73 minutes ago WWE founder Vince McMahon ‘thrilled’ after settling payments allegations case

The 79-year-old resigned from the WWE’s parent company TKO Group Holdings amid sex trafficking allegations in January last year.

Politics

32 minutes ago Jolted Australia are on the tear again – England have their work cut out

Healy’s side have reacted strongly again to World Cup pain and the tourists need to keep the series live until the TestIf you’re playing against the Australian women’s cricket team, there are points where the only option is to brace yourself. Because they lose so very rarely, in any format, they tend to respond to those anomalies by proving how unusual they are. For England’s women, visiting Australia for a Women’s Ashes series of three one-day internationals, three Twenty20s and a day-night Test, this is now the position they are in.Skip back two places on the list of major failures to the 50-over World Cup semi-final of 2017, when Australia got ambushed by Harmanpreet Kaur in one of the all-time batting assaults. Outraged at watching England subsequently knock over India in the final, Australia went on a tear: unbeaten in series terms across four Women’s Ashes, three T20 World Cups, three T20 tri-series, 14 bilateral T20 series, 14 bilateral ODI series, the Commonwealth Games and ...

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3 hours ago Wives of players say they were harassed after Super Cup game in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s record on women’s rights will be front and centre of scrutiny in the buildup to the 2034 World Cup

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6 hours ago Penny Lancaster says 'I'm so blessed' as she sends Rod Stewart message on 80th birthday

Loose Women star Penny Lancaster has sent touching birthday wishes to her husband Sir Rod Stewart as the rock icon marks his 80th birthday, saying she is 'so blessed' to have him

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3 hours ago Perv actor jailed for using hidden camera to film kids and women changing costumes at theatre

Indecent footage was found during a random police visit after Connell was previously placed on the register in 2023.

Culture

29 hours ago Scientists pinpoint exactly how long you'll live after a dementia diagnosis

Dementia is a memory and independence robbing disorder where the brain progressively gets worse at functioning over time which is now the leading cause of death in the UK.

Science

1 hour ago Why NOW is the best time to retire in nearly 20 years: The economy is reeling but a little

Someone buying a retirement income today could secure a deal that is a massive 70 per cent higher than if they had bought in 2020, when deals hit a record low.

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3 hours ago DWP cold weather payment: Heater that costs 16p to run now less than £20 at Debenhams

Down to just £18.82 from the usual £44.99 with a massive 58% discount, this oil filled radiator is more than capable of heating up a home office or a small bedroom

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6 hours ago DWP warns PIP claimants of 12 things they must report or risk losing payments

There are certain things you must tell the Department for Work and Pensions about

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3 hours ago There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room. This is politics at warp speed, and we know who’s benefiting | Marina Hyde

Fiscal crisis, corruption claims, shenanigans and legal threats. This feels like the week old-style politics sat on a grenade The worst-timed foreign visit by a politician this week was LA mayor Karen Bass deciding to attend the inauguration of the president of Ghana. The second worst might be Rachel Reeves’s decision to push ahead with her China bridge-building trip against a backdrop of market turmoil, soaring UK borrowing costs and the inevitability of rising food prices. But look, maybe have no fear. The chancellor has apparently told all her cabinet colleagues to “cease anti-growth measures” – amazing – and also to come up with specific plans to boost economic activity. I am already picturing her opening the bits of paper from the hat. “Right, I’ve got 20 for ‘build an effing time machine’ and one that just says ‘Pass’. Sorry, Lammy – this isn’t Celebrity Mastermind.”As for auto-satirical lowlights further down the ministerial ladder, do keep your eye on anti-corruption ministe...

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7 hours ago Rod Stewart's pained request to Penny Lancaster during brief split from Loose Women star

Rod Stewart has been married three times, but it was his relationship with Loose Women star Penny Lancaster that finally made him a devoted husband.

Events

3 hours ago 'Instead of facing consequences, Donald Trump's return to power places him above the law'

After being handed an unconditional discharge over his hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, it is clear the 2024 election was really about securing the ultimate "get-out-of-jail-free" card

Politics

3 hours ago DWP urged to make state pension change that would affect eight million people

MPs may have to debate the proposal

Economics

9 hours ago DWP PIP claimants must report these changes or risk payments being stopped

PIP claimants must contact DWP in certain circumstances

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4 hours ago BBC series exposes Scottish Tinder Swindler who preyed on women using dating apps

Christopher Harkins was convicted and jailed last year for terrorising women after meeting them on dating apps.

