8 minutes ago No 10 says Starmer won’t offer reparations or apology over Britain’s role in slavery at Commonwealth summit – UK politics live

Government opposed to idea of paying reparations for Britain’s historic role in slave trade and will not issue apology at Commonwealth meetingIn 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 indivi...

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21 minutes ago Poundland announces it will close ALL 800 stores for two days this December

Poundland has announced it will temporarily be shutting the doors of all 800 of its stores for two days this December.

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56 minutes ago Steven Van Zandt shares surprising Bruce Springsteen trait: ‘This was a huge step’

Rock star is the subect of a new Disney+ documentary out this week

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58 minutes ago BBC Morning Live doctor shares Dr Michael Mosley diet that can reverse diabetes

Michael Mosley reversed his own type two diabetes by losing 1.5st in just 12 weeks.

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67 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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86 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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88 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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90 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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2 hours ago Royal news live: Australian senator Lidia Thorpe explains furious outburst after King Charles’s speech

The Australian senator speaks out again following confrontation in parliament

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2 hours ago American rates British takeaways and labels one an absolute 'disgrace'

An influencer known as kjordyyy is known for sharing funny videos about what it's like for an American to live in the UK. His ranking of British takeaways has left people torn

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