16 minutes ago Long term sick may need to find jobs in Liz Kendall's welfare shake up

Liz Kendall blamed the Conservatives for failing to control welfare spending.

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27 minutes ago Ed Miliband is accused of having 'lost his voice' over Heathrow expansion plan as Energy Secretary remains silent after announcement

The Energy Secretary once threatened to resign over proposals for a third runway, but has been conspicuously quiet since Rachel Reeves 's announcement.

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1 hour ago Labour is glossing over chronic shortages of weapons and equipment in the Armed Forces in £300billion 'cover

A failure to produce reports for Parliament has left the committees charged with scrutinising spending in the dark over what Britain needs to buy to defend itself.

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16 minutes ago Luxury jewellery store owner denies accusing watch salesman of being in on £1.4million robbery before he killed himself, court hears

Conor Thornton, co-owner of 247 Kettles on Kew Road, Richmond, was in New York when 70 'high-value' watches were stolen from the store on May 25 last year.

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16 hours ago One of the world's most photographed tearooms now has a radically different look

Tu Hwnt i'r Bont is run by National Trust Cymru, which was forced to take drastic action

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21 minutes ago Starmer is accused of 'fudging the fact' in 'claiming he attended state school' by former pupil

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of 'fudging the facts' about attending a state school by Sir Peter Lampl, founder of social mobility charity Sutton Trust, who also attended Reigate Grammar.

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9 hours ago Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's lawsuit sees huge update ahead of court appearance

Blake Lively has accused Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and a concerted effort by PRs to destroy her reputation following their work together on romance film It Ends with Us

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2 hours ago Debate rages over 'architectural masterpiece' earmarked for demolition... so what do YOU think of this Wolverhampton landmark?

University of Wolverhampton's School of Art will be razed to the ground as part of a major redevelopment of the campus, but critics have blasted the move as 'wasteful' and 'anti-growth'.

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76 minutes ago Tampering with transparency: London 911 employees accused of opening, altering public records request

Tampering with transparency: London 911 employees accused of opening, altering public records request  Fox 56 News

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12 hours ago Oddbox supports farmers and champions 'wonky' produce to help tackle food and plastic waste

Oddbox is here to save the day when it comes to fruit and veg waste - especially produce that is misshapen or 'wonky'

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6 hours ago Bride spends staggering $600 on wedding invites only to realize her embarrassing mistake

Jennifer Meyer, 23, was excited to see what her invites looked like but was left disappointed after opening the box.

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2 hours ago Starmer 'set to exempt Chinese spies from toughest national security law’

Shadow foreign secretary accuses prime minister of putting UK security at risk in rush to fix economy

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83 minutes ago Meghan Markle is surprise guest at Kerry Washington's birthday with newly single Jessica Alba

Meghan Markle was a surprise guest at Kerry Washington's 48th birthday party this week - days after a damning Vanity Fair article about her and husband Prince Harry was published.

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7 hours ago AstraZeneca cancels £450m vaccine plant in UK after Government 'own goal' in blow to Rachel Reeves growth plan

The pharmaceutical giant claimed the Labour Government failed to match Tory predecessor’s offer of help for its investment in Merseyside

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2 hours ago ALEX BRUMMER: Labour's failure to support AstraZeneca's investment project is a grotesque example of failing to back Britain

ALEX BRUMMER: There can be no greater example of Labour's naive attitude to growth and business than its refusal to back an investment on Merseyside by British pharmaceutical pioneer AstraZeneca.

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84 minutes ago US accuses former Federal Reserve official of passing secrets on to China

Justice department alleges John Harold Rogers accessed sensitive information including briefings and policy deliberations

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8 hours ago Fresh blow for Rachel Reeves as AstraZeneca scraps £450m investment in UK vaccine plant

The pharmaceutical giant claimed the Labour Government failed to match its predecessor’s offer

Economics

2 hours ago Keir Starmer's embattled legal chief's overly 'finickity' approach is blamed for 'freezing' decisions

Concerns have been raised over Lord Hermer's 'conflicts of interest' after refusing to disclose his earnings for representing the likes of Gerry Adams and Shamima Begum.

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86 minutes ago Starmer accused of ‘fudging the facts’ of his schooling by education expert

Sutton Trust founder Sir Peter Lampl made the claim as he criticised the Government’s plans to charge VAT on private school fees.

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9 hours ago Fresh blow for Rachel Reeves as AstraZeneca AXES £450m investment in Merseyside manufacturing plant

The pharma giant blamed the Labour government reducing support as it dramatically torpedoed the development on Merseyside.

