76 m. ago English councils pay private landlords millions in incentives to house homeless families

Exclusive: Data gathered by Generation Rent shows 37 councils spent £31m in 2024-25 in one-off payments to individual landlordsCouncils across England are increasingly spending millions of pounds a year in incentive payments to private landlords to persuade them to house homeless families, with campaigners describing it as a “senseless waste of public money”.Data gathered by the campaign group Generation Rent via freedom of information requests showed that 37 councils spent more than £31m on one-off cash payments to private landlords on 10,792 occasions in 2024-25. Continue reading...

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77 m. ago BBC's The Guest sees every woman's worst friendship nightmare come true

Eve Myles and Gabrielle Creevy star in the BBC's newest thriller, The Guest, where friendship, manipulation and deception collide. Many women may resonate with their characters.

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77 m. ago AD FEATURE: Back to school in Greater Manchester: expert advice for a stress

Dr Nihara Krause offers her advice to parents of children who may feel less enthusiastic about returning to school

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2 h. ago Asian shares are mixed as reports show improved factory outlook for China

Shares are mixed in Asia, with Chinese shares gaining after surveys showed a slight improvement in Chinese factory data

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3 h. ago Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back | Maria Ressa

You have time that other countries have squandered. You can be leaders in building the information infrastructure humanity needsI became a journalist because information is power, and right now we are living through an information armaggedon. Facts are under assault. Truth is being murdered. The casualty? Trust making it impossible to govern. Only dictatorships thrive when there’s no trust.And here are the three sentences I’ve said over and over since 2016 when I first said it in Silicon Valley, backed by data and hard-fought experience. Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Rosie O'Donnell apologizes for calling Minnesota school shooter a MAGA supporter

The comedian, whose longtime hatred and rivalry with Donald Trump led her to flee to Ireland after he won the election , ranted to TikTok about Robin Westman on Friday.

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7 h. ago Poorer pupils ‘bounced out of some subjects’ by costs, charity warns

A survey by Child Poverty Action Group found 23% of secondary school pupils on free school meals said cost concerns have affected subject choices.

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9 h. ago I Fought the Law review – Sheridan Smith is utterly believable in this true crime story worth sharing with the world

Like the groundbreaking legal case at its centre, the carefully made four-part series can feel slow in parts

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9 h. ago I Fought the Law review – no one does this kind of drama better than Sheridan Smith

This true crime drama about a woman who forced the government to change the law so her daughter’s killer could be jailed is totally elevated by Smith. Her brilliance turns it into genuinely moving TVIs there any comfort to be had in knowing that police incompetence is not a new phenomenon? Not really, no. But it might be all you can find to cling on to during this harrowing, heartbreaking four-part drama. I Fought the Law is based on the true story of Ann Ming ,the murder of her 22-year-old daughter Julie in 1989 and her 30-year campaign to change the double jeopardy law so Julie’s acquitted killer could be tried again for the crime.I Fought the Law has two great strengths. First, the awareness that although the overturning of a law that had existed since Magna Carta is technically the most astonishing part of Ming’s tale, it is not the most televisual. That, for better or worse, will always be the body blows she withstood, from finding her daughte...

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9 h. ago Met Office weather maps for first week back at school as 'hottest summer on record' ends

It looks to be a wet start to the new month

Society

9 h. ago Marc Guehi shares true feelings on Liverpool saga after turning down Crystal Palace request

Marc Guehi is one to watch on the final day of the transfer window with Liverpool pursuing his services and the England defender appears to be going out on a high from Crystal Palace

Politics

9 h. ago Doctors discover bullet fragment from the neck of boy who went viral for saying friend protected him during Minnesota church shooting

Weston Halsne will need surgery to remove the fragment from his neck, which narrowly missed a vital artery

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9 h. ago Local high school band invited to perform in London, needs community support

Local high school band invited to perform in London, needs community support  WPEC

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10 h. ago Educating Yorkshire review – the joyful return of this school show is just the blast of optimism we need

The comeback of Channel 4’s fly-on-the-wall series is perfectly timed. It’s a moving, uplifting look at how children can shine with support. What a tonic for all the bad news stories about education in BritainThe trailer for the new series of Educating Yorkshire is a work of art. Shot in one take and clocking in at more than three minutes, it was written and performed by the children of Thornhill community academy in Dewsbury – in collaboration with Dougal Wilson, the director of Paddington in Peru – and takes in a school band, percussionist dinner ladies and a child seemingly being fired out of a cannon from the roof. It’s sweet and funny, but it’s pointed, too, in style and content.This hasn’t been a great year for the public profile of British secondary schools. The national orgy of hand-wringing prompted by Netflix’s superb Adolescence has led to something approaching despair at the state of education, entrenching the perception that overstretched and under-resourced teachers ac...

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10 h. ago Educating Yorkshire review – A heartening but superficial return to the daily struggles of school life

The Channel 4 documentary returns with another look at the challenges facing modern schools, through the lens of one Yorkshire comprehensive

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10 h. ago Killer Billy Dunlop now as I Fought The Law brings harrowing true story to ITV

I Fought The Law tells the story of Ann Ming, whose daughter was murdered by Billy Dunlop at her home in 1989, and the 17-year fight for justice that followed

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10 h. ago ITV I Fought the Law full cast list as Coronation Street and Vera stars join Sheridan Smith

A brand new, primetime ITV true-life drama starts this weekend and the cast is chock full of familiar faces

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10 h. ago ITV I Fought the Law true story of Anna Ming's fight for justice and where Billy Dunlop is now

The true crime drama based on a mother's fight for justice, premieres on ITV

Society

11 h. ago Sheridan Smith's huge net worth as she says I Fought the Law role is "the hardest thing I've ever done"

Sheridan Smith stars in ITV's newest drama, I Fought The Law, inspired by the true story of Ann Ming

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13 h. ago Olivia Colman made a child cry by hitting her with a belt as she thought she was acting

Incident happened when the actress while she was shooting 2019 musical Les Misérables and she had to say , ‘I’m so sorry' after the awful incident

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