25 h. ago 'Best' day for Brits to book cheap hotels and save big on bookings

If you're looking to save money on a UK hotel stay, there's one day of the week you should always book on

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26 h. ago Most Loved Dogs 2025: Here are the 12 breeds of adorable dogs that people like the most

These are the pups that people have the most positive opinions on - whether dog owners or not.

Politics

30 h. ago Major update to your credit score announced with rent payments now included

Experian is changing its credit score system, and says its new model will take into account 'more of the positive financial behaviours people demonstrate in their everyday lives'

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5 d. ago Woman's desperate note to homeless man staying at her house before he butchered her

Apapale Adoum, 39, has been sentenced for the murder of Victoria Adams, a woman who he battered to death with a mallet just days after she invited him to stay in her home

Society

8 d. ago Joe Biden urges Americans to stay positive amid political ‘dark days’

Americans are facing attacks on free speech and tests of executive power, Biden said

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1 week ago Former Labour justice minister Shahid Malik, 57, helped set up 'fraudulent Covid testing firm that made £6.6m in three weeks', court told

Malik, 57, is accused of establishing the 'cash cow' firm alongside a pharmacist, a registered scientist and his own former office manager.

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1 week ago Bread can stay fresh 'days longer' if wrapped in one item from kitchen drawer

If you're tired of seeing your bread go mouldy and soggy, there's a simple thing you can do to avoid this. Wrapping it in an item from your kitchen drawer could boost the life of your loaf

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2 w. ago Boris Johnson says children paid a 'huge price' when schools were closed during Covid but officials DID plan ahead of 'nightmare' decision

The former PM told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that it was 'obvious' there would need to be 'consideration of closing schools' and he believed education bosses were making a plan.

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2 w. ago 'Holy grail' blood test that can detect up to 50 types of cancer may be even more effective than thought, researchers discover

In an NHS trial British experts have discovered that the test correctly identified that more than a third of people thought to have a 'false positive' result.

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2 w. ago UK's Covid rules around going outside during lockdown were too strict and should have been 'more liberal', Chris Whitty admits

Professor Sir Chris Whitty told the Covid-19 Inquiry that the approach to the first lockdown should have been 'more liberal', as the evidence showed that being outdoors was safer than being indoors.

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2 w. ago Christmas killers film themselves opening family's gifts before pouncing

Kaye and Rolf Tiede drove their family to a picture-perfect cabin stay in the mountains just three days before Christmas Day but were unaware that two men were waiting inside.

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2 w. ago Judge to decide 'at a later date' whether asylum seekers can stay at a migrant hotel in Essex after three

Epping Forest District Council (EFDC) is taking legal action against Somani Hotels, owner of the Bell Hotel in Epping, claiming accommodating asylum seekers breaches planning rules.

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2 w. ago Looking for extra festive cash? Royal Mail, Amazon & supermarkets hiring for more than 130,000 Christmas jobs RIGHT NOW

IF you need cash for Christmas, now is the time to apply for a festive job.  The number of seasonal roles is up 16 per cent on last year as retailers, logistics firms, pubs, clubs and restaurants take on temporary staff for the season.  However, the number of people looking for a yuletide position is...

Economics

3 w. ago Sir Gavin Williamson: ‘Many mistakes made’ with Covid school closures

The former education secretary told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry things should have been done differently.

Politics

3 w. ago Covid denier encouraged ‘serious violence’ during pandemic, court told

Paul Martin, of Suffolk Road, Croydon, has admitted having a stun gun but denied the other two charges against him.

Events

3 w. ago ‘A palette unlike anything in the west’: Ben Okri, Yinka Shonibare and more on how Nigerian art revived Britain’s cultural landscape

To mark a new exhibition at Tate Modern, leading British-Nigerian cultural figures trace the impact of their heritage on their work, and consider its growing influence on the world stageSome primal energy was unleashed among Nigerian artists in the years leading up to independence. The century-long reign of colonialism was nearing its end and the people of Nigeria, with its over 300 tribes, its ebullient energy, were poised for a new future in which they would determine the shape and context of their lives.And the people who most articulated that double position, that paradox of modernity and tradition, were artists in all their stripes. Artists across the country, in constant dialogue with one another, created works that evoked their traditions but in a contemporary context. Artists such as Yusuf Grillo in the north, Bruce Onobrakpeya from the midwest, Ben Enwonwu from the east and Twins Seven Seven from the west were remaking the dream of art in a rigorously Nigerian context. The ...

Politics

3 w. ago People who test positive for Covid told to stay home for five days

There has been a new wave of cases thanks to two highly infectious strains

Politics

3 w. ago John Swinney accused of lacking 'urgency' over need to close schools when Covid

Swinney, who was serving as Education Secretary in 2020, told the UK Covid Inquiry that shuttering schools was "not our preferred scenario".

Politics

3 w. ago Trump just hosted an ‘Antifa roundtable’ at the White House ... it was so much worse than you’re imagining

Holly Baxter reports on a meeting which, at one point, appeared to position people protesting against Nazis in the Weimar Republic as the bad guys, and at another saw the president declare, ‘We got rid of freedom of speech’

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last month Covid Stratus warning as Brits told to ditch home remedy when treating 'unique' symptom

An expert has urged Covid sufferers to avoid one popular home remedy when treating a 'unusual' symptom of the new Stratus variant, as it might not be very effective

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