41 h. ago Stacey Solomon embroiled in row with son as he hits out at strict parenting rule

Stacey Solomon clashed with her son Zachary in a scene in her BBC reality show, as the pair disagreed over a new household rule

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4 d. ago Drivers to receive car finance compensation update from the FCA today

The Financial Conduct Authority is expected to release details of the long-awaited car finance compensation scheme

Transport

6 d. ago Driver fury as parking ticket debt firms record ‘disproportionately high’ 63% profits

Parking ticket debt firms often charge drivers £70 on top of the cost of their fine

Economics

6 d. ago Cost of driving lessons in the UK soars by 73% in five years, hitting parents hard

A study of 1,000 parents of learner drivers found the average cost of getting their child through a test in the past year has climbed to almost £1000

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8 d. ago List price confusion hides the truth about electric car costs, say experts

RRP comparisons risk misleading drivers as new evidence shows EVs are already at cost parity with petrol

Economics

9 d. ago Maine clinics also hit by cuts that targeted Planned Parenthood plan to halt primary care

A network of medical clinics that serves low-income residents in Maine says it is shutting down its primary care operations because of Trump administration cuts to abortion providers

Events

1 week ago Your parents' risky behavior as teens could take years off your life

If your parents engaged in a risky behavior around the time they hit puberty, it could end up taking years off your life as an adult, a newly presented study from researchers in Norway has suggested.

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1 week ago Deloitte UK’s revenues fall for first time in 15 years but partners’ pay rises

Cost-cutting drive helps shield profits at Big Four firm

Politics

2 w. ago Doja Cat: Vie review – master pop provocateur splits the difference between sugar and spice

(Kemosabe/RCA)On her fifth album, the Californian tempers the bite of 2023’s Scarlet with glossy, lovestruck sounds – but never loses her instinct for mischiefIs this just another troll? Doja Cat’s new album is titled Vie – French for “life” – and the original artwork (changed at the last minute) features the 29-year-old Angeleno surrounded by roses, ever the picture of congeniality. Doja has become known, in recent years, as mainstream pop’s master agitator: she tells her superfans to “get off your phone, get a job and help your parents with the house”, disavows her own hits before they’ve even left the upper echelons of the charts and is totally unapologetic about what can be described, charitably, as edgelord behaviour. Doja’s 2023 album Scarlet – a prickly, antagonistic record designed to prove her bona fides as a rapper – seemingly shut the book on her time as a pop hit-maker with a bracing, refreshing meanness.So there is precedent for the notion that Vie’s lead single Jealous...

Politics

3 w. ago ‘We pray a visa comes before death’: Gaza’s injured children left in limbo

Mariam, Nasser and Ahmed were evacuated from the warzone but are now stranded in an Egyptian hospital that cannot treat their life-threatening injuries after Trump’s sudden ban on Palestinians entering the USMariam Sabbah had been fast asleep, huddled under a blanket with her siblings, when an Israeli missile tore through her home in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, in the early hours of 1 March.The missile narrowly missed the sleeping children but as the terrified nine-year-old ran to her parents, a second one hit. “I saw her coming towards me but suddenly there was another explosion and she vanished into the smoke,” says her mother, Fatma Salman. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Urgent warning for drivers in Cardiff about QR scam that has cost millions

Across the UK £3.5 million has been lost to so-called quishing in the past year

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3 w. ago Ricky Hatton's family rift over 'missing millions': Boxer's decade

Ricky's Manchester-based parents now must endure the unthinkable tragedy of losing a child, which is no doubt exacerbated by the decade-long estrangement they experienced from their son.

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