Economics

3 hours ago Tensions among senior Labour figures over how closely Britain should seek to align itself with the EU

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is said to be pushing to lift trade barriers with Brussels. But other ministers and officials fear this will lead to Labour haemorrhaging support to Reform UK.

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3 hours ago Channel 4 bosses are blasted for 'sanitising' extremist views of reality show star accused of anti

Bushra Shaikh appears in reality show Go Back To Where You Come From which starts on Monday, but Channel 4 has been accused of not showing her extreme side seen on her social media channels.

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9 hours ago AstraZeneca cancels £450m investment in UK after dispute over Government support

The pharmaceutical giant claimed the Labour Government failed to match its predecessor’s offer of help for the Merseyside investment.

Economics

4 hours ago California officials investigate utilities company in search for cause of fires

Firefighters believe Palisades fire started from small blaze that may have reignited due to hurricane-force windsAs Los Angeles grapples with the aftermath of the devastating fires that killed dozens and laid waste to entire neighborhoods, the potential causes of the disasters are beginning to come into focus.The siege of wildfires, sparked amid powerful Santa Ana winds earlier this month, created chaos around the city for weeks. They scorched around 60 sq miles (155 sq km) of the city, destroying the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods, and killed at least 29 people. Preliminary estimates of the economic losses have exceeded $250bn. Firefighters have only recently managed to achieve near containment of the fires, and residents begin returning to what remains of their communities, looking for answers. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago James Middleton shares adorable photo of himself as a baby with his mother Carole on her 70th birthday

James Middleton, 37, shared the sweet snap on Instagram to celebrate his mum Carole's milestone birthday, describing the mother-of-three as his 'hero'

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13 hours ago What are Scotland's council tax rules and are there months you don't have to pay?

Water bills in Scotland will rise by 9.9 percent, adding an extra £3.68 per month for water and wastewater services from April 1

Economics

4 hours ago Young woman in court after spamming boyfriend's ex with videos of her farting

Rhiannon Evans, 25, was accused of harassing her boyfriend's ex by sending 'inappropriate' videos of her farting. It is believed to be the first case of 'cyber farting' in Britain

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6 hours ago Mark Robinson announces he won’t run for Senate in 2026 as he ditches CNN lawsuit over porn site scandal

Robinson was accused of writing ‘I’m a Black NAZI!’ on a forum discussing Black Republicans in a report by CNN

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15 hours ago Rashford has heart set on Barcelona but deal rests on exits from La Liga club

Rashford has rejected teams including TottenhamManchester United keen on Mathys Tel as replacementMarcus Rashford has his heart set on a loan move to Barcelona before Monday’s transfer deadline but a deal will go through only if the Catalan club can offload up to two players.Rashford has rejected offers from several other clubs including Tottenham because of his determination to join Barcelona. Under La Liga’s squad cost limit rules Barcelona will have to generate funds to be able to spend the money required to sign Rashford from Manchester United. They are prepared in principle to cover most or all of Rashford’s £375,000-a-week salary. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Lily Collins shares sweet message for dad Phil on his 74th birthday amid health battle

Lily Collins took to social media this week to mark the latest birthday of her music icon father - the Genesis drummer, Phil Collins - with an adorable throwback snap

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8 hours ago Woman, 26, accused of having sexual relationship with boy, 13, during the holidays

Angel Sexton, of Palm Coast, Florida, ‘said she would leave her husband for the boy’ police said

Politics

20 hours ago Wasting lots of taxpayer money has become almost routine for SNP government

Record View says if John Swinney is to win his own mandate as first minister next year, he needs to cut out the waste and start delivering.

Economics

5 hours ago 'Unpaid labour = theft': Union issues warning to Almost Famous owners after staff left 'shafted'

'Everyone is outraged that we've been shafted'

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8 hours ago Gary Neville and Roy Keane accuse Ian Wright of fuelling Arsenal's Michael Oliver conspiracies

Gary Neville has jumped to the defence of Michael Oliver after Ian Wright said it was correct for the under-fire referee not to be given Arsenal vs Manchester City

Politics

23 hours ago Fury at London Labour council's new '£750 parking permits' in yet another capital crackdown on motorists in favour of 'sustainable streets'

EXCLUSIVE: Lewisham Council is expected to make thousands of pounds from fining motorists by rolling out new controlled parking zones across the borough.

