4 h. ago Top UK energy suppliers offering free electric blankets to certain customers this winter

The initiatives could help people save up to £300 a year

Economics

8 h. ago Fresh Reform UK surge puts Nigel Farage's party on course to win Welsh Senedd elections ahead of Labour and Plaid Cymru

The Beaufort Research survey found Nigel Farage's party were backed by 30 per cent of Welsh voters - up five percentage points from a previous poll in June.

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9 h. ago Case of a single vote that decided a federal election in Canada sparks uproar

Legal teams are midway through a hearing over whether one vote truly swayed an election in a Montreal suburbThe case of a single vote which determined the outcome of a federal election in Canada risks sending the “disastrous message” to voters that “some votes count more than others”, says the lawyer of a former MP as a court considers whether to void the controversial election and hold a new vote.Legal teams in Quebec are midway through a three-day hearing over whether a single vote – and an administrative error – truly swayed a recent election in a suburb north of Montreal. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Reform UK candidate who sued after election defeat to Green candidate is handed £19k court bill

Liz Williams (pictured) lost to Green candidate Hannah Robson in an election for the Littletons ward in Worcestershire after recounts left them tied on 889 votes in May.

Economics

14 h. ago Net Zero shambles as Rachel Reeves plans to hammer electric cars for tax

Ahead of her Budget next month, the Chancellor is said to be drawing up several proposals to hike taxes on EVs to ensure all drivers pay their fair share.

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15 h. ago Reform UK candidate who challenged bizarre defeat using fake AI court cases hit with £19,000 bill

Liz Williams was beaten to the post in dramatic scenes by Green candidate Hannah Robson in a rural Worcestershire election

Economics

17 h. ago Volvo ES90: Is this luxury electric saloon enough to convince people to step away from SUVs?

Volvo's rejoined the saloon market with a premium EV offering - the ES90. Will this EV with over 400 miles of range and a luxurious interior steal SUV sales? Freda Lewis-Stempel reviews it.

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36 h. ago Experts hail ‘remarkable’ success of electronic implant in restoring sight

Sight of 84% of people with form of age-related macular degeneration restored after being fitted with deviceAn electronic eye implant half the thickness of a human hair has helped people with incurable sight loss to see again, opening up a potential “new era” in tackling blindness.Doctors who implanted the sim card-shaped prosthetic device say it has helped many of the 38 elderly patients in the trial regain their ability to read letters, numbers and words. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Omoda’s newest car is inspired by video games and Lamborghini

Latest model from fast-growing Chinese brand is a funky small SUV set to take on the Nissan Juke

Politics

47 h. ago Rodrigo Paz Pereira wins Bolivia’s presidential runoff marking a new shift to the right

Sunday’s election marked the first time since 2005 that no candidate from Evo Morales’ Mas party was on the ballotCentre-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 58, won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday and will be the country’s next president, marking a shift to the right after nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas) party.With just over 97% of ballots counted in the electoral court’s “preliminary” tally, Paz Pereira secured 54.6% of the vote, while rightwing former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga received 45.4%. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago ‘It’s a crucial vote’: Turkish Cypriots face choice between peace and partition

Election in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus will determine whether peace talks to reunify island can be revivedVoters in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus have been casting ballots in a presidential poll seen as pivotal to determining whether peace talks on the divided Mediterranean island can be revived.In an election watched closely by the international community, the 218,000-strong Turkish Cypriot electorate has a choice: to either support the nationalist incumbent, Ersin Tatar, who advocates a two-state solution to the complex Cyprus problem, and further integration with Turkey, or the leftwing veteran, Tufan Erhürman, who backs a return to UN-brokered peace talks. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Support for Reform UK increasing among British Indians, poll shows

Exclusive: Survey finds 13% of British Indians back Nigel Farage’s party compared with only 4% at last electionSupport for Reform UK among British Indians has tripled since the election, according to polling from a diaspora group that suggests Nigel Farage’s party is gaining ground in some demographics where it has struggled.Research by the 1928 Institute, a group of Oxford academics who analyse the British Indian community, shows backing for Reform has jumped in the past year from 4% to 13%. Continue reading...

