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The co-leader of the Scottish Greens is expected to take around six weeks to recover

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3 hours ago Liam Payne's cause of death is confirmed after One Direction star fell from Buenos Aries hotel balcony

Former One Direction star Liam Payne's medical cause of death has been confirmed in a UK inquest opening as 'polytrauma'.

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54 minutes ago UK expert makes China mystery virus HMPV information request over pandemic fears

A top medical research boffin has said more information is needed on the HMPV strain impacting China at the moment and 'if the virus causing high infection rates' has differences

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5 hours ago Lothians MSP leads Holyrood debate on access to medical technology for diabetic patients

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30 hours ago Call to reconsider building PH2O leisure facility on busy Perth city centre car park

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1 hour ago Red Roses make captaincy change with Zoe Aldcroft appointed ahead of home World Cup

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5 hours ago How your benefits, tax, and pension change after the death of a partner

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67 minutes ago Liam Payne's autopsy uncovered tragic twist in final moments of One Direction star's life

Liam Payne's medical cause of death has been confirmed as 'polytrauma' at a UK inquest, with a preliminary autopsy report conducted shortly after the One Direction singer's death giving an insight into his final moments.

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5 hours ago Is YOUR local hospital being crippled by the flu surge? Check winter virus levels in your area using our tracker tool

The crisis, driven by flu norovirus, RSV and Covid has already led to a dozen hospitals declaring critical incidents meaning they are struggling to provide safe care to patients.

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1 hour ago Government funding 'a lot better' than expected, says Swansea council leader, but tough budget decisions remain

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29 hours ago Scots 'remortgaging their homes' to fund private health care, MPs told

Elaine Stewart made the comments in Westminster

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6 hours ago DWP full list of 85 health conditions that qualify you for £737 payment

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71 minutes ago More fizzle than pop: the limits of Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl

There are bold scenes for mainstream American cinema but the sexy dom/sub age gap movie can’t quite figure out what it’s saying about desireArguably the most transgressive scene in Babygirl, A24’s erotic drama from the Dutch writer and director Halina Reijn that has Nicole Kidman on the awards circuit, is the first one. The film opens with an orgasm – for both Romy Mathis (Kidman) and her husband, Jacob (Antonio Banderas), together, in the marital bed. But as Jacob slumbers in post-coital bliss, Romy scampers down the hall – the shot of Kidman’s bare, apple-cheeked behind recalls her first scene in Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut, one of several erotic 90s touchstones Reijn seeks to invoke and invert through the female gaze. In another room, we witness a private ritual. Her hands desperately flutter across a laptop keyboard; she prostrates on the ground, and makes herself come – for real this time – to porn.It’s a bold opening salvo for a film, a statement of sorts: this ...

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13 hours ago AI will help workers with their jobs, not replace them, tech executives say

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2 hours ago Keir Starmer is ‘betraying’ the NHS with private sector expansion, says Jeremy Corbyn

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29 hours ago Florida doctor 'forced young girls to film sadistic sex acts that led to one child's horrific death'

In one tragic case a 13-year-old girl died after Stephen Andrew Leedy, a palliative care doctor in the Tampa Bay area, reportedly told her how to hang herself.

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7 hours ago State Pension uprating in April will not be paid to nearly half a million older people

The New State Pension is set to rise to £921 each month under the Triple Lock.

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99 minutes ago The Good Ship Murder season 2 stars break silence as Beverley actress quits series

The Good Ship Murder stars Shayne Ward and Catherine Tyldesley have opened up on their former co-star Claire Sweeney's exit from the Channel 5 series, as they're joined by her replacement Ross Adams.

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26 hours ago NHS FLU CRISIS: Now nine hospitals declare critical incidents as infections surge to 'exceptionally high' levels

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has urged people to only go to A&E in a genuine medical emergency, instead asking them to visit their GP or call 111.

Science

2 hours ago Julen Lopetegui sacked by West Ham with Graham Potter lined up as replacement

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30 hours ago British workplace branded a 'cult' after managers put up poster telling employees to come in even when they're ill and work out of hours

Taking to the subreddit r/CasualUK on 7 January, the worker, from Teesside, known as u/punkywalrus, highlighted his frustration at the list, which contains a series of bizarre rules on 'what makes a great team.'

