43 m. ago Musk v Starmer: will UK ban X over Grok nudification? | The Latest

The UK government is threatening Elon Musk’s X with a ban. The social media platform is under pressure from ministers over the use of the Grok AI tool to manipulate images of women and children to remove their clothes. Ofcom, the UK’s media regulator, has launched an investigation into X – and the government says it will support a ban if Ofcom decides to press ahead. Continue reading...

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64 m. ago Peter Andre reveals his mother, 89, can no longer speak amid her battle with Parkinson's as he shares sweet video of daughter Belle

The singer, 52, took to Instagram on Monday and shared an adorable video of his 19-month-old daughter Belle speaking to her grandfather Savvas over FaceTime.

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71 m. ago The Guardian view on Trump’s assault on the Fed: it is part of an affordability blame game | Editorial

Attacking Jerome Powell distracts from Republicans’ thin legislative record and policies that continue to squeeze American household incomesThe US government’s authoritarian and vexatious attack on Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, should be seen in the light of America’s affordability crisis, which Donald Trump once dismissed, but is now scrambling to claim as his cause. The cost of living is eroding his support ahead of the congressional midterms. By launching a legal assault on the Fed, Mr Trump is trying to shift blame for borrowing costs.Yet despite controlling the presidency, Senate and the House, Republicans have passed little beyond a large tax-cutting bill that benefits the rich. They have not legislated on housing supply, childcare, healthcare costs or wages. Indeed most of their actions are worsening affordability, notably deferring action even though millions face a sharp rise in their health insurance bills. Mr Trump’s sudden enthusiasm for credit card ca...

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76 m. ago Robison cannot say if five more national treatment centres will be delivered

The infrastructure pipeline was published alongside Tuesday’s Budget, leaving out the national treatment centres.

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87 m. ago Catastrophic news for Labour in latest Senedd election poll as Wales on course for new leader

Labour appears to have less support than the Green Party

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88 m. ago Scottish budget as it happened: Income tax, mansion tax and breakfast clubs

Scottish budget as it happened: Income tax, mansion tax and breakfast clubs

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1 hour ago Mother whose son, 6, was shot dead by road rage stranger after giving him the finger is now being sued by boy's father who claims SHE'S to blame for the killing

Joanna Cloonan may have to relive the horror of the day her son died after his father sued her. He claims she provoked a stranger to pull the trigger on their child on the California freeway in May 2021.

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2 h. ago Scottish Budget: Fresh focus on fixed links between Scottish islands

Campaigns have been running for years across Scotland’s northern isles to improve inter-island connections

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2 h. ago ‘Brighter future’ ahead for Scots under Budget plans, claims Shona Robison

The Scottish Finance Secretary has unveiled her draft tax and spending plans for 2026-27.

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2 h. ago Lower and middle earners get a Scottish Budget boost but wealthy homeowners hit

The Scottish Budget will impact people’s finances north of the border - benefiting lower and middle earners thanks to changes to income tax thresholds, but hitting those living in the most expensive properties.

Economics

2 h. ago DWP reveals two new payments to support cost of living in 2026

Applicants will not need to be claiming benefits to qualify

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2 h. ago EastEnders star Lacey Turner flooded with support after emotional life update

EastEnders star Lacey Turner is currently enjoying a break from her role as Stacey Slater on the BBC soap

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2 h. ago Business rates relief package a ‘sticking plaster’, Scottish ministers warned

Finance Secretary Shona Robison has announced her Budget for 2026-27.

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2 h. ago OBR has ‘earned people’s trust’ despite budget leak, says former chairman

Richard Hughes resigned from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) in December over the mistaken early publication of its forecasts.

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2 h. ago Joseph Beuys review – the grotesque bathtub containing all the horrors of modern history

Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, LondonThere’s no escape from the torments of the past in this show, which celebrates the German artist at his most Wagnerian, enchanting and sickening you simultaneouslyBorn in 1921, Joseph Beuys was the “perfect” age to fight for Hitler and he did, with the wounds to prove it. The Andy Warhol portraits that complement this exhibition, without actually being part of it, brutally catch his gaunt, ravaged face in the glare of a photo flash under the hat he wore to hide burns sustained in a plane crash while serving in the Luftwaffe. The most haunting portrait turns Beuys into a spectral negative image, all darkness and shadow, his eyes wounded, guilty, lost. This was in the 1970s when Beuys was a charismatic one-man artistic revolution, inspiring young Germans to plant trees, lecturing about flows of ecological and human energy – and, in breathtaking performances, speaking to a dead hare or spending a week locked in a cage with a coyote.All that remains today ...

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2 h. ago Major changes on the horizon for Cardiff residents amid council plan to save millions

There are no cuts proposed by Cardiff Council for 2026/27, but councillors noted they would still be facing a £22.7m budget gap

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2 h. ago Scottish budget: Business leaders say support measures do not go far enough

“Given the extent of the increases small businesses are facing, with rises of up to 400 per cent, this is effectively a drop in the ocean” – Guy Hinks, FSB Scotland

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2 h. ago Scottish child payment increase ‘falls short’, says poverty action group

Tuesday’s Scottish Budget revealed the Scottish child payment will rise to £40 in 2027-28.

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3 h. ago Scottish budget: Nature restoration funding triples for Scotland in two years

The figures were revealed in this week’s Budget

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3 h. ago Still ‘glaring gap’ in childcare support despite Budget help, says young mother

Millie Holroyd urged ministers to do more to help families deal with the pressures of caring for young children.

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