4 h. ago Huge broadband supplier shutting down in weeks with 95,000 customers affected

Origin Broadband - which is a subsidiary of TalkTalk and has 95,000 customers - is moving its broadband services to another provider from June 1, 2025

Economics

7 h. ago Parents can save £7,500 a year as 30 hours free childcare applications open today

If your child is between the age of nine months and two years old, you must be earning the equivalent of the national minimum wage for 16 hours a week, on average, but less than £100,000 a year

Society

65 h. ago Inside Australia's 'Most Sexually Active Woman' Annie Knight's $10,000 engagement party

Annie Knight hosted a lavish $10,000 party last week to celebrate her engagement to fiancé Henry Brayshaw.  

Politics

3 d. ago New York set to lower hiring age of prison guards to 18 amid correction officer shortage

New York is set to lower the minimum hiring age for prison guards from 21 to 18, a move to boost the ranks of corrections officers during a shortage that was exacerbated after the state fired more than 2,000 guards after a weekslong strike that crippled the state’s prison system

Events

4 d. ago Income tax update due next week after calls to increase Personal Allowance to £20,000

A petition calling on the UK Government to increase the Personal Allowance to £20,000 has attracted more than 248,000 signatures across the UK and is set to be debated in Parliament on Monday, May 12

Economics

5 d. ago The Guardian view on Labour’s drift and Tory collapse: Reform fills a vacuum they created | Editorial

Faragism’s rise isn’t a surge of enthusiasm – it’s a symptom of exhaustion with two parties failing to offer vision, justice or renewalSir Keir Starmer promised change – and, in a way, he has delivered it. Gone are the days of bold, expansive pledges; in their place are cautious, measurable goals: 6,500 new teachers, 40,000 extra NHS appointments a week. Yet voters, oddly ungrateful, remain unmoved. Perhaps it is because these modest gains barely scratch the surface of national decline. The government has touched lives, just not in the ways it promised. Cuts to winter fuel payments for pensioners and proposed reductions in disability benefits have landed with jarring force. Sir Keir’s managerial style may promise stability, but voters expected transformation. The result: disillusionment with a government delivering change – but not the change voters thought they had chosen.Labour’s poor local election showing could be shrugged off as low turnout in the shires. The party wo...

Politics

6 d. ago The fairytale castle under siege by tourists: Violence breaks out as 75,000 tourists flock to tiny village on just one weekend

Over the long bank holiday weekend, thousands of sunseekers flocked to Lake Garda to take in the stunning sights, but locals were left fuming with their behaviour.

Society

6 d. ago New income tax update on calls to increase Personal Allowance to £20,000 due next week

More than 248,400 people have signed an online petition calling for an increase to the £12,570 Personal Allowance.

Economics

7 d. ago Huge car dealership with over 90,000 vehicles to close in weeks

German online car marketplace Heycar, founded in 2017 and later launched in the UK in 2019, had initially set its sights on rivaling Auto Trader and Motors, but experienced great losses.

Economics

8 d. ago Desert Flower gives Godolphin a weekend Classic clean sweep in 1,000 Guineas

The unbeaten filly added to success in the 2,000 Guineas and the Kentucky Derby and Oaks for Sheikh Mohammed's racing enterprise

Politics

8 d. ago LA sexual abuse victims say $4bn deal cannot undo decades of mistreatment

Survivors of abuse in county-run children’s homes say closure will not come until ‘monsters’ are held accountableThousands of victims of abuse in juvenile facilities and foster homes across Los Angeles are being compensated for decades of mistreatment in a historic settlement, but some say the money will never rectify a system that hurt vulnerable children and protected their abusers.LA county officials this week unanimously approved a landmark $4bn settlement to address nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse at county-run facilities. Some of those claims date back to the 1950s, but most took place throughout the 1980s through the 2000s. The payout is the largest of its kind in US history. Continue reading...

