40 minutes ago Competition regulator to examine Google services under new digital market laws

The Competition and Markets Authority said it was launching its first strategic market status designation investigation.

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5 hours ago Should I give my house to my children now to avoid inheritance tax? Four problems to watch out for...

The family home is likely to be one of your most valuable assets. This begs the question: 'Can I gift it to my children now? Lawyer Philip Sillars explains the risks.

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82 minutes ago Portable power station deal: Jackery's latest Explorer 1000 V2 has dropped in price

This is a remarkable deal on a portable power station that's perfect for off-grid living

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24 hours ago What Ruben Amorim told Manchester United fans after Arsenal win shows they have the right manager

A mentality change underpinned Man United's best performance under Ruben Amorim at Liverpool and it has grown since then.

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53 minutes ago Former Met police doctor denies stalking Labour MP Emily Thornberry over two years

Dr Suzanne Lucey, 56, allegedly attended the former shadow home secretary’s offices and made ‘aggressive outbursts’

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17 hours ago Apple reveals three iPhone settings tweaks that will double your battery life

Apple has shared three iPhone settings that users should adjust to conserve battery power. Some of the features are on by default, eating up battery life in the background.

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42 minutes ago Strictly's Chris McCausland jokes he's 'speaking to his lawyers' over Dianne Buswell video

Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell are known for their hilarious friendship on Strictly Come Dancing, but Dianne may have taken her antics too far after Chris said he's setting lawyers on her

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1 hour ago Britain's care home crisis: Families are forced to spend £5,000 more a year in fees to looks after their loved ones thanks to Labour's tax raid budget

Leading care providers are increasingly concerned about high employment costs after the Chancellor's national insurance raid along with low fees paid by local authorities.

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55 minutes ago Family of prominent Hong Kong activist who fled to UK taken for questioning by police

Chung Kim Wah is wanted for violating Chinese city’s national security law

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18 hours ago Patient taken off life support after he was mistaken for his hospital roommate, lawsuit claims

“Do you want us to keep him on life support or do you want to pull the plug?” hospital staff asked the wrong family

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44 minutes ago Labour's pub banter crackdown: Landlords could 'ban drinkers from talking about controversial topics that bar workers think are offensive'

Pubs could ban customers from talking about topics such as transgender rights if landlords think they are harassing staff under Labour's new workers' rights charter. 

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20 hours ago Panic for Brits as Spain confirms new law crushing the dreams of tourists

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced that non-resident citizens from countries outside the European Union, including the UK, would face a big tax bill if they wanted to buy a home in the country

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5 hours ago Borough seeks permission to increase council tax by massive 10% in bid to avoid bankruptcy

Newham town hall is blaming a £157 million budget gap caused by the spiralling cost of providing temporary accommodation for homeless residents

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97 minutes ago The Vivienne's friend Baga Chipz makes plea to axe RuPaul's Drag Race after tragic death

RuPaul's Drag Race star Baga Chipz has called for the BBC programme to be axed and instead be replaced with previous episodes following the death of The Vivienne

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45 minutes ago Meadow Mill residents promised date to return home after power supply restored

Flooding left hundreds of tenants without anywhere to live.

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21 hours ago The Chase star earns 10 times more from ITV series than lawyer day job

TV star’s earning have ‘increased massively’ since he joined game show

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6 hours ago Mike Lindell dinged nearly $60K in sanctions for ‘frivolous’ lawsuit claims against Smartmatic

Lastest hit comes after an $800,000 judgement over an upaid DHL bill

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1 hour ago Gabriel Jesus injury update as Mikel Arteta ‘very worried’ for Arsenal striker

The Brazilian is set to see a specialist but Arsenal boss Arteta said ‘it is not looking good’

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85 minutes ago I found it liberating when I first took a much younger lover... but then it took a dark turn: LISA HILTON reveals the double

He was an awkward mix of swagger and uncertainty, strikingly handsome with fair hair and gorgeous green eyes. He was also 23 years younger than me.

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23 hours ago What is Jools' Law? MPs debate access to children's social media after bereaved mum's petition

The proposed legislation could give parents a legal right to access their children’s data

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12 hours ago Fate hanging in balance of top union boss who pushed Starmer over workers’ rights

Exclusive: Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack is set to discover on Tuesday if members have voted for him to stay in post

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2 hours ago Mikel Arteta confirms Arsenal 'very worried' amid nightmare injury update

Brazilian facing a long spell out with a suspected ACL injury

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1 hour ago Rachel Reeves told it would be ‘politically suicidal’ to impose further cuts as economy falters – UK politics live

John McDonnell says more cuts would be ‘a disaster for the country’ and steer voters towards ReformYou might think that Kemi Badenoch’s latest comments on the grooming gangs scandal (see 9.39am) sound a bit more Lee Anderson than Rishi Sunak, David Cameron or any other mainstream Conservative party leader. You would be right.One explanation (often the best explanation in politics) is that Badenoch is just saying what she thinks.While Badenoch may have hoped that her positioning would bring Reform UK defectors back into the fold, our results show that just 4% of those who voted for Reform UK at the 2024 general election now plan to vote for the Conservatives – while at the same time the Tories have lost 15% of their 2024 voters to Farage’s party. Continue reading...

