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Jane Dalton

Reporter · GB

Indexed articles, last 90 days
33
Latest publication
Sep 24, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Independent
Top 5K sites
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Jane Dalton

    Tories would ban long-term benefit claimants from buying alcohol and cigarettes (opens the original)

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    Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Jobless benefits claimants could be banned from spending their welfare payments on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling under a Conservative plan to slash the UK’s welfare bill. An estimated 350,000 benefits claimants would face receiving their payments on a pre-loaded card, which it would be impossible to use for cash withdrawals, betting, or buying cigarettes or alcohol. Under

  2. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Jane Dalton

    Burnham urged to rein in Big Tech on child harms after Meta’s $17bn settlement (opens the original)

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    Child-safety campaigners are urging prime minister Andy Burnham to clamp down on social media giants and force them to make changes in the wake of a settlement in the US between Meta and 29 US states. Meta on Wednesday reached a deal in a lawsuit against the attorneys-general of the states, who accused the company of knowingly damaging young people’s wellbeing with its platforms. Under the agreement, the tech giant will pay up to $17bn (£12.5bn) and make sweeping changes that will apply to us

  3. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Jane Dalton

    Government’s flagship Sizewell C nuclear project may be delayed in road-building row (opens the original)

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    The new Sizewell C nuclear project that forms part of the government’s strategy to reduce gas imports could be delayed after a falling-out over road building. The contractor that had been due to build a link road and bypass has been replaced after Sizewell bosses reportedly wanted changes that pushed up the bill. The two sides failed to agree on costs, and it is feared the resulting delay will set back work on the £38bn nuclear plant, as well as prolonging misery for nearby villagers putting

  4. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Jane Dalton

    Father’s house rammed before teenager died in crash that also killed police (opens the original)

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    A house reportedly owned by the father of a teenager who died in a crash that killed two police officers was rammed by a car before the collision. Cole Worthy, 17, was one of five young men who died when the VW Passat they were in was driven in the wrong direction on the A66 in Middlesbrough and hit a Cleveland Police armed response car, killing the two officers. In all, 17 people, including a 16-year-old boy, have been arrested by detectives investigating “serious and organised criminal activit

  5. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Jane Dalton

    RSPCA reveals ‘secret weapon’ to tackling common cause of food poisoning (opens the original)

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    Higher-welfare chicken farming could be a “secret weapon” in curbing the UK’s most common cause of food poisoning, the RSPCA says, after a study linked factory-farmed birds to soaring rates of infection in people. University of Oxford researchers last month revealed that the way in which most chickens are reared for meat in the UK increased the disease behind food poisoning more than 100-fold. The scientists said industrial farming, and in particular densely populated chicken flocks, has a

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