47 m. ago Alan Titchmarsh says ITV show is needed as people are 'drowned in bad news'

The Love Your Weekend star has talked about the appeal of shows like his at a time when there is a lot of 'negativity'

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55 m. ago Older people on PIP may be due backdated DWP benefit payments worth £308

The enhanced mobility rate of PIP also provides access to the Motability Scheme.

Economics

64 m. ago DWP explains how 'personal information' will be used in claimant bank account checks

Investigators will also be able to directly take funds from people's bank accounts

Economics

69 m. ago Millionaire Malcolm Offord quotes Dignity when asked what a yacht owner knows about cost of living crisis

The new Reform leader in Scotland and former Tory donor said "I go camping with normal people" when questioned about his net worth.

Economics

71 m. ago Grief over pet death can be as strong as that for family member, survey shows

Researcher calls for guidelines for diagnosing prolonged grief disorder to be expanded to cover people who lose petsGrief over the death of a pet could be as chronic as that for a human family member, research has shown, confirming what many people already know about their bond with their furry friends.People grieving the loss of a pet can suffer from prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a mental health condition brought about by the death of a loved one, a survey published in the academic journal PLOS One has found. Continue reading...

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72 m. ago ‘Hole in the heart’ symptoms as Emma Willis confirms diagnosis

Emma Willis was ‘floored’ by the diagnosis. People with any symptoms are urged to speak to their doctor

Science

1 hour ago People say 'my brain is broken' after struggling with baffling optical illusion

The optical illusion appears to show two grey squares with different shades, but they are actually exactly the same colour. One person said: "Ok so my brain is broken."

Politics

1 hour ago Starbucks frenzy as people queue at 6am for limited edition menu item

The chain has today released a new menu item that has already caused mass attention

Politics

1 hour ago Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale | Malu Rosing

A summit between Greenland, Denmark and Washington has done nothing to calm our fears as the US steps up its efforts to take control of my countryThe year has started out in familiar fashion for Kalaallit – the people of Greenland. The US president has once again threatened to take control of the world’s biggest island, just like he did back in 2019 and in 2024/25. Yet it feels different this time.This time it seems as if there are more concrete plans being shaped within the Trump administration to annex Greenland. Trump wants to “take” it “whether they like it or not”, as he stated at a recent White House press conference. And the only option he seems to be offering currently is to do it “either the nice way or the more difficult way” – whatever that means. These are obviously plans for the forceful theft of Indigenous land and a self-governing territory; they are loud threats against our democracy – threats that are coming directly from the US president, again and again, through t...

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2 h. ago Tourist goes to pay £25 restaurant bill but then realises what waiter wrote

A tourist was left baffled after getting 'cheeky' notes from waiter on his £25 restaurant bill – and people couldn't believe their eyes at the rude words on the receipt

Economics

2 h. ago ‘A group of people decided to kill me’: Michel Platini on Fifa, Uefa and the fight to clear his name

Former Uefa president – caught between moving on and settling scores – talks candidly about his downfall, Infantino and the snakepit of the game’s governance“There are millions and millions of romantics in football,” Michel Platini says. He has been asked whether, after a decade frozen out of the game, its lustre has vanished for him. “Millions who share the ideas that I have. But in the end, it’s big business.”It is an industry whose peaks Platini scaled before, in one of football’s biggest falls from grace, it spat him out. He maintains he would have become Fifa president if he had not been banned from football over an alleged unlawful payment made to him in 2011, when he was running Uefa, by Sepp Blatter. The scandal led to a criminal case but both men were acquitted for a second time, definitively so, by a Swiss appeals court last year. Nothing hangs over Platini any more, bar a conviction that he was cheated. Continue reading...

Events

2 h. ago Grok scandal highlights how AI industry is ‘too unconstrained’, tech pioneer says

‘Godfather of AI’ Yoshua Bengio says firms building powerful systems without appropriate guardrails • Musk’s X to block Grok AI from creating sexualised images of real people The scandal over the flood of intimate images on Elon Musk’s X created non-consensually by its Grok AI tool has underlined how the artificial intelligence industry is “too unconstrained”, according to a pioneer of the technology.Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist described as one of the modern “godfathers of AI”, said tech companies were building systems without appropriate technical and societal guardrails. Continue reading...

Science

2 h. ago DWP update for people on PIP and legacy benefits before changes in April

Changes to Universal Credit are set to start from the new financial year.

Politics

2 h. ago Dramatic moment police smash through door of 'drugs hub' before three people arrested

Officers burst into the home in a dawn raid

Events

2 h. ago Where fans can recreate their favourite scenes from Heated Rivalry around Canada

It's the steamy sports romance series that has taken the world by storm - and fans can now recreate their favourite Heated Rivalry scenes in the real-life destinations.

Politics

2 h. ago More people in work set to pay higher rate of tax in Scotland next year

Experts say one in four workers in Scotland will pay higher rate of tax next year.

Economics

2 h. ago More than 170 measles cases confirmed in outbreaks across nine states this year

Experts have blamed a decline in the rate of people taking the measles vaccine on skepticism from the Trump administration

Politics

2 h. ago Starbucks customers queueing at 6am for 'sensational' new 'one per person' item

People have been getting up at 5am in hopes of being able to buy one as they arrive in stores today

Economics

3 h. ago Moment police ram taxi carrying two British drug cartel kingpins as they attempted to flee county

Andrew Fitzgerald, 35, and Sean Richardson, 34, were chased as they sped along the A617 near Newark, Nottinghamshire, in July 2024.

Events

3 h. ago ‘The world needs to know what’s happening’: families of protesters killed in Iran tell of heartbreak

As Tehran’s internet blackout means names of those killed in the uprising are only starting to emerge, the diaspora is reacting with shock, sadness and angerThe families of Iranians killed by the regime in its crackdown on anti-government protests over the past week have told the Guardian of their devastation on learning of their relatives’ deaths.More than 2,500 people have been killed so far, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, but the death toll is expected to rise substantially as the regime eases a communications blackout imposed since 8 January. Continue reading...

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