12 h. ago Benefits bill on course to rise by £18billion a YEAR without reform

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall is facing a furious backlash from Labour MPs and campaigners who warn that 'cruel' cuts to disability benefits will drive hundreds of thousands into poverty.

Economics

24 h. ago Brit soldier's fight for life after Thailand holiday fall as medical bills rise to £75k

Liam Gibson, 21, fell at the Na Muang Waterfall 2 in the Ko Samui District area of Thailand on April 12. He spent two hours waiting for a rescue operation and then five hours having life-saving surgery that left him bleeding out

Economics

25 h. ago Brit soldier who fought for life after horror holiday fall hit with £75k medical bill

A British soldier underwent emergency surgery following a near-fatal fall in Thailand, with his medical bills and expenses racking up to £75,000.

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27 h. ago Thailand holiday fall sees Brit soldier in fight for life and £75k insurance

WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT – A British holidaymaker underwent emergency surgery following a near-fatal fall in Thailand, with his medical bills and expenses racking up to £75,000

Economics

2 d. ago Actor thrown off Jet2 flight in 'row over Pringles' breaks silence after viral TikTok

A Jet2 passenger, who was an actor on board flight LS721 from Edinburgh to Larnaca, has been banned for life and has been removed from the plane after a 'Pringle fight'

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6 d. ago Terrifying moment tourist appears to fight for life underwater as divers reveal what really happened

Footage of the incident has garnered millions with many sharing theories about what went wrong, but a diver who claims to have been on the same trip has shared her perspective.

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6 d. ago Terrifying moment underwater tourist appears to fight for life in viral video as diver reveal what really happened

Footage of the incident has garnered millions with many sharing theories about what went wrong, but a diver who claims to have been on the same trip has shared her perspective.

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6 d. ago Rachel Reeves hit with headache after economy shrinks amid fresh fears of tax hikes

The Office for National Statistics said the UK economy shrank by 0.3% in April. Meanwhile, experts are warning that council tax bills will rise following Chancellor Rachel Reeves's spending review

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7 d. ago Council tax bills set to rise at fastest rate for two decades, economist warns

Rachel Reeves said that ministers will not be ‘going above’ the 5% annual increases in council tax.

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7 d. ago Defence spending to rise by £11 billion to 2.6per cent of GDP over next two years, Rachel Reeves announces

In the face of 'a new era' of threats, Ms Reeves said there must be 'a new era for defence and security'

Economics

7 d. ago British toddler had to fight for his life after illness on US holiday left him looking 'like a skeleton'

Ayesha and Melissa Jevins, from Warrington, Cheshire, were visiting family in Florida when their one-year-old son Dylan was rushed to A&E with a mystery illness that left him 'skeletal'.

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9 d. ago Brits 'caught with £1m of cannabis' after Thailand holiday arrested at Heathrow Airport

A couple were charged with trying to smuggle £1million worth of cannabis into the UK after being stopped at Heathrow Airport in the latest crime bust after a string of drug-related crime

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1 week ago Surviving rising bills: How you'd spend a spare £100 as household bills rise by £36bn

Watch as the public answers what they'd do with an extra £100.

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2 w. ago Elon Musk uses ‘KILL BILL’ in call for Americans to rise up against Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ plan

Tesla billionaire is drawing on Quentin Tarantino classic film to rally broad opposition to the massive spending package

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2 w. ago Coronation Street siblings unrecognisable nearly 20 years on from ITV soap exit

Twins who played the role of Bethany Platt in Coronation Street between 2000 and 2007 took to social media to share a sweet snap of the pair enjoying a holiday in Thailand

Politics

2 w. ago Acrobat, 28, falls 50ft to her death from edge of Phuket rooftop swimming pool

Veronika Kobzova, 28, from Ukraine, was on holiday in Phuket, Thailand, when she fell from a rooftop swimming pool at a resort complex and died after suffering "head and chin" injuries

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3 w. ago Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87

Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’The Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who was censored, imprisoned and forced into exile by the dictator Daniel arap Moi, a perennial contender for the Nobel prize for literature and one of few writers working in an indigenous African language, has died aged 87.“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dad, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, this Wednesday morning,” wrote his daughter Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ on Facebook. “He lived a full life, fought a good fight.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘The giant penis took shape easily, as I passed through a village called Three Cocks’: meet the artist athletes drawing with GPS

From the phallus on a Welsh hillside, to a huge portrait of Chappell Roan, these Strava runners, riders and skaters have been busy In 2013, I was in the worst shape of my life. Though I functioned well day to day, I was a heavy binge drinker and smoker. Unfit, obese and unhappy, on impulse I signed up to a white-collar boxing fight. I trained six days a week for three months, shifting three stone by fight night. Winning that fight was great, though turning my life around had been my main goal. After that, I started challenging myself regularly while raising money for mental health charities.My first 24-hour challenge involved ascending Pen y Fan – the highest peak in south Wales – 10 times in a row during the dead of winter. It was horrific, but it raised lots of money, so next time I wanted something even bigger. Having seen examples of Strava art online, I thought that might be a good way to get people’s attention. I decided on a big run in the Bannau Brycheiniog (formerly the Bre...

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4 w. ago The Six Billion Dollar Man review – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s rise, fall and limbo

Cannes film festivalFocusing on the rogue’s gallery of hypocrites and crooks surrounding him, Assange himself is in the background of a pretty definitive examinationJulian Assange sits at the centre of this gripping account of the WikiLeaks founder’s rise, fall and protracted seven-year limbo inside the Ecuadorian embassy. Eugene Jarecki’s documentary takes its title from the price the incoming Ecuadorian government supposedly charged the Trump administration for helping furnish his extradition to the US, thereby reneging on a promise of political asylum. If The Six Billion Dollar Man doesn’t rebuild Assange, exactly, that’s because it’s more interested in comprehensively demolishing his enemies. Compared to the hypocrites, scoundrels and crooks who surround him, the man himself looks almost virtuous.Actually Assange is mostly a background presence here. He’s more talked about than talking up; a karmic victim of his own success. While even his supporters admit to his personal failin...

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4 w. ago Donald Trump Jr says ‘maybe one day’ when asked if would ever run for president – US politics live

President’s eldest son says ‘that calling is there’ while speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration will move forward with developing the so-called “Golden Dome” missile defense system that he envisions will protect the United States from possible foreign strikes using ground and space-based weapons.Flanked by the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, in the Oval Office, Trump also said that he wanted the project to be operational before he left office. He added that Republicans had agreed to allocate $25bn in initial funding and Canada had expressed an interest in taking part.The Trump administration said it will permit use of Covid vaccines by adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions in the fall, raising questions about whether some people who want a vaccine will be able to get one. The FDA framework, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, urges companies to conduct large, lengthy studies before tweaked ...

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