13 h. ago DWP benefits cut protest sees thousands of people gather in London

Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott are among those making speeches

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27 h. ago Yoga classes resume at San Diego beach as court says they are ‘protected speech’

Instructors Steven Hubbard and Amy Baack had sued after a city ordinance restricted such activities on the beachYoga classes are back on at San Diego beaches this week after a federal appeals court ruled that a city ordinance restricting such activities was unconstitutional and that teaching yoga was “protected speech”.The three-judge panel of the US ninth circuit court of appeals on Wednesday overruled a San Diego judge and decided in favor of two instructors who had sued over a law that San Diego passed in 2024 banning yoga classes of four or more people at shoreline parks and beaches. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Yoga classes return to San Diego beachfront park after appeals court deems them 'protected speech'

A federal appeals panel has ruled that a 2024 local law to bar yoga classes for larger groups in San Diego's shoreline parks violates instructors' rights

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3 d. ago Voices: I went to a DwP benefit cut consultation: Here’s what I found

Attendees were told how important their views were – but it speaks volumes that we were handed leaflets with the number of the Samaritans on it, writes James Moore

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3 d. ago Mum received DWP letter saying her disabled daughter was fit for work – she was dead

Joy Dove, whose daughter Jodey Whiting took her own life after the DWP mistakenly cut her benefits, has warned that further welfare cuts will be 'tantamount to more deaths'

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4 d. ago 'There will be more Jodeys': Mother of disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were cut urges Labour to rethink plans to slash welfare

Jodey Whiting, 42, from Stockton-on-Tees, had been asked in January 2017 to attend a work capability assessment before her payments were stopped, but she was not well enough to go.

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4 d. ago Jadon Sancho releases statement after Chelsea pay £5m to resolve Man Utd saga

Jadon Sancho endured a mixed spell on loan at Chelsea after scoring five and assisting four times, though he frustrated some fans with inconsistent displays and the Blues opted not to sign him permanently

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5 d. ago Housebound disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were cut left notes saying she was unable to pay her bills and had no food, inquest hears

Jodey Whiting, 42, from Stockton-on-Tees, had been asked in January 2017 to attend a work capability assessment before her payments were stopped, but she was not well enough to go.

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5 d. ago Disabled single mum left £500 a month worse off thanks to benefit cuts

Hannah Leonard, who has achondroplasia, a bone growth disorder which causes dwarfism, said she lost working family tax credits and disability tax credits, worth around £500 a month combined under recent benefits changes

Economics

5 d. ago DWP to give evidence at new inquest for woman who died after benefits cut

The 42-year-old woman killed herself two weeks after her disability benefits were stopped

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7 d. ago DWP chief Liz Kendall to face Labour MPs as government braces for benefits revolt

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is set to address the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) ahead of a major vote this month on cuts to sickness and disability benefits

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8 d. ago Ricky Gervais carries out his own DIY operations because of one crippling fear

TV star and comedy legend Ricky Gervais may be confident performing in front of thousands of people, but he has a crippling fear of going to the doctors

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8 d. ago Revealed: How Farage’s £80bn tax cuts would benefit the richest most

Exclusive: Calculations for The Independent reveal the richest tenth of the population would gain almost four times as much as the poorest 10 per cent from Reform’s tax plans

Economics

8 d. ago Thierry Henry's conversation with Jeremy Doku about dribbling with ball at Man City

Thierry Henry worked with Jeremey Doku during his time as Belgium assistant coach, and the Arsenal legend has detailed the advice he gave the Manchester City star to improve his game

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9 d. ago ‘A cynical ploy to hold power’: how the US right has exploited racial division

In the documentary White with Fear, an insidious long-running campaign to villainize people of color in the US is laid bareIn the year 1968, a group of housewives in Dearborn, Michigan, then a nearly all-white suburb of Detroit, gathered for a workshop on how to shoot a gun. The women at the pistol range, mostly late-middle age and grandmotherly, were reacting to rhetoric from Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign, which fixated on a so-called crime wave. They were scared, defensive, willing to pick up a gun as a guard against what Nixon called “cities enveloped in smoke and flame”.The neighboring city of Detroit was 40% Black, and the “crime” supposedly overtaking US cities meant, in this context, Black people, and white suburbia’s racist fear of them. Nixon knew this, though he didn’t say it outright – “You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the Blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to,” he once said, as quoted in the op...

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9 d. ago People fear plans to transform outdated sports centre could be 'kicked into the long grass'

Vale of Glamorgan Council expressed an interest in redeveloping the sports facilities in Barry, but a number of reasons led them to re-think their plan

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1 week ago Doctors fear ‘devastating consequences’ for pregnant people after RFK Jr order on Covid

The US health secretary decided to remove booster shots from the recommended immunization scheduleAdvocates for pregnant people said they are alarmed by Robert F Kennedy Jr’s unprecedented and unilateral decision to remove Covid-19 booster shots from the recommended immunization schedule.A vaccine’s inclusion on the schedule is important for patient access, because many private health insurance plans determine which vaccines to cover based on the schedule. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Almost half fear unexpected £100 bill 'would leave them struggling to pay rent or mortgage'

The Salvation Army’s Captain John Clifton said: 'When nearly half of people are so financially fragile that they are living in fear of a £100 bill, something has gone very wrong'

Economics

1 week ago Nigel Farage accused of ‘fantasy promises’ with expensive policy pledges

Reform UK leader unveils plans to reverse benefit cuts and bring in tax breaks without explaining how they would be fundedNigel Farage has been accused of leaving a multibillion-pound black hole at the heart of his party’s spending plans after unveiling a series of expensive policy pledges to be paid for by cutting nonexistent items of government spending.The Reform UK leader laid out a series of economic promises at a speech on Tuesday designed to take advantage of disquiet among Labour voters at the government’s policies on taxes and benefits. Continue reading...

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1 week ago DWP benefit cuts to PIP planned by Government could be 'tweaked' amid backlash

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is said to be considering 'tweaks' to welfare cuts estimated to be worth £5 billion planned by his Government amid a backlash from backbench MPs over PIP cuts

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