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23 hours ago Former justice secretary Jack Straw says right to choose jury trial lets defendants ‘game’ courts

The Labour grandee called for the government to scrap the right to a jury trial for ‘either way’ mid-level offences amid soaring court backlogs

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12 hours ago Sloane Ranger disaster! End of an era for royal grocer Patridge's amid Labour's tax on workers

Partridges is to close its flagship fine foods store off Sloane Square in Chelsea, west London, next month amid Labour's tax raid.

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2 hours ago Pubs could 'ban drinkers from talking about transgender rights' if they feel it is harassing staff under new workers' rights reforms

Pubs could ban customers from talking about topics such as transgender rights if landlords think they are harassing staff under Labour's new workers' rights charter. 

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1 hour ago Kenny Hilsley entertains Lockerbie Rotary Club members with a talk on guitar making

Kenny trained as a joiner but has gone on to make bespoke guitars to order, a labour of love he obviously enjoys.

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26 hours ago AD FEATURE: Perthshire lawyers share advice on dealing with separation, divorce and contact with children

Lindsays aims to find practical solutions to help you and your family

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13 hours ago TikToker the ‘Lawn Guy’ raises over $500k for elderly disabled woman after saving her garden

The viral video received over 83 million views

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2 hours ago UK politics live: Reeves warned more cuts would be ‘political suicide’ as pressure builds over market turmoil

Chancellor to address parliament as economic pressure mounts over cost of borrowing and falling pound

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1 hour ago The Diddy documentary cycle has started, and it’s already proving problematic | Andrew Lawrence

A sloppily assembled new Peacock documentary, tracking the rise and fall of the disgraced hip-hop mogul, makes a string of uneasy mistakesSean Combs is his mother’s child. According to Tim Patterson, a close friend who lived with the embattled Bad Boy Records label founder in the 70s, Janice Combs was famous for throwing parties at her home in Mount Vernon, New York, that were especially popular with pimps, drug dealers and other unsavory types. It wasn’t uncommon for the boys, still quite young at this time, to naively walk into rooms and find partygoers having sex. “That was just Saturday night,” Patterson said.The legend of those first “freak-offs” is among the headline-grabbing revelations in Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy – a new Peacock documentary that attempts to trace the Combs bell curve from its middle-class start to the height of cultural influence to the crash that tipped with Cassie Ventura’s bombshell sexual abuse lawsuit. The film joins the tidal wave of Diddy docs t...

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35 hours ago Right to a trial by jury should be scrapped for thousands of offences, Labour grandee and former justice secretary Jack Straw says

Former Justice Secretary Jack Straw claimed it was a 'ridiculous anomaly' that some defendants can demand their cases be heard in crown courts rather than more quickly in front of magistrates.

Society

13 hours ago Fate hanging in balance of top union boss who pushed Starmer over workers rights

Exclusive: Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack is set to discover on Tuesday if members have voted for him to stay in post

Economics

3 hours ago Australian Open 2025: De Minaur and Boulter in action, Raducanu battles through – live

Raducanu overcomes serving woes to battle throughDjokovic-Murray show begins | And mail Daniel herePaolini, meanwhile, consolidates for 2-0 in the first, while Arnaldi and Musetti have just begun a third-set breaker. It’s quite something really how many excellent Italians there now are especially in the man’s game: Mario Berrettini beat Cam Norrie earlier today and there’s also Cobolli, Sinner and so on.Moutet fights through a tough hold then forces Popyrin to deuce, swinging heavily top-spinning forehands; already, this looks like being a sapping contest both physically and mentally. The Frenchman is a an awkward customer, lacking power but not desire and running for everything before applying a tricky lefty angle. He’s also something of a wind-up merchant, but for now, he’s advantage down Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Reform on track to have 100 MPs in a hung Parliament: Bombshell poll shows support for Farage's party leapfrogging the Tories and just a point behind Labour

YouGov research put Nigel Farage's Reform on 25 per cent, having leapfrogged the Tories on 22 per cent.

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15 hours ago London borough seeks permission to increase council tax by massive 10% in bid to avoid bankruptcy

Newham town hall is blaming a £157 million budget gap caused by the spiralling cost of providing temporary accommodation for homeless residents

Economics

3 hours ago Wild moment alleged burglars are forced to roll on a front lawn after setting themselves on fire while trying to torch a car in Wangaratta

The bumbling burglars were attempting to set a car alight outside a home on Swinburne Drive in Wangaratta in Victoria's north-east on Saturday night when their actions backfired.

