31 m. ago Business news live: Lloyds consider thousands of employees’ jobs and Jaguar Land Rover hack latest

Stock market news and latest business and finance updates from Thursday

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45 m. ago Lloyds to put thousands of staff at risk of dismissal in performance drive

The banking group plans to change how it monitors the performance of its employees and manages staff turnover within the business.

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73 m. ago Thousands of Lloyds staff face the axe amid performance review overhaul

Lloyds Banking Group has 63,000 employees and is planning a major overhaul of its performance management system.

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99 m. ago UK Government urged to scrap any plans for nationwide digital ID cards

Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling on the Uk Government not to introduce digital ID cards as part of new immigration control measures.

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2 h. ago Business news live: Lloyds could cut thousands of jobs and Jaguar Land Rover hack latest

Stock market news and latest business and finance updates from Thursday

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2 h. ago Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming Willis explains decision to move actor out of family home after backlash

Heming Willis says the decision to move husband to a seperate home has ‘opened up Bruce’s world’

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2 h. ago You be the judge: my boyfriend wants two types of potato with our meals, but I prefer rice. Should he compromise?

Paul loves his spuds and finds Noor’s preference for rice mystifying. She wants a more equal approach to carbs. You decide who gets a roasting?• Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a jurorWe split the cooking, so it’s a battle between us as to which carb is better. To me, rice is more versatileI made thousand-layer potatoes and they were amazing. Noor pretended she didn’t like them Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Wife screamed horrifying four words as her husband was dragged into MRI scanner and killed

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Keith McAllister, 61, was sucked into an MRI machine in New York by the heavy weight-training chain he wore around his neck in a tragic incident that claimed his life

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3 h. ago Husband's horrifying last gesture to wife as he was sucked into MRI scanner and killed

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Keith McAllister, 61, was dragged into an MRI machine by his weight-training chain as he tried to help his wife, Adrienne, off the table after her knee scan in Long Island, New York

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4 h. ago Drug use, assaults and human waste in tent camp in Cardiff city centre underpass

The underpass is used by thousands of people every day

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4 h. ago ‘The one thing it doesn’t have is actual sex’: the new Mary Whitehouse play that would have infuriated Mary Whitehouse

She was the morality crusader who became a figure of ridicule. Now Whitehouse is the subject of a new production starring Maxine Peake. We meet the gay feminist playwright who wrote itThe morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse was a trigger warning long before the term was used. From the 1960s onwards she pursued the BBC over sex and swearing on television and brought private prosecutions against the publisher of Gay News and the director of Howard Brenton’s play, The Romans in Britain, for what she viewed respectively as blasphemy and gross indecency.So, when Maxine Peake plays the Christian cultural vigilante in The Last Stand of Mrs Mary Whitehouse at the Nottingham Playhouse this week, will there be a warning about its content? Continue reading...

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5 h. ago From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction

Kirsten Smith was 19 when she first tried heroin; within a few years she was in prison. She says she willingly made bad choices and wants society to stop treating addiction as a diseaseKirsten Smith was 16 when a boy from school injected her with morphine, 18 when she and a date Googled how to crush up and inject themselves with oxycodone, and 19 when she first shot up heroin. Living in Knoxville, Tennessee and modelling herself on Pulp Fiction’s freewheeling Mia Wallace, Smith spent her days experimenting with alcohol, cannabis, ecstasy, mushrooms, LSD and benzodiazepines. She read Kurt Vonnegut and the Beats, and wrote poems on an actual typewriter while listening to the Velvet Underground. For Smith, as for thousands of Americans who came of age in the early 2000s, drug use was a seemingly harmless lifestyle choice.That is, until she ran out of money. After Smith dropped out of high school and started regularly using heroin, she was caught stealing credit cards and chequebooks fr...

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8 h. ago Tourist thought double vision was linked to aeroplane pressure

Abi Bradley, who is from Birmingham, had double vision after she and husband Josh landed Boston, Massachusetts, where they had flown to celebrate her cousin's wedding

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9 h. ago Tom Ellis finally breaks his silence on affairs that ended his marriage to Tamzin Outhwaite... and says he has 'no regrets' despite her brutal barbs: RICHARD EDEN'S DIARY

Tamzin Outhwaite was left heartbroken after accusing her husband, Tom Ellis, of 'walking out' on their seven-year marriage and two children.

Politics

9 h. ago Old master painting looted by Nazis recovered a week after being spotted in Argentinian property listing

Portrait of a Lady by the Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi handed over by daughter of the late Nazi financier Friedrich KadgienAuthorities in Argentina have recovered an 18th-century painting stolen more than 80 years ago by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam, a week after it was spotted by chance in a real estate listing.The painting, the long-lost Portrait of a Lady (Contessa Colleoni) by the Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi, was looted in the second world war. It was handed over on Wednesday to the Argentinian judiciary by the daughter of the late Nazi financier Friedrich Kadgien, Patricia Kadgien, who has been under house arrest with her husband since Tuesday. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery pregnant with first child as she debuts bump at premiere

Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery has confirmed she is pregnant with her first child with husband Jasper Waller-Bridge, as she debuted her baby bump at the premiere of the final film

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11 h. ago X down in major outage as thousands left unable to access Elon Musk's platform

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12 h. ago Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery reveals she’s pregnant at The Grand Finale premiere in Leicester Square

The actress was joined by her husband, film producer Jasper Waller-Bridge, 37, as they announced their happy news on the red carpet in London

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13 h. ago 15 killed in Lisbon after funicular derails in Portuguese capital

Tens of thousands of British tourists visit the Portuguese capital every year

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14 h. ago Michelle Dockery reveals she's PREGNANT as she shows off growing baby bump in a pale blue gown on the red carpet alongside husband Jasper Waller

Michelle Dockery has revealed she is pregnant with her first child as she debuted her growing baby bump on the red carpet at the Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale premiere.

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