky News royal producer Fiona Mackie, adding: ‘[Meghan]...

    Jeremy Corbyn has suffered a 90-strong rebellion over a Brexit vote on remaining in the European Economic Area, with six of his MPs resigning from their frontbench roles. Junior Labour frontbenchers Laura Smith, Ged Killen, Ellie Reeves, Tonia Antoniazzi and Anna McMorrin were the first to step down from their roles on Wednesday night. Their resignations were revealed moments before the result of a vote on a Lords Brexit bill amendment which called for the government to make remaining in the EEA a negotiating objective. The government said before the vote it disagreed with the amendment and the Labour frontbench had been ordered to abstain. The House of Commons voted 327 to 126 to reject the proposed amendment, with 74 Labour MPs rebelling against their party's wh...

    The number of terrorism-related arrests in Britain hit a record high after a series of attacks were launched around the country last year, official figures show. In the year ending 31 March, 441 people were held on suspicion of terrorism-related activity, the highest number of arrests in a year since data collection started in 2001, and an increase of 17% on 378 in the previous year. The Home Office said the rise was partly due to a number of arrests made following attacks in London and Manchester last year. The number of terror-related arrests in Britain since the 9/11 attacks in 2001 has passed the 4,000 mark, standing at 4,182 at the end of March. The number of prisoners jailed for terrorism-related offences is also at the highest level since records began after...

    Dominic Grieve, the leader of a group of Conservative rebels on Brexit, is locked in negotiations with the government as Theresa May seeks a form of words on a meaningful vote that will satisfy both sides of her deeply divided party. Grieve, the former attorney general, is determined to make it impossible for Britain to crash out of the EU without parliamentary approval. But the Brexit secretary, David Davis, and pro-leave Tory backbenchers are adamantly opposed to anything they believe would tie the government’s hands if talks with Brussels collapse. The government is expected to table its compromise amendment on Thursday, and MPs will pore over the wording. Peers will then vote on it when the EU withdrawal bill returns to the House of Lords on Monday. The discuss...