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61 h. ago Ed Miliband denies his Net Zero policies are keeping Brits' energy costs high

The Energy Secretary insisted it was 'not correct' to suggest Labour's bid for a decarbonised electricity grid was increasing the burden on families.

Events

66 h. ago Bolivia to vote in presidential runoff that will turn it to the right

End of almost two decades of leftist rule could revive ‘war on drugs’ in change of approach to coca cultivationBolivians go to the polls on Sunday in an election that, whatever the result, will mark a complete shift to the right after nearly 20 years under the rule of the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas).The country’s first-ever presidential runoff pits the centre-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 58, who won the first round in August, against the rightwing former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, 65, who in recent weeks has overtaken Paz Pereira in the polls. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Lib Dems' bold election strategy to copy Tories' and Greens' success with Holyrood list vote push

Alex Cole-Hamilton’s party has its sights set on a triumph in the Highlands at next May’s Holyrood election.

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3 d. ago Lib Dems' bold election strategy will copy Tories' and Greens' success with Holyrood list vote push

Alex Cole-Hamilton’s party has its sights set on a triumph in the Highlands at next May’s Holyrood election.

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3 d. ago Happy birthday to the NES, companion to millions of Nintendo childhoods

Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the US – and a generation of kids were sucked into video games for lifeThe Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the United States on 18 October 1985: about a year after I was born, and 40 years ago today. It’s as if the company sensed that a sucker who’d spend thousands of dollars on plastic toys and electronic games had just entered the world. Actually, it’s as if the company had sensed that an entire generation of fools like me was about to enter the world. Which is true. That was the time to strike. We were about to be drained of every dollar we received for birthdays, Christmases and all those times our dad didn’t want us to tell our mom about something. (Maybe that last one’s just me.)Despite being slightly older than the NES, a horror I’m only now forced to face as I write this, it felt like that console had always existed in my life. I don’t have many memories from my baby years because I was to...

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4 d. ago How shoplifters use social media to seek out trends & then flog stolen items online in crimewave crushing retailers

IT’S an internet Aladdin’s cave brimming with “pre-loved” goodies and counts Katie Price, Rebekah Vardy and Alexa Chung among its celebrity sellers. But The Sun can reveal that Vinted, which boasts 16million UK users, is awash with ­suspected stolen items nabbed to order by criminal gangs. We found hundreds of suspiciously cheap cosmetics, toiletries, electricals...

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4 d. ago ‘Illusion of democracy’: Ben Sulayem’s last rival exits FIA presidential race

Tim Mayer hits out over rules surrounding electionMohammed Ben Sulayem will be the only candidateThe FIA has been accused of presenting an “illusion of democracy” in an uncompromising broadside from the last remaining challenger to Mohammed Ben Sulayem as he formally announced his attempt to succeed the organisation’s incumbent president was over. Tim Mayer, a former FIA senior steward, also condemned Formula One’s governing body for lacking transparency and threatening the sport’s future.The 59-year-old American, who was sacked from his FIA role last year, had been standing as a candidate against Ben Sulayem but on Friday in Austin acknowledged the incumbent would run unopposed because of the way FIA electoral regulations are composed. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The Guardian view on Trump and the law: a restraint on the executive is morphing into its weapon | Editorial

The indictment of critics including John Bolton rings alarm bells as the US president expands his power and seeks to use the justice system to exact revenge“He who saves his country does not violate any law,” Donald Trump posted after beginning his second term – emboldened, perhaps, by the supreme court’s bombshell ruling on presidential immunity last year, which many say gave the office-holder the powers of a monarch.Millions of Americans are expected to push back against the president’s growing power at No Kings protests across the US on Saturday. The demonstrations come as former intelligence and national security officials warn that the country is sliding towards “competitive authoritarianism”, in which elections and courts survive but are systematically manipulated by the executive. Continue reading...

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