2 h. ago DWP to send huge payouts to thousands on Universal Credit as lawyers urge further action

The DWP failed to adequately protect the income of disabled people who were transferred from legacy benefits to Universal Credit, according to lawyers

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8 h. ago Parents, pensioners and disabled people due up to £305 in extra payments this year

More than half a million children and families in Scotland received cash help for heating bills last year.

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35 h. ago Children watch in horror as dad takes own life in live TV police chase

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: JoDon Romero, 33, took his own life after leading police on a chase live on TV, the man's partner and children saw the suicide

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36 h. ago As asylum seekers are engulfed by slurs and lies, our leaders shrug. Truly, this is shameful | Frances Ryan

The narrative that they are a threat to women and girls has no basis in fact, but bad actors peddle it, and ministers encourage themAs anti-migrant demonstrations continued in Canary Wharf in London at the weekend, one group stood out: women dressed in Barbie pink. Holding cardboard signs drawn in bright felt-tip pen (“save our kids”), the “pink protest” marched under the banner of protecting women and girls.The crowd may have looked a novel sight, but it points to a rationale that is increasingly gaining ground this summer: asylum seekers are a danger to British women and girls.Frances Ryan is a Guardian columnist. She is the author of Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life Continue reading...

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60 h. ago ‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

After speaking out about the suppression of Hong Kong’s protests, Chloe Cheung was targeted by Beijing, followed on the street and abused online. Yet she remains defiantIt was Christmas Eve 2024 and 19-year-old Chloe Cheung was lying in bed at home in Leeds when she found out the Chinese authorities had put a bounty on her head. As she scrolled through Instagram looking at festive songs, a stream of messages from old school friends started coming into her phone. Look at the news, they told her.Media outlets across east Asia were reporting that Cheung, who had just finished her A-levels, had been declared a threat to national security by officials in Hong Kong. There was an offer of HK$1m (£94,000) to anyone who could assist in her arrest or capture. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Fran Lebowitz says she finds the idea of living with someone else ‘horrible’

Author behind ‘Social Studies’ and ‘Metropolitan Life’ said she would do ‘anything’ in order to afford to live by herself

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3 d. ago 'I’ve got cancer and PIP cuts worry me – but benefits app saved me £700'

EXCLUSIVE: Sue, 61, found herself in emotional and financial distress after receiving a shock cancer diagnosis. She tells her experience of PIP and how a discount platform for disabled people is saving her hundreds

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3 d. ago EastEnders' Jamie Borthwick 'returns' three months after suspension for disabled slur

EastEnders and Strictly star Jamie Borthwick is reportedly returning back to the soap just three months after being suspended for using a derogatory term about disabled people

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3 d. ago EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick's 'soap return after three month suspension' leaves disability campaigners fuming following his shocking slur backstage at Strictly

The actor, 31, who has played Jay Brown for 19 years, was suspended by the broadcaster in June after being caught backstage at Strictly using a slur aimed at disabled people.

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4 d. ago Hulk Hogan's grieving daughter Brooke reveals his upsetting final words to her

Hulk Hogan's daughter Brooke reveals the last conversation between her and her late father where he told her 'well i guess you have to live your life and I have to live mine'

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5 d. ago Necaxa review – Eva Longoria’s attempt at recreating Welcome to Wrexham is just painful

The Desperate Housewives star has invested in a Mexican football team, and even ropes in Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney in her attempts to make a thrilling documentary. But it’s extremely hard to care about any of itWelcome to Wrexham is one of those TV shows that has moved its genre up a level. After years of glossy “behind-the-scenes” documentaries that were just another part of million-dollar sports franchises’ marketing portfolios, the story of unlikely celebrity investors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney taking the extremely unlikely decision to buy AFC Wrexham was an unexpected tonic and a worldwide hit.Inevitably, imitations are now spawning, with Amazon last month debuting the underwhelming Built in Birmingham, about NFL superstar Tom Brady’s half-hearted involvement in Birmingham City. Necaxa should have better prospects, since it’s on Disney+, the same platform as Welcome to Wrexham, and Reynolds and McElhenney are in it. But all the peculiar magic of the parent show is ...

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5 d. ago Neurodiverse Edinburgh Fringe show reflects on how the system still feels stacked against disabled people

Writer Lewis Ian Bray who penned the show as a tribute to his brother Jack who is autistic, says his family are more concerned than ever after recent changes to the PIP system by the Government

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5 d. ago Mum trades her busy UK life to live in luxury in huge villa in Spain with a pool and private  gym

British mother Bridie has wowed thousands after giving a virtual tour of her huge new home in Spain. The lavish villa cost £100,000 less than her Essex home.

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6 d. ago Full eligibility for DWP scheme giving extra £909 a month to disabled people

Full list of eligibility and payment amounts for DWP disability premiums payments

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6 d. ago People reoccupied Pompeii after Vesuvius eruption, archaeologists find

Site director says ‘a kind of camp, a favela’ was founded in the ruins of city destroyed in AD79Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that left the city in ruins.Despite the massive destruction suffered by Pompeii, an ancient Roman city home to more than 20,000 people before the eruption, some survivors who could not afford to start a new life elsewhere are believed to have returned to live in the devastated area. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Longevity experts reveal daily habits that may be taking years off your life

Many of us are unknowingly sabotaging our own health with habits that seem innocent until they're not.

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7 d. ago Sh!t Theatre: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The fringe theatre duo share their list of nostalgic internet delights, including a bat, a mouse and a misbehaving puppet dogGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWe are Becca and Louise AKA UK theatre duo Sh!t Theatre, and as fringe theatre makers we are blessed with a life that does not have to be lived Chronically Online. There is no expectation that experimental performance artists must first build an audience on TikTok; everyone else in the arts is worried about AI taking their jobs, but we don’t have to worry – they’re only making AI of things people actually want, and nobody wants fringe theatre. They’re not coming for our “job” any time soon.We live a happy life as luddites and we engage with the internet in the same way as we engage with MDMA: remembering it as something we did in our 20s that was fun but probably killed some of our brain cells. So, considering all of this – plus the fact we literally remember YouTube being invented and were there even before that when...

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9 d. ago Liam Neeson’s son gives seal of approval to dad’s relationship with Pamela Anderson

‘Schindler's List’ actor said his favourite thing about ‘Baywatch’ star was ‘her spirit’

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9 d. ago Storm Floris live updates: ‘Danger to life’ and ‘do not travel’ warnings issued as UK braces for 90mph winds

The Met Office has warned of ‘unusually strong’ 85mph winds to hit northern parts of the UK

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9 d. ago Storm Floris LIVE: Met Office 'danger to life' warnings as 90mph winds hit UK

Forecasters say Storm Floris is to bring winds of up to 90mph as Met Office weather warnings remain in place across Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England

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