62 minutes ago Welsh Government announces changes to controversial farming payment scheme

Farmers will no longer be asked to have a minimum of 10% tree cover on their land.

Politics

65 minutes ago Luke Littler's message to Luke Humphries ahead of Worlds after losing Players Championship final

Luke Littler chose to show the utmost respect to Luke Humphries on Sunday after losing the Players' Championships Finals 11-7 to the 29-year-old. He now turns his attention to next month's World Championships

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65 minutes ago UK politics live: safeguarding minister Jess Phillips urges people to intervene if women are being harassed in public

Phillips says people have to be mindful of their own safety but ‘you can definitely ask if someone is alright’Asked what his experience of government has been like, Starmer says he is taking the hard decisions first.I think anybody who’s turned around an organisation or a business will tell you, and they’re right, if you’re really going to turn something around, you have to do the hard yards upfront. Don’t look at a tough decision and then leave it for a year or two.So we’re doing the tough stuff. But in the budget, which is probably the toughest, I’m really pleased that we were able to put so much money into the National Health Service Anybody watching this who uses the NHS will know we absolutely had to make that a priority. Continue reading...

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68 minutes ago I'm a Celeb 2024: which celebrity is doing the Bush Tucker trial tonight? ITV challenge explained

This is who you voted to take on the Bush Tucker trial

Politics

70 minutes ago Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother

Campaigners say psychometric tests are discriminatory amid protests over case of Keira Alexandra KronvoldDenmark is under pressure to stop subjecting Greenlandic people to “parenting competency” tests that campaigners say discriminate against them, amid uproar over the case of a mother whose baby was removed two hours after she gave birth.The psychometric tests are widely used in Denmark as part of child protection investigations into new parents, and have long been criticised by human rights bodies as culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people and other minorities. Continue reading...

Events

77 minutes ago Met Office Christmas snow verdict revealed for first time as chaos expected

As winter officially arrives, there are early murmurs of Christmas forecast, with the Met Office predicting snowy conditions could 'dominate towards the middle of December'

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84 minutes ago Octopus Energy offers £300 annual saving with new heat pump grant as bills rise

Energy bills are set to rise again, but Octopus Energy customers may be able to benefit from a £300-a-year discount on their bills if they switch from gas boilers to heat pumps

Economics

87 minutes ago ITV I'm A Celebrity 2024 winner 'unveiled' ahead of first public vote off

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! fans have been left in hysterics by Maura Higgins' antics in the jungle and it seems the reality star is set to go all the way

Politics

87 minutes ago Trump Pentagon pick attacks UN and Nato and urges US to ignore Geneva conventions

Revealed: Pete Hegseth writes scathingly of key institutions and says ‘If you love America, you should love Israel’Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, has attacked several key US alliances such as Nato, allied countries such as Turkey and international institutions such as the United Nations in two recent books, as well as saying US troops should not be bound by the Geneva conventions.At the same time, the man who would head America’s gigantic military has tied US foreign policy almost entirely to the priority of Israel, a country of which he says: “If you love America, you should love Israel.” Continue reading...

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87 minutes ago RFK Jr will cut prescription drugs and increase weed and psychedelics access

Trump’s health department pick has expressed distrust of pharmaceuticals and attacked ‘suppression of psychedelics’Public health experts are concerned that, if confirmed, Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – Robert F Kennedy Jr – could upend access to pharmaceutical drugs in favor of more experimental treatments.Kennedy, who the president-elect picked earlier this month, has repeatedly expressed distrust for pharmaceuticals, and criticized the FDA for its “aggressive suppression of psychedelics”. On his podcast, he called the US “the sickest country in the world”, blaming its healthcare system for devoting billions to “the pills and the potions and the powders rather than on actually getting people healthy, building their immune syst...

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