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Health
The union representing resident doctors is not asking for an extra 29% on top of this year’s 5.4% pay rise, as the paper reported. The demand is for a 29% rise on last year’s pay. Read
Politics
The Senedd increasing to 96 members next year has led to this claim being shared online. Read
World
Photos are being shared on social media with the false claim they show a recent coup in the Ivory Coast, but there was no coup and the photos show unrelated events. Read
Politics
Facts matter. Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE tells us why they matter and what they mean to her. Read
Politics
As well as fact checking claims by and about politicians, Full Fact fights harmful health misinformation—and that work is the subject of the BBC Radio 4 appeal all this week.Journalist … Read
Politics
Social media posts share an article claiming such a petition was launched by a group of peers and is gaining traction in the House of Lords, but we could find no evidence supporting this. Read
World
The Alaska-based programme has frequently been the subject of unsubstantiated online claims linking it to various natural disasters. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Catherine McKinnell MP claimed “we’ve seen inflation coming down”, but her department has since told us she meant to refer to interest rates. Read
Politics
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice hasn’t explained what this claim was based on, but neither we nor the Migration Observatory have seen data to support it. Read
World
A long quote attributed to the French leader has been shared widely on Facebook, but the French embassy in the UK has said he never said it. Read
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