The Port of Dover has declared a critical incident as high levels of traffic caused coach passengers to experience lengthy delays. It comes as operators P&O Ferries and DFDS Seaways also reported delays to ferry and coach services, citing bad weather and hold-ups at French border controls as partly responsible

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Better access to hormone replacement therapy will help women fulfil their potential, a government ambassador said, as cheaper prescriptions become available from Saturday. Women in England going through the menopause can now access cheaper HRT using a prescription prepayment certificate (PPC) which will last for 12 months and cost £19.30.

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The Metropolitan Police has a “legacy of lapse and lacks standards”, a former police and fire watchdog has said in the wake of the Casey report.  Zoe Billingham, who works for Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and is looking into police perpetrators in the force, said that Sir Mark Rowley,

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Students from Chessington School in London, who were embarking on a ski trip to Austria for the Easter holidays, faced an almost eight-hour wait at Dover before boarding the ferry. One teacher at the school, who did not want to be named, told The Telegraph: “We got to Dover at

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A new NHS prescription service offering cheaper hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been thrown into disarray after the website crashed just hours after the scheme’s launch. HRT should have been obtainable from Saturday using a prescription prepayment certificate (PPC), which will last for 12 months and cost £19.30 for the

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The company’s chief executive, Olaf Pirlo, said: “Simple ideas are often the best, and repurposing existing buildings by turning them into giant windmills is much more cost effective than having to build a new turbine from scratch. “The BT Tower is a good place to start because it’s basically the

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That, though, only begins to describe the heritage of what we could, with much legitimacy, describe as our German Royal family. On the late Queen’s side the German links go back over 300 years. When the legitimate Stuart line ran out in 1714 on the death of Queen Anne, none

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“People can make up their own minds if that support is sufficient enough,” he added, describing the support the Government provided as “enormous”. “I want people to feel better off, I want to put more money in their pockets, we’re only going to be able to do that if we

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Age ratings will be imposed on sex education lessons by independent reviewers as part of a Government clampdown on controversial teaching resources. A review ordered by Rishi Sunak will introduce film-style age restrictions on what children can be taught to ensure that children are “protected from inappropriate content”. An independent

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Detective Chief Superintendent Jon Hutchinson said the “primary line of investigation” related to a “familial issue”. ‘Absolutely gutted’ A floral tribute to Gary Dunmore, left outside his home in The Row, Sutton, said: “To my dear neighbour Gary. “A man who loved his family dearly, a dear friend to all,

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