83 minutes ago Stacey Solomon plans 'more children' amid career slowdown and would 'love a girl'

Stacey Solomon has stepped back from Loose Women and other high profile commitments, but the former X Factor star may have a very good reason for doing so

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1 hour ago LIVE: Firefighters tackle huge blaze with people urged to 'avoid area'

Crews have been battling the fire through the early hours this morning

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1 hour ago Middle East crisis live: US stealth bombers strike Houthi targets in Yemen

Pentagon says US air force used long-range B-2 stealth bombers to target ‘five hardened underground weapons storage locations’ of Iran-backed Houthis See all our Middle East coverageA brief update on the Israeli strikes on Syrian coastal city Latakia (see earlier post here).Two people were injured and there was some damage to private properties, Syrian state media reported citing a military statement. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now I can answer: his credo is the rule of law | Martin Kettle

Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel – all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are therePolitical speeches seem to fall like autumn leaves at this time of year. Speeches at party conferences. Speeches at leadership hustings and to the UN general assembly. And the budget speech itself is still to come. Yet even the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may struggle to say anything more illuminating than a speech this week by a far less high-profile government member than she.In July, Richard Hermer KC was plucked from a successful bar career by his fellow barrister Keir Starmer, given a peerage and made attorney general. It was a hand-picked appointment by Starmer, who snubbed the shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, to make it. As Lord H...

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2 hours ago London students fear abandoning courses over inability to apply for discounted fares

London students fear abandoning courses over inability to apply for discounted fares  The Guardian

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3 hours ago The new enemies list: Don Jr reportedly leading charge to create list of people banned from second Trump White House

‘Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,’ former Trump official says

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3 hours ago People of State Pension age with chronic pain could be due up to £108 each week

More than 5,300 older people are claiming Attendance Allowance for Chronic Pain Syndromes.

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3 hours ago Liam Payne's death sees One Direction fans in incredible display of unity outside Argentinia hotel

Crowds in their hundreds have gathered outside the hotel in tribute to the singer. Some hugged each other and cried, while others, in a sign of their adoration for the One Direction star, burst into applause

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4 hours ago 'I'm a cleaning expert and you can get rid of window condensation with this 69p hack'

Prevent condensation forming on your windowsills and reduce your risk of black mould growing in your bathroom with this genius hack from TV cleaning guru Lynsey Crombie

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