8 m. ago Household savings hit record £2.2trillion as sticky inflation and tax hike fears see cash stockpiled

Savers are sitting on a record £2.2trillion in cash savings despite the Chancellor's efforts to persuade more households to invest their wealth, new data shows.

Economics

20 m. ago Spotify to hike prices AGAIN by 8.3% for millions of customers within days

SPOTIFY is raising the cost of its premium subscription for millions of customers. The music streaming giant has started emailing subscribers informing them the cost of an individual subscription will rise from £11.99 to £12.99 a month from November, according to Sky News. That's an 8.3% increase or an extra £12 a year. The streaming...

Economics

23 m. ago Hollyoaks star 'not scared of anything' eyes up I'm A Celebrity stint after shock exit

EXCLUSIVE: I'm a Celebrity.. Get Me Out of Here! is due to return next month and one Hollyoaks star has revealed she's "not scared of anything" and willing to take on the challenge

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23 m. ago EastEnders’ Shaun Williamson reveals guilt at not being able to see his onscreen dad Tony Caunter before he died

EASTENDERS legend Shaun Williamson today revealed his guilt at not being able to see his onscreen dad Tony Caunter before he died. It was revealed earlier this month that Tony had passed away aged 88 - just eight days after his wife Fran died.   Tony joined EastEnders as Roy Evans in 1994 and remained in...

Politics

26 m. ago Tess Daly's telling hint change was afoot at live recording of Strictly Come Dancing

Tess Daly gave a telling hint that change was afoot at live Strictly Come Dancing show just before she and Claudia Winkelman announced that they are to step down from the hit show

Politics

35 m. ago PIP points and payment rates simplified to help people make a new claim for up to £749 each month

A simple guide to help people understand how PIP points determine the payment rate awarded.

Economics

38 m. ago Mohinder Kaur Bhamra: Punjabi Disco review – rediscovery of an 80s trailblazer

(Naya Beat)Punjabi folk vocals backed by hammering electronic percussion, disco basslines and fizzing synth melody: a key predecessor to the Asian dance music explosionIn 1982, London-based Sikh devotional singer Mohinder Kaur Bhamra recorded a true oddity. Accompanied by her son Kuljit on an early Roland synthesiser and drum machine, the pair laid down nine tracks of Punjabi folk vocals backed by hammering electronic percussion, disco basslines and fizzing synth melody. Only 500 copies of the resulting album, Punjabi Disco, were pressed; it was released to confusion from a diaspora audience used to the bombast of bhangra. In the decades since, rare LPs have appeared on resale sites, but Kuljit’s recent rediscovery of the master tapes has now made the record widely available for the first time.The blipping electronic toms and rattling shaker of opening number Disco Wich Aa set the tone, gradually building a swaying groove over siren-like synth melody before Mohinder’s falsetto vocal...

Politics

40 m. ago Celebrity Traitors contestants set unwanted record as more Faithfuls are banished

Cast are now statistically worse in BBC show’s history

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45 m. ago Woman wrongly denied £3,800 disability benefit for doing up her bra

Applicant narrowly missed out on entitlement worth thousands due to how she fastened her bra

Economics

49 m. ago Major Scot shopping centre near Glasgow with hundreds of stores to be sold

A MAJOR Scots shopping centre with hundreds of stores near Glasgow is set to be sold. Braehead Shopping Centre owners are reported to be having discussions about the sale of its popular site. Green Street News - a specialist real estate industry publication - announced that the 800,000 square foot complex "is being offered to...

Economics

68 m. ago Jennifer Walton: Daughters review – a stylish and painful debut

(Local Action)Fiction, folk and a devastating diagnosis feature in the producer and DJ’s literary penmanship, her gentle, gothic vocals thick with morbid, magical thinkingMiss America, the centrepiece of Jennifer Walton’s stylish, painful debut record, sits us down in a hotel room near JFK airport, watching on as Walton learns that her father has been diagnosed with cancer. The Sunderland-born musician had been touring the US for the first time, drumming with indie band Kero Kero Bonito, and now grief greys everything out. Faltering piano and hushed strings accompany gothic dispatches from the tour van: “Cattle farm and broke down shack / Strip-mall, drug deal, panic attacks.”Walton’s gentle vocals are deadpan, with the record’s tension brought by her penmanship (encompassing fiction, folksy sayings and blunt diary entries) and her sharp, surprising maximalism. Few songs this year have stronger novelistic flair than Shelly, which witnesses the killing of a deer and spirals into a pe...

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71 m. ago Sainsbury's and Morrisons staff terrorised by prolific London shoplifter in six

Mark Stavrou, 32, has been jailed after admitting more than 100 shoplifting offences in the space of six months

Events

87 m. ago Baby P's, 1, tormented life from shaved to scalp with teeth broken as vile mum sat back

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. As Tracey Connelly, the evil mother of Baby P, makes another bid for freedom, the Mirror takes a look at the nine month reign of terror by Connelly's sadistic lover, Steven Barker

Politics

93 m. ago Conor McGregor spotted wearing ring and claims he has been on a 'spiritual journey' and is 'healed' months after losing appeal in civil rape case

The MMA fighter, 37, said he has been on a 'spiritual journey' of healing as he toasted Dee Devlin and their four children while wearing what appeared to be a wedding or engagement ring.

Events

94 m. ago Puppy saved from 'monster' trying to drown him in desperate need of forever home

Miracle's Mission, an animal rescue centre that aids neglected and unwanted animals, shared the distressing account of what happened to two-month-old puppy Bruno

Events

97 m. ago Rugby LIVE: Eddie Jones sends warning as huge ban issued for autumn internationals

Wales face four rugby nations in the upcoming autumn Tests with Argentina, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa visiting Cardiff over the next month

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98 m. ago Grooming gang survivors risk becoming pawns in a political game that is no place for vulnerable people | Gaby Hinsliff

The chaos surrounding the inquiry stands as a warning: this is what happens when collapsing trust in public institutions, combined with point scoring, leads to paralysisIn the early hours of the morning, the cars would pull up outside the Bradford children’s home where Fiona Goddard lived as a teenager.Staff were worried about the men coming to collect her – records show she was felt to be “at high level of risk from unknown males” – but the policy was not to go to the police unless a child’s behaviour became concerning or she was seen being actively “dragged into a car”.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Mikel Arteta taking inspiration from Sir Alex Ferguson in Arsenal title pursuit

Arteta knows record-breaking defence will be key for Gunners in quest to end 21-year title wait

Politics

2 h. ago It's not entirely out of reach to be an Isa millionaire, says LEE BOYCE

Earlier in the month, a reader got in contact to tell us, in rather modest fashion, that he had become an Isa millionaire at the ripe old age of 36.

Politics

2 h. ago Household savings hit record £2.2trillion as cash is stockpiled during sticky inflation

Savers are sitting on a record £2.2trillion in cash savings despite the Chancellor's efforts to persuade more households to invest their wealth, new data shows.

Economics