39 h. ago 'More needs to be done' on planning rules if Government wants to hit home building target, MJ Gleeson boss warns

Housebuilder MJ Gleeson has warned 'more needs to be done' on planning rules to ensure the Government can hit its ambitious new home targets.

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6 d. ago Government rules out plan to block out the sun as scientists warn of ‘severe damage’ risks

Announcement comes after more than 40 polar scientists warned ideas to slow polar ice loss were unrealistic, unaffordable and dangerous

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8 d. ago Ryanair tells passengers hit by flight delays to email the UK government

Ryanair has launched a public campaign urging passengers affected by air traffic control (ATC) delays to email UK Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander directly to voice their complaints.

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9 d. ago Protests expected as 51 Israeli arms makers among exhibitors at London trade fair

Campaign Against Arms Trade says UK government has hit ‘peak complicity in genocide’ in allowing the firms to exhibitFifty-one Israeli arms makers and the US defence giant behind the F-35 fighters used to bomb Gaza are among the 1,600 exhibitors at the biennial DSEI trade show that begins in London’s Docklands on Tuesday.Their presence will be the focus for hundreds planning to demonstrate outside the four-day arms fair, at which the defence secretary, John Healey, is expected to speak alongside senior British military officials. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Florida's plan to drop school vaccine rule won't start for 90 days, won't cover all diseases

Florida has a plan to drop school vaccine mandates

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1 week ago Government shares exact text of emergency alert with dire warning to drivers

The Government has said the planned alarm that will hit all UK phones at 3pm on September 7 is designed to alert people to life-threatening situations such as floods and wildfires

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1 week ago Kyiv government building hit as smoke rises following mass Russian attack

One of Kyiv’s main government buildings was hit during an overnight Russian strike - the first time an official building has been hit during the war.

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1 week ago UK couple may have to evict Ukrainian refugees owing to planning rules

Rosemary Duckett, 80, and her husband, Anthony, 88, say situation is ‘bureaucracy gone mad’A couple who the prime minister thanked for housing Ukrainian refugees have been told by their local council they may have to evict their current guest due to planning rules which the couple describe as “bureaucracy gone mad”.Rosemary Duckett, 80, a retired magistrate and former chair of her local YMCA, and her husband, Anthony, 88, have been providing accommodation in a room above their garage to Ukrainian refugees since 2022. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Israel says it is 'opening the gates of Hell' in Gaza as IDF blows up tower block 'used by Hamas terrorists'

The high-rise in Gaza City was destroyed on Friday after the army said it would target tall buildings taken over by Hamas ahead of its planned push into the city.

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1 week ago Ted Cruz tried to fat shame JB Pritzker during an immigration rant. The Illinois governor had his comeback ready

Texas senator mocks Illinois governor in Newsmax tirade, only for the Democrat to immediately hit back with a reminder of the Republican’s infamous Cancun vacation

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: No action from Trump as another Putin deadline passes

US president ‘very disappointed’ in Russian ruler; Trump had promised to get Putin to negotiating table with Volodymr Zelenskyy. What we know on day 1,288Donald Trump took no apparent action at the passing of his latest deadline for Vladimir Putin to come to the negotiating table with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He was “very disappointed” in the Russian ruler, and was planning on “doing something to help people live”, said the US president, without any specifics. He was speaking on the radio show of Scott Jennings, a US conservative pundit.Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Russia was engaged in a new troop buildup in certain sectors of the frontline and still launching strikes on Ukrainian targets. “Now we see another buildup of Russian forces in certain sectors of the front. [Putin] refuses to be forced into peace Russia continues to launch strikes. Of course, we will respond to this,” said the Ukrainian president in his nightly address.European allies are ready to contribute to po...

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2 w. ago Pressure rises on Reeves as government borrowing costs hit 27

Chancellor will face more limited fiscal headroom at budget after yield on 30-year bond increases to 5.68%Business live – latest updatesReshuffle gymnastics prepare Starmer to walk tricky budget tightropeBritain’s long-term borrowing costs have hit their highest level in 27 years, intensifying the pressure on the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, before the autumn budget.The yield, or interest rate, on 30-year UK government debt hit 5.714% on Tuesday. That is its highest level since 1998, indicating that it will cost the UK more to borrow from the markets, above the previous 27-year high of 5.649% set in April. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Now council launches legal action to shut THREE migrant hotels: After saga over Bell hotel in Epping, Reform

West Northamptonshire Council said that by accommodating asylum seekers, the three sites may have breached planning rules.

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2 w. ago Asylum hotels must still be emptied – but in an orderly fashion

Editorial: Accommodating those who must wait for the Home Office to work through a backlog of claims will inevitably risk unpopularity. But now the government has won its appeal against the closure of one protest-hit Epping hotel, Yvette Cooper must be allowed to proceed with phasing out their widespread use by the end of the parliament

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2 w. ago Protests erupt in Indonesia over death of man hit by police vehicle

Government faces calls for police reform amid violent clashes across Jakarta and demonstrations in other citiesHundreds of Indonesians have protested at sites across Jakarta over the death of a man hit by a police vehicle, in the first big test for Prabowo Subianto’s nearly year-old government.The man, a motorcycle ride-sharing driver, was hit at the site of violent clashes near parliament on Thursday as police sought to disperse demonstrators protesting about a number of issues including lawmakers’ pay and education funding. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Voices: Mon dieu, France – this is no time for un political meltdown!

Next month’s surprise confidence vote could bring down an already crisis-hit minority government, test the country’s governability and end with a drastic power shift – it might also be bad news for Keir Starmer and his coalition of the willing, says Mary Dejevsky

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2 w. ago UK travellers urged to follow important rules when taking vapes on planes

Since the ban on disposable vapes in the UK in June, many Brits have been confused about how to pack and charge their vapes on planes. Here's everything you need to know before your next flight.

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3 w. ago Chelsea ready to end transfer rule that's lasted over TWO DECADES in £120m plan

Chelsea have been reluctant to do transfer business with a rival team for more than 20 years but that is claimed to no longer be the case as deadline day approaches

Economics

3 w. ago ‘My sister, my God. It’s a visceral pain that never goes away’: Miriam Toews on a memoir of suicide and silence

Having fled the strictures of her Mennonite upbringing, the Canadian author searches for meaning in her older sister’s death: ‘She taught me how to stay alive’Long before she became one of Canada’s most celebrated authors, Miriam Toews was an 18-year-old with a restless streak, set on fleeing the strictures of her conservative Mennonite community. Toews’s family descended from Russian Mennonites and spoke Plautdietsch, an unwritten language. They grew up in a world with little privacy, many unofficial rules and the threat of excommunication. Toews and a boyfriend had planned a bike trip across Europe, one in which they would sit on the grave of John Keats and smoke too many cigarettes.Before she left, her older sister Marj asked a favor: would Toews write letters to her while she was away? Marj, then 24, had recently moved back home and was in a period of deep depression. She had stopped talking, but she would still write. “She was so sick,” says Toews, sitting across from me at a p...

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3 w. ago Poundland 'will run out of money within days' as dozens of shops shut

A judge is set to rule on a plan to save the chain from entering administration

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