Brexit cost and Railcard extended to under-30s
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ReutersUK ‘ready to pay more for Brexit’
There was no substantial discussion of a specific amount at a cabinet committee meeting led by the prime minister on Monday night. EU leaders are due to decide at a summit on 14 and 15 December whether to allow talks on a future trade relationship to begin.
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Railcard extended for people aged up to 30
For years, those aged 16 to 25 have been able to buy Railcards getting them discounts on off-peak train travel. In Wednesday’s Budget, Chancellor Philip Hammond will announce the scheme will be extended to those up to the age of 30, probably from next spring. The Treasury said this would help cut the cost of living for young people, but Labour said the so-called millennials’ card represented no more than “tinkering”.
Life as a woman in North Korea’s army
By Megha Mohan, BBC Stories
In 2015 it was announced that all women in North Korea must do seven years’ military service from the age of 18. At the same time the government took the unusual step of saying it would distribute a premium female sanitary brand called Daedong in most female units. “This may have been a way to atone for conditions of the past,” says author Jieun Baek. “That statement may have been to over-correct for this well-known phenomenon that conditions for women used to be bad. It may have been a way to boost morale and get more women to think, ‘Wow, we will be taken care of.'”
What the papers say
Brexit stories are on several front pages. The i says Theresa May will offer the EU £40bn “to get Brexit going”, while Metro leads on EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier warning that the UK will “suffer” after leaving. But the Times says some senior Brexit supporters are urging Mrs May to exploit the difficulties of German Chancellor Angela Merkel – who has not managed to form a coalition government in her own country – to push for a better deal. Meanwhile, the Daily Mail says mobile cancer screening tests are going nationwide and the Daily Star, Sun and Daily Mirror lead on the break-up of Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood’s marriage.
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