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Treasury minister confirms Jeremy Hunt will cut personal taxes in Autumn Statement - Financial Times
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North Wales Police launch search and issue appeal to find four young men missing in Gwynedd - Sky News
Police have launched a search for four young men who have gone missing in North Wales .
North Wales Police said they had gone missing from the area around Harlech and Porthmadog in Gwynedd.
Officers said the group was last seen on Sunday morning.
The force has expressed concern and is appealing for information to help find Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson and Hugo Morris.
They were travelling in a silver Ford Fiesta. The car's registration plate is HY14GVO.
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Locals reported a helicopter had been searching the Penrhyndeudraeth area before heading toward Nantmor and Beddgelert.
Anyone who may have seen the four are urged to contact North Wales Police.
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2023-11-21 08:37:30Z
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Police issue urgent appeal as four young men all go missing - Wales Online
Four young men have been reported missing and police are appealing for the public's help in finding them. The four, from the Gwynedd area, are believed to be together..
North Wales Police say they have concerns for Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson, and Hugo Morris who are from the Harlech and Porthmadog areas. An appeal from the police said they had been missing since the morning of Sunday, November 19.
They are believed to be travelling in a silver Ford Fiesta with the registration HY14 GVO. Locals have said that the police helicopter has been searching above Penrhyndeudraeth as well as the Nantmor and Beddgelert areas.
Police have asked for anyone with sightings to contact them quoting reference A184194.
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Ashley Dale: The WhatsApp voice notes that helped solve a murder - BBC.com
In the final months of her life, 28-year-old Ashley Dale voiced her mounting fears and anxieties in voice notes to her friends.
These messages would prove instrumental in convicting those responsible for her cold-blooded murder - some of these voice notes were sent just 30 minutes before she was shot dead.
"It's the first time I have ever seen the evidence of the murder victim play such a crucial role in a court case," said Det Ch Insp Cath Cummings, who was the senior investigating officer.
"Ashley was narrating her own story and events that led up to her death."
Ms Dale, who was not the intended target of the attack, was shot in her home in the Old Swan area of Liverpool.
A gunman armed with a Skorpion machine pistol kicked down the door and fired indiscriminately in the early hours of 21 August 2022.
Four men have been convicted of her murder following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
Det Ch Insp Cummings said Ms Dale's mobile phone, found just an "arm's length away from her", had been "significant", in helping detectives piece together what had happened and why.
"I have never in my experience heard a victim's voice telling you what is happening, what is going on in their life that's paralleling what you are obtaining and looking at evidentially," she said.
"You've actually got a victim telling you."
The trial heard how Ms Dale's partner, Lee Harrison, who was not in the house at the time, had been the intended target of the shooting due to a long-standing feud, which had been reignited at Glastonbury.
Det Ch Insp Cummings said Ms Dale's voice notes meant she was "able to narrate all the way back to June and what happened in Glastonbury and events that ultimately led all the way up to the moment that she was killed".
As tensions began growing between the two groups involved in the feud, Ms Dale shared her fears with her friends, "providing a running record of her concerns".
'Harrowing to listen to'
In messages to a friend on 1 August, she said: "I don't want to have to go to Lee's funeral next and I just have a bad, bad feeling about everything.
"Me nerves are gone, when am out in the car with Lee just feeling like I'm looking over me shoulder all the time."
In more voice notes played to the court, Ms Dale told another friend she had asked Mr Harrison to be "honest about everything" so she could prepare for "the worst".
She added: "I don't normally want to know but I need to know what's going to happen."
A total of 3,360 exhibits were seized, of which 139 were digital devices but it was the voice notes which proved to be the most telling.
Olivia Travis, the senior crown prosecutor on the case, said: "In my experience of criminal prosecutions, it has been unprecedented for a victim to foretell her own death, which is effectively what she has done through the voice notes.
"These voice notes were harrowing to listen to and chilling when played to the jury."
Ms Dale's step-father Robert Jones, who has known her since the age of 12, described listening to the messages as "harrowing, really distressing and upsetting but also absolutely necessary".
"It's something that we knew early doors from the police who informed us about how integral it was to the investigation," he said.
"It's hard to really put yourself in that position and sit there listening to it.
"But Ashley's voice notes have been the only aspect of truth that have been spoken throughout the duration of this trial."
Her mother Julie Dale described the past year and her daughter's death as "utterly senseless".
"There's no words to describe how her life has been ended in such a brutal way," she said.
"She'd just been promoted. She was happy. We celebrated it two weeks before. We toasted to a new job.
"There's a massive void now where nothing's going to replace Ashley ever."
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2023-11-20 15:19:27Z
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Autumn Statement: Hunt does not rule out income tax cuts - BBC
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has not ruled out cutting income tax in Wednesday's Autumn Statement, as he insisted economic growth was his priority.
Mr Hunt is finalising the government's spending plans as he seeks to revive a stagnant British economy.
The chancellor is believed to be considering reducing taxes on income or national insurance.
He told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme his speech would focus on removing barriers to growth.
The chancellor was traditionally coy when it came to confirming any of the actual financial decisions he will make before Wednesday.
Mr Hunt said he wanted to put the UK on "the path to lower taxes" but would "only do so in a responsible way" that did not "sacrifice the progress on inflation".
