11 h. ago How Starmer went from defiant to defeated as he scrambled to get his bill over the line

The debacle over the welfare reforms has stripped Keir Starmer of his authority and left his government damaged. David Maddox tracks how the prime minister lost control

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39 h. ago Dad cut his own throat with chainsaw – but cops thought his wife had attacked him

Christopher York, 65, was trimming hedges at his home in Chesterfield, Derbys. when he lost control of the £120 Bosch chainsaw and it cartwheeled 180 degrees to slice his jaw

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58 h. ago Mum out jogging killed on the pavement by a speeding driver who lost control

Catherine Bradford was wearing a bright pink running top when she was hit by dangerous driver Alex Rickwood

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64 h. ago Wealthy estate agent who abandoned his £100k BMW after ploughing into a motorway crash barrier spared prison after insisting he had not drunk any alcohol

Scott Morgan - who has two previous drink-related driving convictions - lost control of his £100,000 electric i7 M Sport on a motorway as he was driving home from work on a Friday at 8.30pm.

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4 d. ago Fresh blow for Musk’s DOGE as it loses power to award $500B in federal funds

US DOGE Service has lost control of government grants website in latest roadblock to trillions in cuts Elon Musk once hoped to achieve

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8 d. ago Jury in crash inquest told they ‘may not record there was a police pursuit’

Muhammad Qasim, 29, died when he lost control of his car and hit a tree on Island Road in Birmingham in the early hours of October 2 2023.

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1 week ago HMRC has ‘lost control’ of small businesses as missing tax hits 40%

Smaller companies account for almost two-thirds of uncollected revenue

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2 w. ago Man who stabbed wife to death in front of baby son tells court he planned to kill himself but 'lost control'

Kulsuma Akter, 27, suffered more than 25 knife injuries in an attack by her husband Habibur Masum, 26, after he confronted her in a street

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2 w. ago Man who stabbed wife to death says he planned to kill himself but ‘lost control’

Kulsuma Akter suffered more than 25 knife injuries in an attack by Habibur Masum after he tracked her to a refuge in Bradford.

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2 w. ago Bill Murray, 74, admits fame 'makes you do a lot of stupid things' as he candidly reflects on his 50 years of acting in new  interview

The twice Golden Globe winner and Oscar-nominated, 74, opened up about his first approach to fame when he was younger, where he claimed to 'have lost control for a year or two'.

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2 w. ago A Britain's Got Talent star reveals she 'lost control after signing up with Simon Cowel's talent agency'

A Britain's Got Talent star has revealed that she 'lost control after signing up with Simon Cowel's talent agency.

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2 w. ago Charles Leclerc smashes up Ferrari minutes into Canadian GP practice and says 'my bad'

First practice for the Canadian Grand Prix was stopped after just a few minutes when Charles Leclerc lost control of his Ferrari and smashed up the whole left side of the car

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2 w. ago Rally champion, 21, killed in 'very violent' crash as tributes paid to tragic star

Matteo Doretto was just 21 years old when he lost control of his rally car during a test in Poland on Wednesday and hit a tree. He was pronounced dead at the scene

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3 w. ago ‘Such ingratitude’: Trump and Musk alliance devolves into bitter feud

In latest twist Musk assails president for being ungrateful in rapidly deteriorating relationshipDonald Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk appeared on the precipice of devolving into bitter personal acrimony on Thursday as the onetime special adviser publicly assailed the president for being ungrateful for the millions he spent to get him elected.“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk said in a post on X. He added: “Such ingratitude.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Survivors review – a murder mystery so intense you’ll watch through your fingers

This adaptation of the bestselling Australian crime novel is full of twists, turns and red herrings. Its focus on the terrible grief of bereaved mothers makes it a cut aboveI hope you have had enough time to recover from Robyn Malcolm’s barnstorming performance as a harrowed wife and mother labouring under burdens no one should have to endure in the acclaimed After the Party, because here comes another one.The Survivors is a six-part adaptation of Jane Harper’s bestselling Australian crime novel of the same name, by Tony Ayres – who did the same for Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap 10 years ago, which followed families fracturing under the weight of a moment’s lost control, and who wrote Stateless in 2020 about lives intertwining at an Australian immigration detention centre. This is a writer who doesn’t shy away from the pain human beings can inflict on one other. The Survivors is technically a murder mystery but its real subject is grief and terrible, terrible guilt. Continue reading...

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