Tuesday 13 June
Since the Brexit referendum, the number of nurses coming from other parts of the EU to work in the NHS has fallen by 96%.
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97% of voters in a referendum in Puerto Rico are in favour of becoming the 51st US state – though a boycott by opposition parties meant turnout was only 23%.
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A member of Labour MP Chuka Umunna’s staff has pointed out that Michael Gove, in his new role as Environment Secretary, is in charge of fields of wheat.
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Lord Buckethead, who ran against Theresa May in her Maidenhead constituency, has appeared as a guest on US television’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
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The first female Sikh MP and the first turbaned male Sikh MP have been elected to Parliament.
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Chefs in California have broken the record for the world’s longest pizza – it was 6,333 feet long and weighed as much as an elephant.