7 h. ago DWP will dish out £1,085 to eligible Brits in Christmas cash spree

The DWP will be paying out three times over the next few months

Economics

27 h. ago Manchester United hit £666.5m record revenue but lose £33m amid turmoil

CEO praises performance ‘during such a challenging year’£36.6m exceptional items include paying off Erik ten HagManchester United have revealed record revenues of £666.5m for last season but still reported a loss of £33m for the financial year. The club were without Champions League football in 2024-25 and finished 15th in the Premier League but their revenue marginally increased by 0.7%.Accounts for the year ending 30 June 2025 show United’s operating loss fell from £69.3m to £18.4m compared with the previous 12 months. Overall losses dropped from £113.2m to £33m after the co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe oversaw wide-ranging, and often unpopular, changes at a club he claimed in March had “gone one off the rails” as a business. The British billionaire warned United would have gone “bust at Christmas” if they had not taken “really tough decisions”. Continue reading...

Economics

3 d. ago Brits facing Christmas turkey shortage thanks to bird flu and summer drought

Shoppers who do get their hands on a bird face forking out more for the festive fowl due to the shortage, said catering supply experts

Politics

8 d. ago BGT winner Sydnie Christmas eyeing up a starring role in very provocative show

Britain's Got Talent winner Sydnie Christmas has her sights set on playing the leading lady in the smoky, seductive world of Cabaret after portraying villain Cruella Di Vil in the musical version of 101 Dalmations.

Politics

1 week ago Shrinkflation bites as boxes of Quality Street and Celebrations lose weight

Toblerone and Chocolate Orange also smaller this year after poor cocoa harvests in Africa raise cost of raw materialsTucking into a box of Quality Street or Celebrations is a Christmas tradition.But as this year’s supply arrives in British supermarkets, it is becoming clear that the Grinch has already struck and made the tubs of the confectionery lighter. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago The Paper review – this spinoff of the US Office is dated, mediocre TV

Domhnall Gleeson stars as a clueless local newspaper editor in the mockumentary comedy’s latest creation. His talents can’t outdo the one-note dialogue and lack of hilarityTwo years after the British version concluded with a second brilliantly mortifying Christmas special in 2003, American viewers got their own take on The Office. Set at the Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, it was very much in the spirit of the original, at least initially: a deadpan mockumentary centred on a megalomaniac manager (Steve Carrell’s Michael Scott), who like Ricky Gervais’s David Brent before him was “a friend first, and a boss second and probably an entertainer third”. The Office: An American Workplace ran for nine seasons, setting aside some of the original’s cringe comedy aspects in favour of something with a little more heart. By the time it ended in 2013, it was an award-winning sitcom juggernaut in its own right – hugely popular but bearing little resemblance to its Slough-b...

Politics

2 w. ago 'Tis the season? New Christmas channel launches on Brits' TVs... and will start showing festive classics 111 days early!

Any Crimbo lovers among us will receive the best gift of all when GREAT! Christmas launches on September 4, airing festive films around the clock until the big day. Pictured: File photo

Culture