44 m. ago Home Office urges Brits to renew UK passports ahead of exact date

The Home Office has issued a warning to anyone with a British passport, urging them to renew their old-style travel documents before April 10 - or they may be forced to pay more

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70 m. ago David Lammy says Trump has taken US economic policy back 100 years with ‘return to protectionism’ – UK politics live

David Lammy, foreign secretary, says UK is ‘a nation that believes in open trade’ and says government is negotiating with US over economic agreementThe official plan to increase access to NHS dental services in England has been a “complete failure”, and some of the government’s initiatives have worsened the crisis, a damning report warns, Andrew Gregory reports.David Lammy, the foreign secretary, is at the Nato HQ in Brussels this morning, where Nato foreign ministers are meeting. Speaking to the media, he said President Trump was taking US economic policy back almost a century by embracing protectionism. He said:The United Kingdom, like France, is a great maritime nation.We are a nation that believes in open trade, and I regret the return to protectionism in the United States, something that we’ve not seen for nearly a century. Continue reading...

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71 m. ago Met Office weather map shows how hot it will be in Greater Manchester today

The Met Office has said central parts of the country could enjoy highs of 24C on Friday

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80 m. ago Female prison officer who filmed cell sex with lag made wild plans for his release

Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, shot to global infamy when she was featured in a viral video clip of a female prison officer having a steamy affair with an inmate in his cell

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86 m. ago Met Office 'very high' pollen warning as UK set for hottest day of the year

Hay fever sufferers should brace for high pollen levels as temperatures soar

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95 m. ago Flexible working: ‘I was an office boss who didn't get working from home, until motherhood changed everything’

Michelle Kennedy went from corporate boss to flexible work advocate 👶

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2 h. ago Police officer who tried to meet boy, 14, while carrying 'limb restraints and bondage equipment' in Aldi bag is jailed

Inspector Thomas Kettleborough, 35, had sexually explicit conversations with what he thought was a 14-year-old boy he had met on Grindr and arranged to meet him in a car park.

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2 h. ago UK set for warmest day of the year so far amid Scottish wildfires warnings

Some parts of the country will be warmed than California, Los Angeles according to Met Office forecasts.

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2 h. ago 23 brilliant movies that bombed at the box office, from Children of Men to Babylon

Jacob Stolworthy runs through the films that didn’t get the attention they deserved

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2 h. ago Britain set for warmest day of the year so far as temperatures reach 24C with parts of UK hotter than Ibiza as wildfires break out amid barbecue warning

Much of the UK will be dry and sunny throughout today, with the Met Office expecting the weather in central England to be closer to typical conditions in July as temperatures soar to 24C (75F).

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3 h. ago London weather: Capital to be hotter than Ibiza and Crete as Met Office predicts warmest day of year in UK

Met Office is forecasting 22C for London on Friday afternoon - but other parts of the UK could be even hotter

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4 h. ago Democrats decry reported dismissal of NSA director Tim Haugh

Dismissing Haugh, who headed the US Cyber Command, puts the country at risk at a time of ‘unprecedented cyber threats’, congressional Democrats sayTop congressional Democrats on Thursday protested against the reported firing of Gen Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency (NSA), with one lawmaker saying the decision “makes all of us less safe”.The Washington Post reported late Thursday that Haugh and his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, had been dismissed from their roles. Haugh also headed US Cyber Command, which coordinates the Pentagon’s cybersecurity operations. The Post report cited two current US officials and one former US official who requested anonymity. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Israeli bombing of Gaza school housing displaced Palestinians kills at least 27, say medical officials

Most of those killed were women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry

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4 h. ago Fires break out as UK hotter than Marbella, Ibiza, Myknonos and LA

The Met Office says we are going to see 'July weather in April' as firefighters tackle a number of blazes

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4 h. ago Met Office issues rare red warning for hay fever sufferers as pollen levels soar

The Met Office has issued a rare red warning for hay fever sufferers as pollen levels are set to soar this week, with millions of people affected in England and Wales

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4 h. ago London's Canary Wharf office vacancies hit new record, data shows

London's Canary Wharf office vacancies hit new record, data shows  Reuters

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5 h. ago George Clooney looks unrecognizable in Broadway play amid Hollywood's 'midlife crisis' hair craze

George Clooney looked nearly unrecognizable while making his Broadway debut in  Good Night, And Good Luck, which officially opened on Thursday.

Events

6 h. ago Yoon Suk Yeol impeached: celebrations as South Korea court votes unanimously to remove president from office – live

Thousands of people at Seoul rally calling for Yoon’s removal burst into cheers on hearing the constitutional court’s ruling, chanting ‘we won!’Report: South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol removed from officeYoon violated his duty as South Korean commander-in-chief by mobilising troops, says Justice Moon, the constitutional court’s acting president says. The president’s martial law declarations violated parliament’s rights, he says as the ruling continues.Justice Moon says it is difficult to see the South Korean opposition’s actions as a severe national crisis to justify Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration, Reuters is reporting as he continues delivering the ruling. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Knives out for Mike Waltz as Trump fires national security officials

Maga critics circle around hawkish foreign policy adviser who was at centre of ‘Signalgate’ fiasco

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6 h. ago The far right has seemed unstoppable in Europe. Here’s how Trump’s tariffs could change that | Nathalie Tocci

With populist leaders on the back foot and EU support at its highest in years, the US trade war could be an opportunity for the unionDonald Trump has unleashed a trade war on the world, and Europe, considered by Washington to be among the “worst offenders”, is a major target. After hitting European steel, aluminium and cars, this week Trump announced sweeping 20% tariffs on almost all EU imports. Europeans have seen this coming for a long time. Well before his re-election, officials in Brussels were drawing up plans on how the EU might respond to Trump 2.0 and a possible transatlantic trade war.What might the political fallout in Europe be? The good news is that Trump’s trade war puts Trump-friendly far-right forces in Europe in a terribly uncomfortable position. It’s one thing for the European far right to support Trump in principle, or to support the administration’s tyranny over peoples it doesn’t care about, be it Ukrainians, Canadians, Mexicans or Palestinians. It’s quite anoth...

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