72 m. ago One thing really doesn't add up in WRU's plan as money men could walk away

The WRU's 'optimal structure' hinges on the involvement of benefactors

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76 m. ago Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid defends Rylan Clark in fiery immigration row

Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid was forced to step in as her co-star criticised Rylan Clark on Tuesday

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81 m. ago 'I thought I'd found love with stranger on plane but then she dropped bombshell'

A man had a plane ride to remember when he got talking to the woman next to him and thought he'd found the girl of his dreams - but one small detail changed everything

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81 m. ago Brit 'mum on the run' who was jailed after boasting about claiming UK benefits in Thailand jets home without son, 4, after being freed from hellish prison

Ellis Matthews, 32, was deported by Thai authorities after spending more than three months locked up in an overcrowded and squalid immigration prison with her son Cairo, 4.

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1 hour ago Norway's new £10bn warships deal boosts BAE and other defense stocks

FTSE 100-listed BAE Systems gained 1.9% after Norway announced plans to buy Type 26 frigates made by the firm at its Glasgow shipyard.

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1 hour ago Residents in leafy Cardiff suburb take a stand against plans to turn house into flats

A petition has been launched in opposition to plans to turn a semi-detached house in a "unique" residential area of the city into flats

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1 hour ago Dramatic flames shoot out of passenger jet prompting emergency landing moments after take off from Corfu

A stunned holidaymaker captured the dramatic moment a plane's engine shot out flames just seconds after take-off.

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2 h. ago 'I've been sexually assaulted at work throughout my career' reveals Emily Atack, 35, as she reveals plans to make a documentary on the subject

Emily Atack claimed she has been sexually assaulted while making TV shows and movies throughout her career.

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2 h. ago It was supposed to be restored to its former glory, still nothing has happened

Plans were made to restore the historic shop underneath Manchester Piccadilly railway station in 2021 but the archway remains derelict

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2 h. ago Can my family inherit my bitcoin after I die? What crypto investors must know

As more people invest in cryptocurrency, the number of people planning to pass on these assets when they die will also be increasing.

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2 h. ago Nigel Farage 'should face MPs probe' instead of flying to US to meet Donald Trump chums

The Reform UK leader will spend the first two sitting days after MPs return from the Summer break in Washington, doubling down on his crusade against migrants and arguing against Britain's online safety laws

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2 h. ago Cheaper public transport for under 21s and pensioners as Andy Burnham rolls out Bee Network expansion

Burnham announced new plans

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2 h. ago Playboy model fumes as American Airlines flight attendant forces her to 'button up' in order to board plane

Sara Blake Cheek, 34, a former Playboy Playmate and OnlyFans model, has claimed she was singled out by an American Airlines flight attendant who found her outfit too inappropriate to travel.

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3 h. ago Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants

Fernando Fontoura, who moved to the UK aged 12, detained in drive to find people ‘illegally working’ as delivery driversA motorcycle rider out on a shopping trip was arrested and detained for a month as part of a high-profile government crackdown on undocumented migrants working for food delivery apps.Fernando Fontoura, 33, who moved from Portugal to the UK when he was 12, was arrested by immigration enforcement officers after he parked his motorbike near a grocery store in south-east London on 22 July. He was taken to a detention centre near Gatwick airport where he was held for 29 days. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Blame migrants, or blame the rich? That’s the populist divide in Britain’s politics now | Gaby Hinsliff

Taxing the ultra-rich may be a vote winner, but it’s just as important to shift the conversation away from Reform’s immigration doom loopThe long, hot summer of discontent is finally over. Parliament returned this week if not exactly with a rush of back to school energy, then at least with the sense that the government is now back to fill what was becoming an increasingly dangerous August vacuum.When exhausted ministers retreated to lick their wounds over the summer, Nigel Farage saw his chance and took it, filling the slow news days with encouragement of protesters over asylum seeker accommodation. He was rewarded by polling showing voters now see immigration – the terrain on which Reform UK is palpably desperate to fight an election, because it’s terrain on which Labour can never go far enough to please some supporters without horrifying half the rest – and not a broken economy as Britain’s biggest problem, an impression arguably only reinforced when the government’s first announc...

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4 h. ago Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse

Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers.Signatories include the musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar as well as Labour, Green and independent MPs including Kim Johnson, Ellie Chowns, Diane Abbott and Zarah Sultana. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

Over a few brutal days in March, as sectarian violence and revenge killings tore through parts of Syria, two friends from different communities tried to find a way to surviveOn the night of 6 March, Munir, his wife and their two sons, both in their 20s, got no sleep. They huddled together in a small bedroom in their apartment as government troops and militiamen entered their neighbourhood of Qusour in the coastal city of Baniyas and went from house to house. The fighters seemed to be moving through the streets with little coordination. One house might get raided by five separate groups, while others were left untouched. “There was no plan,” Munir said, “just violence and looting.”The first question the fighters were asking when they stormed into an apartment was: “Are you a Sunni or an Alawite?” The answer decided the fate of the residents. Sunnis were spared – although in some cases their apartments were looted. When the raiders found an Alawite home, some stole what they...

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4 h. ago France has a massive debt crisis. So why is it spending billions a year subsidising business? | Alexander Hurst

The government is on the brink of collapse over planned austerity. Instead it must face up to the costs of its unnecessarily rigid labour marketAs someone who has always been against austerity, I find France, with a national debt at 114% of GDP and a budget deficit of 5.8% of GDP, a conundrum. Despite years of denunciation from his left and far-right opponents that Macron has engaged in “ultraneoliberalism”, there hasn’t been any. Not on a macro level, anyway, where both French government spending (57.3% of GDP) and tax receipts (51.4% of GDP) are among the highest in the world, including social spending, which outpaces any of its European neighbours.At the same time, it’s impossible to have spent the past decade in France without encountering the widely shared perception and accusation that public services are in decline. Doctors and nurses denounce a labour shortage in public hospitals; people who live in rural areas denounce the closing of rural train lines; students and academic...

Economics

6 h. ago Brit 'mum on the run' who was jailed after boasting about claiming UK benefits in Thailand returns home without son after being freed from hellish prison

Ellis Matthews, 32, was deported by Thai authorities after spending more than three months locked up in an overcrowded and squalid immigration prison with her son Cairo, 4.

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7 h. ago Moment plane is evacuated after 'crazed passenger' issues threats outside cockpit

Passengers were left distressed after a 'crazed' man made threats to the cabin on a packed plane over the weekend.

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