24 h. ago NHS App major update to help everyone get prescriptions quicker ‘like Amazon’

NHS England to roll out a new 'game changer' feature to track if medicines are ready to collect or have been despatched for delivery

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37 h. ago NHS announces major prescription change affecting 1,500 pharmacies

The NHS has announced it is rolling out a feature that will affect millions of patients in England

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3 d. ago HSBC customers told to 'review' bank accounts ahead of huge change next month

The Bank of England's base rate influences what banks and lenders charge you to borrow money, but it also dictates how much banks will pay you in interest on your savings

Economics

3 d. ago North Sea leaders and energy workers urge Keir Starmer to scrap oil and gas windfall tax

Open letter with more than 2,500 signatories warns there is a ‘grave risk’ of world-leading skills being lost

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3 d. ago North Sea leaders and energy workers urge Starmer to scrap oil and gas windfall tax

Open letter with more than 2,500 signatories warns there is a ‘grave risk’ of world-leading skills being lost

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4 d. ago Hundreds of thousands of pensioners are hit with unexpected tax bills after threshold freeze as Labour clobbers older Britons even more with winter fuel allowance

HMRC issued some 1.32million 'simple assessments' to pensioners in the 2023/24 tax year, dragging more into taxable thresholds in a case of 'fiscal drag'.

Economics

1 week ago Reform councillor elected in party's May landslide revealed as former policeman who was sacked for calling in sick then taking boat trip to Spain

Newly-elected Reform UK councillor Andrew Hamilton-Gray was sacked by Leicetershire Police last year after calling in sick - so he could take a boat trip to Spain.

Events

1 week ago New Reform UK councillor was sacked from police for calling in sick before travelling to Spain

Andrew Hamilton-Gray told voters he had ‘spent most of his life serving the crown’ following his election victory

Events

1 week ago Trump administration terminates a further $450mn in grants to Harvard

Government has already cut $2.2bn in funding to university and US president threatened to scrap its tax-exempt status

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1 week ago ‘I had a chance to pass my mum’s story on’: Kazuo Ishiguro on growing up in shadow of the Nagasaki bomb

The film version of A Pale View of Hills, the Nobel-winner’s tale of loss, exile and a pregnant radioactive bride, is about to premiere at Cannes. The writer explains why this story is so personal to himKazuo Ishiguro still remembers where he was when he wrote A Pale View of Hills: hunched over the dining room table in a bedsit in Cardiff. He was in his mid-20s then; he is 70 now. “I had no idea that the book would be published, let alone that I had a career ahead of me as a writer,” he says. “[But] the story remains an important part of me, not only because it was the start of my novel-writing life, but because it helped settle my relationship with Japan.”First published in 1982, A Pale View of Hills is a charged family story that connects England with Japan and the present with the past. Now along comes a film version to provide a new frame for the mystery, a fresh view of the hills. Scripted and directed by Kei Ishikawa, it is a splendidly elegant and deliberate affair; a trail o...

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2 w. ago Martin Lewis MSE £41 warning to 872k people who pay for NHS prescriptions

Money-saving guru Martin Lewis' MSE site has urged Brits to check whether they'll be better off applying for prepayment certificate - instead of paying £9.90 for each individual NHS prescription

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2 w. ago Jury begins deliberating in UK trial of men accused of felling Sycamore Gap tree

Jurors have begun deliberating in the case of two men charged with cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree in northern England

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2 w. ago Bank of England set to make next interest rates decision on Thursday

The base rate is what the Bank of England uses to charge other banks and lenders money - this then influences how much you're charged as a customer to borrow money

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2 w. ago ‘I’m a racy model who makes 10 times my former salary by treating myself like a business’

Alix Lynx, who has been in the adult industry for 10 years, says she has only called in sick once and that she has had a business mindset since she was a teenager

Economics

3 w. ago NHS patients could get 'weight loss jabs' on prescription from pharmacies

The trial scheme is reportedly set to be announced by health officials to broaden access to the injections

Science

3 w. ago Full list of people entitled to free NHS prescriptions as 2025/26 charges confirmed

The latest announcement from the government could ease the cost of living struggle for millions of people

Politics

3 w. ago Labour freezes NHS prescription charges in England amid calls for 'sickness tax' to be scrapped

UK Government insists nine out of ten people in England should already be exempt from NHS prescription charges - FULL LIST of who should be getting them free

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3 w. ago Jury in trial of murder accused Richard Satchwell to be sworn in

The 58-year-old, a truck driver originally from Leicester in England, is charged with the murder of his wife Tina in Youghal in Co Cork in 2017.

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3 w. ago Major prescription change means you could save hundreds on medicines

England is the only country in the UK that still charges, with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all ditching the charges over a decade ago.

Politics

3 w. ago Prescription charges in England frozen for first time in three years – Starmer

The Government said the move will save patients around £18 million next year.

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