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Alastair McQuillan, Rutland and Melton Green Party

Opinion: We should be looking to the future not the past

Former head of the Home Civil Service Lord Bob Kerslake has died. (Photo by Tayfun Salci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake dies aged 68

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer publishes tax details

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street after reportedly £6 million deal.

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street

Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock are facing a lawsuit over Test and Trace - here's...

Boris Johnson returns to Downing Street following the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on September 15, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Boris Johnson’s controversial Internal Market...

Colin might feel like part of the family - but how well do you know him? (Photo: M&S)

13 things you (probably) didn't know about Colin the Caterpillar as the cake tur...

Harding runs England’s heavily criticised NHS Test and Trace system (Photo: PA)

Dido Harding has been appointed to run the new national body that will replace P...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak introduced the furlough scheme as a response to economic pain caused by the coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

A quarter of UK workers are now furloughed - and unemployment levels could rocke...

Boris Johnson's choice of name for son could mark out his future

Here's whether the Prime Minister will take time off after the birth of his baby...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is recuperating at his official country retreat after being discharged from hospital (Photo: Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Chequers country estate - where Boris Johnson...

Melton food champion Dr Matthew O'Callaghan OBE EMN-160614-154437001

National and international media gauge opinion in Melton ahead of EU referendum

Television sports broadcaster Ivan Gaskell interviews our special guest Claire Lomas at last year's Melton Times Sports Awards evening EMN-160524-091540002

Eye Kettleby fundraiser Claire Lomas is honoured by the Prime Minister

Rutland and Melton MP Alan Duncan.

Rutland and Melton MP Alan Duncan trending on Twitter after saying critics of Da...

Countryside Alliance chief claims hunting with dogs humane

Rescuers evacuate an injured person near the Bataclan concert hall. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Paris attacks LIVE updates: Fears death toll could reach 140

Women paying for inequality?

British women working for free for the rest of the year according to charity

David Cameron

Cameron: ‘Parents who fail to pay truancy fines to have child benefit docked’

The Houses of Parliament

MPs’ 10% pay rise to trigger angry backlash

Ten years on a minute's silence will be held to remember the victims of the London 7/7 bombings

VIDEO: Nation pauses to remember 7/7 atrocity 10 years on

Minute’s silence to be held this Friday to remember victims of Tunisia beach mas...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrives in a carriage at the Houses of Parliament in a procession from Buckingham Palace in London to deliver her speech. Photo/PA LMD101

Queen’s Speech: the key measures you need to know about