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7 hours ago Tone deaf! Fury after millionaire CEO offers to pay 'any amount' for private firefighters to protect his Pacific Palisades mansion while area burns to the ground

Keith Wasserman, co-founder of real estate investment firm Gelt Venture Partners, posted on X this morning pleading for help as a wildfire tore through Pacific Palisades

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3 hours ago Liam Payne cause of death confirmed in UK months after tragic balcony fall

The former One Direction star's medical cause of death has been confirmed in a UK inquest opening

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27 hours ago Paisley carer struck off after failing to get dementia patient medical help for fractured fingers

Louise Clark “deliberately sought to mislead her employer by withholding this information” according to a report from the Scottish Social Services Council.

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2 hours ago Luke Littler lookalike admits he's dreadful at darts and can't see resemblance as mates tease him over wife's viral video

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13 hours ago DWP admits it has paid out £500 million to dead people in benefit payments

The department is unable to recover millions of pounds in overpaid state pension and Pension Credit payments from the families

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4 hours ago Tragic final four words of teen who was left quadriplegic after eating slug for dare

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27 hours ago Five hospitals declare critical incidents as winter flu surges to 'exceptionally high' levels across Britain

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has urged people to only go to A&E in a genuine medical emergency, instead asking them to visit their GP or call 111.

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4 hours ago Young girl "distraught" after heroin addict parents found unresponsive in bathroom

The child was taken into care, and is unlikely to be returned to her parents.

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14 hours ago State Pension pay increase in April could make older Brits pay more tax in retirement

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4 hours ago Liam Payne's medical cause of death finally confirmed in UK inquest three months after tragic fall

Five people have been charged over Payne’s death after he fell from a third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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28 hours ago Hospitals declare critical incidents amid 'sustained pressure’ from flu and respiratory illnesses

Patients who require non-urgent care have been asked to ‘consider other options’ such as NHS 111 or contacting their GP

Science

4 hours ago English firm running GP surgeries in Wales criticised over bullying and unpaid staff allegations

'What we cannot have are primary care services being sold off to people who don't give a damn about the people they're supposed to serve'

Politics

14 hours ago DWP offers state pensioners with one of 48 conditions extra £5,644 a year

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6 hours ago Labour's THREE YEAR delay on social care reforms is condemned as architect of plans warns they could be wrecked AGAIN

Andrew Dilnot said the timetable for a new review launched by Labour is 'inappropriate' - and warning that progress could be derailed again by the looming election.

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29 hours ago Around 200 cases believed to be part of hospital medical negligence probe

Sussex Police are investigating cases of patient deaths and serious injury at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

Science

5 hours ago Keir Starmer teases Nigel Farage saying he 'smiled' when Elon Musk knifed former ally and said he should be replaced as Reform leader

Mr Farage grinned and MPs laughed as the PM commiserated with him over the volte face by the X owner at the weekend.

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25 hours ago Martin Lewis shares a genius tip to cut energy costs by replacing this one 'demon' appliance

Martin Lewis has revealed how to dry clothes indoors without this one 'demon' appliance that costs a lot to run, as families feel the sting of winter fuel costs during the cold snap

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6 hours ago Ayrshire care worker threatened service user with 'rape claim' after their sexual relationship was investigated

Leigh-anne McCartney attempted to have sex with the man in a car, before the pair had sexual relations on “multiple dates” in a basement.

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31 hours ago UK hospital declares critical incident over 'exceptionally high' virus cases

Liverpool Royal Hospital has told people to visit their GPs or call 111 unless it is a medical emergency amid high numbers visiting its A&E department as they get overwhelmed with virus illnesses

Science

5 hours ago Maria review – Angelina Jolie’s Callas commands the screen as a great diva in decline

Pablo Larraín’s strange and mordant drama portrays Callas’s haughty struggle as her voice begins to fail but her stardom remains undimmedAngelina Jolie declaims an imperious performance as opera star Maria Callas in this strange, sad, mordantly witty film from screenwriter Steven Knight and director Pablo Larraín, showing her declining months in Paris in 1977; the lioness in winter succumbing with ecstatic defiance to illness and loneliness. Maria broods over her “medication” and neglects to eat, and she is impossibly difficult with the servants, housekeeper Bruna (Alba Rohrwacher) and valet Ferruccio (Pierfrancesco Favino), who are the aghast witnesses to her decline – and she is beginning to relinquish the idea that she will ever sing again. The whole thing is interspersed with pharma-fuelled hallucination-flashbacks to the days of her celebrity pomp, but also further back to her traumatised girlhood in Nazi-occupied Greece.This film has had a mixed, sometimes frosty reception; I ...

