40 m. ago The Rest Is On Expenses... Labour minister uses taxpayers' money to set up podcast studio in his office with hi

Industry minister Chris McDonald has claimed £500 on his Parliamentary expenses for equipment to make professional-sounding episodes of his own podcast.

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1 hour ago How weight loss jabs could increase the cost of meat by up to 20 per cent

A food pricing expert says several pressures are contributing to the rising cost of meat for consumers

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1 hour ago Average price tag on a home jumps by nearly £10,000 in January

January’s recovery brings average asking prices close to where they were last summer, Rightmove said.

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1 hour ago The UK’s best and worst energy firms revealed in Which? rankings

Scottish Power, EDF and British Gas were among the worst with overall scores of less than 60 per cent

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1 hour ago UK’s best and worst energy suppliers, according to Which? rankings

Three big name firms received overall scores of less than 60%.

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1 hour ago Record January spike in house prices after 'Boxing Day bounce'

Average house prices have jumped nearly £10,000 in the past month but sellers also warned number of homes for sale at 12-year high

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3 h. ago AJ Odudu 'in tricky position' as Big Brother future uncertain amid ITV money woes

Following ITV's major reshuffle of its daytime output, the broadcaster announced Celebrity Big Brother would be rested this year, but the future of the show is uncertain

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4 h. ago Ohio man, 83, convicted of killing Uber driver faces sentencing

William Brock fatally shot Lo-Letha Toland-Hall in 2024 after wrongly assuming she was involved in plot to rob himAn 83-year-old Ohio man faces sentencing on Tuesday after being convicted of murder in the shooting of an Uber driver who he wrongly thought was trying to rob him.William J Brock fatally shot the driver after wrongly assuming she was in on a plot involving scam phone calls that deceived them both to get $12,000 in supposed bond money for a relative, authorities said.Associated Press contributed Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Man, 45, 'stopped smiling' after years of coffee stains but found 42p

'My teeth are noticeably whiter, and I finally feel confident to smile again without hiding.'

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5 h. ago Man allegedly carried out sex act on bus in front of schoolchildren

Gwent Police is searching for the man who is said to have breached his bail conditions

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5 h. ago Dusk blackout curtains winter sale shoppers buy to 'keep in heat' look so 'luxury' shoppers keep them year

"Look more expensive than the very good price"

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5 h. ago Brits face ANOTHER Guinness shortage as pub landlords fear supplies will run dry in WEEKS

GUINNESS supplies will run dry during next month’s Six Nations, pub landlords fear. Deliveries of the black stuff, the main sponsor of the rugby championship, are consistently being delayed, they complain. Some say they are having to look at stocking alternative stouts. Guinness owner Diageo dismissed claims it was in short supply but spoke of...

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7 h. ago CLIVE LEWIS: 'Nigel Farage is thriving because people feel the system is stacked against them'

Clive Lewis, chairman of the all-party Parliamentary group on race and communities writes for The Mirror on Nigel Farage's employers' comments

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7 h. ago The Guardian view on Trump and Greenland: get real! Bullying is not strength | Editorial

Tariff threats over the Arctic island expose the limits of coercive diplomacy. Europe’s united response and pushback shows fear is fadingFor all Donald Trump’s bluster about restoring American strength, his attempt to bully European allies over Greenland reveals a deeper weakness: coercive diplomacy only works if people are afraid to resist. Increasingly, they aren’t. And that is a good thing. Bullies often back down when confronted – their power relies on fear. Mr Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs on Europeans unless they acquiesce to his demand to “purchase” Greenland has stripped his trade policy bare. This is not about economic security, unfair trade or protecting American workers. It is about using tariffs as a weapon to force nations to submit.The response from Europe has been united and swift. That in itself should send a message. France’s Emmanuel Macron says plainly “no amount of intimidation” will alter Europe’s position. Denmark has anchored the issue firmly insid...

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8 h. ago Box Office: ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ opens behind ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’

James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” continues to dominate the North American box office, topping charts for the fifth weekend with $13.3 million in sales

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9 h. ago Key route set for £20m works but anger at Welsh Government remains

'Council tax money is going on something that should be supported by the Welsh Government,' said one councillor

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10 h. ago Dunelm bedding set reduced to £11 has an 'expensive' design that brightens up a room

"I bought this as I wanted a cover to brighten up my bedroom. It has done the job perfectly. I couldn't believe the price."

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11 h. ago Tesco, Asda and Morrisons to pay households for bottles with 'no receipt needed'

A new scheme will see people paid to take their empty bottles and cans back to supermarkets - with "no receipt needed"

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11 h. ago AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its rootsI am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our current techno-social arrangements to interrogate not just what a gadget does, but who it does it for, and who it does it to.What I do not do is predict the future. No one can predict the future, which is a good thing, since if the future were predictable, that would mean we couldn’t change it. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Mika looks back: ‘Nowadays you wouldn’t get away with the things journalists said about my sexuality in the noughties’

The superstar singer on his itinerant childhood, brutally honest mother, and the moment of anger that led him to write Grace KellyBorn in Beirut in 1983, Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr, otherwise known as Mika, was raised in Paris and London. He attended the Royal College of Music, before his breakthrough in 2007 with debut album Life in Cartoon Motion and its No 1 single, Grace Kelly. He went on to sell 20m records, and worked as a presenter and judge on TV shows such as Eurovision and The Piano. Mika now lives in Italy and in Hastings, East Sussex, with his partner. His first English-language album in six years, Hyperlove, is out on 23 January.This was taken in our kitchen in Paris. It doesn’t surprise me that I am covered in chocolate. My earliest memories are of being on the floor surrounded by delicious food. Continue reading...

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