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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c99c/live/3a5ebbf0-d4a7-11f1-9604-3bd90d268f1f.jpg”] Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Halloween shoppers in the US seeking sweet relief this spooky season have instead been shocked by the high price of seasonal treats, as cost of living pressures continue to bite. Demetrio Beltres, a 33-year-old financial adviser searching for Halloween bargains for trick or treaters said he was spending more…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/308f/live/f44b1080-d50c-11f1-9db5-95ff6e967be3.jpg”] EPA/Shutterstock Officers were faced down by critics of the move outside the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw Riot police have been deployed at Poland’s Constitutional Court amid an escalating stand-off between the government and the court’s top judges. The row pits the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk against his predecessors from the…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/b7de/live/615eb140-d184-11f1-8d7e-c9ff4ede405b.jpg”] Reuters Children’s laureates of Wales and Ireland are to donate their book royalties to Sally Rooney after her support for Palestine Action saw her UK book sales halted The children’s laureates for Wales and Ireland are to give their book royalties to Sally Rooney after she halted UK sales because of her…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c6b2/live/266b8690-d471-11f1-9dda-1ba6fcc7d159.jpg”] Lloren Lloren has had three of her songs featured during some of series two’s most explosive moments “I love murder mystery and binge watched with my partner and I’m absolutely hooked, I love it.” The latest series of Celebrity Traitors had its fair share of dramatic moments and shock reveals, but its…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/03d4/live/4a441ff0-d48a-11f1-9a20-f717db279e3e.jpg”] Powerlist 2027 Ian Thomas, chief executive of the City of London Corporation, has been named the UK’s most influential Black Briton in this year’s Black Powerlist awards. The 57-year old is the first Black person to oversee the Square Mile’s governing body in its more than 900-year history. The City of London…

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