78 m. ago Tories call for suspension of Reform UK councillor over ice cream van inquiry

Former Leicestershire County Council deputy leader Joseph Boam, 22, is facing claims so-called ‘treating’ took place near a polling station.

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1 hour ago Jet2holidays discount codes for September 2025 – Get up to £100 off

Plus an extra £50 off per person with these eight Jet2holidays voucher codes

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2 h. ago Keir Starmer banned from having armoured electric Range Rover because it does not offer adequate bomb protection

The Prime Minister must now stick to a petrol version of the vehicle for the foreseeable future as 'required safety levels' cannot otherwise be reached.

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2 h. ago Lionesses star Chloe Kelly reveals the surprisingly unromantic location of her first date with now

After the Lionesses Euros win, Chloe Kelly has delved into more personal matters, revealing the unconventional location of her first date with husband Scott Moore in an interview with The Sunday Times.

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2 h. ago How do I know my life has gone wrong? Because I spend all my time at the tip | Zoe Williams

I am there so often that the man who runs the recyclables aisle knows my name – and he is seriously unimpressed with my offeringsYou know a lot of things have gone wrong for you when the guy at the municipal dump knows your name. It basically means you’re bereaved or getting divorced – because if you’re just a regular, organised person who goes to the dump a lot, you’re in and out of there like a ghost.So anyway, I wouldn’t call it a friendship, between me and the guy in the recyclable items aisle; it’s more of a Tom and Jerry thing. I try to leave stuff where it might find a new home, and he tries to get me to put it in landfill. I say, “But sir, it’s a brand new commode, there are people who’d bite your hand off for one of these,” and he says, “Give it back to the NHS,” and I say, “Do you think I haven’t tried that?”. And he shakes his head, and I put it in landfill, but then wait until his back is turned and run back with three Zimmer frames. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago New DWP update on PIP assessment changes for new and existing claimants

PIP assessments can be conducted in person, by video call or over the phone.

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2 h. ago Coronation Street's Simon Gregson sends public tribute to 'beautiful' wife in personal update

The actor, who is famed for playing Steve McDonald in the ITV soap, has been married to Emma Gleave since 2010

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2 h. ago Asylum seeker begs to go back to Somalia because it's 'safer than Nuneaton' as anti

Nuneaton in Warwickshire has become a hotbed of tension amid a string of anti-migrant protests following reports two Afghan asylum seekers had been arrested for sexual assault.

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3 h. ago Electric car range almost halves when driving in heatwave temperatures, test finds

A test by What Car? driving three popular EVs through the 'frying pan of Andalusia' in Spain, enduring temperatures between 32 and 44 degrees, had a dramatic toll on the official ranges.

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4 h. ago The Two Roberts by Damian Barr review – lost story of a gay art duo

The lives of Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, who found love and fame and lost it all, are vividly reimaginedWhat if the protagonist of a novel was not a single person but a couple? Damian Barr takes on this challenge, and he’s found a historic couple who make the ideal source material. Working-class Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun were rarely apart after they met in 1933. They lived and worked together, became famous together and then declined into desperate squalor together – even poorer than when they began.Barr knows what it’s like to conquer Glasgow from a small, working-class town on its outskirts; he knows what it’s like to find yourself feted for your portraits of the place you’ve left irrevocably behind. His memoir, Maggie and Me, was a hard-hitting yet rambunctious tale of growing up gay near Motherwell under Thatcher, uneasily aware that the woman who pushed his parents deeper into poverty also taught him that the ruthless ex...

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4 h. ago Who is attending China’s military parade and what weapons are going to be shown off?

China’s military parade paves the way for Xi Jinping to be christened the biggest leader in the East to take on Donald Trump's aggressive trade and geopolitical policies, reports Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

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5 h. ago Brits share their 20 most common baking fails ahead of new Bake Off series

A poll of 1,200 adults found that only three per cent of British bakers said everything they make comes out perfectly - with the average person having two baking fails a year

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5 h. ago Sudan landslide wipes out entire village as more than 1,000 feared dead

Just one person in the village is said to have survived the tragedy in the Darfur region of Sudan as families of men, women and children were killed by the landslide

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5 h. ago People open to blackmail as hackers access most personal devices

An industry expert has warned about the dangers of the latest technology

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5 h. ago Lanarkshire MSP says party can bring 'hope and optimism' under her new leadership

Gillian Mackay was elected at the first stage of the Scottish Greens vote with 34 per cent

Politics

7 h. ago Blame migrants, or blame the rich? That’s the populist divide in Britain’s politics now | Gaby Hinsliff

Taxing the ultra-rich may be a vote winner, but it’s just as important to shift the conversation away from Reform’s immigration doom loopThe long, hot summer of discontent is finally over. Parliament returned this week if not exactly with a rush of back to school energy, then at least with the sense that the government is now back to fill what was becoming an increasingly dangerous August vacuum.When exhausted ministers retreated to lick their wounds over the summer, Nigel Farage saw his chance and took it, filling the slow news days with encouragement of protesters over asylum seeker accommodation. He was rewarded by polling showing voters now see immigration – the terrain on which Reform UK is palpably desperate to fight an election, because it’s terrain on which Labour can never go far enough to please some supporters without horrifying half the rest – and not a broken economy as Britain’s biggest problem, an impression arguably only reinforced when the government’s first announc...

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8 h. ago Kathryn Bigelow unveils political thriller ‘A House of Dynamite’ at Venice Film Festival

Kathryn Bigelow tackles geopolitics in her new film “A House of Dynamite.”

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11 h. ago The village at war over £300K townhouses for asylum seekers: Furious residents 'were kept in the dark about new arrivals' and fear homes were purposely built for migrants

Residents in a sleepy Suffolk village say the decision to house legal migrants in four brand-new houses worth £270,000 has brought simmering tensions to the surface.

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13 h. ago Plunged into darkness while the oceans boil: How Mark Zuckerberg's master plan will 'lead to end of humanity'

Mark Zuckerberg positively beamed as he gazed into the future. Hurtling towards us, he said, is 'a new era of personal empowerment.' But experts are sounding the alarm.

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13 h. ago Seven EVs from Citroen, Peugeot, Skoda, Toyota and Vauxhall to get Electric Car Grants

The inclusion of these models takes eligibility for the Electric Car Grant up to 35 cars in total.

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