Economics

6 hours ago Justin Tucker denies accusations of 'degrading' sexual behavior by six message therapists as NFL launches investigation

The NFL has launched an investigation after the bombshell report in The Baltimore Banner

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8 hours ago Waterproof dryrobe that keeps wearers dry even after hours in the rain is this season's must

Amazon shoppers have been racing to snap up a top-rated Dryrobe after it got rave reviews for keeping them ‘completely dry’ even after they spent ‘hours in heavy rain’

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6 hours ago Mother, 39, appears in court accused of killing son, nine, after 'smashing car into van and cattle truck'

A 39-year-old mother, Barbara Roe, of Andover Road, Wiltshire, who has been accused of the death of her nine-year-old son, Zac, by dangerous driving appeared at court . 

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10 hours ago Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress | Marina Hyde

If China has done to Sam Altman what his OpenAI has been accused of doing to creatives, it would take a heart of stone not to laughI once saw an episode of America’s Dumbest Criminals where a man called the cops to report his car stolen, only for it to turn out he’d stolen it from someone else in the first place. I couldn’t help thinking of him this week while watching OpenAI’s Sam Altman wet his pants about the fact that a Chinese hedge fund might have made unauthorised use of his own chatbot models, including ChatGPT, to train their new little side project. This is the cheaper, more open, extremely share-price-slashing DeepSeek.As news of DeepSeek played havoc with the tech stock market, OpenAI pressed its hanky to its nose and released a statement: “We are aware of and reviewing indications that DeepSeek may have inappropriately distilled our models, and will share information as we know more,” this ran. “We take aggressive, proactive countermeasures to protect our technology.” O...

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7 hours ago Grumpy Harrison Ford, a mystery asterisk and AI gone wild: everything from Disney’s new slate presentation

Few sights are as majestic as an 82-year-old legend being nonplussed at promoting Captain America: Brave New World. Plus: is Thunderbolts* Marvel’s answer to The Suicide Squad and will Tron: Ares be as good as it looks?There are moments in life when you expect to be confronted by greatness: hearing a live orchestra swell into the opening notes of John Williams’ Star Wars theme; standing at the edge of the Scottish Highlands; watching a dog somehow open a fridge and retrieve a beer for its owner. And then there are moments when greatness sneaks up on you in the form of an 82-year-old Hollywood legend, materialising like a grumpy mirage, one metre from your face, during what you thought was a routine Disney presentation of new movies and TV shows.Harrison Ford is not a man one simply stumbles upon. He is a force of nature, a living relic of an era when leading men didn’t have to spend six months on a chicken-and-rice diet before taking their shirts off. And yet, here he is, looking su...

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10 hours ago Philp’s ‘patronising’ comment about Britons’ work ethic show Tories ‘out of touch’, TUC says – politics live

General secretary highlights ‘legacy of 14 years of falling living standards under the Tories’In an article for the Guardian, the Labour MP Clive Lewis said Rachel Reeves’ growth speech this week means the party has abandoned its pre-election green commitments.Here is an extract.A growing suspicion looms that our government lacks a coherent governing philosophy or ideological compass beyond the vague pursuit of “growth”. But if growth at any cost is the mantra, the costs will soon become painfully clear. Why pledge to be clean and green, only to undermine that commitment with a Heathrow expansion promise six months later? Burning the furniture to stay warm doesn’t signal confidence – it reeks of panic.Regardless of the motivation, Labour has crossed the Rubicon. Approving Heathrow expansion is an irreversible break with our pre-election pledges. In 2021, Reeves stood in front of the Labour party conference and declared that she would be the “first-ever green chancellor”. Now, Labour...

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7 hours ago Why Brooklyn Beckham was brutally cut from Nicola Peltz's new 'poverty porn' movie... leaving him 'utterly devastated' and threatening his acting dreams, revealed by KATIE HIND

Brooklyn Beckham has already tried his hand as a photographer, influencer, model and chef. So when his wife landed her first film-directing gig, it was only a matter of time before he joined her.

Events

10 hours ago Sean 'Diddy' Combs accused of sex trafficking two more women as he awaits trial behind bars

Music mogul has been accused of trying to encourage women to have sex by giving them drugs like ketamine and ecstasy

Politics

8 hours ago ‘We will be OK’: Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish among headliners for LA wildfire benefit concert

Music A-listers from Dr Dre to Olivia Rodrigo perform at fundraising extravaganza FireAid at neighboring LA arenasMaking my way through the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, it was clear that FireAid was set to be a different kind of musical extravaganza. Taking place simultaneously at both at the state-of-the-art arena (which opened in August) and the longtime city staple the Kia Forum, the roster, which included everyone from Joni Mitchell to Peso Pluma, was announced in the wake of the devastating fires that struck the area earlier this month and broadcast around the world to raise funds and awareness, the atmosphere before showtime was neither celebratory nor subdued, striking a delicate balance to coalesce over a common love for Los Angeles and its ongoing strife.A red carpet where flashbulbs are usually popping was mostly quiet as a mouse, with photographers invariably checking their lenses; perhaps the stars in attendance knew it would be inept to have a fashion moment on...