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26 hours ago Man City transfer news: Omar Marmoush £50m stance clear as Ederson successor identified

Manchester City reportedly have a list of replacements for Ederson after prioritising signing a goalkeeper and are also reputedly pushing to sign Omar Marmoush.

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7 hours ago DWP issues warning to all benefit claimants over 16 things they must report

The Department for Work and Pensions has issued a warning to all those claiming Universal Credit, with a list of 16 different things that must be reported to the agency

Events

41 hours ago How millions more NHS patients will receive free treatment in private hospitals under Government plans to slash waiting lists

Sir Keir Starmer yesterday pledged to make 'better use' of the private sector so people can be seen more quickly for a wider range of issues.

Science

6 hours ago Stunning Italian village bans all residents from becoming seriously ill with bizarre decree

The 1,300 residents of Belcastro in the Calabria region of Italy have been told to "avoid contracting any illness that may require emergency medical assistance"

Politics

26 hours ago Labour's tax raid on private education claims another victim: Parents' fury as independent boarding school is closing on 175th anniversary because of VAT charge on fees

EXCLUSIVE: Loughborough Amherst School, a boarding school for boys and girls aged 4 to 18 that began in 1850, said the 'economic reality' made it no longer viable.

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8 hours ago The Spin | ‘Deep, minging, unpleasant’: cricket’s flooding problem is getting worse

ECB has been in touch with 27 clubs so far this storm season as the climate crisis bites. What can game do to stay afloat?The water started flowing into the New Road practice area at about 4pm on Monday afternoon, and just kept on rolling. It flooded the entire ground and half the car park, as well as the nearby racecourse, the rowing club and the public footpath – which is now a popular hang-out space for swans. The head groundsman, Stephen Manfield, a man of a remarkably perky disposition, sits on the balcony of the club’s sports bar watching the fourth flood of the season do its business, the water coming in from the burst banks of the Severn as well as round the back across the fields. For the benefit of Spin readers he pokes his measuring stick into the water – “four-and-a-half feet in the shallow end” – and still rising.Last off-season New Road was flooded eight times (enough for the chief executive, Ashley Giles, to question the long-term viability of the club), and the 2024-...

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41 hours ago WES STREETING: I'll never allow ideological dogma to make patients wait longer for care

During the past fourteen years, a two-tier healthcare system emerged in this country, where people who can afford to are increasingly going private to skip the queue.

Science

6 hours ago Biden still believes he could have beaten Trump and says successor ‘very complimentary’ in private

President insists polling suggests he could have bested Republican rival and secured second term as he ponders legacy ahead of White House exit

Politics

27 hours ago State Pension uprating in April may affect how much tax older people pay in retirement

Older people with only the State Pension as their source of income will not pay income tax.

Economics

8 hours ago Dad dies in family bathroom on Boxing Day after being 'sent home from hospital with painkillers'

Kevin Burnett, 47, from Stoke-on-Trent, fell in his bathroom on Boxing Day after he suffered chest pains and despite the best efforts of attending medics he died leaving behind his partner and four children

Events

42 hours ago ‘Sandwich carers’ suffer poorer mental and physical health, research suggests

The average age of the carers – parents of young children who also care for an older relative – studied was around 37.

Science

6 hours ago Coronation Street's Jack P Shepherd denied 'honour' after Gail Platt star's exit as castmate replaces him

The David Platt actor turned down a prime spot behind the scenes on the cobbles following co-star Helen Worth's exit

Politics

28 hours ago Businesswoman books out entire Florida Keys hotel for $20,000 so she can 'relax without any riff

Former model and actress Victoria Unikel splashed out the huge sum, which was 'discounted' as it was mid-week, so that she could enjoy meditation alone on the property's private strip of sand.

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10 hours ago Is this the start of a new pandemic? As hMPV cases rise, everything you need to know about the 'mystery' illness

The scenes are eerily familiar - crowded hospitals in China overrun by masked patients seeking medical help as infection tears through the population.

Events

6 hours ago Anas Sarwar dumps 'change' slogan after rocky start by Keir Starmer's Labour Government

EXCLUSIVE: The slogan has been retired and replaced with "new direction" after a decision by Scottish Labour.

