55 minutes ago 'White lifestyles' are reason why caucasian Brits are more likely to die from tobacco and alcohol

According to the Office for National Statistics ( ONS ), white Britons were dying in higher numbers then any other ethnic group in almost every town, city and village in the UK from March 2021 to May 2023.

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56 minutes ago Move over, Delia: This cookbook is the new kitchen classic for a global generation

Sophie Godwin, Adam Bush and a host of other shining stars are taking the torch from Britain’s culinary queen with their ambitious new cookbook. Packed with 275 recipes, from quick weeknight dinners to globally inspired showstoppers, You Can Cook Everything is set to redefine home cooking for the modern age

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64 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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70 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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75 minutes ago Liverpool pass their first big test as title contenders: Football Weekly

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Wilson and Sam Dalling as Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1 to stay ahead of Manchester City at the top of the tableRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today: Liverpool’s first big test of the season and they pass it with a relatively scare-free 2-1 win over a much-improving Chelsea. Continue reading...

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76 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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79 minutes ago Mikel Arteta's admission on Arsenal and William Saliba 'issue' speaks volumes

Arsenal were forced to face a third game with ten men as William Saliba was sent-off in their loss at Bournemouth as Mikel Arteta concedes their discipline is leaving them with an impossible task

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79 minutes ago Is this Britain's most dangerous junction? Drivers slam misleading road signs behind 13 crashes in just six weeks

The junction along the A521 in Cheadle has seen cars flip in the air, collide with lorries and cause nearly £200,000 of damage over the last two months.

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84 minutes ago ‘What is my faith? What am I doing?’ The American evangelicals ‘deconstructing’ their religion to save it

When a young Southern Baptist came out as gay, it prompted a ‘major reckoning’: could he reconcile his religion with his sexuality?In 2017, at the end of his first year at Samford University, a private Christian university in Birmingham, Alabama, Nathan Peace realized he’d never “pray the gay away” and he’d never “turn straight”.Peace had grown up in a “churchy” family in Georgia and attended Southern Baptist services his entire life. In high school, he showed up early for Bible study and participated in group prayers before marching band performances. In the 2016 election, he voted for Donald Trump. It’s what he thought he had to do to be a “faithful” Christian. Continue reading...

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84 minutes ago Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section

Outcry in Montgomery county as Linda Coombs’ book on European colonization of Native American land reclassifiedAnti-censorship advocates have joined book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.The furor in Montgomery county – near Houston – follows the decision by a citizens review panel, at the behest of rightwing activists, to place Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs in the fiction section of children’s libraries. Continue reading...

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