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10 hours ago Nvidia RTX 5080 graphics cards are almost sold out, but not everywhere

As expected, Nvidia's latest 50 series graphics cards sold out almost instantly, but there are a few places where you can still snap one up.

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8 hours ago Mother faces court accused of causing death of her son by dangerous driving

Zac Roe, nine, from Andover in Hampshire, died at the scene of the crash in East Woodyates, north Dorset, last year.

Events

11 hours ago Lily Collins pays emotional tribute to 'special' father Phil on his 74th birthday after he was forced to retire due to health issues

The actress, 35, took to Instagram on Thursday to share a photo of the pair from Phil's Hollywood Hall of Fame acceptance ceremony in 1999, when she was aged 10 as well as a more recent snap.

Politics

8 hours ago Why Brooklyn Beckham was brutally cut from Nicola Peltz's new 'poverty porn' movie... leaving him 'utterly devastated' and threatening his acting dreams

Brooklyn Beckham has already tried his hand as a photographer, influencer, model and chef. So when his wife landed her first film-directing gig, it was only a matter of time before he joined her.

Events

11 hours ago Tory Chris Philp accused of ‘brass neck’ after saying UK needs better work ethic

Shadow home secretary says fact 9 million people are out of work shows Britain must ‘up our game’UK politics live – latest updatesOne of Kemi Badenoch’s senior team has been accused of “real brass neck” after saying Britain needed a better work ethic.Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said there were 9 million working-age people not in work and Britain needed to “lift our game and to up our game”. Continue reading...

Politics

9 hours ago Another major war is looming – and western support for Rwanda is fuelling it | Dino Mahtani

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels are seizing control of areas within the DRC. This will only escalate unless western governments actAs if this world needs more bloodshed, here comes another major war knocking on the door of the crumbling international order. This week’s ferocious assault and capture of the largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by rebels backed by troops from its tiny neighbour, Rwanda, marks an escalation with far reaching consequences beyond Africa. It also exposes the complacency of western governments, who many Congolese accuse of paving the way for this crisis.The rebellion, known as the M23, has been snowballing since 2021. In recent months, M23 seized swathes of territory as it encircled Goma, a city nestled below a group of volcanoes facing the Rwandan border. This week, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, called for Rwanda to stop supporting M23 and to remove its troops from Congolese territory, adding that the conflict had ...

Events

11 hours ago Digested week: Caroline Kennedy swoops on RFK Jr with talons out | Emma Brockes

Cousin of prospective US health secretary shares disturbing tale involving blender for his Senate confirmation hearing“Trying not to upset the French” could be a chapter in a Debrett’s guide to etiquette and manners, one that may have been taken to heart by the government this week with its decision to change the name of a new submarine. The Astute-class attack vessel is still being built, but on Sunday night, the Royal Navy announced that what was to become HMS Agincourt would, instead, be given the more Franco-friendly name of HMS Achilles. Up pops Grant Shapps, the former Conservative defence secretary, to dust off his opportunism and accuse the navy of bending to Labourite “woke nonsense”. It’s just like riding a bike! Continue reading...

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9 hours ago Man in court accused of encouraging terrorism over alleged Telegram posts

Paul Martin, 59, appeared in court charged with encouraging terrorism, possessing articles for the purposes of terrorism, and possessing a stun gun.

Events

12 hours ago Scotland knows Brexit is holding Britain back. Why won't Labour admit it? | John Swinney

Five years after we left the EU, people are still paying the price. We’re ready to work with Westminster to forge closer bonds with EuropeJohn Swinney is the first minister of ScotlandThe pantomime season may be over, but when it comes to the government’s much-repeated claim to be pursuing economic growth above all else, the cry of “It’s behind you” is sounding ever louder. This classic panto joke works when everyone in the audience can see something clearly but the character on stage pretends not to. So it is with Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal and Rachel Reeves’s attempts to kickstart the economy. Reeves and Keir Starmer are ignoring what is blindingly obvious to everyone else: Brexit is a significant drag on Britain’s growth prospects. They know it’s true but refuse to acknowledge it and, more importantly, to do anything about it.There is, however, nothing comical about this situation. The hard Brexit negotiated by Johnson took the UK out of the EU, the single market and the customs...

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9 hours ago Woman felt ‘disgusting’ after alleged rape by Chinese PhD student, jurors hear

Zhenhao Zou, 27, is accused of drugging and raping 10 women in London and China

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