6 hours ago Bake Off runner up Dylan Bachelet, 20, wows his bosses at Michelin star restaurant The Five Fields as they say they had 'no idea how good' the humble star actually was on the show

The pastry prodigy was a firm favourite to win this year's competition but lost out to Welsh paedriatic nurse Georgie Grasso after cracking under the pressure in the final challenges.

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10 hours ago Freezing fog rush hour warning issued by Met Office across Greater Manchester

After being battered by storms in recent days the UK is now returning to a 'typical end of November' weather

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23 hours ago 'Our elderly, frail patients frequently feel they are a burden, to their family, to the NHS'

Dr Cajetan Skowronski writes against assisted dying saying the 'right to die inevitably becomes a duty to die'. He adds: 'Our elderly, frail patients frequently feel they are a burden'

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30 hours ago Storm Conall live: Met Office warns two weeks of rain could lash UK in hours as danger to life alert issued

Weather warning for rain and hundreds of flood alerts in place just days after Storm Bert battered country

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34 hours ago MPs will vote, but there is a better way to decide who has the right to die | Rafael Behr

In an age of cynicism and mistrust, politicians must work harder to involve the public in difficult decisionsWhen MPs vote this Friday on assisted dying, they will be trying to answer two questions folded into one. First comes the ethical choice. Is it ever permissible for one person to help someone else take their own life? Then comes the regulatory challenge. Under what conditions might that permission be granted in law?It isn’t easy to separate those considerations. Sometimes you have to work through scenarios of implementation before arriving at a view on the prior principle. But when legislation is being drafted, the two questions must logically be answered in sequence, not in parallel. When and how are only relevant debates if the answer to the question of whether assisted dying c...

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