42 h. ago Warning to UK families over visiting four countries this summer

Brits heading to holiday hotspots around Europe this summer may face organised anti-tourism protests as soon as they arrive at airports with locals fuming at rising prices

Events

52 h. ago Pope Francis funeral latest: Public queue to pay respects for last time as world leaders fly in for Vatican ceremony

Pope Francis’s funeral will be held on Saturday with world leaders in attendance

Politics

69 h. ago Britain's 20 best seaside hotels, campsites and cottages: Property expert picks their favourite spots to stay right by the beach

Summer is just around the corner, making the British seaside all the more alluring. Alex Fisher, who edits Coast Magazine, has picked her favourite UK shoreside stays.

Society

2 d. ago 'Vital' travel advice issued to Brits who still carry burgundy passports

Holidaymakers with passports issued before Britain left the EU have been urged to check their travel documents before they jet off to avoid trouble at airports

Transport

3 d. ago British tourists with burgundy passports urged to carry out 'vital checks'

Holidaymakers who still hold the old-style passports before Britain left the EU risk being caught out by border control unless they check certain details

Politics

3 d. ago My cousin Ziyad loved his family, Gaza’s candies and life. A bomb ended all that on Friday night | Ghada Ageel

When Israeli strikes killed 45 members of my family, Ziyad rushed to try to save them – this time, he was the victim. I write of him to defy the darknessMy cousin Ziyad was too young to die. He was sleeping at home in Khan Younis refugee camp when the bombs fell just before midnight on Friday. After they heard the explosion, my cousins Mohammed and Moatsem ran to save him, they told me, but he had already died in his bed. He was 44.Ziyad was a social worker for Unrwa, working with vulnerable families in Gaza’s refugee camps. Every summer when I visited Gaza from my home in Canada, he would buy my little son candies from Asa’ad’s shop – now gone with Asa’ad (who was killed in October 2023) – insisting that Gaza’s candies were the best in the world. Everyone in Khan Younis knew him for his calm presence, gentle spirit and warm smile. He was always ready to help – the words “no” or “I can’t” were never part of his vocabulary. The night before he was killed, he visited the wounded and s...

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3 d. ago Dozens of my family have been killed by Israel in Gaza, and now Ziyad, too. Only one thing gives me solace | Ghada Ageel

My cousin smiled at everyone, bought my son candies, rushed to help when the bombs fell. All that ended on Friday nightMy cousin Ziyad was too young to die. He was sleeping at home in Khan Younis refugee camp when the bombs fell just before midnight on Friday. After they heard the explosion, my cousins Mohammed and Moatsem ran to save him, they told me, but he had already died in his bed. He was 44.Ziyad was a social worker for Unrwa, working with vulnerable families in Gaza’s refugee camps. Every summer when I visited Gaza from my home in Canada, he would buy my little son candies from Asa’ad’s shop – now gone with Asa’ad (who was killed in October 2023) – insisting that Gaza’s candies were the best in the world. Everyone in Khan Younis knew him for his calm presence, gentle spirit and warm smile. He was always ready to help – the words “no” or “I can’t” were never part of his vocabulary. The night before he was killed, he visited the wounded and sick, including my uncle, Kamal. Co...

Events

3 d. ago Millie Radford sparks concern Britain's biggest family are having another feud during holiday to Florida

The mother-of-three, from Morecambe, Lancashire, is one of Sue and Noel Radford 's many children and stars on the Channel 5 show 22 Kids & Counting.

Politics

4 d. ago Cluster headaches are ‘the most painful condition on the planet’. Sufferers are going to extreme – and secretive – measures for relief

The condition is more excruciating than childbirth or gunshot wounds, but little understood. An online community of ‘clusterheads’ are self-experimenting with psilocybin – with promising resultsPeter was working late, watching two roulette tables in play at a London casino, when he felt something stir behind his right eye. It was just a shadow of sensation, a horribly familiar tickle. But on that summer night in 2018, as chips hit the tables and gamblers’ conversation swelled, panic set in. He knew he only had a few minutes.Peter found his boss, muttered that he had to leave, now, and ran outside. By then, the tickle had escalated; it felt like a red-hot poker was being shoved through his right pupil. Tears flowed from that eye, which was nearly swollen shut, and mucus from his right nostril. Half-blinded, gripping at his face, he stumbled along the street, eventually escaping into a company car that whisked him home, where he blacked out. Continue reading...

Politics

5 d. ago Tariffs will raise prices. But the climate crisis is the real inflation risk | Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli

As temperatures rise and countries back off their decarbonization efforts, we must confront a reality central banks can’t correctInflation is, at base, a tax on consumption – and it hits the poor the hardest, since they consume more of their incomes and the rich consume less.That’s one reason for concern over Donald Trump’s tariffs, which will disproportionately affect the poor. When the 90-day pause on the tariffs expires, it is reasonable to expect prices to rise, and by a lot.Mark Blyth is a political economist and professor at Brown University. Nicolò Fraccaroli is a visiting scholar at Brown University Continue reading...

Economics

6 d. ago 'Easter Glumday' warning as massive downpour set to soak Britain on Bank Holiday

Brits planning to have BBQs on the last day of the four-day bank holiday are set to have their hopes dashed as it's expected to rain heavily throughout Monday (April 21)

Events

7 d. ago The rich and Rat City: Locals in Birmingham's bin hell claim they are forced to live in a dump... while wealthy neighbours had their rubbish picked up LAST WEEK

It is like walking through a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Politics

8 d. ago Scots jet out on dream holiday to the US with Britain's largest family the Radfords

The Walker family have been good friends with the Radfords for years and have now joined Britain's largest family on a dream holiday for Sue Radford's 50th birthday.

Politics

1 week ago The Nazi 'fashion house' where Jews were forced to make clothes for the rich... using fabric looted from murdered Holocaust victims

Amidst the death and disease of the Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland, Jewish men, women and children were forced to make clothes and luxury goods for the Nazi regime and Third Reich civilians.

Events

1 week ago The little known loophole used by second home owners to dodge soaring council tax bills in Britain's holiday hotspots

Experts fear property barons are putting their homes on the market to exploit a legal get-around that is helping them avoid new council tax premiums, with Padstow in Cornwall among the areas hit.

Economics

2 w. ago 'I moved to Benidorm after one visit at 24 – I'll never come back to boring old Britain'

Harry Poulton was just a teen when he first visited the sunny Spanish hotspot - now at 24-years-old, he's decided he's fed up of living in "depressing" Britain and has moved full time to the rowdy holiday destination

Politics

2 w. ago Gang who smuggled £17m of cocaine into Britain from the Netherlands before police found them holing up in Norfolk holiday let decades in prison

The group, who brought in cocaine from the Netherlands to distribute throughout London, were found hiding out at a holiday let in Norfolk.

Events

3 w. ago Make rich pay more to fly so poor families can still go on summer holiday, says net zero tsar

Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, has said flying should be considered a luxury, but that it would be unfair to price lower income families out of air travel.

Politics

3 w. ago Rich should be forced to fly less by paying new taxes so poor families can still take summer holidays, Britain's net zero tsar says

Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, has said flying should be considered a luxury, but that it would be unfair to price lower income families out of air travel.

Economics

3 w. ago Rich should fly less to protect poorer families’ summer holiday, UK climate adviser says

CCC has urged ministers to limit aviation emissions to ensure Britain meets its net-zero target

Society