27 minutes ago If people refuse to work they WILL lose their benefits, insists Labour as Starmer's vows to crack down on huge welfare bill is branded a 'hollow promise'

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall was involved in a toe-curling exchange on Sky News as she was grilled about Labour 's new welfare crackdown.

Economics

38 minutes ago 'You'd think we'd killed someone': Call for investigation after Gypsy and Traveller children 'blocked from Christmas markets and forced onto trains out of Manchester'

GMP put a dispersal order in place, but is facing growing calls to explain its actions

Events

39 minutes ago Davina McCall 'makes surprise appearance on I'm a Celeb and leaves hosts Ant and Dec stunned'

The 57-year-old left show hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly both stunned and thrilled as she joined their Instagram live following the main show.

Politics

50 minutes ago ‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology

Love, death, grief, power, revenge: Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience. Here, writers and artists select their favourite plays, music and films inspired by the classics, from The Hunger Games to a Santana hitGreek myth is not a stable thing. There is no such thing as a canonical, “original” version of a Greek myth. The stories that remain to us – the material of classical plays and poetry, and of visual culture from pottery to pediments – are already elaborations and accretions. In the ancient Greek and Roman world, stories were adapted and remade to serve the needs of the moment. The Greek tragedians often took the germ of an idea from the Homeric epics, and built an entire plot from it. Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, for instance, is in dialogue with Homer’s Odyssey: b...

Politics

58 minutes ago ‘Charity tax’ rise will hurt antisemitism fight, Rachel Reeves warned in latest Budget pushback

Labour chancellor told surprise rise in employers national insurance contributions will hit fight against antisemitism, after anti-Jewish hate incidents reached a record high in the first half of this year

Events

84 minutes ago All the signs Alesha Dixon had 'split' from her partner of 18 years Azuka Ononye from solo outings to 'attending the same events separately'

While they had been together for 18 years it appears Alesha Dixon and her partner  Azuka Ononye have now called it quits.

Politics

90 minutes ago Davina McCall makes surprise ITV I'm A Celebrity appearance following brain surgery

She delighted Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly by joining them in a post-show moment

Politics

98 minutes ago Liverpool XI vs Southampton: Predicted lineup, confirmed team news and injury latest for Premier League

Arne Slot handed one major fitness boost as Reds bid to extend title lead at St Mary’s

Politics

1 hour ago ‘I felt like I was a made man’: Stephen Graham on working with his childhood heroes

One of Britain’s most prolific actors, Stephen Graham is the face of countless hard-to-forget TV and film characters, a regular Scorsese collaborator and good mates with Leo DiCaprio. He talks about living it up in Leicestershire – and why he’s in the shape of his lifeStephen Graham likes to quote that very famous saying in acting, “There are no small parts, only small actors” – though it has nothing to do with the fact that the 51-year-old stands a power-packed 5ft five-and-a-half inches. When in 2020 he set up his own production company, Matriarch Productions, after a storied career as one of our great character performers, he made it one of the company’s founding principles.Graham established Matriarch with his wife, the actor Hannah Walters. Their first project was the 2021 film Boi...

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2 hours ago I was duped out of £230 by a dodgy meet and greet parking service at Gatwick Airport... they never arrived and only answered my call TWO MINUTES before my flight

EXCLUSIVE: Ella Alcindor from Suffolk was duped out of £230 after a 'meet and greet' parking service at Gatwick Airport called her two minutes before her flight and never arrived to pick up her car. 

Economics