29 m. ago State Pension rule can raise payments by £5,000 a year but some are 'missing out'

An FOI request by a pension provider has found that more than two million people are being boosted by a particular rule in the State Pension system

Economics

30 m. ago Add to playlist: Kashus Culpepper’s ‘southern sounds’ and the week’s best new tracks

Welcome to our new series highlighting the best emerging artists – first up, a former firefighter and US Navy recruit who counts Samuel L Jackson as a fanFrom AlabamaRecommended if you like Luke Combs, Tony Joe White, Charles BradleyUp next Supporting Leon Bridges in the USKashus Culpepper’s story has something of the Hollywood movie about it. A former firefighter who went on to enlist in the US Navy, he only picked up a guitar five years ago to entertain his fellow troops when they were locked down in barracks during the pandemic. On his return to the US, he began working for a cement company while posting clips of covers and his own songs to social media: one attracted the attention of Samuel L Jackson, who reposted it to his 9 million followers. Within a few months, Culpepper had both a record deal and a co-sign from another navy veteran, country star Zach Bryan. By the end of last year, Culpepper was performing at Nashville’s legendary Grand Ole Opry. Continue reading...

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45 m. ago Arne Slot issues blunt response after claims he could cost Liverpool millions

Arne Slot has denied reports that suggested he has deliberately not been playing striker Darwin Nunez in order to avoid paying Benfica another transfer instalment

Economics

50 m. ago University of Dundee staff back strike action over threat to jobs

The institution is grappling with a £35 million deficit.

Events

66 m. ago ‘It takes over your life’: Fraud cases up 33 per cent as AI, crypto and social media increase risk for millions of victims

AI and social media are making people more vulnerable to scams, including one man who lost £75,000 after seeing a deepfake of Martin Lewis

Events

77 m. ago Nature lover who set up back garden camera to capture foxes, squirrels and badgers is stunned to capture a BURGLAR on video instead 

George Cope, 26, positioned the camera in his parents' back garden in London to get a glimpse of the urban wildlife.

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1 hour ago Coroner urges TfL to do more to safeguard intoxicated passengers after artist's Night Tube death

Sarah Cunningham was killed after accidentally walking into Tube tunnel

Events

2 h. ago TikTok astrologer who caused panic by predicting another powerful earthquake in Myanmar arrested

Self-proclaimed fortune teller’s prediction of a second earthquake earlier this month received 3.3 million views

Events

2 h. ago ‘I miss those days terribly’: readers share their defining video store memories

With the arrival of a new video store in Brooklyn, we asked you to tell us about your most memorable anecdotesAfter a film had been in the cinema but before a film was on general sale (also called ‘Home Release’) there would be a window of perhaps a few months where the retail price of a single VHS tape would be about £100 [$133]. In a world of digital media that now feels mad, but it was obviously profitable for the rental shops to buy tapes at that price. Continue reading...

Events

2 h. ago Neurologist's stark warning over drug millions take increasing dementia risk

Neurologists have discovered that a common household drug, which has been previously linked to higher risk of stroke, broken bones and kidney disease, could increase dementia risk

Events

2 h. ago Bill Maher calls Larry David’s mockery of his Trump dinner ‘insulting to six million dead Jews’

‘I don’t need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is,’ US host said after ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ star compared president to Hitler

Politics

3 h. ago Drivers fined on average every two seconds as record number of parking tickets issued

Each ticket can be up to £100, meaning the total cost to drivers may be near £4.1 million per day at the current rate

Politics

3 h. ago In Brazil, the right creates precarious workers, and precarious workers prefer the right – but the cycle can be broken | Rodrigo Nunes

Rodrigo Nunes, a senior lecturer in political theory, explains how delivery drivers are taking to the street to demand better pay and conditions, while worker-owned delivery app services are thrivingOn 1 April, Brazilian couriers organised a day of action in which thousands of workers engaged in pickets and protests in at least 60 cities, with places such as São Paulo reporting a sharp drop in deliveries. While companies are yet to respond to the demands for better pay and conditions, the mobilisation was a clear step-up for a process of national organisation that began in 2020.Between 2016 and 2021, the number of people working for delivery apps in Brazil rose by 979.8%, with the number of delivery and passenger drivers in the sector now around 1.4 million. This boom coincides with the period in which the country finally felt the effects of the post-2008 recession. Economic decline, corruption and the impeachment of the then president, Dilma Rousseff, ended 13 years of successful l...

Politics

3 h. ago Britain's Got Talent star Eden Choi's secret famous past and award wins revealed

Eden Choi is a magician taking part in Britain's Got Talent's first live semi-final this week, but he has millions of online followers and has multiple awards to his name

Events

5 h. ago Where Greater Manchester areas rank in England's GP postcode lottery

New figures show that over 1.5 million appointments across England in March happened over four weeks after they were booked

Politics

5 h. ago Mince meat shrinks to half the size in genius freezer hack that takes seconds

Storing food in the freezer can often feel like a game of Tetris, but this clever hack on how to store mince meat by shrinking its size and doubling the space for other products

Politics

6 h. ago ‘It shapes the whole experience’: what happens when you build a city from wood?

Transforming a former industrial area in Sweden will bring psychological benefits for future residents and reduce construction’s climate impactAlthough activity is high, it is surprisingly quiet inside the construction site of a high school extension in Sickla, a former industrial area in south Stockholm that is set to become part of the “largest mass timber project in the world” according to the Swedish urban property developer Atrium Ljungberg.Just a few months remain until students enter the premises, but there is no sound of drilling or pounding against concrete walls. The scent of wood is unmistakable, and signs of the material can be spotted everywhere – from glulam (glued laminated timber) columns and beams in the building’s frame to cross-laminated timber (CLT) slabs in the floors, ceilings and staircases. CLT, made by gluing together layers of planed wood into panels, offers strength and rigidity comparable to concrete but is significantly lighter and quicker to build with....

Politics

7 h. ago Pensioners on Attendance Allowance may be able to boost current payments by £146 a month

Nearly 1.7 million State Pensioners will receive either £73.90 or £110.40 each week during the 2025/26 financial year.

Economics

8 h. ago Bill Maher calls Larry David’s satire of his Trump dinner ‘kind of insulting to 6 million dead Jews’

‘Nobody has been harder about Donald Trump than me,’ Maher says after fellow comedian compared his meal with US president to meeting HitlerBill Maher has responded to Larry David’s satirical essay in the New York Times that compared Maher’s glowing account of having dinner with Donald Trump to dining with Adolf Hitler.Maher, a vocal critic of Trump in the past, had dinner with the US president and a group of his high-profile supporters, including their mutual friend Kid Rock, on 31 March. On an episode of his talkshow Real Time on 11 April, Maher described Trump as “gracious” and “much more self-aware than he lets on”, saying: “Everything I’ve ever not liked about him was – I swear to God – absent, at least on this night with this guy.” Continue reading...

Politics

9 h. ago REVEALED: The Premier League rivals who are keeping tabs on Crystal Palace star Eberechi Eze, the local hero forged in 'Concrete Catalonia'

SIMON JONES: The rhetorical question for Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish last September was: why had Eberechi Eze not been prised away from Selhurst Park?

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