When asked if he would cut income tax, he said he would not comment on a decision ahead of the statement, adding: "Our priority is growth."
Tax levels in the UK are at their highest since records began 70 years ago and are unlikely to come down soon, according to a leading think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Ahead of the Autumn Statement, Tory MPs on the right of the Conservative Party, including former Prime Minister Liz Truss, have been urging the chancellor to announce tax cuts.
Mr Hunt has previously said tax cuts are "virtually impossible" given the state of the economy and stressed bringing down living costs was his priority.
Appearing on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street said he would prefer taxes on businesses to be reduced than cutting inheritance tax.
While the chancellor had considered cutting inheritance tax, sources said the focus of the Autumn Statement would be to promote growth - on which inheritance tax has minimal impact.
Mr Hunt is likely to return to the issue for his Budget in the spring. He is also thought to have ruled out increasing tax thresholds as a way to cut taxes.
Instead, Mr Hunt appears to be weighing up direct cuts to income tax or national insurance.
Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Hunt remarked that "if you believe the papers there won't be any taxes left".
The chancellor and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are hoping the Autumn Statement will turn the political tide in their favour after a bruising few weeks.
Last week Mr Sunak sacked Suella Braverman as home secretary and the Supreme Court ruled his plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful.
Inflation
But there was some good news for the prime minister, as UK inflation fell sharply in October to its lowest rate in two years, largely because of lower energy prices.
The government says it has met its pledge of halving inflation by the end of the year, but there is a limit to how much credit ministers can take as energy prices fall.
The Bank of England says raising interest rates, which it controls independently, is the best way to make sure inflation comes down.
Mr Hunt said the UK was "not out of the woods yet", but added he felt "there's too much negativity about the British economy".
Held back by high energy prices and interest rates, the UK economy has been struggling to recover since the pandemic, with the Bank of England forecasting zero growth until 2025.
The chancellor will base his spending plans on the latest economic forecast from the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), which assesses the health of the UK's finances and is independent of the government.
As inflation slows, economists have estimated the chancellor could have more than £10bn to spend on tax cuts.
Mr Hunt said tax cuts were not his only tool: "We need to be growing faster and that's why we're going to be taking a lot of measures."
One policy that has already been announced is a plan to reduce the time to approve and build pylons, overhead cables and other electricity infrastructure.
Under the plans, households living closest to new pylons and electricity substations could receive up to £1,000 a year off their energy bills for a decade.
What was clear was the extent to which Mr Hunt will try to use Wednesday to mark a new era - one in which the worst pressures of inflation have passed and the focus is on getting the economy to grow, instead of bumping along the bottom.
The tough task is how a message that things have improved translates into the real world when so many people are finding it hard to pay the bills.
Benefits changes
When questioned about possible changes to benefits, Mr Hunt again refused to be drawn on the detail but said in principle, the Conservatives "don't believe in parking people in welfare".
This week, the BBC reported that ministers have drawn up large benefit changes for people who are unable to work due to health conditions.
Plans were unveiled which would mean people on Universal Credit allowance would have their claims closed if they fail to take steps to find work over six months. The government says it will encourage people back into employment.
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Labour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves criticised the government's plans for welfare, saying the number of people out of work is "on them" after 13 years in power.
Ms Reeves said: "The reason we've got so many people out of work is because our NHS is not functioning properly."
She said people's "lives are on hold" because they are waiting for the treatments that would allow them to get back to work.
The shadow chancellor was also asked about reports the government could subtly change how it sets the rate benefits increase for the next financial year to save billions for the Treasury.
Traditionally, the September inflation rate is used, which this year was 6.7% - but the government could instead base the increase on October's lower rate of 4.6% in order to save money.
Ms Reeves said: "In government I will use the inflation rate that is traditionally used to uprate benefits. I think that's the right thing to do."
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Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman found with serious injuries dies in Dewsbury - Sky News
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 20s died in West Yorkshire.
Police found her badly injured at a property in Dearnley Street, in the Ravensthorpe area of Dewsbury, at 6.43pm on Sunday.
"Despite emergency medical attention at the scene she tragically passed away a short time later," said West Yorkshire Police.
Shortly after midnight, officers launched a "large scale" manhunt to arrest a named suspect.
Footage showed a large police presence and an air ambulance nearby.
Dozens of armed officers were also reported to be at the scene and a number of road cordons were in place.
At around 5.50am, the force said the manhunt had ended - with a 35-year-old man now in custody.
The victim's name has not yet been disclosed.
"We recognise the concern and worry this will have caused to residents in the local area and are conducting an extensive investigation into what took place," said Detective Chief Superintendent Sarah Jones.
"A man has now been arrested on suspicion of murder and we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the matter which is being treated as a domestic-related incident."
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Rochdale police chase: Pedestrian critically injured - BBC.com
A pedestrian was critically injured when he was hit by a police van pursuing a driver who had failed to stop.
Officers tried to get a vehicle to pull over in Milnrow Road, Rochdale, at about 03:25 GMT on Sunday, Greater Manchester Police said.
Following a short chase the van hit a pedestrian in Rochdale Road while the other driver sped off.
Officers provided medical aid to the injured man, who was taken to hospital.
The crash has been referred to GMP's professional standards branch and the Independent Office for Police Conduct, according to standard procedure.
The other driver has so far not been found.
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