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4 hours ago Older people in specific areas across Scotland can claim new £434 monthly benefit from March

Pension Age Disability Payment will only be available to people over State Pension age living in Scotland.

Economics

10 hours ago At last! Fashion is making bags for women who work, not just ladies who lunch | Jessica Cartner

My work bag is closer in scale to a laundry basket than the tiny handbags clutched by modelsFashion sometimes excludes people on grounds that are truly nasty and toxic and which reflect and drive fundamental problems in our culture: race, weight, wealth. So I hesitate to bring up what I’m about to say because it is small-fry compared with those issues. What I want to talk about today is not, in the scheme of things, any kind of hard luck story. But I am going to bring it up anyway.The microaggression for which I would like to call out fashion, today, is for all the times it has made me feel excluded because my handbag is inelegantly big and heavy. I have quite often felt like a no-hope outcast from glamour, on the grounds that the outfits fashion celebrates on catwalks or billboards or red carpets feature a handbag no bigger than a hardback novel, while the bag I carry to the office and back every day is closer in scale to a laundry basket. Continue reading...

Events

5 hours ago What is a cold weather payment, how much is it, and how can I get one?

The payments will automatically be added to the accounts of those eligible – but how much are cold weather payments?

Politics

5 hours ago Are you eligible for a Cold Weather Payment? Check to see if YOU can claim £25 as icy blast grips Britain

As a bitter Arctic freeze engulfs Britain, with some communities bracing for heavy snow and -20C temperatures, payments have been triggered in a total of 51 postcode areas.

Economics

13 hours ago ‘A risk to life and limb’: residents of Germany and Netherlands rue dangers of fireworks

Authorities are reluctant to curb excesses of a new year’s tradition that is causing life-changing injuriesSeven-year-old Necati Karki had gathered with his family as part of a crowd in their neighbourhood in northern Berlin when a treacherous new addition to the New Year’s Eve festivities went off: a “firework bomb”.Fired out of a pipe by unknown assailants and possibly deliberately aimed at the targets, the illegally imported pyrotechnic – called a kugelbombe (spherical bomb) – flew straight into the group of mainly women and children, injuring eight. Karki has undergone at least three operations and is still fighting for his life, with horrific injuries to the lower half of his body, one of his adult brothers reported on Instagram. Continue reading...

Events

6 hours ago London council becomes first in England to provide universal school uniform payments to families

Parents spend an average of £422 a year on secondary school uniforms and £287 on primary uniforms

Politics

6 hours ago Former RFU remuneration chief defends Bill Sweeney’s bonus payments amid record loss

Sweeney remains under serious pressure after uproar around the paying of a bonus of nearly £400,000 in a year that the RFU made a significant loss

Economics

19 hours ago Gang of five convicted of human trafficking and sexual exploitation offences

The group exploited vulnerable women in Dundee until they were arrested as part of Police Scotland’s Operation Recloir.

Events

7 hours ago Scottish Labour MP will vote against UK Government on Waspi compensation

EXCLUSIVE: Brian Leishman said he will back an opposition party's motion to pay women impacted by changes to the state pension age if it comes to a vote.

Politics

6 hours ago People on Basic State Pension of less than £406 each month could be due extra DWP payment

There are also 760,000 older people eligible for Pension Credit not claiming the £4,200 annual income top-up.

Economics

25 hours ago Reform MP dubbed ‘criminal in our midst’ in violence against women debate

Conservative Ben Obese-Jecty called for a ban on people convicted of violence against women from running for Parliament, referring to James McMurdock.

Events

8 hours ago Afghanistan cricket match should go ahead, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says

MPs and peers have called for the ECB to boycott the fixture in objection to the Taliban’s ongoing assault on women’s rights in the country.

Politics

6 hours ago Are the £25 cold weather payments enough? Take our poll and have your say

With the cold weather payment set at just £25 as temperatures plummet and heating costs soar, we ask if you think the extra cash is really enough to help keep people warm

Economics

26 hours ago Grooming gang face life in prison for 'appalling catalogue of rape' after targeting 10 women in the space of just two years

The Romanian-born gang, based at flats in Dundee, face life in prison for preying on the women who were mostly already troubled by personal issues.

Events

8 hours ago Lisa Nandy rejects calls for England to boycott Afghanistan cricket match

UK culture secretary says it should go ahead despite pressure for it to be cancelled over Taliban’s treatment of womenUK politics live – latest updatesEngland should be allowed to play next month’s cricket game against Afghanistan, the UK culture and sport secretary has said, despite calls for a boycott over the Taliban government’s treatment of women.Lisa Nandy on Friday backed a decision by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to allow the game to go ahead, saying that cancelling it would “deny sports fans the opportunity that they love”. Continue reading...

