62 m. ago Strictly's Katya Jones addresses judges comments amid Lewis Cope criticism

The pair appeared on BBC spin-off show It Takes Two to speak to Janette Manrara

Events

1 hour ago The £10 hair growth solution so 'effective', it's been rated more than 30,000 times

"After a few uses, my hair felt thicker and healthier. It helped reduce hair loss and added volume without being greasy"

Economics

2 h. ago Groups sue EPA over canceled $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans

Several groups and nonprofit organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans

Economics

3 h. ago It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage governmentIn Britain, protest is no longer a right. Instead, it is a privilege that is granted – or withheld – at the whim of those in power. This is the implication of new rules that the Labour government is proposing, which would dictate the time and place that protests are permitted to occur, and carry the risk of prison time for those who defy orders. Successive governments had already chipped away at this right: the last Conservative administration granted the police sweeping new powers, which the United Nations’ human rights chief condemned as “serious and undue restrictions” on democratic freedoms. Taken together, these incremental assaults on freedom have effectively abolished the hard-won right to freedom of protest.The latest assault is justified by last week’s heinous antisemitic attack on a mosque in Manchester. There should be universal agreement that...

Politics

3 h. ago Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is now facing a felony charge in Indianapolis altercation

Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is now facing a felony charge of battery involving serious bodily injury in addition to the misdemeanor charges stemming from a weekend incident in Indianapolis that led to his arrest

Politics

3 h. ago Tories' humiliating error as Kemi Badenoch can't even spell Britain properly

The Tory Party Conference isn't exactly going to plan so far...bars of chocolate handed out in goodie bags have got an unfortunate typo on them - they can't even spell Britain right

Politics

3 h. ago Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions The failure of carbon offsets to cut planet-heating pollution is “not due to a few bad apples”, a review paper has found, but down to deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve.Research over two decades has found “intractable” problems that have made carbon credits in most big programmes poor quality, according to the study. While the industry and diplomats have made efforts to improve the system, it found much-awaited rules agreed at a UN climate summit last year “did not substantially address the quality problem”. Continue reading...

Events

3 h. ago As London stock market listings show signs of life, Reeves must add momentum | Nils Pratley

As London stock market listings show signs of life, Reeves must add momentum | Nils Pratley  The Guardian

Politics

3 h. ago Agents investigate cause of fire that destroyed judge's home on South Carolina island

State investigators are trying to find the cause of a fire that destroyed a judge's home on a South Carolina island

Events

4 h. ago Long hot summer has made our booze stronger, say Britain’s cider makers

After record-high temperatures, sweeter fruit was harvested in the orchards and vineyards during summer

Politics

4 h. ago Scots Miss Great Britain Ava Morgan pays emotional visit to India to support acid attack survivors

Ava was on the trip with UK-based A-Sisterhood to support victims of horrendous attacks.

Events

4 h. ago Former NFL star Mark Sanchez could face six years in jail after being stabbed by 69

Quarterback lands felony battery charges on MondayIncident left truck driver with ‘very severe’ injuriesDetectives reviewed video footage of incidentFormer NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez could face jail time after he was charged with felony battery on Monday.The charge is in addition to three others he was handed on Sunday after a violent confrontation earlier in the weekend. Those charges were for battery with injury, public intoxication and unlawful entry of a vehicle during the incident early on Saturday morning that left Sanchez, who has worked as a Fox Sports analyst since his retirement from playing, hospitalized with stab wounds. Continue reading...

Events

4 h. ago Amanda Holden puts on leggy display in leather mini dress and thigh

Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden looked sensational as she posed in the back of a Lexus sporting a sexy leather look, including a stylish thigh-skimming dress

Politics

4 h. ago Reeves steps up efforts to secure more company listings for the UK

Chancellor to address JPMorgan tech event as she considers measures to encourage businesses to float in London

Politics

4 h. ago The state of the Shanghai Masters reflects a growing tennis problem

The intensity of the tennis schedule has added to a ‘brutal’ week at the Shanghai Masters

Politics

4 h. ago Council ‘at breaking point' as latest surge of Chagos Island arrivals strains homelessness services

Hillingdon town hall is seeing a growing number of families of Chagossian decent arriving in the borough via Heathrow - with 157 people expected this week alone

Politics

5 h. ago Term ‘disabled’ being used too widely, shadow work and pensions secretary says – UK politics live

Helen Whateley says ‘millions are sitting on the sofa at home’Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, was doing an interview round for the Conservatives this morning, and Miatta Fahnbulleh, the faith and communities minister, was on the air on behalf of the government. They were both asked about the latest development in the flag phenomenon – the former footballer turned property developer Gary Neville saying that he took down a union flag flying at one of his building sites because he felt it was being used in a “negative fashion”.Asked if Neville (a Labour supporter) had a point, Fahnbulleh told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:I think he’s really right, that there are people who are trying to divide us at the moment I spent a lot of time going around our communities, talking to people. People are ground down. We’ve had a decade-and-a-half in which living standards haven’t budged and people have seen their communities held down. And you will get people trying to stoke division, trying to bla...

Politics

5 h. ago Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams

The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no bulwark between the moderate and truly far rightThere have been times in living memory that Conservative leaders have sounded almost sensible on the surface – and times where they have sounded animal crackers, yet were still adored by their party. This is not either of those times. Kemi Badenoch left the crowd unmoved when she addressed her conference, even as she threw out the red meat of migrant-baiting she thought they wanted. It’s not so much that they’d all woken up with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they didn’t believe she’d ever be in a position to deliver it. It was, in effect, fake vegan meat. Tories hate that. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: noisy, energetic, but still a goodbye.What next for the group with a decent case to make for itself as the most historically successful democratic party in the world? Some are having another sq...

Politics

5 h. ago UK plane passenger told to pay £1,100 charge to bring extra suitcase on flight

The charge for his additional luggage was almost four times the cost of the flight

Economics

5 h. ago Brits should plant 5 flowers now to avoid a 'drab' winter garden

Gardeners are urged to plant certain flowers in their garden now to ensure vibrant winter blooms and add some much-needed colour to the garden during the gloomy days of winter

Politics