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Edwin Vale welcomes a solar project whose greatest achievement may be persuading Whitehall that paperwork is a power source.
Clare Bellingham has a simple winter message: the state will reinforce the country, while households organise the torch drawer.
New EU wide scheme will allow asylum seekers to be returned, exchanged, rerouted and occasionally discovered in Belgium.
Penelope Crumb Wainscot examines the national talent for rescuing strangers while leaving their contact details to fend for themselves.
Ministers celebrate lower immigration while employers ask where their recruits went. A new leaflet offers the government something much easier to count.
At Harwell, a NATO science campus meeting covers defence technology, space and global security before paperwork receives strategic status.
A politician admits he is lying, asks to finish and earns praise for his honesty. The actual truth remains a separate commitment.
The Future Borders and Immigration System has delivered eVisas and travel authorisations, but an inspection says someone still needs to keep the benefits moving.
A university trains aspiring politicians to explain why owing more after ten years of repayments is a problem with the borrower’s attitude.
Officials confirm that "no right to remain" remains entirely compatible with remaining.
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