41 h. ago DWP confirms deadline for over 66s to opt out of Winter Fuel Payment

Pensioners earning over £35,000 will have their Winter Fuel Payment clawed back by HMRC unless they opt out of receiving it

Economics

4 d. ago The Dead of Winter review – Emma Thompson lights up icy Fargo country thriller

Thompson turns up the accent dial to play a good-natured Minnesota widow bringing her charm – and her gun – to tackle some concentrated nastinessFrom the freezing heart of Fargo country in snowy Minnesota comes a quite outrageously enjoyable suspense thriller starring Emma Thompson; I hadn’t realised what a treat it would be to see Thompson handle a pistol with a scope and also demonstrate where on the body you can get shot and still keep moving.The Dead of Winter has an old-school barnstorming brashness, some edge-of-the-seat tension, a mile-wide streak of sentimentality, a dash of broad humour and a horrible flourish of the macabre. Brian Kirk directs from a script by screenwriters Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb, and Thompson turns up the accent dial to play a neighbourly and good-natured Minnesota widow. With her recently deceased husband, she ran a fishing supplies store and like him was keen on ice-fishing: venturing out on huge freezing lakes, drilling a hole in the ...

Events

9 d. ago Comedian Tamar Broadbent on why she's happy for people to bring babies to her show

The comedian and new mother tells us why she doesn’t have a problem with people bringing their babies to her show - she encourages them, in fact.

Culture

3 w. ago Scots babies to get ‘suit of armour’ jab to fight deadly winter virus

NHS Scotland will offer the new drug to protect babies born before 32 weeks against respiratory syncytial virus.

Events

3 w. ago Jab to be given to premature babies in bid to create ‘protective bubble’

Experts say the drug will give thousands of vulnerable infants “their own suit of armour” for their first winter

Politics

3 w. ago RSV jab in pregnancy can ‘significantly’ cut baby’s infection risk, study finds

Researchers looked at the cases of 537 babies in England and Scotland who were admitted to hospital with severe respiratory disease.

Events