Economics

9 d. ago Mother of autistic boy left with £10,000 debt after breaching DWP rules by £1.92 a week

Over five-year period Oksana Shahar – who cares for her son – was paid a small amount more than carer’s allowance earnings limits allowIt was three weeks after Christmas when the bombshell letter arrived. Guy Shahar and his wife, Oksana, looked at each other in stunned disbelief.They had followed the Guardian’s investigation into the carer’s allowance scandal that has left thousands of families with crippling debts and criminal records. Not once did they think they would join them. Continue reading...

Economics

1 week ago BBC Two’s Chess Masters: The Endgame divides opinions as winner is crowned

Thalia Holmes, 20, defeats Richie Kelly, 63, in final after former RAF technician misses a win (can you find it?)BBC Two’s Monday evening show Chess Masters: The Endgame reached its final this week amid a continuing debate between experts, who found it patronising, and social players, novices and children who enjoyed its light touch and focus on personalities. The series was placed in a testing environment, the 8pm slot, sandwiched between the intellectual heavyweights Mastermind and University Challenge.Viewer numbers, as supplied by Broadcast, peaked in the first week at 890,000, then gradually dipped to a low of 535,000 on Easter Monday before rebounding to 655,000, a 5.5% share of the viewing audience, for the final week. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago AD FEATURE: You could win up to £250,000 this weekend with bet365’s 6 Scores Challenge

Guess the scores of six selected fixtures for a chance to win big with bet365’s free-to-play predictor game*

Economics

1 week ago NFL fines Falcons’ Jeff Ulbrich $100,000 over son’s prank call to Shedeur Sanders

Jax Ulbrich found QB’s number on father’s iPadAtlanta Falcons fined $250,000 over incidentThe NFL has handed out heavy fines to the Atlanta Falcons and their defensive coordinator, Jeff Ulbrich, over a prank call to Shedeur Sanders during last week’s draft.The league fined Ulbrich $100,000 and the Falcons $250,000 for “failing to prevent the disclosure of confidential information distributed to the club in advance of the NFL draft.” Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Kendrick Lamar and SZA review – powerhouse duo make their mark in Atlanta

Mercedes-Benz stadium, AtlantaThe record-breaking Grand National tour brings together two stylistically opposed stars and continues an internet-breaking feudJust when it seemed as if Kendrick Lamar had dropped his grudge against Drake, it turns out his “game over” coda to the Super Bowl half-time show was just the end of regulation. On the Grand National tour, a four-month stadium circuit for the Grammy-sweeping album GNX and SZA’s reissue album Lana, Lamar takes the music industry’s most bitter rivalry match into overtime.The score-keeping has not stopped. The Grand National tour’s opening date in Minneapolis last week totaled more than $9m from more than 47,000 spectators, giving Lamar claim to the highest-grossing hip-hop concert of all time – surpassing the record Eminem set after playing Melbourne, Australia, in 2019. That’s what you get when you pair the hottest rapper in the game with an R&B queen who is coming off the critical and commercial success of the buddy comedy O...

Politics

1 week ago 'Urgent' smart meter warning as 300,000 homes could be left without heating or hot water in weeks

Properties with Radio Teleswitch Service been urged to upgrade to smart meters to avoid being disconnected or forced to pay extortionate bills

Events

1 week ago First look inside Oxford Street's long awaited flagship Ikea store after £450m investment

Around 60,000 shoppers a week are expected to visit the shop in the former Topshop flagship

Economics

1 week ago Ikea boosts Oxford Street revival with first West End store after £450m investment

Around 60,000 shoppers a week are expected to visit the shop in the former Topshop flagship

Economics

1 week ago Asda’s kids café meal deal drops to 60p to kick start retailer’s 60th birthday celebrations

Asda’s popular Kids Eat for £1 café meal deal to drop to just 60p for the month of May in the UK, including Scotland. A family with four children can all get a hot meal for less than £2.50. Over six million £1 kids café meals sold to date – peaking at 40,000 per week during school holidays. The price is to celebrate 60 years of Asda offering great family value.

Economics