6 minutes ago M25 closure latest LIVE: Traffic chaos as Tesco lorry fire shuts motorway amid two

The HGV burst into flames on the motorway between Clacket Lane and Junction 6, near Godstone in Surrey, at 10pm on Sunday

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15 minutes ago Noel Radford: 22 Kids and Counting dad fined after being hauled before court

Noel Radford, the dad from Britain's biggest family, appeared in court

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20 minutes ago Virgin Media O2 launches railcards for £10 offer with new codes released every day

The reward will be available for Virgin Media broadband and O2 customers from today until November 9, 2024 in the Priority app and website - here is what you need to know

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21 minutes ago Vinyl to return to WH Smith stores for first time for more than 30 years

The chain will sell vinyl records in 80 of its high street shops.

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25 minutes ago Volkswagen fined £5.4m for mistreating customers; UK interest rates ‘to fall to 2.75%’ next year – business live

Volkswagen Finance has agreed to pay over £21.5m in redress to around 110,000 customers who may have suffered harm because of its failings.Volkswagen Financial Services has apologised for the failings identified by the FCA, saying (via Reuters):“We are in the process of concluding our remediation efforts as we continue to provide goodwill payments to affected customers and apologise for any detriment caused.” Continue reading...

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27 minutes ago Streeting revives claim that some patients face avoidable ‘death sentence’ due to current state of NHS – UK politics live

Health secretary says NHS is going through the ‘worst crisis in its history’In the past the weirdest budget tradition was the convention that the chancellor is allowed to drink alcohol while delivering the budget speech. But since no chancellor has taken advantage of the rule since the 1990s (and no one expects Rachel Reeves to be quaffing on Wednesday week), this tradition is probably best viewed as lapsed.But Sam Coates from Sky News has discovered another weird budget ritual. On his Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, he says:Someone messaged me to say: ‘Did you know that over in the Treasury as they’ve been going over all these spending settlements, in one of the offices, its full of balloons. And every time an individual department finalises its settlements, one of the balloons is ...

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29 minutes ago Laura Anderson issues 'wife' warning to Scots footballer boyfriend Clark Robertson

The former Love Island star issued a serious warning to her new Dundee FC beau Clark Robertson live on Capital Radio.

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34 minutes ago MPs urged to back most significant overhaul of workers' rights in a generation

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak called on MPs to be 'on the right side of history'

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51 minutes ago Five ways to avoid festive scams as millions of people duped by criminals in last year

Citizen's Advice research suggests around nine million people have been tricked into handing over personal or financial information to fraudsters.

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52 minutes ago Pensioners' fury after being slapped with £60 fine for overstaying in a car park... by just 11 SECONDS

It was Brenda Reed's first time back in the UK in 60 years when she received the fine after parking in Margate's Lido Car Park in Kent.

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