Politics

6 hours ago Universal Credit: pay rise for millions who claim UC with rates increase of up to £10.50 coming in April 2025

Millions of people in the UK will soon see a boost in their monthly payments 💷

Economics

27 hours ago ‘We will glorify war – and scorn for women’: Marinetti, the futurist Mussolini sidekick who outdid Elon Musk

He was the brilliant yet alarming writer of the Futurist Manifesto, a bohemian poet jailed with Mussolini who helped forge the modern world. As a new show re-examines his troubling legacy, we explore the Italian troublemaker’s extraordinary lifeFilippo Tommaso Marinetti was the Elon Musk of the early 20th century, combining a joy in technological innovation with an appetite for illiberal politics. Where Musk builds rockets, Marinetti celebrated those shiny new inventions, the aeroplane and the motor car. The Futurist Manifesto, which he wrote when the movement existed only in his head, begins with a rhapsodic account of a fast drive that ends in a crash, which delights him more than the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the famous Greek sculpture in the Louvre. Machines, he believes, make all previous art irrelevant. Futurism will hymn the hard new beauty.Marinetti’s role in the making of the modern world is insufficiently recognised, presumably because he was so contentious and offensi...

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11 hours ago The Sound of Utopia by Michel Krielaars review – the musicians persecuted by Stalin

A revelatory account of the composers and performers whose lives were determined by the whims of a dictatorThe fact that Joseph Stalin loved music and believed it mattered was both a blessing and a curse for the men and women who made it. If your work found favour you were treated as a secular god with all the trimmings – palatial apartment, good food and freedom to roam as far as the decadent West (assuming you came back when called).But for those who offended Stalin’s arbitrary and shifting tastes it was another matter. The Father of Nations regularly took time out from his busy killing schedule to vet each new classical music record that came across his desk, noting on the sleeve whether it was “good”, “average” or “rubbish”. A bad rating could earn you a stint in the gulag or, if there were aggravating circumstances (homosexuality, say), a bullet in the back of the head. It has been calculated that 68 composers were sent to Siberia during Stalin’s 30-year reign of terror. Hundre...

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9 hours ago DWP confirms exactly how Cold Weather Payments are paid and who is eligible

Cold Weather Payments have been activated this week as the mercury plummets to bitterly cold lows - and people living in these postcodes are entitled to it.

Economics

27 hours ago How to find your signature style: Using what you already have in your wardrobe

Ready to define a style that feels authentically you? Join personal stylist Clare Chambers to discover practical strategies for creating a wardrobe that saves you time, money, and stress—while looking effortlessly polished.

Events

14 hours ago People on PIP could see monthly payments stop if these changes are not reported to the DWP

PIP claimants may also have to pay a penalty if they give the DWP wrong information.

Politics

9 hours ago Cold weather payments triggered amid freezing temperatures – check if you’re eligible and when to expect money

The first cold weather payments of 2025 have been triggered

Economics

28 hours ago Prison romp scandal rocks Germany as teenage inmate 'seduces two different jail officials' with both women in love triangle caught trying to secure his early release

Ahmad J., then 17, allegedly had a sexual relationship with a prison psychologist, 31, and a department head, 27, for months at the youth prison in Schleswig, northern Germany.

Events

16 hours ago My legs shake and I suffer pain so bad I have to lie in bed for days every month. Yet doctors dismiss my agony

Last month I was on the train coming into work in London when I collapsed. I was running late and, as I took the station stairs two at a time, my legs felt shaky.

Politics

9 hours ago Culture Secretary says England cricket match against Afghanistan SHOULD go ahead as a boycott over Taliban's 'medieval' treatment of women would be 'counterproductive'

Lisa Nandy argued that a boycott of the Champions Trophy one-day game in Pakistan next month would be 'counterproductive'.

Economics

30 hours ago Common drug backed by celebs and taken by millions could raise Alzheimer's risk, British researchers discover

Use of the treatment has soared in popularity in recent years now taken by 2.6million women in England according to the latest data.

