20 h. ago People on State Pension, PIP or other benefits due new payment rates in full next month

Most people will receive a blend of old and new payment rates this month.

Economics

43 h. ago Older people can claim these benefits on top of State Pension payments

There are more than a dozen benefits and discounts available for men and women aged 66 or over.

Economics

46 h. ago People on State Pension or benefits could cut broadband bill to under £20 this month

Simple way to access cheaper broadband packages and boost household budget as April bill hikes kick in.

Economics

52 h. ago PIP claimants won't see new benefit payment rates this month in DWP delay

DWP benefit payments - including Universal Credit, Attendance Allowance, and Employment Support Allowance (ESA) - were hiked by 1.7% on April 7. However, most claimants will have to wait until May before they receive the full amount of higher payments

Politics

69 h. ago Scotland weather: Edinburgh to be hotter than Istanbul next week as spring sunshine returns

Temperatures are set to soar again across Scotland at the start of next week

Politics

3 d. ago St Mirren transfer genius as they land 200 grand for star man with weeks left on his contract

The 27-year-old flew out to the United States at the start of the week to finalise his move.

Politics

4 d. ago Gemma Collins 'horrified' by her new look after using weight loss jabs

The former TOWIE star, 44, has lost more than 2stones since she started taking the NHS-approved weight loss jabs, but last week she shared her concerns over looking older.

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4 d. ago Trump says Russia and Ukraine will 'hopefully make a deal this week' and 'start doing business with the USA and make a fortune'

US President Donald Trump struck a hopeful note on his social media platform Truth Social last night, saying that 'hopefully Russia and Ukraine will make a deal this week'.

Economics

4 d. ago Some British MPs spending equivalent of a day a week doing second jobs

Guardian analysis finds seven MPs have worked at least 300 hours since July in outside employmentA total of seven MPs have spent on average one working day a week on second jobs since the start of the 2024 parliament, with additional gigs as TV presenters, lawyers and consultants.A Guardian analysis of self-declared working hours found the seven had worked at least 300 hours since July – the equivalent of eight hours a week, in outside employment averaged across the parliament – totalling more than 3,000 hours between them. A further seven MPs had worked at least five hours a week on a second job. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago America used to fire the world’s imagination – but now the cultural conversation is being silenced | Van Badham

Not only are TV-watching, book-reading, show-going, music-listening travellers declining to visit the US, we have started to cease to imagine itThis week, fresh data revealed the United States has seen its biggest drop in Australian tourists since Covid. It’s hardly surprising. Innocent people are being snatched by authorities from American streets. Citizens of foreign countries are being stopped, shackled and detained. The EU is now sending its emissaries with burner phones, lest personal social media posts critical of President Trump be discovered by border agents and who knows what happens next? Forcible relocation to a Salvadorian supermax prison, seemingly without chance of release, is suddenly not out of the question.It all seems like something from Hollywood dystopia; the V series, maybe. Or Escape from New York. It’s pretty much the plot line of the first season of Andor – which I strongly recommend that everyone watch before the Trump regime clocks what that show is advisin...

Events

1 week ago Lyrid meteor shower starts this week – how to see spectacular 'shooting stars' in UK skies

Stargazers could see up to 18 'shooting stars' an hour during the peak of the annual Lyrid meteor shower

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1 week ago Alison Hammond's faux leather midi skirt has fans saying she 'looks amazing' as she returns to This Morning

Alison Hammond returned to This Morning this week after taking time off at the start of the year, and the TV star did so in style with a waist-cinching leather midi skirt

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1 week ago Stricken Sevilla turn once again to Caparrós as owners keep up circus act | Sid Lowe

Fourth spell begins for club’s eighth head coach in less than three seasons, in wake of fourth defeat in a rowJust before two o’clock on Palm Sunday, as Holy Week began and religious brotherhoods started their slow, swaying progress through the streets of Seville, first La Paz, then La Hiniesta, then the rest, a man entered the city at Santa Justa. Aged 69, diagnosed with leukaemia five years ago, wearing a grey cardigan, blue jacket and a slightly manic smile, he’s thinner than before but couldn’t be more familiar. Joaquín Caparrós has coached Sevilla more times than anyone, across three spells, the first a quarter of a century ago; now he was returning for a fourth. “My face is a reflection; it says it all,” he said, leaving the station and stopping on the corner, searching for the car coming for him.Caparrós arrived on a train, alone and as their saviour. As somebody’s saviour, anyway: someone to get behind, someone to hide behind too, for a little while. Two days earlier Sevilla...

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1 week ago Michael Fabricant reveals Mickey Rourke's damning comment before Celebrity Big Brother exit that never made it to air

The former Tory MP, 74, was the first star to be evicted from the ITV show since it started last week.

Politics

1 week ago Only those with keen eyes can spot the hidden error in this flock of chickens

Give your mind a much-needed jolt at the start of the week by trying to spot the odd hen out.

Politics

1 week ago DWP confirms early State Pension and benefit payments for some people this week

Full list of DWP, HMRC and Social Security Scotland payments changes due to Easter bank holiday weekend.

Economics

1 week ago The ‘new world order’ of the past 35 years is being demolished before our eyes. This is how we must proceed | Gordon Brown

We have seen the conflict and tragedy that can follow when an old era collapses. Countries that believe in multilateralism must come together nowThis is the second in a two-part series on the global response to Donald Trump’s tariffs Read part one: Trump is pushing the world towards recession. By learning the lessons of 2008, we can still prevent itAfter a week that started with the worst financial volatility in recent history and ended with the most serious escalation so far of the China-US conflict, it is time to distinguish the tectonic shifts from the tremors. If nothing changes, the 2020s risks being remembered as this century’s devil’s decade – the term historians once used for the 1930s. It will be defined not just by seven million people who have died of Covid-19 and rising global poverty and inequality – but also by a dismembered Ukraine, a burnt-out Gaza and little-reported atrocities in Africa and Asia, each testimony to the violent displacement of a rules-based global or...

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1 week ago The Last of Us season 2 starts this week – here’s how to watch in the UK

The second season premieres later this week, and we’ve got all the details on the post-apocalyptic show

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1 week ago UK weather: Snow storm forecast as 'mini heatwave' to come to chilly end in Arctic blast

The UK could see temperatures rise up to 24C as we enjoy glorious sunshine but maps show for the start of next week there is a very different outlook with snow as the mercury plummets

Society

2 w. ago Jimmy White fires Ronnie O’Sullivan warning one week before World Championship starts

Ronnie O'Sullivan is yet to confirm his participation in this year's World Snooker Championship, but Jimmy White has warned his fellow professionals that the Rocket could bounce back

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