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urgent

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Davis has written to spending watchdog the National Audit Office calling for an "urgent" investigation into the cost of One Login, which he says is certain to rise above the £305m already earmarked for it.

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But her most urgent task was to fix the broken farm machines.

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He and his colleagues have been providing emergency care to those who arrive - among them, he says, are 500 in need of urgent medical treatment.

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Mr. Gates, in his advocacy, has been a leading promoter of the view that a warming climate is an existential crisis that demands urgent political action.

Such mega-storms "are a brutal reminder of the urgent need to step up climate action on all fronts," said UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell.

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