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News in brief: September 11 2015

Corbyn wouldn’t have OK’d drone

WAR: Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn questioned yesterday the point of the military action that killed Welsh Islamic State (Isis) terrorist Reyaad Khan in Syria.

He said he would not have authorised the drone attack that killed the British jihadist and insisted that PM David Cameron had “some very difficult questions to answer about the legality of what he did.”

Mr Khan was killed alongside fellow Briton Ruhul Amin on August 21 in the Isis stronghold of al-Raqqah.

Immigration rules cause NHS shortfall

HEALTHCARE: NHS hospital chiefs warned yesterday that “stringent” immigration rules are preventing them hiring nurses for the winter.

Ten NHS trust heads have signed a letter urging Home Secretary Theresa May to allow more foreign nurses to work in Britain, according to the BBC.

Lobby group NHS Employers estimated that 1,000 certificates of sponsorship for nurses outside the EU would be needed within the next six months.

Teachers jailed for beating

CHILD ABUSE: Teachers at an Islamic school who brutally beat a 10-year-old pupil until he lost his hair from worry were jailed for a year yesterday.

Mohammed Siddique, 60, and his 24-year-old son Mohammed Waqar were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court after admitting wilful cruelty to the boy.

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