2 h. ago People on DWP Universal Credit could get free £1,200 cash boost from Sunday

The Help to Save scheme gives Universal Credit claimants the chance to earn a bonus of 50p for every £1 they save – and there's a bonus at both the two and four year marks

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3 h. ago I live in a naturist camp just outside the M25 with 50 people who are nude all day

Tom Dryer-Beers talks to MailOnline Travel about his life at Spielplatz, the UK's longest-operating naturist resort that's situated just off the M25 in the village of Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire.

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5 h. ago Martin Lewis' 'bedroom rule' could save homeowners £700 on bills

Consumer expert Martin Lewis says a simple rule based on how many people live in your home could slash soaring water charges

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5 h. ago Dr Punam says dementia symptoms could be something very different

The BBC Morning Live resident GP says two million people are at risk and older people face the greatest danger

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6 h. ago More people claiming DWP Universal Credit can get free £1,200 cash boost from Sunday

The scheme was originally launched by the former Tory government in September 2018 as a way to encourage low-income households to save, and was due to end for good in April this year. However, Labour extended it for another two years

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19 h. ago Thousands missing out on £4,200 state pension boost that takes just 16 minutes to check

Thousands of qualifying pensioners are still yet to claim state pension support

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31 h. ago Ezra Klein on Trump, Vance and free speech: ‘It feels like we are in one of the darkest imaginable timelines’

The influential US commentator has written a book about how politics can change people’s lives for the better. But first, there are more pressing challenges to address ...Ezra Klein, the New York Times podcast host and progressive media’s undisputed nerd king, starts his new book with something of a palate cleanser for our troubled times. For a few paragraphs, he and his co-author, the Atlantic journalist Derek Thompson, whisk us out of the grim reality of contemporary politics to a world of Abundance (the word they picked as their title).“You open your eyes at dawn and turn in the cool bedsheets,” they purr, before conjuring a near-future utopia where the cost of living crisis is a distant memory. “You live in a cocoon of energy so clean it barely leaves a carbon trace and so cheap you can scarcely find it on your monthly bill.” The fridge is full of fresh fruit and vegetables from skyscraper farms that sit amid rewilded landscapes. This is what we can look forward to, they say, if...

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36 h. ago People on State Pension or DWP benefits may see delay to new payment rates due this month

The annual DWP uprating will be applied to the State Pension and benefits on April 7.

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37 h. ago 'We live in "Britain's kindest village" but actually we seem to attract criminals'

Around 2,700 people live in Trawden, Lancashire, and while many of these regularly volunteer in the pub, library and shops, the picturesque village still suffers with crime

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51 h. ago Donald Trump is eyeing up a third term – and no one is opposing him | Arwa Mahdawi

So many people and organisations are capitulating to the US president, from Silicon Valley to the Democrats, legal firms and elite universities. How realistic is the prospect of Trump 3.0?Hell is empty and all the devils are in Washington DC. And, what with devils being immortal and all, it looks as if they might stay there indefinitely. Now, before I seamlessly segue from fun devil facts into talking about Donald Trump threatening to run for a third term, the current political climate compels me to make a few things clear. I recently had to submit my US green card for renewal (impeccable timing!) so I’d like to explain to any United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers reviewing my file that the first line of this piece was just riffing on Shakespeare. I’m absolutely not comparing Trump, the greatest man to walk this Earth, to Satan. Nor am I suggesting evil people seem to live long lives.On the contrary, I am thrilled that our 78-year-old president has sugg...

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53 h. ago ‘We will not let French people have election stolen from them,’ says Le Pen – Europe live

Far-right leader says guilty verdict was ‘a nuclear bomb’ used against her as her party president calls for protestsLe Pen ban is ‘political and partisan’, says French far-right party’s presidentIn Kyiv, Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha has offered an update on the talks with the United States over a new minerals deal.Sybiha told a press conference held with his Lithuanian counterpart, Kestutis Budrys, that one round of consultations had already taken place and that an agreement providing for a strong American business presence in Ukraine would contribute to his country’s security infrastructure, Reuters reported. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Older people living on their own could be due annual State Pension boost of £4,200

Pension Credit claims can be backdated by up to three months and provide access to heating help next winter.

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3 d. ago Love, actually: How intimacy survives marriage and motherhood | Saman Shad

The key isn’t chasing some impossible ideal of passion that never fades, but learning to appreciate love in all its evolving formsThe first thing a friend did when I told her the title of my book was laugh. “The Sex Lives of Married Women?” She asked. “You mean The No Sex Lives of Married Women.”I laughed too. She wasn’t wrong – married people aren’t exactly known for their thriving sex lives. And I suspect the only couples reliably having sex must be the ones who have scheduled it into their Google calendars, probably in a shared folder alongside “Bunnings trip” and “remortgage review”. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The siege of Khartoum has lifted. Left behind are scenes of unimaginable horror | Nesrine Malik

Sudan’s capital has been hollowed out and stripped for parts, its people trampled beneath a conflict that is far from overTen days ago, in a major turning point in almost two years of war, the Sudanese army reclaimed the capital city from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia which took it over in 2023. What little we know so far paints a picture of a city ravaged by unimaginable horror.The war has sent Sudan hurtling into the largest humanitarian disaster in the world, triggering genocide in the west of the country, and starvation there and in other areas. Previously allies in power, the RSF – formalised and expanded from the remnants of the Janjaweed militia – and the Sudanese military went to war when their partnership fell apart. The victims have been the Sudanese people, whose lives were trampled beneath. Khartoum’s centrality in the war, both in its prosperity and in terms of what it represents for the RSF as the seat of power, has meant the city has been subjected to a parti...

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4 d. ago LIVE: People urged to 'avoid area' as cordon put in place outside Matalan

Police and paramedics are in attendance outside a Matalan store in Oldham this afternoon

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4 d. ago Myanmar earthquake: King Charles sends condolences after 7.7

King Charles has sent his 'deepest possible sympathy' to those affected by Friday's earthquake in Myanmar, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake caused buildings to collapse and claimed the lives of at least 1,600 people.

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4 d. ago The 'safe and friendly' area people agree is among London's best places to live

The 'safe and friendly' area people agree is among London's best places to live  Brent and Kilburn Times

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5 d. ago Partial solar eclipse live: moon blocks part of sun for people in northern hemisphere

Partial solar eclipse visible to differing degrees depending on where you watch it in the northern hemisphereHere’s a view of the sun from Dakar, Senegal:How visible today’s partial eclipse will be depends, unsurprisingly, on how clear the sky is where you are. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Partial solar eclipse live: watch as moon blocks part of sun for people in northern hemisphere

Partial solar eclipse will be visible to differing degrees depending on where you watch it in the northern hemisphereHow visible today’s partial eclipse will be depends, unsurprisingly, on how clear the sky is where you are.What is surprising, however, is that some of the best visibility across the northern hemisphere will be above Guardian HQ in oft-rainy London, where there is barely a cloud in the sky. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Partial solar eclipse live: watch as moon to block part of sun for people in northern hemisphere

Timing differs by location, but in London it will begin at 10.07am, with the moon reach its maximum coverage of the sun at 11.03am before ending at noonThe partial solar eclipse will be visible in parts of the UK between 10am and noon on Saturday – with viewing chances best in the east where skies should be clearest – and in several other parts of the world, including western Europe, Greenland, north-west Africa and north-east North America.“It won’t be total anywhere but there are parts of Canada where it will be about 90%,” said the Royal Observatory’s Jake Foster. “So it’ll be very impressive over there.” Continue reading...

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