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18 minutes ago Dutch study produces map breakdown of how immigrants from different countries either contribute to economy or become a burden on tax payers

The report, based on 2016 data, estimates that asylum seekers cost the Dutch state €400,000 (£330,000) over the course of their lifetimes.

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24 hours ago Which football teams have won the league without a shirt sponsor? | The Knowledge

Plus: non-football athletes wearing football crests on their kit; and teams who were sponsored by news organisationsMail us any of your questions and answers“Chelsea are firmly in the title race despite what their manager says,” wrote Will Nichols before Christmas. “But who was the last team to win the English top flight without a shirt sponsor? Has it been done more recently in another country?”Chelsea’s conscious uncoupling from the title race doesn’t change the fact that this is a cracking question. Let’s start with the English top flight. Knowledge regular Dirk Maas has trawled the brilliant True Colours website – which, if you are the type of person who reads this column, is likely to be an endless source of serotonin – to find the answer: Aston Villa in 1980-81. Not content with using only 14 players (if you’re under the age of about 40, let that sink in) all season, they didn’t have a shirt sponsor either.Brighton & Hove Albion British CaledonianCoventry TalbotEverton Haf...

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7 minutes ago Hollywood Boulevard is evacuated as wildfires erupt in celebrity epicentre: Another 100,000 told to escape NOW as horror images show LA neighborhoods reduced to ashes and death toll rises

A new evacuation order came about 6pm on Wednesday local time as a fast-moving fire swept through the Hills, impacting at least 10 acres already near Runyon Canyon.

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23 hours ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks gets same message as fans demand change after TV return

Fans were quick to flood him with comments as he made his TV return after his successful stint on Strictly

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

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71 minutes ago Love Island's Maya Jama breaks silence on rumoured relationship as she teases career change

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12 hours ago Public will not have to change lives ‘radically’ for 2035 climate goal, MPs told

Government climate advisers said the UK can ‘absolutely’ meet its targets for 2030 and 2035, but it currently remains off track.

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79 minutes ago Service cuts and council tax hikes 'inevitable' as councils in Wales face £559m shortfall

Councils face budget pressures of £559m next year, equivalent to a 26% council tax rise or the loss of nearly 14,000 jobs, a committee heard

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31 hours ago Arsenal sent new transfer plea after painful Newcastle loss: 'Something needs to change'

Gunners’ need for attacking reinforcements made abundantly clear again in Carabao Cup semi-final first-leg defeat

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32 minutes ago Rangers XI predicted as bare bones backline polar opposite to forward switch

The Belgian has next to no other options at the back while suspension means at least one change further forwward

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90 minutes ago Simple 'tablespoon' breakfast addition could stop some stomach problems

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17 hours ago Liam Payne's cause of death is confirmed after One Direction star fell from Buenos Aires 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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7 hours ago Dutch study produces map break down of how immigrants from different countries either contribute to economy or become a burden on tax payers

The report, based on 2016 data, estimates that asylum seekers cost the Dutch state €400,000 (£330,000) over the course of their lifetimes.

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33 minutes ago Community pays tribute to aspiring rapper, 14, stabbed to death on bus

Kelyan Bokassa died on Tuesday.

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2 hours ago Voices: I can’t seem to find the perfect partner – and time is running out

The Independent’s agony aunt Victoria Richards is here to help. Email dearvix@independent.co.uk for advice on love, work, family and relationships

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22 hours ago Will YOUR child's school have to cut teacher pay? Fury at Labour's 'wrecking ball' bid to force academies to follow national salary scales and curriculum in 'return to mediocracy'

The government is making sweeping changes to reforms brought in by the Tories, including massive curbs on the independence of state schools.

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9 hours ago Market turmoil forces Chancellor to plot spending cuts or even MORE tax hikes: Red alert for Rachel Reeves as borrowing costs surge higher than during Truss crisis

Rachel Reeves is drawing up contingency plans for emergency spending cuts or tax rises, as government borrowing costs soar.

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48 minutes ago RuPaul 'in bits' over The Vivienne’s death as he considers future of drag show race

“With a broken heart, I join the entire Drag Race universe in mourning the loss of The Vivienne — an incredibly talented queen and a lovely human being.”