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1 hour ago Chris McCausland says he'll 'speak to his lawyers' in response to video with BBC Strictly's Dianne Buswell

Strictly Come Dancing professional Dianne Buswell has uploaded a video with her dad and comedian Chris McCausland has responded to the clip and made a cheeky remark.

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18 hours ago How to book a cheap cruise holiday: Find the best deals, cut the cost of shore excursions and discover how to get upgraded for FREE with these tips from Which?

Cruises can be a great holiday experience - but they're not always plain sailing for bank accounts. Fancy a break on the high seas but worried about the drain on your funds? Then read on...

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3 hours ago West Ham’s striker obsession remains unresolved after years of failure | Jacob Steinberg

Graham Potter must quickly get to grips with the club’s failure to sign the right centre-forward over the past 15 yearsWest Ham rarely hit the target when they buy a striker. Names such as Mido, Ilan, Benni McCarthy, Jonathan Calleri and Simone Zaza will send a shiver down the spine of Hammers supporters, who must despair at the same old mistakes being made over and over again.This has been a constant theme since David Sullivan and the late David Gold bought the club in January 2010. The 15-year anniversary arrives on Sunday and the numbers have not improved in the eight years since I first wrote about West Ham’s striking failure, detailing how the 32 forwards bought during Sullivan and Gold’s ownership at that point had mustered 128 goals in 643 appearances. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago 'Hard to predict where interest rates might go' as mortgage rate gap shrinks

The gap between the average two and five-year fixed-rate mortgage has shrunk to its narrowest level in two years, experts said

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20 hours ago Apple fights $1.8 billion App Store lawsuit in first of UK class actions against tech giants

Apple fights $1.8 billion App Store lawsuit in first of UK class actions against tech giants  Reuters

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5 hours ago Labour has been sucked into the WFH culture war. It should know better | Polly Toynbee

It’s free, it’s sensible and it makes workers happy. The government needs to accept that this is the new normalYou would be hard-pressed to find a single positive side-effect of the pandemic. If there is one, it is the growing numbers of people who now work from home. Half of workers work from home for at least part of the week now, and many workplaces have thrived because of it. Zoom meetings save time and wasteful travel, employers are free to hire talent from anywhere in the country, and employees have escaped escalating property prices in London and steep commuting costs. Working from home (WFH) has been a boon for the climate, too; according to one US study, two to four days of remote working a week lowers carbon emissions by between 11% and 29%.Yet WFH is now coming under accelerating attack. JP Morgan will now require employees to spend five days a week in the office and other big companies may soon follow suit. A perverse strain of rightwing thought opposes almost any social...

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3 hours ago Pubs could 'ban drinkers from talking about transgender rights' under new workers' rights reforms

Pubs could ban customers from talking about topics such as transgender rights if landlords think they are harassing staff under Labour's new workers' rights charter. 

Politics

24 hours ago Starmer AI speech LIVE: PM claims £14bn tech plan can ‘save lives’ and make UK an ‘AI superpower’

The pound is under further pressure as Government borrowing costs continued to push to multi-decade highs

Economics

8 hours ago Man, 37, appears in court after 'grabbing girl by the neck and trying to kidnap her' before 'kicking her mother as she tried to save the three

Richard Stacey, 37, entered no plea to the charge that he grabbed the child by the neck as she rode her tricycle while on a family outing in Wolverhampton.

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3 hours ago Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, says special counsel

Report by Jack Smith says evidence ‘was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction’ had Trump not won re-election in 2024US politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump would have been convicted of crimes over his failed attempt to cling to power in 2020 but for his victory in last year’s US presidential election, according to the special counsel who investigated him.Jack Smith’s report detailing his team’s findings about Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy was released by the justice department early on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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25 hours ago UK says 'good progress' being made on Chagos deal despite backlash at claims Labour will pay Mauritius nearly £9BILLION

A joint statement said 'further productive discussions' had been held on reaching an agreement 'in both sides' interests'.

Economics

8 hours ago Hawaii's governor responds to deadly fireworks blast with proposed $300 fines, more prison time

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green is proposing a range of new penalties to crack down on people who flout the state’s fireworks laws

Events

3 hours ago Farage’s Reform UK just one point behind Labour in damning new YouGov poll for Starmer

It comes after Nigel Farage’s party claimed to have overtaken the Tories’ membership numbers

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26 hours ago Markets pummel UK AGAIN as businesses blame Labour: Ministers warned of 'ruthless' spending curbs as borrowing costs rise and Pound slides against dollar

The government's borrowing costs rose further in early trading, while the Pound lost more ground against the dollar.