Politics

28 hours ago Full list of benefits and payments only people over State Pension age can claim

There are more than a dozen benefits and discounts available for men and women aged over 66.

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10 hours ago Britain's Got Talent shock as judge Simon Cowell reveals he is still struggling with painful medical condition while filming the new series

Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell suggested he is still suffering from a painful medical issue after first opening up about it last year.

Events

6 hours ago Jeremy Corbyn accuses Keir Starmer of ‘betraying’ NHS with massive expansion of private sector

Exclusive: Former Labour leader hits out, accusing prime minister of ‘broken pledges’ on the two-child benefit cap, winter fuel and ‘selling off’ the health service

Politics

28 hours ago Scots patients 'borrowing money and remortgaging their homes' to go private due to NHS waiting times

Ayr MP Elaine Stewart claimed the SNP Government had "abandoned the principles of NHS care at the point of entry".

Economics

10 hours ago Islamesque by Diana Darke review – the diverse roots of medieval architecture

A beautifully-illustrated account of the Middle Eastern influence on Europe’s great buildingsFrom Cairo to Istanbul, the ancient cities of the eastern Mediterranean tell a story of conquest, trade and coexistence written in stone. Jerusalem’s seventh-century Dome of the Rock and its surroundings are dotted with recycled Persian, Greek, Hasmonean and Roman stonework, along with choice fragments from churches. In Damascus, the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque features intricately carved capitals from a Roman temple and relics of St John the Baptist transferred from the church it replaced. The cross-pollination extended from design and materials to people – the shimmering gold mosaics that cover the interiors of both buildings are attributed to the Byzantine master craftsmen whose forerunners decorated the churches of Constantinople and Ravenna.This sun-drenched historical patchwork could seem a long way from the gloom of early medieval Europe. But in Islamesque, cultural histor...

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6 hours ago "I bought a house on Whatsapp": inside the elite house, car and holiday selling groups

Discover the intriguing world of invite-only Whatsapp groups, where luxury assets like houses, cars, and holidays are discreetly traded.

Politics

29 hours ago Man City have the ideal £50m transfer replacement they didn't buy in the summer

Manchester City are looking for a defensive midfielder to support Rodri, but may have found a replacement for another key position.

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11 hours ago Middle East latest: Israeli airstrikes kill at least 5 in Gaza, including 2 babies, Palestinians say

Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least five people in the Gaza Strip, including two infants and a woman

Events

7 hours ago Dilnot: Need for social care reform ‘bleedin’ obvious’ but must get PM’s backing

The economist said three years is an ‘inappropriate length of time’ for a final report from the new commission into social care.

Politics

29 hours ago DWP will pay you an extra £471 state pension in April if you retired before this date

Last year, Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed that the triple lock would remain in place and that the state pensions - both the new and the old - would rise in April

Economics

11 hours ago Breakthrough drugs herald ‘new era’ in battle against dementia, experts predict

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7 hours ago Labour MSP tells UK Government 'it's not too late' to compensate Waspi women for pension changes

Monica Lennon told the Record people remained "upset and angry" at the decision taken by Keir Starmer's Government.

Politics

29 hours ago The man set to get a £6m private tunnel to his house paid for by the taxpayer

Brian Garlick has been forced out of his home alongside the A417 Missing Link, a three-mile-long dual carriageway under construction between Gloucester and Cirencester.

Economics

12 hours ago CalMac's new electric ferries face running on diesel for up to 18 months due to power shortage

Fears that grid upgrades to ports for battery recharging will not be completed in time

Events

7 hours ago Trump hints at US military action in Greenland as Biden reveals details about private meeting with president

Incoming commander-in-chief holds alarming press conference at Mar-a-Lago, wandering from topic to topic and threatening allied nations

Politics

12 hours ago Why John Swinney's warning about medicine rationing was actually a threat

As the leader of a minority government, John Swinney has a duty to negotiate with other parties to enable key legislation, like the Budget, to pass

Events

7 hours ago West Ham eye Chelsea midfielder with Graham Potter set to replace Julen Lopetegui

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall has struggled to force his way into Enzo Maresca’s first-choice side and could make a move

Politics

32 hours ago DWP confirms state pension 'review' will be carried out as deadline set

There are changes to state pension policy coming in over the next two years

Economics

13 hours ago Indian farmer, 68, refuses hospital care as hunger strike hits 44 days

Jagjit Singh Dallewal says he is ready to die if government does not heed demands of farmers

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