5 h. ago Trump offers peace proposal for Ukraine and Moscow to finish 'cruel and senseless war'

In a post to his Truth Social on Friday, Trump called for 'high level talks' between the two warring nations after he touched down in Rome to attend the funeral of the late Pope Francis.

Politics

22 h. ago 'I was born after mum was covered in curry and raped by gang

Jodie Sheeran was targeted by a grooming gang from the age of 12, and conceived her son Jayden after a brutal gang rape aged 15

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34 h. ago Brits back 'headphone dodgers' crackdown: YouGov poll reveals 60% want anyone who blares out loud music on public transport to be fined £1,000

A poll commissioned by YouGov surveyed 6815 Britons across the nation to deduce whether they supported calls for headphone dodgers to be fines.

Economics

67 h. ago Sarah, Duchess of York calls for national cancer plan to include teenagers

The late Queen’s former daughter-in-law has signed an open letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting.

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3 d. ago Polish woman who claimed she's Madeleine McCann denies stalking missing girl's parents

A court previously heard Polish national Julia Wandel is accused of making calls, leaving voicemails, and sending a letter and WhatsApp messages to Kate and Gerry McCann

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5 d. ago Ten assaults a day on asylum seekers in Home Office care, figures reveal

Exclusive: There were 380 safeguarding referrals of victims of hate crimes from January 2023 to August 2024The Home Office is recording an average of 10 assaults a day on asylum seekers in its care, according to internal government data, amid harsh government rhetoric on those crossing the Channel.Figures reveal that there were 5,960 referrals of assaults upon asylum seekers while in the care of the Home Office between January 2023 and August 2024. There were also 380 referrals of victims of hate crimes to their internal safeguarding hub during this period.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Foreign Secretary urged to intervene in HSBC pensions scandal

McDougall called on Lammy to meet members of the British National (Overseas) community whose savings have been frozen by the banking giant.

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6 d. ago My dad was a grooming gangs predator... he raped my mother when she was a schoolgirl

Jayden Sheeran's mother was just 14 years old when she was raped by a member of a grooming gang in Blurton, near Stoke on Trent.

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7 d. ago Pubs allowed to stay open later to mark VE Day 80th anniversary

Sir Keir Starmer has called for the nation to unite in honour as the UK marks 80 years since VE Day

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9 d. ago ‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god

He was a gin-swilling Scottish-Italian heroin addict who set Argentina’s music scene ablaze – baffling the junta, who would arrest his audiences. As a biopic looms, we look at the fast life and early death of the frontman still worshipped todayIn 1980, a tall, thin man landed in Buenos Aires airport, at the height of Argentina’s military dictatorship. His name was Luca Prodan, a Scottish-Italian rocker, and he had just finished the last of his methadone on the flight over. His arrival would soon send shockwaves through Argentina when he started a band called Sumo, acquainted the country with post-punk, and became a national legend who lives on, his music still earning hundreds of millions of streams. “When I saw Sumo in 1982,” says Prodan’s younger brother Andrea, “I thought, ‘This is more than just a band. This is like the Velvet Underground.’”But, despite Prodan’s strong ties to Europe and his high esteem in Argentina, he is barely known outside of the country. That looks set to c...

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1 week ago Schools could face strikes as early as autumn if pay remains ‘unacceptable’

The National Education Union leader has called on the Government to take the ‘necessary steps to avoid a confrontation’ with the teaching profession.

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1 week ago The shocking response from Sadiq Khan when I asked if grooming gangs exist in London

The shocking response from Sadiq Khan when I asked if grooming gangs exist in London - Susan Hall  GB News

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1 week ago Former Tory MP among 15 charged over general election betting scandal

The scandal over the alleged placing of bets on the timing of Rishi Sunak’s surprise decision to call the national ballot early engulfed the Conservative Party’s campaign last summer

Politics

1 week ago New calls to increase State Pension to £427 each week to match National Living Wage

An online petition proposes increasing the State Pension to match 35 hours at the National Living Wage rate.

Economics

1 week ago Campaigners launch legal action bid against those who failed to tackle grooming gangs

Maggie Oliver, a former police detective turned whistleblower, launched the campaign on Monday

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1 week ago Campaigners seek legal action against those who failed to tackle grooming gangs

The #TheyKnew campaign is seeking to raise £125,000 to investigate whether they can bring legal proceedings against public bodies or individuals.

Events

1 week ago RFK Jr giving families ‘false hope’ on autism, says outgoing US vaccine official

Dr Peter Marks, forced to resign by Trump administration, sees no ‘possible way’ to determine cause by SeptemberThe US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, should not offer “false hope” to families by boasting he can figure out what causes autism as soon as September, says the physician who resigned as the nation’s top vaccine official amid what he called anti-vaccination misinformation from the Trump administration cabinet member.In an interview during which he alluded to his help helming Operation Warp Speed – the initiative that took only about nine months to develop, manufacture and distribute the vaccines protecting the public from Covid-19 – Dr Peter Marks warned that autism “is an incredibly complicated issue”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago John Swinney urged to make it criminal offence to not report sex abuse of children

Labour MP Joani Reid has written to the First Minster, calling on him to consider making it mandatory for those working with children to report abuse, warning Scotland “is not immune” to grooming gangs.

Events

1 week ago British Steel shut North East site after Richard Tice's firm threatened rent hike

In recent days the Boston and Skegness MP has vocally called for the government to nationalise British Steel and save the firm's plant in Scunthorpe

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1 week ago Labour faces calls to nationalise British Steel as MPs urged to pass emergency law today to save UK steelmaking and thousands of jobs

Both the Commons and the Lords have reconvened during Easter recess for a highly unusual Saturday sitting to debate a Bill aimed at blocking Jingye from closing the Scunthorpe site.

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