9 h. ago Activist Kwajo Tweneboa warns Labour risks losing election if it fails to fix housing system

Kwajo Tweneboa, who has built a following by exposing unsafe homes and fighting for tenants' rights, said families are 'sick and tired' of waiting for change

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51 h. ago Fired Surface Transportation Board member sues Trump over his dismissal ahead of rail merger review

A former Democratic member of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board has filed a lawsuit challenging his dismissal by President Donald Trump

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55 h. ago US government shutdown live: Republican stopgap funding bill fails in Senate as White House to hold press briefing on shutdown

Senate votes 55-45 against Republican bill with three Democrats crossing party lines to support measure; Karoline Leavitt to give press briefingUS government shuts downTracker: how each US senator votedThis shutdown is expected to be worse than previous ones. The impact on federal workers could be even more severe.Before Trump’s most recent threat of mass layoffs on Tuesday, a memo released last week by the White House’s office of management and budget told agencies not just to prepare for temporary furloughs but for permanent layoffs in the event of a shutdown. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago US government shutdown live: Trump’s White House orders shut down after Senate fails to pass funding bill

The US federal government has shut down after a Republican funding bill failed in the Senate on Tuesday evening

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66 h. ago Trump's White House orders US government shutdown after Senate vote fails

This is a breaking news story and is being constantly updated by our reporters as the breaking news story develops

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68 h. ago Trump’s White House orders government agencies shut down as Senate fails to pass stopgap funding bill: Live updates

The government has shut down after a Republican funding bill failed in the Senate Tuesday evening

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3 d. ago Ovo warns of ‘material uncertainty’ over its going concern status

Household energy supplier makes disclosure after failing to meet industry regulator’s capital adequacy targets

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8 d. ago House of Guinness on Netflix review: this Stout Succession tries and fails to split the G

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is back with a period drama that applies his tried and tested formula to 19th-century Ireland

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9 d. ago How London became the 'Sharia capital' of the West with fatwas, 'misogynistic' Islamic 'courts' and blasphemy attacks on the streets

Formed in 1982, the Islamic Sharia Council in East London is one of at least five Sharia councils in the capital that offer rulings on family and financial matters.

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9 d. ago Slow Horses author Mick Herron says he knows how Jackson Lamb dies

The writer knows ‘how, why, when and where’ Gary Oldman’s cantankerous intelligence officer meets his end – a fate he figured out ‘relatively recently’Slow Horses author Mick Herron has revealed that he knows how Jackson Lamb dies.The irascible, unkempt cold war-era spy heads up Slough House, the crumbling office for failed MI5 agents at the centre of Herron’s bestselling series. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'My neighbour accidentally got sent my parcel and I was floored by her reaction'

A resident whose parcel has been delivered to the wrong house was infuriated as they tried and failed to retrieve their package, with members of the public also at a loss as to what they could do

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1 week ago All Brits issued boiler alert as failing to complete one task can cost you hundreds

It's important to make sure your boiler is working properly, and one engineer has said people need to take urgent action, as a mistake could be costly or even dangerous

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2 w. ago Failed house buys costing Brits £1.5bn a year as government urged to fix ‘antiquated’ system

Buyers are being let down by a system that ‘drains their mental, emotional and physical health’, Santander say

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer makes embarrassing climbdown as he is forced to abandon hope of a UK 0% tariff on steel exports ahead of Trump visit

Whitehall sources said months of lobbying had failed to persuade the White House to implement an agreement to slash tariffs on British steel exports to zero, despite one being announced.

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2 w. ago Britons lose £1.5bn a year in failed house buys as government urged to fix ‘antiquated’ system

£1.5bn a year is lost in the economy and by consumers from failed property transactions, a major bank has claimed

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2 w. ago Just when Keir Starmer thought he’d got Jeffrey Epstein off his plate – look who’s coming to dinner | Marina Hyde

After a tough week for Labour, Donald Trump is touching down for a state visit. Let’s hope the PM can stomach itQuick update on Keir Starmer’s government of “national renewal”: having just lost his deputy and housing secretary over her failure to pay the required stamp duty, the prime minister has also lost his US ambassador over his known close association with a known paedophile sex trafficker. Hang on – he’s now also lost his director of political strategy for relating some dirty jokes about Diane Abbott.Meanwhile, an increasing number of people think the solution to all this is Andy Burnham taking over, suggesting the current Greater Manchester mayor could run in a parliamentary seat that has only notionally become free because the previous Labour MP was suspended from the party after being found to have sent messages hoping a couple of constituents would soon be dead/“mown down”, and is now apparently “off sick”. On top of which, we’re having the Americans round. US president D...

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2 w. ago 'Shameful': Homelessness in Scotland reaches its highest level for 14 years

The crisis is being blamed on the SNP’s failure to build more houses - but the Scottish Government says Brexit and the cost-of-living crisis is to blame.

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2 w. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Why are we arranging weddings for migrants we should be deporting?

It's a full-time position based at an immigration removals centre near Oxford housing up 560 foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers, all of them due to be kicked out of the country.

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2 w. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Why are we arranging weddings for illegal migrants we should be deporting? Is this where all our money is going?

It's a full-time position based at an immigration removals centre near Oxford housing up 560 foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers, all of them due to be kicked out of the country.

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3 w. ago Trump’s push to rename the Pentagon the Department of War hits a snag as Congressional committee rejects change

The House Rules Committee rejects an amendment to rename the Pentagon as part of the larger defense authorization bill

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