77 minutes ago Sir Keir Starmer admits 'Britain isn't working’ as Government job reforms announced

Extra NHS support and an overhaul of Jobcentres are among plans set to be unveiled on Tuesday

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79 minutes ago Meet Jacob Bethell, the Barbados kid leading England’s next generation in all formats

The 21-year-old Warwickshire prospect is starring for England in the West Indies with his flamboyant style and, as Richard Edwards writes, has a big future in the Test game after earning a call-up to face New Zealand

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88 minutes ago Selfies and surf simulators: the young cruisers driving boom in sea holidays

A new generation is taking to the ocean in growing numbers – and fears over the environmental impact of cruise ships appear not to be denting their popularityRead more in this seriesThis summer was the first time 31-year-old Daisie Morrison had been on a cruise when she set sail on a two-week holiday with two friends, also in their early 30s.“One of my friends suggested it,” she says. “She had seen different influencers on Instagram going on cruises. You go to so many places that we wanted to visit, so we were all quite keen.” Continue reading...

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88 minutes ago Shoppers rush to buy Cadburys Heroes 'ideal for Christmas' in deal cheaper than supermarkets

Christmas time is almost here and now you can pick up a colossal 2kg box of chocolates for a fraction of the price

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88 minutes ago Only people with the very highest IQ can work out who the man is looking at in this photo

Reckon you have the sharpest of minds and the IQ of a modern day Einstein? It's time to put that theory to the test with this mind-boggling brainteaser that is leaving Brits scratching their heads

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2 hours ago Tulsi Gabbard’s history with Russia is even more concerning than you think

One expert says her views are ‘so wildly fringe that her potential appointment as DNI is genuinely alarming’, Richard Hall and Andrew Feinberg write

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2 hours ago Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project

‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’

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2 hours ago Don’t listen to opponents of assisted dying: a Labour government’s legacy must be freedom | Polly Toynbee

I have campaigned for the right to avoid a needlessly agonising death all my life. After this vote, I hope I will no longer have toThe time has come for a defining moment early in a Labour era that has so far lacked definition. This is the week a Labour parliament can make its mark in the long campaign for personal freedoms over birth, sex, life and death. If not, if MPs prove pusillanimous in the face of loud but thinly supported objections backed by organised religion, they will ignore the opinion of a public that is strongly in favour: the British social attitudes survey’s first polling in 1983 found 77% of people in favour of assisted dying, and that figure has hardly varied since then. After campaigning all my life on this, I feel: if not now, then probably not in my lifetime.Every...

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2 hours ago Shane MacGowan’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke: ‘There were days when I felt suicidal after Shane died’

Exclusive: Artist, writer and long-term partner of the late Pogues frontman speaks about her grieving process a year on from his death, and how she’s channelled that into art for her first solo exhibition

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