57 m. ago The migrant hotel king raking in nearly £180m in profits: Caravan park tycoon's firm is paid £7BILLION of taxpayers cash after being awarded government contract to house asylum seekers

Clearsprings Ready Homes, owned by Essex tycoon Graham King, is one of three companies appointed on a 10-year Home Office deal to provide short-term accommodation.

Economics

76 m. ago Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics

Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everydayThe Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics.John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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79 m. ago House prices: the average UK property price fell by £794 in September

The bank said a relatively lower mortgage rate environment and steady wage growth have helped support buyer confidence.

Economics

86 m. ago I’m ready to join the brave new world of women who are leaving their family at home – and holidaying alone | Zoe Williams

Women are ditching their families to seek adventures on their own terms. What took us so long?A couple of weeks ago, I got an email about a press trip I would never countenance. It was long haul and it was about fitness, so it would have involved a lot of exercise and early nights. Even if I enjoyed those things, I wouldn’t have been desperate to spend a week with other people who enjoyed them. But even as I was hitting delete, I started to wonder what that would actually be like: being somewhere different, without anyone to please except myself, without anything to do except exactly what I wanted. Plainly, it would be amazing. So I said “yes” and it turned out they meant the other Zoe Williams, the one who is a doctor and used to be a Gladiator, and is incredibly fit already, and yes, in retrospect, that should have been obvious all along.So, without meaning to and without going anywhere, I’ve arrived in the fastest-growing travel demographic: the female solo traveller, aged 45 to ...

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2 h. ago 'Spooked' University Challenge viewers gasp 'how did they know?!' as BBC episode closes with Jilly Cooper 'tribute'

The latest episode of the programme, hosted by Amol Rajan , saw Imperial take on Churchill College, Cambridge.

Culture

2 h. ago London protests LIVE: University students to join controversial pro

The Prime Minister has urged protesters to call off demos at universities showing ‘so little respect’ on anniversary of attack

Society

2 h. ago Matt O'Riley shelves Marseille transfer talks as ex Celtic star gears up for World Cup battle

The former Hoops star - on loan at Marseille for the season - is only focussed on the here and now with his national team

Events

2 h. ago New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to ItalyA New Orleans couple clearing away undergrowth in their home’s yard unearthed a grave marker, setting off a quest for answers about how the roughly 1,900-year-old relic ended up there – and an effort to repatriate it to Italy.The remarkable discovery was the work of Tulane University anthropologist Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenz, according to a report published online Monday by the magazine of New Orleans’s Preservation Resource Center (PRC). Continue reading...

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2 h. ago I preached levelling up as the key to Tory success – but Boris Johnson didn’t do it. Now look at us | Justine Greening

Social mobility and equality of opportunity is crucial to Britain’s success. The party that embraces those things will prosperJustine Greening is a former Conservative ministerAs the existentially challenged Conservative party meets in Manchester for its annual party conference, it has much to ponder on where it goes next. It’s not even clear if there is a road forward at all. These are tough times for a party that now has little, if anything, new or unique to say to voters.It could have been so different if it had made tangible progress on an agenda that matters to people across the country: Levelling up. Yet Boris Johnson’s government hadn’t got the first clue on how to turn his zeitgeisty rhetoric on levelling up into policy reality. For the two years after the 2019 election, it debated what the term even meant.Justine Greening is a former Conservative minister and was MP for Putney from 2005 to 2019 Continue reading...

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2 h. ago New hope for prostate patients as study shows treatment can slow cancer growth

Patients with certain genetic mutations were found to have the most benefit from the combination of drugs.

Science

2 h. ago High street bank offering customers up to £900 to switch – but you need to be quick

The bank has launched a new current account switching cash offer of up to £400, running alongside its Isa transfer offer of up to £500

Economics

2 h. ago City banker who falsely claimed female colleague sexually harassed him by commenting on his string vest could face jail over 'wicked lies' in bid to secure compensation

Damilare Ajao, who worked at Commerzbank, claimed the manager made a number of 'sexual advances' towards him and 'sexually harassing' comments about his underwear.

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2 h. ago Man Utd flop Andre Onana ALREADY lined up for permanent Trabzonspor transfer

Andre Onana joined Turkish side Trabzonspor on a season-long loan after struggling during his two-season spell with Manchester United and it appears his long-term future has already been decided

Politics

3 h. ago DWP will be able to snoop on pensioner bank accounts in new benefits crackdown

The new Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill will give the Government power to recover money straight from bank accounts of those who have committed benefit fraud

Economics

3 h. ago Inside Mo Salah's Liverpool struggles: Worrying numbers, new signing issues and fresh dig

Mohamed Salah enjoyed one of his finest seasons last term, ending with him receiving a new Liverpool contract, but weeks into the new season and questions are being asked with his form nosediving

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3 h. ago Ernest Shackleton KNEW Endurance was doomed before it sank: Letters to his wife confirm the explorer was aware of fatal flaws in his ship

Ernest Shackleton was well aware of his ship's deficiencies before he set sail, reports a scientist at Aalto University in Finland.

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4 h. ago Average UK house price fell by £794 in September, says Halifax

The bank said a relatively lower mortgage rate environment and steady wage growth have helped support buyer confidence.

Economics

4 h. ago Barclays offering up to £900 to some customers to switch accounts

The bank has launched a new current account switching cash offer of up to £400, running alongside its Isa transfer offer of up to £500.

Economics

5 h. ago More pension savers keep some of their retirement pot in cash due to uncertainty

According to the JP Morgan-owned bank, Chase, some 39% of customers say they are including cash savings as part of their retirement planning.

Economics

5 h. ago ‘It’s more than a pretty backdrop’: crime writer Ann Cleeves on the magic of Orkney in Scotland

With her latest book, the author moves detective Jimmy Perez from Shetland to Orkney, where she was inspired by the deep history, huge skies and warm peopleFifty years ago, I headed north for the first time. I’d dropped out of my university literature course – with the arrogance of youth, I thought I could read books anywhere. After a chance meeting in a Putney pub, I got a job as assistant cook in the Bird Observatory in Fair Isle. At that point, I didn’t even know where Fair Isle was. I came from Devon and hadn’t made it farther north than Durham. Scotland was unknown territory.Of course, Fair Isle is part of the Shetland group and lies halfway between Shetland mainland and Orkney. That summer, I fell in love with the Northern Isles, with the romance of the isolation, the bleak beauty and the stories. Over the summer, I worked in the observatory with Alison, an Orcadian lass, who was there for her college holidays. “When you’ve finished your contract,” she said with the easy hospi...

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