14 h. ago SNP MP Pete Wishart taking legal advice after Elon Musk's AI tool Grok calls him 'rape enabler'

Pete Wishart said the allegation on X was ‘shocking’

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40 h. ago MP calls for legal right to paid time off for fertility treatment

Labour MP Alice Macdonald called on the Government to ‘right this wrong’ as she introduced her 10-minute rule Bill in the Commons.

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67 h. ago Strictly's Amy Dowden reveals she's undergoing a second mastectomy this week amid breast cancer battle

The professional dancer, 35, was diagnosed with the disease in May 2023 and underwent treatment including a mastectomy, chemotherapy, fertility treatment and also almost died of sepsis .

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68 h. ago Pregnant UK teenager Bella May Culley freed from Georgian jail

Culley, 19, who was arrested on drug-smuggling charges in May, is released after plea dealThe pregnant British teenager Bella Culley has been released from a Georgian prison, where she had been held for six months on drug-smuggling charges after a plea deal.Culley, 19, who is pregnant, was arrested in May at Tbilisi airport and accused of attempting to smuggle 12kg (26.5lbs) of marijuana and 2kg (4.4lbs) of hashish into the country. She was found guilty by a Georgian court on Monday and sentenced to five months and 25 days in prison, the total time she had already spent in custody. Her family also paid a 500,000 lari (about £137,000) fine as part of a plea deal. Culley and her mother, Lyanne Kennedy, both cried as the verdict was read out. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago JD Vance confronted at Turning Point event as he calls for slowdown in legal immigration

Vance was speaking at a Turning Point USA event and taking questions from students in a similar way to the conservative organization’s late founder, Charlie Kirk.

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2 w. ago Brookside fans in tears as returning soap pays sweet tribute to icon Dean Sullivan

Brookside returned to screens for the first time in 22 years and paid tribute to character Jimmy Corkhill

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2 w. ago London’s Philharmonia Orchestra took its time in Berkeley concert. Here’s when it paid off

London’s Philharmonia Orchestra took its time in Berkeley concert. Here’s when it paid off  San Francisco Chronicle

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2 w. ago Martin Lewis advice could lead to free £400 'before Christmas'

The MoneySavingExpert's founder called it 'a legal bribe' with a December 9 deadline

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2 w. ago Mike Tindall dubbed 'idiot' by wife Zara but rugby legend had last laugh

Mike Tindall was branded an "idiot" by his Royal wife Zara after accidentally buying a racehorse - but the stallion paid him back in dividends by the time the Grand National rolled around

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2 w. ago KISS star Paul Stanley looks devastated in first sighting after tribute to Ace Frehley following shock death

A founding member of KISS was seen for the first time since he paid an emotional tribute to his late bandmate Ace Frehley, where he called the guitarist 'an essential and irreplaceable rock soldier.'

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2 w. ago Martin Lewis says 'this is the sweet spot' as people able to get £400 for free before Christmas

There are seven banks offering what Martin Lewis calls a "legal bribe" to encourage new customers

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3 w. ago Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act, Vance says

Vice-president calls crime ‘out of control’ in US cities as Trump faces legal battles for use of federal forcesThe White House is talking about invoking the Insurrection Act that would allow the deployment of military troops on US soil to quell domestic unrest amid legal challenges over the moves, JD Vance confirmed on Sunday.Vance was asked on NBC News’s Meet the Press whether Donald Trump was seriously considering invoking the emergency power to deploy national guard forces and even the US military in domestic settings. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children’: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood

When the novelist was faced with the decision of whether to pursue fertility treatment or focus on her career, her literary ambitions kicked inFifteen years ago, having said all my life that I never wanted a baby, that I couldn’t fathom why any free woman would do such a thing to her body and her mind, I suddenly and passionately wanted a child. I remember where I was when this feeling, so heretical to me, arrived: it was early morning in London, and having come down Fleet Street on my way to work, I was standing at the till of a newsagents to pay for a Diet Coke, a flapjack and a pack of Silk Cut. There were no children there and no pregnant women; nothing had been said or done to change my mind. It had simply landed on me, and more or less immediately – because I’ve never known how to control an impulse, and because I was 30, which seemed to me then a great age – my husband, Robert, and I set about trying to have a child.When for s...

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3 w. ago ‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing

The president and his Maga allies have used the rightwing influencer’s killing to justify attacks on critics, experts sayDonald Trump and Maga allies have capitalized on the killing of rightwing influencer Charlie Kirk to expand attacks on liberal groups, donors, Democrats, and others by tarring many critics as the “enemy within” and “radical left” in a move that legal scholars and historians call authoritarian and anti-democratic.Kirk’s killing by a lone gunman spurred Trump and top allies to quickly launch conspiratorial charges against a bevy of political foes and an investigation of billionaire liberal donor George Soros. They also threatened legal action against TV network ABC after their late-night star Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension over clumsy comments about Kirk ended. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Former prime minister joins Microsoft as senior adviser – with one condition

Sunak will donate his salary from this part-time, paid role to his and his wife’s numeracy skills charity The Richmond Project

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3 w. ago Dragons' Den business worth £140million makes show history after Steven Bartlett's help

Steven Bartlett’s Dragons’ Den gamble has paid off big time as his matcha drink brand PerfectTed has exploded to a £140million valuation, the biggest success in the show’s history

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3 w. ago Old library to become mosque after legal challenge called off

Monmouthshire County Council has confirmed it has now received notification the judicial review will not proceed.

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4 w. ago ‘Humanitarian’ visa must be created for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate crisis, experts say

Calls for reform to allow people across the Pacific threatened by climate crisis to more easily migrate, particularly to New ZealandClimate and migration experts are calling for urgent action to create legal pathways for people displaced by the climate crisis, as a new report highlights the scale of the problem across the Pacific.Research by Amnesty International released on Thursday found current immigration systems are inadequate for Pacific Islanders seeking safety and stability, as rising seas threaten to make their homelands uninhabitable. Continue reading...

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