2 h. ago Tories call for Motability Scheme to end for people with certain health conditions

Around 815,000 people across Great Britain currently use the Motability Scheme.

Politics

3 h. ago New calls to increase State Pension for over 400,000 people next year

Campaigners say it would cost the UK Government just £63 million to unfreeze State Pension payments.

Politics

18 h. ago ICE arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal record during first nine months of Trump’s presidency, records show

The data shows how arrests haven’t always matched with administration’s vow to go after the worst of the worst and violent criminals

Events

22 h. ago Young people to have 'benefits cut' if they refuse job offers in DWP crackdown

Up to 55,000 young people will be offered government-backed jobs in six UK areas from April 2026, but could face benefit cuts if they refuse without good reason

Politics

22 h. ago Young people to have benefits cut if they refuse job offer in new DWP crackdown

Jobs will be provided for up to 55,000 young people from April 2026 in six part of the UK, based on areas with the highest need

Politics

26 h. ago Wreckage of £200,000 Lamborghini left behind after 'huge brawl' left two people with stab wounds

Police have arrested ten people - eight men and two women - after two men in their 20s suffered serious stab wounds in Summer Lane, near the city centre.

Economics

31 h. ago AIDS quilt created by Scottish activist to go on show in Scotland for first time

The quilt has previously been on show at Tate Modern in London, where it was visited by more than 70,000 people.

Politics

38 h. ago Jobless youngsters to be offered work in construction and hospitality

Guaranteed jobs provided for up to 55,000 people from spring 2026, under new government plans

Society

38 h. ago Jobless youngsters to be offered work in construction and hospitality – and could lose benefits if they say no

Guaranteed jobs provided for up to 55,000 people from spring 2026, under new government plans

Society

38 h. ago Young people on benefits to be helped into jobs with £820 million boost

The cash includes funding for training and work experience in construction, hospitality, and health and social care for 350,000 young people on universal credit

Economics

49 h. ago Pressure grows on ‘reckless’ Hegseth as twin scandals engulf Pentagon chief

Defense secretary defiant but allegations of war crimes and blistering watchdog report increase calls for him to goPete Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a blistering inspector general report accusing him of mishandling classified military intelligence. Yet despite the long list of trouble and as lawmakers from both parties call for his resignation, Hegseth shows no signs of stepping down and still holds Donald Trump’s support.The twin crises have engulfed the former Fox News personality in separate but overlapping allegations that lawmakers, policy experts and former officials say reveal a pattern of dangerous recklessness at the helm of the Pentagon. Democratic legislators have reignited calls for his ouster after revelations that survivors clinging to wreckage from a September boat strike were deliberately killed in a “double-tap” attack, while a defense department investigation...

Events

62 h. ago How many spiders and pseudoscorpions does it take to make one of the world’s greatest taxonomists?

Former Perth curator Mark Harvey is one of the few people on Earth to have described 1,000 new species, many of them arachnids. Colleagues say his legacy is ‘unquantifiable’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFor most people around the world, 16 August 1977 was memorable because it was the day Elvis Presley died.“We turned the radio on when we got back in the car and that was the headline. Elvis was dead,” remembers Dr Mark Harvey. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago New call to increase DWP Christmas Bonus with inflation to £169

The annual £10 for people on the State Pension or benefits launched over 50 years ago in 1972 and has only risen once.

Economics

3 d. ago How Zohran Mamdani tapped into all generations in groundbreaking campaign

Campaigning increasingly occurs in what researchers have called a ‘hybrid media’ environment

Politics

3 d. ago NHS boss reveals up to 8,000 people will be hospitalised with flu by next week

Sir Jim Mackey tells NHS England board meeting that flu patients will take up between 5,000 and 8,000 hospital beds every day amid worst flu season on record

Science

4 d. ago Horror death of supermarket worker trampled by Black Friday shoppers

He was 34 and working at Walmart when he was trampled to death by a crowd of over 2,000 people who stormed the store

Economics

4 d. ago I've been trying to wean myself off a common medication prescribed to millions for the last SIX years... this is my urgent warning to EVERYONE who has been given Pregabalin by their GP

Most people haven't heard of pregabalin but 800,000 people take it every day in the UK for pain relief or anxiety, including Miranda Levy, who is desperate to wean herself off... for good.

Events

4 d. ago New England warming faster than most places on Earth, study finds

Pace of area’s temperature rise, outpaced in US only by Alaskan Arctic, apparently increased in past five yearsThe US region called New England is widely known for its colonial history, maple syrup and frigid, snow-bound winters. Many of these norms are in the process of being upended, however, by a rapidly altering climate, with new research finding the area is heating up faster than almost anywhere else on Earth.The breakneck speed of New England’s transformation makes it the fastest-heating area of the US, bar the Alaskan Arctic, and the pace of its temperature rise has apparently increased in the past five years, according to the study. Continue reading...

Events

4 d. ago I've been trying to wean myself off a common medication prescribed to millions for the last SIX years... this is my urgent warning to EVERYONE who has been given Pregablin by their GP

Most people haven't heard of pregabalin but 800,000 people take it every day in the UK for pain relief or anxiety, including Miranda Levy, who is desperate to wean herself off... for good.

Events

4 d. ago Hong Kong warns ‘external forces’ working to exploit apartment fire, as death toll rises to 159

Police say number of dead may still be revised as ‘suspected human bones’ found during search require forensic testingHong Kong and Beijing officials have warned against what they claim are “external forces” threatening to exploit last week’s deadly apartment complex fire for political disruption, as rescuers say at least 159 people have been confirmed dead.The fire at the Wang Fuk Court in northern Hong Kong is the city’s worst disaster in 75 years, and the world’s most fatal residential building fire since 1980. The eight-tower complex – home to nearly 5,000 people – was under extensive renovations that have since been found to contain substandard, flammable materials. Continue reading...

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