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2 hours ago North Korea benefiting from troops fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine, US says

Pyongyang’s military ties with Russia ‘rendering it more capable of waging war against its neighbours’

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15 hours ago Stephen ‘tWtich’ Boss’ widow Allison Holker responds to claims she’s ‘disgracing’ him for a paycheck

Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss’ wife says she discovered his drug addiction days after his death in 2022

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50 minutes ago Woolwich bus stabbing: Family attend vigil held for boy, 14, stabbed to death on London double decker

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6 hours ago DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Rachel Reeves is pushing the UK economy to the brink

Before and after the election, Rachel Reeves never missed an opportunity to boast Labour would deliver economic change.

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17 hours ago Castle Douglas food project benefits by more than £1,300 thanks to walking challenge

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53 minutes ago Cheryl stalked by convicted killer who went to her home after Liam Payne's death

A man has breached a restraining order which barred him from contacting Cheryl or entering Buckinghamshire after being jailed for four months last year

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8 hours ago Princess Beatrice steps up for royal family ahead of welcoming second child

As Princess Beatrice counts down the days until she welcomes her second child, the royal has showed no signs of slowing down as she prepares to head to the World Economic Forum to discuss climate change

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18 hours ago Liam Payne’s cause of death confirmed after One Direction star’s Buenos Aries hotel balcony fall

Pop singer died aged 31 after falling from a third-floor balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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68 minutes ago Simon Cowell returns to Britain's Got Talent after Liam Payne death as show makes big change

He and his fellow Britain's Got Talent judges are back at the auditions for the talent show after they were postponed following Payne's death

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8 hours ago British IS members in Syria should be allowed home, says Trump’s counter

Sebastian Gorka says letting people in prison camps return to Britain would benefit the ‘special relationship’ with USBritish nationals being held in Syrian prison camps for fighting on behalf of Islamic State should be allowed to return to the UK, Donald Trump’s incoming counter-terrorism chief has said.Any country that wants to be a “serious ally” to the United States should commit to the international fight against the extremist group by repatriating its citizens, according to Sebastian Gorka. Continue reading...

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18 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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The Vivienne, whose real name was James Lee Williams, had been one of the breakout stars on RuPaul's Drag Race - the BBC reality show in which drag queens compete in front of host RuPaul

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8 hours ago Major study reveals how long people with dementia live after diagnosis

Roughly 13% of people move to a nursing home in the year after diagnosis

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18 hours ago 'I'm business guru – those making cash on Vinted need to take this HRMC advice'

Small business expert Steph Buttery has taken to TikTok to advise anyone with a 'side hustle' on particular platforms about an important tax mistake to avoid

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10 hours ago Major change to small boats clampdown to treat smugglers like Russian oligarchs

Foreign Secretary David Lammy will unveil new plans to seize millions of pounds in assets from people smuggling gangs - making the UK the first country in the world to do so

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The two largest fires, the Palisades and Eaton Fires, have burned over 25,000 acres combined as five people have been confirmed dead in Los Angeles, with the death toll expected to rise

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11 hours ago Liam Payne's ex returns to social media with sweet 'angel number' tribute

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21 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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12 hours ago Republican already calling Gulf of Mexico ‘Gulf of America’ after Trump speech

A Republican representative has already started calling the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" after President-elect Donald Trump declared he wants to change the name of the ocean basin.

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21 hours ago What next for oil giant Shell after £1 billion emissions payment and renewable cutbacks?

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6 hours ago Dinosaurs 'could return' as experts warn of new danger of climate change

Experts from the University of St Andrews have found global warming played a vital part in the dinosaurs’ development that that rocketing carbon dioxide levels could bring them back

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12 hours ago Love Island's Elma Pazar on how TOWIE changed her and vows against one thing

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24 hours ago January 2025 payment dates for benefits and pensions as DWP to launch disability consultation

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6 hours ago Black men are in disproportionate danger of dying from prostate cancer because of outdated NHS guidelines, charity warns

Prostate Cancer UK says ministers have a 'moral imperative' to change the rules so GPs can proactively speak to at risk groups about screening for the disease.

