58 m. ago Not Going Out season 14 cast, episode count and huge format change as series returns to BBC

The new series of Lee Mack's beloved British sitcom is set to premiere this week

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74 m. ago Chadwick encouraged by female participation in motorsport before Le Mans debut

Briton to race in LMP2 class for French IDEC team‘In the next decade we’ll see a huge transition’Jamie Chadwick believes motor racing is undergoing a fundamental change in female participation, a transition the British driver has played a central role in. Chadwick is committed to taking it even further as she prepares to compete for the first time in the endurance classic, the Le Mans 24 Hours, this weekend.The 27-year-old has long been an advocate of promoting women in motorsport, including founding her own female karting championship, and is convinced the motor racing landscape is finally beginning to change. Continue reading...

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77 m. ago 'Nintendo Switch 2 launch inspired me to dust off my old console

Changing the handheld controller has made a huge difference to my Switch playing experience

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2 h. ago Army veteran who had to give up everything he worked for does something incredible

Phil Lewis has a life-changing condition meaning he could no longer work or drive and said it has had 'devastating' impact on his life

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2 h. ago Drag Race UK star on incredible weight loss and poignant The Vivienne message

Kitty Scott-Claus, who appeared in the third series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, has lost eight pounds after making some radical lifestyle changes

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2 h. ago New UK car law '49% of drivers want' could be introduced in days

Electric vehicle drivers could soon be benefiting from a significant change, as motorists without access to a home charger might have cheaper charging options soon

Transport

3 h. ago I was Charles Manson's henchman and butchered pregnant Sharon Tate after his three

Charles 'Tex' Watson grew up in small-town Texas, seemingly destined to be an all-American success story. Then, a visit to California in 1967 changed his life - and American criminal history.

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3 h. ago Rachel Reeves seized her moment – whatever the future brings, Labour’s economic course is now set | Martin Kettle

The chancellor is no mere technocrat: her spending review revealed a visceral commitment to social and economic mobilityThe consensus has long been that the 2025 spending review would be a defining moment for Keir Starmer’s government. For once, the consensus proved spot-on. The government’s main priorities were set out on Wednesday in a blizzard of Commons announcements from Rachel Reeves, some economically substantive, others more for show. The upshot is that the shape of the British state, as Labour intends it, is now decided until the eve of the next election.There are further crossroads still to come, some of them major, as the years covered by the review unroll. Taxes are likely to rise, probably as soon as the autumn budget, to pay for Reeves’s big ticket boosts on Wednesday for defence, health and housing. Council tax could rise too, with possibly dramatic results. The review’s emphasis on capital spending means current spending could be squeezed again, perhaps heralding pay...

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3 h. ago Met Office forecast details exact areas to see 40mm of rain amid monster thunderstorms

Two weather warnings are in place today for storms - and a further warning is in place for Friday and Satutday - as the weather changes from 25.9C sunshine to gloomy skies

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4 h. ago Protests over Trump’s ICE raids continue spreading to other major cities

Protests against President Donald Trump’s mass deportations of illegal immigrants have popped up in cities such as New York, Austin, Chicago and Atlanta

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4 h. ago Court hearing set on Trump's use of National Guard and Marines to help with immigration raids in LA

A federal court hearing is scheduled on whether the Trump administration can use the National Guard and Marines to assist with immigration raids in Los Angeles

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4 h. ago Geert Wilders collapsed the Dutch government. He wanted power, but had no idea how to govern | Koen Vossen

The anti-Islam ideologue has exposed the limits of his insular, badly organised operation. For a ‘radical’, opposition is a much easier placeKoen Vossen is the author of The Power of Populism: Geert Wilders and the Party for Freedom in the NetherlandsEarlier this month, Geert Wilders decided he had had enough. “No signature for our asylum plans. No changes to the coalition agreement. The PVV is leaving the coalition,” he posted on X. After 11 months, he was withdrawing support for the Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof’s rightwing cabinet, forcing the Netherlands back to the polls.The decision put an end to Wilders’ far-right Freedom party’s (PVV) first spell in power. Following an unexpected victory in the 2023 elections, the PVV joined a government for the first time in its 18-year history – alongside the conservative-liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the centrist New Social Contract (NSC), and the agrarian-populist Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) – although Wild...

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4 h. ago Dollar weakness is turning all fund managers into currency traders

Hedging against falls in the dollar has not been a prime concern but Trump 2.0 is changing the mood

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4 h. ago Man City warned by lawyers over new 'unlawful' season ticket policy

A Manchester City fan group has engaged solicitors to write to the club over proposed season ticket changes.

Events

4 h. ago Fake videos and AI chatbots drive disinformation about LA protests

As protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread across the country, machine-generated deepfakes spread by partisan outrage merchants are pouring fuel on the fire

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6 h. ago Les Misérables audience BOO Donald Trump after President angers Kennedy Center regulars

Donald Trump attended the Kennedy Center in Washington DC for the first time since he announced huge plans to change the venue's programming - including a ban on drag acts

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6 h. ago Trump administration hit with second lawsuit over restrictions on asylum access

The Trump administration is facing a second lawsuit over the shutdown of asylum at ports of entry, a legal pathway created by Congress under the Immigration and Nationality Act

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7 h. ago Prince William's desperate mission as 'things need to change' at Dartmoor

Dartmoor National Park faces greater heat stress for crops and livestock in summer and increased and more extreme rainfall in winter, according to the Met Office's research

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7 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: Starmer's claim to be 'investing in Britain's renewal' is delusional drivel in a class of its own

'Our first job was to stabilise the economy and public finances,' Keir Starmer tweeted yesterday morning, a few hours before Rachel Reeves delivered Labour's spending plans.

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8 h. ago Troops begin detaining immigrants in national defense zone at border in escalation of military role

U.S. troops have begun directly detaining immigrants accused of trespassing on a recently designated national defense zone along the southern U.S. border

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