74 m. ago Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke MP welcomes rise in National Living Wage

Full-time workers on the National Living Wage will see a real-terms pay increase of £1,400 per year, helping to provide families with better financial stability, improve living standards and kickstart growth as part of Labour’s Plan for Change.

Politics

84 m. ago Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona lineups: Starting XIs, confirmed team news, injury latest for Copa del Rey today

Raphinha returns for Barca while Diego Simeone makes several huge selection decisions

Events

91 m. ago British couple found dead at New Zealand rented home pictured after wife felt 'unsafe'

Police are probing the deaths of ex-pats Claire and Ben Anderson as a murder-suicide.

Society

96 m. ago Hostage families urge Keir Starmer to take ‘bold steps’ in helping to end war

Two British families of Israeli hostages have written to the Prime Minister asking for ‘diplomacy’ and ‘bold steps’ to help end the war in Gaza.

Events

1 hour ago MP calls for ‘statutory protection’ for British soldiers following Clonoe ruling

Conservative former minister Sir David Davis said he would find it hard to imagine a ‘more clear cut case’.

Events

2 h. ago British mother and daughters hit and killed by Audi in New York

The British mum’s four-year-old son survived the incident but remains critically injured

Events

2 h. ago Fran Jones says her ‘heart worked a little too hard’ after on

Jones was taken out on a wheelchair as she withdrew from the tournament in Bogota.

Politics

2 h. ago ‘Devastated’ families pay tribute to three victims in station house fire

A mother and her four-year-old daughter were killed in a fire along with a 23-year-old man in Northamptonshire.

Events

2 h. ago 'I just knew that people were gonna be shocked': Severance's Dichen Lachman on that bombshell finale

The star of Apple TV’s most-watched show talks about working with Ben Stiller, why we all have innies, and her hopes for a happy ending

Events

3 h. ago Brit couple found dead in New Zealand pictured as neighbour reveals wife 'felt unsafe'

Claire and Ben Anderson have been named locally as a British couple found dead at a property in an upmarket area of Wellington, New Zealand, with a neighbour saying they were "dream neighbours"

Events

3 h. ago Raheem Sterling and Richarlison named among most influential black people in British football

The Football Black List shines a light on the most influential black people in the sport

Politics

3 h. ago Meghan's As Ever launch was Glastonbury Festival for $14 'jam'

It's too early to call the rollout a success, but people will happily pay through the nose for branded fruity spreads

Politics

3 h. ago 'Openly gay' British woman, 20, who is 'not interested in men at all' is 'distraught' after Cypriot court clears five Israelis of gang

Police said she had picked the men out of a line-up as having raped her during a hotel pool party in the coastal resort town of Ayia Napa on September 3 2023.

Events

4 h. ago PETER HITCHENS: Britain's police forces are a pathetic failure and a dark menace to our society. This is my plan to finally fix the problem

We pay these people, and we pay them a lot, as your council tax bill will tell you if you look. So why do they treat us as a nuisance and worse?

Events

4 h. ago I don’t want to die with a freezer full of seeds. It’s time to rethink biodiversity and preservation | Chris Smith

Hurricane Helene proved a hard truth: a freezer of seeds is the literal version of putting all your eggs in one basketAbout a month after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last fall, Roger Wynn and I met in an Asheville, North Carolina, supermarket parking lot. He’d driven two hours from Little Mountain, South Carolina, where the passing storm had also left its destructive mark.“When the power finally came back on,” Wynn said, “two of my freezers didn’t work.” Wynn was worried not about spoiled food inside, but his seed collection. On that autumn day, in an act of forced downsizing and seed philanthropy, Wynn handed over two boxes filled with seeds. He wanted me, as founder of the non-profit Utopian Seed Project, to share the seeds with farmers across the region. The boxes contained a trove of Appalachian varieties: speckled field peas, white mountain half-runner beans, purple-podded bush beans and lots of butterbeans. Continue reading...

Events

4 h. ago Brit parents confess to secretly stealing and eating their childrens' Easter Eggs

Everyone loves a bit of chocolate but Easter seems to bring out the worst in us as plenty of British parents have secretly been pinching and scoffing their little darlings' treats

Society

4 h. ago Grand National festival tips: Thursday's best bets and Newsboy's 1

It's the opening day of the three day Randox Grand National meeting which culminates in the Grand National on Saturday. Top tipster Newsboy shares his selections for Thursday's action

Politics

4 h. ago British activist in solitary confinement in India despite acquittal, family say

Brother of Jagtar Singh Johal says he is ‘being mentally tortured’ through unwarranted detentionThe British Sikh activist Jagtar Singh Johal, detained for seven years in an Indian jail, has been placed into solitary confinement and under 24-hour surveillance despite being acquitted of all terrorism charges against him by a Punjab court on 4 March, his family have claimed. Johal is still facing the exact same charges in a parallel case in a clear example of double jeopardy, his brother Gurpreet said when giving testimony at Westminster to an all party committee on arbitrary detention. He said the Indian courts have not granted his brother bail, despite the prosecutor’s failure to produce any credible evidence or witnesses in the Punjab court.Gurpreet said UK consular staff met his brother in jail on Tuesday and were told he had been put into solitary confinement with a 24-hour guard, adding no explanation had been given. Gurpreet said: “I fear for his physical and mental welfare sinc...

Politics

4 h. ago Jason's Sourdough sends British shoppers into a frenzy as £2 loaf becomes an 'obsession for millennial women'

Jason Greary, 53, a fourth-generation baker from Leicestershire, launched his eponymous brand of sourdough in 2020 after he noticed a lack of affordable alternatives in the market.

Economics

5 h. ago The British firms set to be hardest hit by Trump's sweeping tariffs TODAY

It's only a week since Rachel Reeves unveiled her Spring Statement but her plan to balance the nation's books looks set to blown out of the water.

Politics