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Rachel Reeves has suggested that pensioners can afford the Government’s cut to winter fuel payments because of increases in the state pension and energy bills being lower than in previous years.
Elsewhere in today’s newsletter, we cover the murder of an 80-year-old dog walker, and the death of at least 12 migrants after their dinghy “ripped open” and sank in the Channel.
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Rachel Reeves suggests pensioners can afford winter fuel payment cuts
The Chancellor defended the decision to scrap winter fuel payments for 10 million pensioners as part of Labour’s efforts to balance the books. The payments will no longer be universal and will now be means-tested instead, with only pensioners in receipt of pension credit eligible – discover how Labour could take away your state pension.
Dog walker allegedly killed by children had complained about anti-social behaviour
An 80-year-old dog walker allegedly killed by five children had previously complained to police about anti-social youth behaviour. Bhim Sen Kohli, 80, was walking his dog in Franklin Park, Braunstone Town, near Leicester at around 6.30pm on Sunday when he was “kicked in the neck”. He died on Monday night.
Twelve migrants die after boat capsizes in Channel
Gerald Darmanin, the French interior minister, said 12 people had died, two were missing and several injured after the boat, which was carrying more than 60 migrants, sank. The dead are believed to include three children. The French coastguard said more than 50 people had been rescued after a boat got into difficulties on Tuesday morning.
Evening Briefing: Today’s essential headlines
- Ukraine | Missiles kill 49 in one of Russia’s worst strikes
- Major study | Mobile phones do not give you brain cancer
- US | Kamala Harris will win election, Telegraph poll predicts
- Watch | Lara Trump mocked for new single dedicated to firefighters
- Health | Elle Macpherson refused chemotherapy to treat breast cancer despite advice from 32 doctors
Former Eastenders actor jailed for killing England star Gus Atkinson’s mother after four-year extradition fight
As Gus Atkinson was celebrating four for 67 against the West Indies at Edgbaston on July 26, one of many thrilling performances in his meteoric rise this summer, 120 miles south at Southwark Crown Court the man responsible for his mother’s death was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years imprisonment.
Comment and analysis
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | Fracking has saved the West
- Charles Moore | The awful truth: Hamas’s hostage-taking works
- George Allison | There might never be a better time for China to attack Russia
- Scyld Berry | It is astonishing Gus Atkinson could be so focused while his life was turned upside down
- David Blackmon | Nobody noticed, but renewables-heavy states went to ‘Energy Emergency Alert One’ this summer
Editor’s choice
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- World | The curious death of the Russian spy whale
Sport Briefing: Today’s essential headlines
- Formula 1 | FIA rejects protests over McLaren wings
- Cricket | McCullum named England white-ball coach
- Rugby | Premiership salary cap special report, part one
- Football | Inside the Ashworth/Berrada plan to fix Man Utd
- Darts | Female players threatened with disciplinary action for refusing to play transgender rivals
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