53 minutes ago DWP admits thousands of Pension Credit claims 'outstanding' after sign

Labour decided to means test the Winter Fuel Payment, worth up to £300, after discovering a '£22 billion' black hole in public spending left by the previous government

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4 hours ago IPL billionaires and Birmingham City owners win auction for Hundred teams

Mumbai Indians owners pay £60m for Oval InvinciblesKnighthead Capital take stake in Birmingham PhoenixEnglish cricket’s landmark Hundred sale produced an eventful first day as the Ambanis, India’s richest family, and Knighthead Capital, owners of Birmingham City, secured the right to buy 49% stakes in Oval Invincibles and Birmingham Phoenix respectively.The Guardian has learned that Knighthead’s offer of about £40m for 49% of the Phoenix prevailed in a sealed-bids auction over that of private equity firm CVC Capital Partners. CVC had earlier lost out to Reliance Industries Ltd, owners of Mumbai Indians, in a three-way auction for the equivalent stake in Oval Invincibles. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago Arsenal bring in United States defender Jenna Nighswonger on WSL deadline day

The 24-year-old left-back is the first new addition to the Gunners’ squad since Renee Slegers was confirmed as head coach on a permanent basis.

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2 hours ago Our young daughters are finally home after being held hostage by Hamas while paraded as battered and bloodied

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: For a moment, imagine you are Agam Berger's mother, Meirav. Nearly five hundred days ago, her then 19-year-old daughter was captured by Hamas.

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11 hours ago I have entered ‘nanna mode’ – bring me all your movies and shows about older women | Rebecca Shaw

I lost my grandmother a couple of years ago. My grief’s sharpness has worn down, and I’m ready to lean into the soft landing of older ladiesI recently had a realisation about myself: I have entered “nanna mode”. This does not mean I’m knitting, drinking enough cups of tea to kill Paddington Bear, or showing the ceiling instead of my face on video calls – nonetheless, I have become steeped in Nanna.I’ve always had a soft spot for older ladies (and ladies of all ages). But I had this lightbulb moment while watching Matlock, a reboot of an 80s TV show starring Kathy Bates as a lawyer in her 70s coming out of retirement – and getting up to shenanigans. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Biohacker Bryan Johnson 'no longer injecting son's blood' as he adopts new method to de

Tech billionaire and biohacker Bryan Johnson has revealed that he's moved on from injecting himself with his teenage son's blood to something even more extreme in his bid to de-age himself

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7 hours ago The Hundred: Mumbai Indians owners agree landmark deal to buy stake in Oval Invincibles

Reliance Industries Limited are owned by India’s richest family

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16 hours ago Mikel Arteta makes Kieran Tierney to Celtic in January feelings clear as firm Arsenal transfer stance escalates

A pre-contract has already been agreed - but the Scottish champions are keen to bring back their former star in this window

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3 hours ago Evil woman who helped murder and dismember Sarah Mayhew was 'empowered by brutality'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Criminologist Alex Iszatt believes Gemma Watts was always capable of the sadistic murder, but was 'waiting for the right person to bring it out' of her

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22 hours ago AP PHOTOS: Move over peanuts, pistachio is the latest trend for Hong Kong New Year treats

A Hong Kong culinary institution is acknowledging that changing times bring changing tastes and has found a hit in adding American pistachios to the range of flavors in its famed dumplings.

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9 hours ago Cardiff looks to introduce tourism tax and may add premium on event days

It will be up to councils to decide whether to bring in the policy

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8 hours ago Nashville bids for WNBA franchise with Candace Parker and Peyton Manning among investors

The chairman of the NHL’s Nashville Predators and his wife want to bring the WNBA to Music City and have teamed up with a star-filled investor group including Candace Parker, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning and entertainers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

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3 hours ago Keir Starmer warned he must 'get serious' about growth and sign off two North Sea oil projects controversially blocked by courts

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to overrule Ed Miliband and give the green light to the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil projects, which could generate billions for the economy.