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13 hours ago Revisions of ‘hateful conduct’: what users can now say on Meta platforms

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27 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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7 hours ago My tiny chihuahua was violently kicked to death by an intruder when I was just feet away... police are now hunting a 'dog KILLER' 

Evangeline Ecclestone, of Rising Brook, Stafford, has revealed she will 'never get over' the 'cruel' death of her tiny pet chihuahua Reggie, who was viciously kicked to death.

Events

13 hours ago Federal Reserve officials at December meeting expected slower pace of rate cuts ahead

Federal Reserve officials at their meeting Dec. 17-18 expected to dial back the pace of interest rate cuts this year in the face of persistently elevated inflation and the threat of widespread tariffs and other potential policy changes

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

From April, the New and Basic State Pensions are set to see a 4.1 per cent rise but retirees with extra income from employment or other private pensions may be taxed accordingly

Economics

7 hours ago Strictly's Wynne Evans shares heartbreak following death of 'hero' brother

The Welsh opera singer has paid a touching tribute to his sibling

Events

13 hours ago Biden, 82, struggles to remember details of Hunter's crimes as he defends decision to pardon him

President Joe Biden defends pardoning his son Hunter and rejects that it sets a dangerous precedent, but the 82-year-old appeared to mix up some details about his son's crimes.

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

Millions of state pensoiners living with a health conditions could be eligible for one particular DWP benefit

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8 hours ago California fires live: Los Angeles fighting largest blaze in its history as deaths rise to five, officials say

Local police say death toll has risen to five as Palisades fire grows to 15,000 acres and Eaton and Hurst fires also expandVisual explainer: why are the LA wildfires so bad?Californians: have you been affected by the wildfires?Five people have died in the Eaton fire in Altadena, an increase from the two reported deaths earlier today, Los Angeles county sheriff Robert Luna told ABC Los Angeles station KABC.Here are some of the latest images from the newswires from the wildfires raging though Los Angeles County. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago Luke Littler's brother Leon lifts lid on darts sensation's personality after historic title win

Littler has been warned about how his life could change after becoming the youngest darts world champion

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8 hours ago Keir Starmer warned many family farms ‘won’t survive to see government’s plans to help boost profits’

National Farmers’ Union urged ministers to ‘pause and consult’ Rachel Reeves’ Budget changes

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14 hours ago Mum discovers brutal text on partner's phone that leaves her world in tatters

A woman is on the brink of breaking up with her partner after she made a heartbreaking discovery on his phone. She's furiously hit out at the double standards in their relationship

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8 hours ago It's not really the right time for nasty California fires. What are the factors that changed that?

Here's what experts say is turning Southern California's speedy wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration that is defying the calendar

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14 hours ago The extraordinary power of Squid Game and Traitors and how it's changing us

‘Faithful’ Janet Christie explores the two hit shows’ influence on the habits of many in Scotland

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9 hours ago Tottenham: Ange Postecoglou issues passionate VAR warning after latest change in win over Liverpool

Spurs boss believes football has changed more since introduced of VAR than in the previous 50 years

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15 hours ago ‘He jolted us out of our comfort zone’: Antonio Pappano, Martyn Brabbins and more on Pierre Boulez

As the classical music world celebrates his centenary, musicians tell us why the French iconoclast remains a towering figure, and his music still casts a spellComposer, conductor, polemicist and iconoclast Pierre Boulez was born 100 years ago and, on his death in 2016, left classical music utterly changed. Ahead of two festivals in which the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony celebrate a musician with whom both orchestras had close and enduring relationships we speak to composers, conductors and performers who worked with the legendary musician, and tell us why his music remains essential listening - so long as we put our ‘Boulez ears’ on. Continue reading...

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9 hours ago Corrie icon Sean's death 'sealed' as fans 'expose' who kills him after 22 years on soap

Coronation Street's Sean Tully could be set for a shock exit from the cobbles and fans reckon he could be killed off as they've come up with a 'murder twist'

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