60 m. ago Drag artist’s local Chinese takeaway calls to check he is ‘still alive’ after losing 14st

Jordan Bateman, 31, from Swansea, weighed 28st in July 2024 and found himself 'breathless' while performing as his drag alter ego, Ruby Slippers

Politics

61 m. ago Use simple check to see if HMRC owes you money after people get 'thousands' back

Pav Hall said it can "take minutes" to find out if you are owed money by HMRC – and apparently, "thousands" have been claimed back by using the helpful hack

Politics

72 m. ago ‘Make it happen when it matters’ – Andy Farrell urges Lions to embrace pressure

Powerful Lions side named to face Australia in first TestTom Curry starts in back row, no Welsh player in 23Andy Farrell has urged his British & Irish Lions players to embrace the pressure of their billing as heavy favourites to beat Australia in the series opener on Saturday.The Lions will go into Saturday’s match as odds-on favourites after Farrell named a powerful side featuring Tom Curry at openside flanker and Sione Tuipulotu at inside-centre to face a Wallabies team missing Will Skelton, Rob Valetini and Taniela Tupou. Continue reading...

Events

73 m. ago Pacquiao vs Barrios: Start time, undercard and how to watch fight

Manny Pacquiao, 46, will come out of retirement to challenge for the WBC welterweight title

Politics

1 hour ago Martin Lewis says 1 million pensioners are eligible for £3,800 'non means tested' DWP payment

The financial expert is encouraging those aged 66 and over to check if they could be eligible for Attendance Allowance

Economics

1 hour ago I was on my way to start my dream life in Dubai when my skin started falling off. This is the very common reaction that caused it

When Chloe Tatton boarded a flight to relocate to Dubai early last year, she hoped the change of climate might help ease her skin problems

Politics

2 h. ago Chinese chippy gets pulses racing with hilarious ad encouraging customers to bonk

Canton House Chippy and Chinese fuses Chinese cuisine with traditional British chip shop food with a side of risqué humour, to the delight of customers and social media users

Economics

2 h. ago US rivers are full of dumped tires. The ‘River Cowboy’ won’t stand for it

Tires take decades to decompose, and millions are improperly dumped every year. An intrepid group sets out to clear Kentucky’s ‘conveyor belt of trash’In the 1980s, Russ Miller and his wife moved to a far edge of eastern Kentucky’s Red River Gorge, where they built a homestead on a ridge hugged by three sides of the river. It’s the kind of place you can only get to with a hand-drawn map. A place so remote that the farther and farther you drive to get to it, the more unsure you are that you are in the right place.They would spend leisurely afternoons drifting the river in inner tubes, until they started noticing what floated alongside them: heaps of discarded junk. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Money saving Expert urges over one million pensioners to check eligibility for £3,800 benefit

Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment are tax-free and not means-tested.

Economics

2 h. ago Man's local takeaway called him after he lost 14st on Mounjaro in a year

Jordan Bateman was 28st when he decided to take action a year ago

Politics

3 h. ago Man, 31, who lost 14 stone after Mounjaro helped him kick habit that caused his weight gain reveals odd side effect of jab

Jordan Bateman, 31, found himself relying on fast food from service stations as he travelled the UK working as an entertainer-and it soon caught up with him.

Politics

3 h. ago New footage of Tomorrowland inferno shows huge smoke cloud and fireworks going off over nearby houses as stage is completely destroyed just days before festival due to start

The annual electronic music festival  in the Belgian town of Boom is scheduled to start on Friday and draws in some 100,000 revellers every year.

Events

3 h. ago Syrian forces withdraw from Sweida after ceasefire goes into effect

Syrian government forces have started withdrawing from the southern province of Sweida following days of vicious clashes with militias from the Druze minority

Events

3 h. ago The Pepfar programme keeps millions with HIV alive – a new push seeks to save it from Trump’s aid cuts

The US Senate votes to keep money for the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief from a package of more than $9 billion in cuts going through Congress

Politics

4 h. ago Two common weight loss jabs could invalidate travel insurance for 500,000 people

The NHS has approved medications such as Mounjaro and Wegovy to tackle obesity and diabetes, with private prescriptions also on the rise

Politics

4 h. ago The 'underrated' historic town near Glasgow that's becoming a TikTok hotspot

The town has been crowned the most underrated in the UK outside England and has started to attract a wave of interest online.

Politics

4 h. ago South London takeaway was forced to shut down after cockroach infestation and smell of urine

The Ghanaian takeaway had a ‘significant’ cockroach infestation and a strong smell of urine coming from a cupboard beneath a television

Politics

4 h. ago Delay to Child benefit payments next month for parents with specific postcodes

The bank holiday at the start of August will only affect parents and guardians in Scotland.

Society

4 h. ago Harry Potter actors snapped on set as they start filming for new HBO series

The cast for the new HBO television series of Harry Potter have finally come together to start filming the TV adaption of the hugely popular book and movie series

Culture

4 h. ago Women record tans before and after Greek holiday and people are left concerned

The four women jetted off on holiday to Greece and looked significantly different at the end of their getaway to how they looked at the start, leaving many people feeling concerned

Politics