Economics

9 hours ago Labour's controversial law 'threatens Brits' ability to speak freely at the PUB'

The proposed legislation, which is expected to come into force next year, puts a duty on employers to prevent workers from being harassed by third parties such as customers.

Events

3 hours ago Japanese fathers should be forced to take childcare leave, expert says

He also proposes a system where senior citizens can step in to fill labour gaps when the younger population takes childcare leave

Politics

27 hours ago LookFantastic has knocked £50 off 'classy' designer perfume that's 'perfect for any setting'

"It’s delicate and subtle, perfect for any setting. Floral but fresh like a meadow in the springtime. I feel feminine and powerful wearing this and it is a wonderful surprise for those close to me too."

Economics

10 hours ago Ukraine war briefing: Strengthen Kyiv’s hand before peace talks, says Nato chief

Mark Rutte says Ukraine not yet in the ‘position of strength’ it needs for talks with Russia; Biden says US and allies ‘can’t walk away’. What we know on day 1,056Ukraine is not in a strong enough position for peace talks with Russia, Nato chief, Mark Rutte, said on Monday. “At this moment, clearly Ukraine is not there, because they cannot at this moment negotiate from a position of strength,” Rutte told EU lawmakers. “We have to do more to make sure by changing the trajectory of the conflict that they can get to that position of strength.”Donald Trump will be sworn into office as US president next Monday after vowing on the campaign trail to bring a swift end to Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. Rutte said: “We all want this war to end, but above all, we want peace to last. Peace will not last if Putin gets his way in Ukraine, because then he will press ahead I am convinced that peace can only last if Ukraine comes to the table from a position of strength.”The United States and its ...

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3 hours ago Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair | Owen Jones

Fascism in power in the 1930s brought the world to genocidal war. But memories have faded, as has the stigma attached to the far-right – and that’s dangerousDemocracy is dying across the globe. This may sound alarmist and generate a follow-up question: what does that actually mean? Will there be no elections? Will the opposition be criminalised? If these are the metrics, then Vladimir Putin’s Russia remains a democracy. Six political parties are represented in the State Duma, its federal parliament, and there are more than 20 registered political parties. Well, as you probably understand, Russia is no democracy: indeed, this is a nation veering past authoritarianism and into totalitarianism, with more Russians being persecuted for political activity than since the days of Joseph Stalin.Faith in democracy is unquestionably on the decline. A new study finds that a fifth of Britons under 45 believe that the best system for running a country effectively is “a strong leader who doesn’t h...

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29 hours ago Stock market today: Asian stocks follow Wall Street's retreat, oil prices surge

Asian stocks have retreated after U.S. stocks fell as good news on the job market raised worries over inflation

Economics

10 hours ago Distraught family of two sisters who went missing in Aberdeen a week ago issue heartfelt plea for information on their whereabouts

The family of two sisters who vanished a week ago have made a heartfelt plea for information, saying 'all we want is for them to be found'.

Events

3 hours ago Nottingham Forest are doing their best Leicester impression as Nuno promise comes true

Nottingham Forest are right in the race for the Premier League title whether they think it or not and there are huge similarities with Leicester's 2016 miracle champions

Politics

12 hours ago The end of the world as we know it? Theorist warns humanity is teetering between collapse and advancement

When will human civilization end for 8.2 billion Earthlings? It could be happening right now

Events

4 hours ago British tennis star reveals hidden pain behind Australian Open first round exit

Cameron Norrie was no match for Matte Berrettini at Melbourne Park, falling to a four set defeat against the Italian powerhouse despite winning the opening set

Politics

12 hours ago Diddy 'raped teenage babysitter with two other men', bombshell new lawsuit claims

A woman claims she was drugged and raped by Sean ' Diddy ' Combs after being lured into his car when she was a teenage babysitter more than two decades ago.

Events

5 hours ago Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, special counsel report says

Newly released report by Jack Smith states the ‘evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction’ of Trump had he not been elected in 2024Donald Trump would have been convicted of crimes over his failed attempt to cling to power in 2020 if he had not won the presidential election in 2024, according to the special counsel who investigated him.Jack Smith’s report detailing his team’s findings about Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy was released by the justice department early on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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13 hours ago Labour's rush to Net Zero means Britain 'is teetering on brink of blackouts', Senior Tory warns

Andrew Bowie said the Government's 'ideological' drive to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 would leave Britain 'teetering on the brink of blackouts'.

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5 hours ago How to watch Nottingham Forest vs Liverpool: TV channel and live stream for Premier League today

Tricky Trees looking to close gap on league leaders

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13 hours ago Labour's controversial workers' rights bill risks becoming 'an adventure playground for employment rights lawyers', business chiefs warn

Rupert Soames urged ministers to think again about measures in the Employment Rights Bill, which he warned would cost jobs and damage growth.

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