59 m. ago People have ‘every right’ to protest asylum hotels – shadow home secretary

Conservative-led councils in Hertfordshire, Surrey and London are considering taking legal action against hoteliers, he said.

Society

63 m. ago Huge breakthrough for cancer which hits 8,000 Britons a year: 'Treatment could double chances of survival'

It marks the first significant change to treatment of stage 4 bladder cancer-which accounts for one in ten cases-since the 1980s.

Events

71 m. ago Asylum hotels latest: Labour councils join backlash with potential legal action against government

Chaos facing Starmer comes after Epping council granted temporary injunction blocking migrants from being housed at The Bell Hotel

Politics

86 m. ago Refugee at Epping hotel speaks of 'living in pain and fear' after surge of anti

Khadar Mohamed spoke about the fear that residents in the Epping hotel feel when protests gather

Events

1 hour ago Cole Palmer vs Chateau Palmer! England star in legal battle after French winery

Chelsea and England star Cole Palmer is in a bizarre battle with a French vineyard over his attempts to trademark his 'Cold Palmer' nickname.

Events

1 hour ago The EncroChats that led cops to 'treatment room' torture chamber: Cops uncover drug gang's sound

The gangland torture chamber, located inside a sound-proofed shipping container near the Dutch village of Wouwse Plantage, could hardly have been more gruesome.

Events

2 h. ago 'My son's birthday surprise was ruined by other people and he ended up in hospital'

Michaela Burns treated her son Henry Heaney to AC/DC tickets for his 10th birthday - but had no idea it would end so badly

Politics

2 h. ago 'Desperate' Kemi Badenoch accused of 'hypocritical nonsense' over asylum hotels

Kemi Badenoch has been accused of spouting 'desperate and hypocritical nonsense' after calling on Tory councils to launch legal challenges over a problem her party caused

Events

2 h. ago Labour councils now want to shut down migrant hotels in wake of Epping injunction

Tamworth and Wirral councils, both controlled by Labour, have joined a number of Conservative and Reform UK-run councils in investigating whether they can mount legal challenges

Events

2 h. ago 'Stacey Dooley came to my house but nosey neighbours couldn't help themselves'

Carla Bellucci, who was dubbed 'Britain's most hated woman', said that her neighbours are 'obsessed' with her and could not help but be 'nosey' while Stacey Dooley was at her home

Politics

2 h. ago Stacey Dooley's visit to 'Britain's most hated woman' sparked neighbour dispute

Stacey Dooley stayed over at the home of a controversial former glamour model Carla Bellucci who has now claimed the visit for a documentary encouraged her neighbours to be 'nosey'

Politics

3 h. ago Suranne Jones: How the punky soap star became one of Britain’s greatest actors

From a 19th-century lesbian in ‘Gentleman Jack’ to an under-pressure PM in ‘Hostage’, Jones inhabits women who go through the wringer in their determination to make themselves heard, writes Claire Allfree

Politics

3 h. ago I'm a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal? | Ayman Alhussein

I’ve met wonderful people here who make me feel that I belong – but there are now many who see asylum seekers as an easy political targetHardly a day goes by without a new insult being hurled in the faces of asylum seekers and refugees. We’re scroungers, rapists, fighting-age men who shouldn’t have left our home countries. Sometimes we’re simply “illegals”, the most dehumanising term of all. When did it become a crime to run for your life?The people levelling these accusations are superb at making themselves heard. Mud sticks – and most of us are too scared to try to set the record straight. I don’t know how many of our accusers have sat down with us, human to human, and listened to our stories. Here’s mine.As told to Diane TaylorAyman Alhussein is a Syrian film-maker based in London Continue reading...

Events

3 h. ago The art of the city: a walking tour of Edinburgh’s best landscape sculptures

Start with Andy Goldsworthy’s earthy installations at the Royal Scottish Academy, then head outdoors to discover more of his work, alongside pieces by Barbara Hepworth, Antony Gormley and Charles JencksA distinct farmyard smell lingers near the muddy Sheep Paintings. People walk slowly between two dense hedges of windfallen oak branches, or stand silently in a fragile cage of bulrush stems with light seeping through the mossy skylight overhead. I’m visiting the largest ever indoor exhibition of work by Andy Goldsworthy, one of Britain’s most influential nature artists. His recent installations have a visceral sense of rural landscape: hare’s blood on paper, sheep shit on canvas, rusty barbed wire, stained wool, cracked clay.The show is a sensory celebration of earth – its textures and temperatures, colours, character. The seasons cycle through an ongoing multidecade series of photos featuring the same fallen elm. There are leaf patterns and delicate woven branches, crusts of snow, l...

Politics

3 h. ago What was an average breakfast for Britain's fattest and 'most useless' monarch?

Branded by English Heritage as Britain's 'most useless monarch', George IV indulged his expensive tastes and insatiable appetite without restraint.

Politics

4 h. ago Angela Rayner hit with legal challenge over datacentre on green belt land

Exclusive: Campaigners complain no environmental assessment made for 90MW Buckinghamshire facility The deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has been hit with a legal challenge after she overruled a local council to approve a hyperscale datacentre on green belt land by the M25 in Buckinghamshire.Campaigners bringing the action are complaining that no environmental impact assessment was made for the 90MW datacentre, which was approved as part of the Labour government’s push to turn the UK into an AI powerhouse by trebling computing capacity to meet rising demand amid what it terms “a global race” as AI usage takes off. Continue reading...

Events

4 h. ago Rhona Mitra on healing, horses and leaving Hollywood behind: ‘I had to save my soul’

The British actor found fame in ‘Boston Legal’, ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ and as the original Lara Croft, before trauma, ill health, and the toxicity of the American entertainment industry led her to carve out a new life in Uruguay. She speaks to Adam White about fame, survival and her new film, ‘Red Sonja’

Politics

4 h. ago 'Strictly's Stacey Dooley visited my home for TV show but neighbours left us fuming'

'Britain's most hated woman' Carla Bellucci is often the talk of her neighbourhood and she has now revealed what happened when Stacey Dooley came over to film a documentary

Culture

4 h. ago UK weather maps show icy blast as Britain braces for bitter 3C chill soon

The latest weather charts show that the UK will be hit by a cold snap, with several areas in the northern regions to experience single-digit temperatures

Politics

8 h. ago Price of Labour is a leap in inflation: Tax raid on employers and minimum wage hike have driven up costs, with more pain to come

The Tories warned 'Britain can't afford Labour' after figures showed consumer prices rose by 3.8 per cent last month compared with a year earlier.

Economics