9 h. ago DWP issues response after mum takes her own life when PIP benefits were 'incorrectly' cut

Tamara Jade Logan was incorrectly informed by letter that her PIP payments were being cut

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10 h. ago Ricky Gervais' partner Jane Fallon opens up on their decision not to have kids

The comedian and the bestselling author have been together over forty years, and she’s shared why they’ve never married or had children

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10 h. ago Reform’s tax plans for Scotland would require ‘difficult decisions’, experts say

The proposals would see tax bands realigned with the rest of the UK as well as a 1p-in-the-pound cut immediately.

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10 h. ago BBC star cancels entire family holiday to the US over 'safety concerns'

Giles Coren has confirmed he has made the tough decision to cancel a family trip to the United States and stay in the UK amid the current unrest stateside

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11 h. ago Dr Martens expects sales to remain ‘broadly flat’ after strategic decision

Fashion brand has scaled back its discounts and clearances

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11 h. ago Carol Kirkwood’s statement in full as she quits BBC after 25 years on air

CAROL Kirkwood has revealed she has quit the BBC in an emotional statement, saying that it "hadn't been an easy decision to make". The much-loved weather presenter, 63, joined the Beeb in 1998, and is best known for her work on BBC Breakfast - but now she is waving goodbye to the show. Revealing her...

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12 h. ago 50 MPs sign letter against Labour's decision to block Andy Burnham from Westminster by

Andy Burnham is widely seen as a challenger to Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership.

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12 h. ago Andy Burnham decision ‘done and dusted’, insists minister amid Labour anger

MPs have signed a letter saying that denying local members a real choice reinforces the idea that politics is a ‘remote stitch-up’.

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12 h. ago 'I panicked and made a silly decision... I accept full responsibility for what I've done'

The A-Class was found the following morning abandoned on a council estate

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12 h. ago Keir Starmer told 'consider your position' after 'disgusting decision' in Labour mutiny

The Prime Minister is facing a deepening mutiny after Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham was blocked from contesting a by-election which many said was his pathway to launching a leadership bid

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13 h. ago Starmer facing growing Labour rebellion as dozens of MPs sign letter objecting to Burnham decision

Senior Labour figures have called for unity as a growing number of MPs express concern over the decision to block the Greater Manchester mayor from standing in a by-election

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13 h. ago Legendary Scots BBC host Carol Kirkwood to quit weather presenting role after 25 years

VETERAN BBC star Carol Kirkwood is set to leave the broadcaster. The 63-year-old weather presenter has been with the Beeb for over 25 years. Kirkwood, originally from Morar in the Highlands, will leave the BBC in April. Announcing her decision, she said: "This hasn't been an easy decision to make, but it feels like the...

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13 h. ago Carol Kirkwood quits: BBC Breakfast star's sad statement after 25 years

Carol Kirkwood has announced that after 25 years, she's made the difficult decision to leave the BBC, stating her time at the corporation had been a 'privilege'

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14 h. ago Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha: ‘It’s love and pain. Leicester is like my son, so I have to do it right’

The Leicester City chair plays down talk of another relegation but knows the mood among fans is fraughtLeicester City are hurting but Aiyawatt “Top” Srivaddhanaprabha, looking towards the pitch at the King Power Stadium, insists he shares supporters’ frustrations. He acknowledges the warm glow of their extraordinary Premier League title win almost a decade ago has long faded. He watches every game, which sometimes means tuning in from Thailand in the early hours. An 8pm kick-off in England is a 3am start in Bangkok.“I want to see the real passion of the players and the performance,” the chair says. “When it is not there, I can’t sleep, so it’s love and pain. Leicester is like my son. So I have to do it right. Of course, a son can be naughty, a son can fail the exam, a pain in your head. The son can be top of the class, graduate, have a bad girlfriend or good wife, you never know. So I feel the same, but the love is there. The responsibility is there. The first thing for me is to ide...

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14 h. ago Labour civil war: 50 Labour MPs sign letter objecting to blocking Andy Burnham from by

Labour MPs warn Keir Starmer decision to block Andy Burnham from standing in Gorton and Denton by-election could be a “real gift” to Reform UK

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14 h. ago DWP's wrong decision over mum's PIP benefit entitlement led to tragic consequences

Glossop make-up artist, Tamara Jade Logan took her own life after an incorrect DWP decision to cut her benefits significantly contributed to her declining mental health

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15 h. ago Glyph by Ali Smith review – bearing witness to the war in Gaza

This second novel in a sharp duology offers a powerful interrogation of language in the age of mechanical mass destructionNever knowingly unknowing, Ali Smith pre-empts the most likely criticism of her latest novel, Glyph, when a character says: “I’m just not sure that books that are novels and fiction and so on should be so close to real life or so politically blatant.”Glyph, which follows sisters Petra and Patch as they reflect on childhood attempts to grapple with the finality of death following the loss of their mother, goes further than any of Smith’s recent work in robustly answering this charge. While the Seasonal Quartet playfully anatomised the social fracture of post-Brexit Britain, and immediate predecessor Gliff dealt with the violence of the securitised state, Glyph, in its explicit engagement with the Israeli government’s apartheid and genocide in Palestine, raises the ethical stakes decisively. To engage in a Smithian pun – this is Art in the Age of Mechanical Ma...

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16 h. ago Blocking Andy Burnham makes Keir Starmer look 'weak and insecure', says Scots MP

Brian Leishman said Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) should meet again and reverse the decision to prevent the Greater Manchester Mayor from making the Gorton and Denton by-election shortlist.

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17 h. ago California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of Trump

Newsom launched a review of the platform, despite TikTok saying a systems failure was responsible for the issueCalifornia governor Gavin Newsom has accused TikTok of suppressing content critical of president Donald Trump, as he launched a review of the platform’s content moderation practices to determine if they violated state law, even as the platform blamed a systems failure for the issues.The step comes after TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, said last week it had finalised a deal to set up a majority US-owned joint venture that will secure US data, to avoid a US ban on the short video app used by more than 200 million Americans. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago To show the next generation the horrors of the Holocaust, we need to learn from David Lynch | Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

How best to portray the evil of Stutthof camp witnessed by my grandfather? The Zone of Interest and Twin Peaks could have the answerWhen I was nine years old, my grandfather took me to the museum at the former Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk, in northern Poland. Established by the Nazis in the German-annexed territory of the Free City of Danzig, he had been imprisoned there as a teenager. It was his first visit since the second world war. When we went through the gate, he began to cry, to shout, to reconstruct scenes. The past returned all at once and he fell into a state of trauma. During his imprisonment he had been responsible, among other things, for carrying bodies from the camp infirmary.Most of the most infamous Nazi death camps have been turned into memorials like Stutthof, in the hope that they can teach something to future generations and avert a repeat of this darkest of chapters in Europe’s history. But it is a fact that few visitors to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau...

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