45 h. ago Breakfasts at No 10: buttering up Labour MPs to avoid a budget backlash

Downing Street has been preparing MPs for going back on its manifesto pledge and raising income taxUK politics live – latest updatesIf Keir Starmer’s election campaign was carrying a ming vase across an ice rink, then this budget – according to one minister – is like “wrestling a squirrel across a minefield”.It is an allusion to the biggest risk for Rachel Reeves, not the markets or big business, but Labour MPs. It was those MPs who were the key audience for the chancellor’s highly unusual speech preparing the ground for possible income tax rises. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago ‘This is a highly unusual and very serious situation’ – Sole remaining director at SPFL crisis club gives grim statement

HAMILTON ACCIES don't have their problems to seek right now. The cash-strapped League One outfit are playing their football away from their home town, and sitting back in seventh in the league after a fresh points deduction and fine last month saw them drop off the top of the table. And when former Celtic chief...

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4 d. ago All the hidden clues Rachel Reeves was not as calm as she tried to portray during her surprise pre

The Chancellor took the highly unusual step of teeing up her fiscal package in Downing Street today where she ominously paved the way for her broad tax assault.

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4 d. ago Now Labour faces revolt over tax raid on 'working class' as Reeves warns EVERYONE will suffer from Budget not just the 'rich'

Left-wingers have demanded Rachel Reeves spares the 'working class' after she took the highly unusual step of laying the ground for her fiscal package with a speech in Downing Street.

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4 d. ago Labour revolt over tax raid on 'working class' as Reeves warns EVERYONE will suffer from Budget not just the 'rich'

Chancellor Rachel Reeves talked up the need to 'invest' as she took the highly unusual step of teeing up her fiscal package with a speech in Downing Street .

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5 d. ago Rachel Reeves warns EVERYONE faces tax hikes as she paves way for manifesto

Chancellor Rachel Reeves talked up the need to 'invest' as she took the highly unusual step of teeing up her fiscal package with a speech in Downing Street .

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5 d. ago Embattled Rachel Reeves emerges from hiding today to lay ground for promise

In a highly unusual move, the Chancellor will use an early morning speech in Downing Street to address 'speculation' about the contents of her November 26 Budget.

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2 w. ago Rare £20 note sells for 64 times its shop value – check if you have one

The rare collectible note sold for £1281.68 and is highly sought after for its unusual serial number, CC22222222, which features the number two repeated eight times

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2 w. ago ‘Just extraordinary’: Louvre broken window now on tourist trail as museum reopens after jewel heist

Apollo gallery remains closed as police investigate €88m robbery and director faces questioning over securityIt is already, in a small way, Paris’s newest tourist attraction. “And on our right,” boomed the guide on the bateau mouche tour boat heading up the Seine, “the Louvre – and the window thieves smashed to steal France’s crown jewels.”The world’s most visited museum reopened on Wednesday for the first time since a gang of four men broke into its Apollo gallery on Sunday, making off with €88m (£76m) of Napoleonic jewellery in France’s most dramatic heist in decades. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Britons are told to brace for a surge in RATS thanks to an unusually high acorn season

It's been a bumper year for acorns, fruits and nuts. While this may sound like something out of an autumnal fairytale, experts have warned it could trigger a surge in pests.

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3 w. ago Funeral director admits 35 fraud charges after human remains investigation

Robert Bush pleaded guilty to offences spanning more than 10 years at his business, Legacy Independent Funeral Directors’ in Hull

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3 w. ago Funeral director pleads guilty to charges after police found human remains

Robert Bush has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of fraud relating to misleading families of the deceased but will stand trial on charges of preventing lawful and decent burials in October next year

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3 w. ago Funeral director admits 35 fraud charges relating to human remains including four unborn babies

Robert Bush, 47, admitted multiple counts of false representation and one of fraudulent trading in relation to funeral plans

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3 w. ago Funeral director admits 35 fraud charges over remains including four foetuses

Robert Bush admitted 35 counts of false representation and one of fraudulent trading in relation to funeral plans.

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3 w. ago Funeral director will face trial next year over human remains found in his parlour

Robert Bush, 47, appeared at Hull Crown Court to enter pleas following an investigation by Humberside Police.

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3 w. ago Funeral director pleads guilty to charges over probe into human remains

Robert Bush, 47, appeared in court facing 65 charges spanning more than 10 years after a probe into human remains found at his premises.

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3 w. ago Funeral director to enter pleas to 65 charges after remains found at premises

Robert Bush is facing a range of charges including preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body, relating to 30 different people.

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4 w. ago Tennis star blames doping verdict on a KISS as he is banned from competing for four years

There have been some highly unusual reasons given by sports stars down the years after they have been found to have breached anti-doping rules. 

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