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9 hours ago Medicinal cannabis sector could boost incomes of British farmers, Tory MP says

David Mundell said the sector could create tens of thousands of jobs in rural areas and ‘potentially bring more than £1 billion to the UK economy’.

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4 hours ago MARK MCEATHRON: I'm a Black Hawk helicopter pilot. This video shows all the red flags that led up to the deadly DC plane crash

I'm a former Black Hawk helicopter crew chief and flight instructor. I know how quickly a routine flight can turn into a terrible tragedy.

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10 hours ago Michelle Keegan gives pregnancy update ahead of welcoming first child with Mark Wright

Michelle Keegan, who is expecting her first child with husband Mark Wright, has shared a glimpse into her busy month, which included a variety of self-care treats

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13 hours ago The Apprentice Business Plans 2025:Here's what the 18 candidates want Lord Sugar to invest in

Another 18 wannbe business tycoons are about to be put through their paces.

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9 hours ago Mark Allen slates German Masters venue as Pistol hints he won't return to Tempodrom

The Northern Irishman continues to experiment with his game ahead of a world championship push but lost out in the second round in Berlin

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10 hours ago Young figure skater saved from doomed American Airlines flight because his dog was too big to board

Jon Maravilla was set to be among the passengers on board Flight 5342, but said he was told he couldn't bring his dog onboard. He decided to take a car instead.

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14 hours ago More than 8 million workers refunded £8.3 billion in overpaid taxes last year: Find out if you're eligible

On average, workers were refunded £943 each

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9 hours ago No cuts to neighbourhood policing despite ‘stretched’ system – Met chief

Sir Mark Rowley, who heads the country’s largest police force, has previously warned of ‘eye-watering’ cuts to the force’s spending this year.

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11 hours ago Asteroid triggers global defence plan amid chance of collision with Earth in 2032

Hundred-metre wide asteroid rises to top of impact risk lists after being spotted in December by automated telescopeA 100 metre-wide asteroid has triggered global planetary defence procedures for the first time after telescope observations revealed it has a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.Asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted by an automated telescope in Chile on 27 December last year but has since risen to the top of impact risk lists maintained by the US and European space agencies. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago First Nations to fight for billions in treaty payments in Canadian court

Group in northern Ontario argues crown failed to honour agreement and capped annual payments in 1874 at $4A group of First Nations in Canada is turning to the courts in the hope of securing billions of dollars in compensation, after accusing the government of failing to engage in “meaningful negotiations” for money owed under a 175-year-old treaty.“The governments’ refusal to come to grips with their treaty obligations has continued 175 years of broken promises, lies and neglect,” Wilfred King, chief of Gull Bay First Nation, said in a statement announcing plans to seek compensation that is “just, liberal, generous and honourable”. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Opus review – John Malkovich plays an evil pop star in a silly horror dud

Sundance film festival: The cult of celebrity is targeted in a progressively nonsensical and poorly made debut with too much on its plateAnyone who has written about a much-loved music star with even the vaguest hint of light criticism will be aware of the horrors that can often follow. The tribal intensity of extremely online and extremely sensitive fandoms can lead to either a mild torrent of more tolerable abuse or something far darker, like death threats and sometimes doxing, an unending rage erupting from people who use emojis as avatars. There’s a great thriller to be made about this unpleasant tension, the fans who will do anything for their idol and the idol who will do nothing to stop them, but Opus, a poppy new A24 misfire premiering at Sundance, is not that movie.It’s the first film from writer-director Mark Anthony Green, who, like many before him, is so fixated on what he wants to say that he hasn’t been able to figure out how to say it. There’s maybe a slicker, simpler...

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12 hours ago Rename Heathrow airport after Queen Elizabeth II to mark 100th birthday, says MP

Adam Jogee says it would be a ‘wonderful tribute’ to the late monarch who died aged 96 in September 2022.

