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* No, the government isn’t giving £1,000 grants to new parents
* The UK won’t ban central heating after 9pm
* Official child obesity figures count thousands who aren’t clinically obese
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AI overviews have been claiming fake imagery shows the Huntingdon train attack, at a time when the public deserves correct information.
Grok told users one AI-generated image (right image) of an injured man lying in a carriage “appears to be a genuine photo”.
Google Lens’s AI overview even claimed one image (left image) was a still from a BBC News article about the incident - there’s no evidence it was.
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** No, the government isn’t giving £1,000 grants to new parents ([link removed])
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By: Nasim Asl ([link removed])
Videos on social media claim Sir Keir Starmer announced a “New Life Grant” giving parents £1,000 for every baby born from January 2026.
That’s false. No such policy exists.
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** The UK won’t ban central heating after 9pm ([link removed])
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By: Charlotte Green ([link removed])
Alarmist videos online claim people will be fined for using their central heating after 9pm.
We can confirm (thankfully) this is false.
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** Official child obesity figures count thousands who aren’t clinically obese ([link removed])
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By: Leo Benedictus ([link removed])
New data obtained by Full Fact shows that official NHS England figures use a broader definition of obesity in children than doctors do.
This means tens of thousands of children are counted as obese even though they aren’t clinically obese.
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** Government Tracker
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Updates from the last seven days.
** Thursday 6 November
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Is the government delivering on its pledge to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote? ([link removed])
** Thursday 30 October
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Is the government on track to ensure all young people caught with a knife are referred to a Youth Offending Team? ([link removed])
** Wednesday 29 October
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Is the government on track to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP? ([link removed])
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** Barking mad video doesn’t show robot dog guarding migrant hotel ([link removed])
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** Image of Jamaican hospital destroyed by Hurricane Melissa is very likely AI ([link removed])
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