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, as it seeks to tread a delicate path of maintaining good relations with the Trump administration while also building closer ties with the EU.A £14 rise in council tax to boost police budgets is the right thing to do to protect services, Staffordshire police and fire commissioner Ben Adams has said.

The increase forms part of budget proposals for the 2025-26 financial yearMr Adams told a police, fire and crime budget panel, that he believed the majority of residents wanted to see continued investments in Staffordshire Police.Panel members unanimously agreed to support the proposed £14 (5.12%) precept increase, although chair Bernard Peters said there would need to be evidence collated to show the investment was getting results.

Mr Adams said: "On the face of it, it's not a lot of money. Except people are really strapped at the minute. Things are not getting easier."So I think very hard even about 27p a week. My concern is that it's 5.12%, which is twice inflation."

He said residents recognised an improvement in policing, adding: "they are seeing more arrests, more activity, more stop and search, better contact responses and a speedy response to 999 calls."

But he also hit out at extra government funding - £3m - being tied to specific recruitment in neighbourhood policing, warning that it could compromise other areas of policing.The hearings represent the biggest test of Israel's compliance with international law since the ICJ's landmark rulings in January, March and June of 2024 that ordered it to take immediate steps to allow aid to enter Gaza unrestricted and unhindered.

The UN has argued blocking Unrwa amounts to a violation of the Palestinians inalienable right to self-determination.The ICJ judges' advisory opinion is expected within months.

Coffee pods can now be recycled at Wiltshire Council's household recycling centres.Aluminium and plastic coffee pods, used in pod system coffee machines, can now be taken to the centres and deposited in the separate plastic and aluminium recycling bins.