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10 hours ago Hundreds protest in London as jailed climate activists’ appeals are heard

Road outside high court blocked in protest against ‘draconian’ sentences given to 16 Just Stop Oil ‘political prisoners’Hundreds of protesters have blocked the road outside the high court in London, where the appeals of 16 jailed climate activists are being heard, in condemnation of “the corruption of democracy and the rule of law”.As England’s most senior judge heard arguments in the appeal of the sentences of the Just Stop Oil activists, who are serving a combined 41 years in jail, their supporters sat on the road in silence holding placards proclaiming them “political prisoners”. Continue reading...

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12 hours ago Andy Murray’s former coach shares what he ‘didn’t like’ about Emma Raducanu

Emma Raducanu only managed to reach the round of 32 at the Australian Open with the 22-year-old having been some given some advice by Andy Murray’s former coach Mark Petchey

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11 hours ago Shop worker fatally injured in Omagh bomb apologised to husband as she lay dying

Geraldine Breslin’s son Gareth spoke publicly about his mother’s death for the first time as he gave evidence to the public inquiry into the bombing.

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14 hours ago Rabbi Matondo 'spotted' in Germany and Everton make huge Igamane decision – Rangers transfer latest

Philippe Clement is looking to free up cash to enable him to bring in more bodies a Ibrox

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12 hours ago Huge chunk of sandstone rock from 120ft Dorset cliffs collapses onto beach below after being battered by Storm Herminia

Shocking footage shows hundreds of tonnes of sandstone rock lying on Hive Beach in Dorset after tumbling down from the 120ft cliffs at Burton Bradstock.

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14 hours ago Michelle Keegan shares pregnancy update as she gets ready to welcome first baby with Mark Wright

Michelle Keegan is preparing to welcome her first baby with husband Mark Wright, after the pair announced the pregnancy late last year.

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12 hours ago Cardiff University staff set to hold public protest with hundreds of jobs at risk

The rally comes after 'brutal' cuts were proposed by Cardiff University including closing the nursing school and other departments and axing 400 academic jobs

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14 hours ago Will Boom bring boom time back to supersonic travel? 'New Concorde' prompts revival talk

The aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic is the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier

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12 hours ago Daily Star's WWE Royal Rumble predictions from shock returns to outsider bets

The Daily Star's team of crack wrestling experts have got together to battle it out and mark their predictions for WWE's most unpredictable event of the year, the Royal Rumble

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15 hours ago Reform's Scottish leader Michelle Ballantyne quits party over 'witch hunt' suspension

As revealed by the Sunday Mail Michelle Ballantyne was acting as an administrator of an unauthorised Facebook group which contained racist and extreme content.

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12 hours ago New criminal offences to disrupt people smugglers set out in border Bill

The Government is expected to seek to bring the measures into force as soon as possible once the legislation is approved by MPs and Lords.

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16 hours ago Michelle Keegan shares rare moment with Mark Wright in pregnancy update as she celebrates 'good year'

She gave a glimpse at how she's spending her pregnancy after returning to filming for the last-ever series of Brassic

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15 hours ago American Airlines plane crash audio captures final moments before incident

Hundreds of responders are working to find people from both wreckages following the crash with at least 18 bodies having been recovered from the Potomac River already.

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18 hours ago Royal Mail set to ditch second class Saturday deliveries under Ofcom plans

The regulator said it was also planning to cut delivery targets to bring them more in line with other European markets.

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15 hours ago BT trading hit by weak phone sales as thousands of jobs go in ongoing revamp

The group reported a 3% drop in revenues to £5.2 billion in its third quarter to the end of December, sending shares lower.

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16 hours ago Slowdown in shift towards EVs contributed to drop in UK car production last year

'Amid significant geopolitical and trade tensions, UK manufacturers are set on turning billions of pounds of investment into production reality, transforming factories to make new electric vehicles for sale around the world'

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19 hours ago Decades of neglect have failed rail links in Wales and the south west of England

A partnership between areas of south Wales and the west of England has identified opportunities to make rail a viable option for hundreds of thousands more people

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19 hours ago 'Completely unacceptable': Hundreds of Scottish ambulance staff assaulted as attacks soar by 44%

Ambulance staff say they have been kicked, punched and spat at while at work.

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