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A post on Facebook incorrectly claims that allowing women born in the 1950s to retire at age 60 would create four million jobs for young people. Read
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Provided you travel directly to your point of departure you can travel from England during the 14 day quarantine period. Read
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These thermometers do not emit infrared radiation, they measure it. Read
The app hasn’t been binned, although the government did change direction with their original app to instead use the Google/Apple system. Read
The post uses an average figure for the poorest pensioners and compares that to the minimum wage for people over 25. Read
A photo went viral after a Facebook user claimed it was taken in Calbeck, but they later said that was a joke. Read
A widely shared post on Facebook incorrectly claims migrants who arrive in Britain receive a free TV licence, while pensioners have to pay for one. Read
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Legionnaires’ disease is a bacterial infection caught through water. Read
The men are in two different prisons. Read
The photo was taken in Germany before the coronavirus pandemic. Read
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