Events

20 hours ago New Mexico attorney general sues university over 'golden parachute' payment to outgoing president

New Mexico's top prosecutor is suing Western New Mexico University's regents and outgoing president

Politics

14 hours ago State Pension payments could be increased to £549 a week under new plan

The DWP must now consider the proposed increase

Economics

32 hours ago Warning half a million people will miss out on April state pension increase

Some 453,000 state pensioners who have retired abroad won’t see the increase, because there is no agreement in place to boost state pensions yearly in certain countries

Events

22 hours ago Emotional Sue Cleaver lifts the lid on Eileen Grimshaw exit 'two years in the making' and reveals baffling truth behind her soap debut

Sue Cleaver lifted the lid on her character's exit from Coronation Street on Thursday's episode of Loose Women. 

Politics

27 hours ago Winter fuel payments: The cold weather support available for pensioners after new rules introduced

Everything you need to know about the changes to the winter fuel payment

Economics

36 hours ago London named the best destination in the world in the 2025 Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Awards, with New York top in the U.S. Is YOUR favourite spot a winner?

The winners for the awards were identified based on the quality and quantity of global Tripadvisor reviews specific to several award subcategories between October 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024.

Events

24 hours ago Please don’t throw Jos Buttler under bus over Afghanistan issue – Steve Harmison

The ECB has been urged to make a stand against the Taliban regime’s assault on women’s rights.

Politics

28 hours ago Older people can claim two benefits which boost annual income by nearly £10,000 this year

Pensioners no longer due Winter Fuel Payments could increase their annual income by thousands of pounds.

Economics

36 hours ago Imelda Staunton and daughter Bessie Carter to star in West End revival of Mrs Warren’s Profession

The actors will share the stage for the first time in George Bernard’s Shaw’s drama about ‘the role of women in society’Imelda Staunton and her daughter, Bessie Carter, are to share the stage for the first time this summer in a West End revival of Mrs Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw.Carter will take the role of Cambridge graduate Vivie Warren who discovers that her mother, Kitty (played by Staunton), has made her fortune from running brothels. Staunton, who will reunite with director Dominic Cooke after their hit productions of the musicals Hello, Dolly! and Follies, said that Mrs Warren’s Profession “asks ever pertinent questions about the role of women in society, and the choices they make for survival”. Continue reading...

Events

25 hours ago Coronation Street's Sue Cleaver shares real reason for soap exit after 25 years

Sue has spoken more about her decision to leave Corrie during her latest appearance on Loose Women

Politics

28 hours ago Apply for Household Support Fund: how to apply online in 2025 as UK families to receive £500 DWP payment

Thousands of households can apply for help with food, energy, and bills 💰

Economics

40 hours ago Women are missing out on crucial cardiac diagnoses due to outdated guidelines aimed at men, study suggests

Women are missing out on crucial cardiac diagnoses due to outdated guidelines aimed at men, a study suggests.

Events

25 hours ago Manchester United Women begin FA Cup defence as Man City aim to turn the page after defeats

The fourth round of the Women's FA Cup takes centre stage this weekend and both Man United and Manchester City will be looking to avoid upsets.

Politics

28 hours ago Former DWP employee shares tips on how to protect PIP and other disability benefit payments

Essential tips for new and existing PIP, Adult Disability Payment and Attendance Allowance claimants.

Economics

25 hours ago Renée Slegers in the frame as Arsenal Women’s search for manager nears end

Interim head coach has overseen 10 wins from 11 matchesNumerous coaches from around the world consideredArsenal’s interim head coach, Renée Slegers, is among the candidates in the final round of interviews as the club’s recruitment of a permanent successor to Jonas Eidevall nears its conclusion.The Dutchwoman has overseen 10 wins from 11 unbeaten matches since stepping into the role after Eidevall’s resignation on 15 October. According to multiple sources, Arsenal could conclude their recruitment process before their next Women’s Super League fixture, at home to Crystal Palace, a week on Sunday. Slegers is preparing the side to host Bristol City in the Women’s FA Cup fourth round this Sunday and has never ruled herself in or out when asked in press conferences. Continue reading...

Politics

29 hours ago Thousands of Scots pensioners on DWP disability benefit to move to new devolved payment from April

Social Security Scotland will write to claimants to let them know when it is time for them to transfer.

Economics

26 hours ago Inside Ruth Langsford and Coleen Nolan's 'single girly weekend' down the pub

Loose Women stars Coleen Nolan and Ruth Langsford are planning a 'girls weekend' to help them move on from their recent heartache after both becoming single

Politics

31 hours ago Cold weather payments triggered in UK snow – check if you’re eligible and when to expect money

The first cold weather payments of 2025 have been triggered

Economics