21 m. ago Son and daughter who were left just £250 by their father in his death

Anju Patel claimed her father's drastic decision was because of a growing mistrust he had developed towards his daughter Bhavenetta Stewart-Brown (pictured) and his son Piyush Patel.

Economics

26 m. ago Labour announces plans to lift 550,000 children out of poverty – UK politics live

Starmer hails child poverty strategy as a ‘moral mission’ which will include measures to help with childcare and getting families out of temporary housingThere’s a lot of reaction coming in on the plan – some believe the new elements aren’t ambitious enough and it’s just a consolidation of previously announced measures. But here is the full strategy from Keir Starmer’s government, 16 months in, to tackle and reduce the rate of child poverty in the UK.There are around 4.5 million children living in poverty in the UK currently – a historic high. Continue reading...

Politics

41 m. ago Celebrity Race Across The World star leaves viewers sobbing as she recounts how husband was killed days before son's birth in tear

The latest episode of the BBC show saw the respective duos heading to Colombia for their next checkpoints.

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46 m. ago I'm A Celebrity's AngryGinge sparks health concerns after 'losing a drastic amount of weight' as worried fans gasp 'he's clearly starving!'

Over the past three weeks I'm A Celebrity viewers have watched this year's group of famous faces take on Bushtucker Trials in a bid to win food for camp.

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49 m. ago Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands? | Simon Jenkins

We know from recent hacks, and even the Snowden revelations, how vulnerable information gathered is to theft and misuseOne thing to remember about the modern world is that nothing online is ever secure. M&S and Jaguar taught us that. Edward Snowden taught us that. Every week, it seems, some giant corporation sees its system collapse at the touch of a button in an attic.The government this week opened a consultation on its plan for nationwide facial recognition and surveillance. You would need only put your face outdoors and walk down the street and authorities will know and record it. Of course we will be assured that all will be kept secure. It will not. Cash or conspiracy will find it out and it will leak.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Politics

57 m. ago Tributes to inspirational Holocaust survivor Ike Alterman after his death aged 97

Ike survived unimaginable horrors at four concentration camps including Auschwitz

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59 m. ago More than 60,000 penguins starve to death near Africa after fall in sardine numbers

African penguins need sardines to fatten up before a three-week moulting period on land

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60 m. ago BBC Breakfast stars announce tragic death as he had ‘lost the will to carry on’

BBC Breakfast presenters Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty shared the tragic story of Jonathan Armstrong, a former sub postmaster who died in October without receiving compensation

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85 m. ago Lynch mob beat 'rapist' to death, hack off his genitals and drag body through streets as punishment for 'sex attack on disabled woman' in Indonesia

A lynch mob has beaten a rapist to death, hacked off his genitals and dragged his body through the streets as punishment for sexually abusing a disabled woman.  

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96 m. ago BBC Breakfast hosts reveal tragic death as guest warns 'no one else needs to die'

Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt shared the heartbreaking story of former sub postmaster Jonathan Armstrong on Friday's show

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1 hour ago BBC Breakfast stars announce heartbreaking death 'he'd given up on life'

BBC Breakfast stars shared the heartbreaking story of a former sub postmaster on Friday

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2 h. ago Cleveland Cavaliers hit with $250,000 NBA fine after rule violation

Cleveland Cavaliers have been given a hefty fine for a rule breach

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2 h. ago Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise for alleged racist abuse

The 11 signatories, some of whom have survived death camps, called on the Clacton MP to admit whether he subjected his classmates to antisemitic abuse

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2 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing star confirms future on BBC show after heartbreaking family death

The Strictly Come Dancing contestant was supported by fans and friends after the devastating news

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2 h. ago Rocker from noughties band who opened for Oasis dies aged 40 as dad shares heartbreak

Rocker Justin Baren played bass guitar in Chicago group the Redwalls, who supported Oasis in gigs held in the UK and US in 2005 - and his dad has announced his sad death

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2 h. ago Holocaust death camp survivors demand an apology from Nigel Farage for 'racist abuse'

It comes after Farage denied at a press conference that he ever made racist remarks in a ‘malicious or nasty way’

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2 h. ago Abdusattorov overwhelms rivals at Arsenal but England hit back in style

The Uzbek shone at London Classic and a 3,000+ tournament performance reaffirmed his place among world’s bestThis week’s XTX London Classic at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium took place in an elegant arena with a full view of the football pitch. The English players suffered for most of the event, but hit back in style on Thursday when all four won their eighth-round games.Scores after eight of the nine rounds were Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan) 7, Alireza Firouzja (France) 5, Nikita Vitiugov (England) 4.5, Luke McShane and Michael Adams (both England) 4, Nikolas Theodorou (Greece) and Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine) 3.5, Abhimanyu Mishra (USA) and Gawain Maroroa Jones (England) 3, Sam Shankland (USA) 2.5. The four English victories in Thursday night’s eighth round transformed what had been a difficult event into a demonstration of sustained national strength at the board. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show

Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support ForcesThe Sudanese city of El Fasher resembles a “massive crime scene”, with large piles of bodies heaped throughout its streets as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) work to destroy evidence of the scale of their massacre.Six weeks after the RSF seized the city, corpses have been gathered together in scores of piles to await burial in mass graves or cremated in huge pits, analysis indicates. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Mystery surrounds woman's horror Disneyland death on ride with 'no faults'

The Matterhorn Bobsled ride at Disneyland Resort in California has been a popular attraction for decades, but it has been the site of two fatal accidents involving unbuckled seatbelts

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2 h. ago Woman died on Disney ride after seatbelt 'came undone' in mystery death

The 47-year-old died in a tragic accident on the Matterhorn Bobsled ride at Disneyland Resort California

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