8 h. ago Families reunited in time for Christmas as the Royal Navy flagship HMS Prince of Wales and its support ships return home

Thousands of service personnel have been reunited with their families in time for Christmas as the Royal Navy flagship HMS Prince of Wales and its support ships returned to their home bases.

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9 h. ago Service families reunited for festive season as ships return to home bases

More than 2,500 personnel, made up of 2,100 Britons, 200 Norwegians and Canadians and Spanish, have been involved in the deployment.

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3 d. ago Stranger Things fans shipping ‘Byler’ theory dealt major blow in season 5

‘It could not be more obvious what was happening,’ one fan said of Will, Mike and Robin scene

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3 d. ago Stranger Things fans shipping ‘Byler’ dealt major blow in season 5

‘It could not be more obvious what was happening,’ one fan said of Will, Mike and Robin scene

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3 d. ago Gangster Ross McGill's life of crime from Scottish streets to Moroccan cartel

McGill has made a return to social media from an account based in Portugal.

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8 d. ago How to bag a bargain cruise: from just £31 a night, the secret hack to getting cheap stays on luxury ships, including the Caribbean, Asia and even Alaska, revealed by the Mail's travel experts

At the end of each cruise season, ships follow the sun to another warmer climes. These 'repositioning' sailings can be a clever way to bag a long cruise at a low fare

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1 week ago Peep Show fans say it's 'a definite blow' as major star missing from Bake Off Christmas special

Channel 4 are reuniting stars of their beloved sitcom for the festive Bake Off episode

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1 week ago I didn't mind Andre Onana but there was something strange from unpopular Man Utd star

Andre Onana was expected to be Manchester United's No.1 this season, but a series of high-profile errors saw him shipped out on loan to Trabzonspor in September.

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1 week ago Third of Britons have turned to AI to help with mental health issues

Mental Health UK has called for AI safeguards in light of the findings

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2 w. ago The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together | Aditya Chakrabortty

This is no single bloc marching under one ideology, or even a mass of ‘red-wall’ voters. What unites them is a desire for something differentWho are Nigel Farage’s army, the voters who want him as our next prime minister? Few questions are as important in British politics. Were an election called tomorrow, the favourite for No 10 would be Farage, whose immigration policies are in some ways more extreme than those of the BNP were. His party’s role model for government would be Donald Trump’s US: Elon Musk-style cuts to our public services and masked agents snatching families off the streets.A few months ago, many in Westminster and across the country would have considered this a cautionary nightmare, a catastrophe that would unfold if Keir Starmer failed. But in the week of another red-on-red assault and after 150 opinion polls in a row topped by Farage’s Reform UK, it’s no longer a scare story. It’s the most likely prospect. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Everyday volunteers are providing stopgap services during the shutdown in a show of community power

Everyday people are improvising stopgap efforts to support their communities through the longest government shutdown in U.S. history

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2 w. ago The Secret Santa Project review – festive romcom tries for the Love Actually style multiple story strands

Set in a London council office, this clunky Christmas comedy interweaves a handful of storylines but musters only a brief flicker of cosy charmFeelgood Christmas romcoms are like school nativity plays: you can forgive a lot in return for a toasty warm festive glow. The Secret Santa Project, based on a book by Tracy Bloom and set in a London council’s accounting department, manages a brief flicker of cosy charm in places but in truth it’s bit of a Christmas clunker.Like Richard Curtis’s Love Actually this is a film with a handful of interwoven storylines. Samantha Giles plays Diane, the grinchy head of accounts who in the tradition of London romcoms walks to work over Westminster bridge past Big Ben; she would love to see Christmas cancelled and save the council a few pounds. Her husband Leon (Mark Williams) is a panto director, and Diane suspects he’s got a thing going on with Snow White. This plot line is not a million miles from Emma Thompson’s in Love Actually, but it bungles alo...

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3 w. ago US states must stop the power shutoffs during the shutdown | Edward J Markey and Mark Wolfe

Americans are choosing between heating their homes and putting food on the table. Officials and utilities can prevent thisAs the stalemate over government funding and healthcare benefits continues, winter is approaching – but federal heating assistance, blocked by the shutdown, isn’t arriving in time. Millions of American families are about to face an impossible choice: heating their homes or putting food on the table. As the senator for a state known for its volatile winters and as executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, we call on states and utilities to choose a different outcome for those families and shut off the shutoffs. A nationwide freeze on utilities’ ability to disconnect customers from heat for nonpayment isn’t about politics – it’s about public safety.The breakdown in federal budget negotiations has frozen the release of funding for many of the essential services families rely on nationwide, including the Low-Income Home Energy Assist...

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3 w. ago Parents given vital sparkler safety advice to follow on Bonfire Night

Sparklers are popular this time of year, but likewise must be handled with care. The TikTok account of Hampshire NHS' Health Families service shared some important advice to follow while playing with sparklers

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last month Vital service supporting Scots families affected by baby loss under threat

Baby Loss Retreat was founded in February 2018 by Julie and Bryan Morrison in memory of their daughter Erin, who was stillborn in 2003 at 37 weeks.

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last month Labour slammed for hiring butlers for VIP guests during cost of living crisis

EXCLUSIVE: The SNP have hit out at the "silver service fantasy" as families struggle.

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