64 m. ago Britain’s voters can’t resist a messy drama. How fortunate for Nigel Farage and Reform | Marina Hyde

Former party chair Zia Yusuf was out – then he was back in. But the chaos won’t dent the party’s poll ratings one tiny bit It was a busy week for on-again off-again Reform chair Zia Yusuf, whose job over the past 11 months had been to reform Reform. (I know.) Zia quit on Thursday. Had his job split on Friday. Returned on Saturday. Chilled on Sunday. The job split seems to have endured though, as Yusuf will now run a UK version of Doge – as we know, the perfect role for highly emotional men – while this very morning, Nigel Farage was unveiling a new chair: Dr David Bull. David brings extensive experience with witchcraft, ghosts, spirits and beasts from his time as presenter of paranormal reality TV show Most Haunted Live, where he packaged the wailings of reekingly obvious charlatan/compelling spirit medium Derek Acorah for a studio audience. I can’t imagine what this CV could do for Reform, but Nigel Farage must have seen something in it.Derek Acorah crossed permanently to the spiri...

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1 hour ago Death of the high street job: More than 360,000 retail positions are lost in just a decade

Some 2.76million jobs existed in the UK retail sector in March this year, according to Office for National Statistics data compiled by the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

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3 h. ago The performance of Police Scotland officers rated in major Scottish Government survey, as sharp fall revealed

Confidence in the police in Scotland has fallen over the past decade.

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3 h. ago Chloe Meadows: I was so scared that I ignored my colitis symptoms for a decade

The ex-TOWIE star opens up on her colitis diagnosis and how it’s impacted her

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3 h. ago Martin Lewis says thousands could be owed council tax rebate stretching back decades

The money-saving expert says hundreds of thousands of people are potentially owed money

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4 h. ago Holiday nightmare after Brit's 'itchy eye' turned out to be a LEECH on his eyeball

British travel agent Tony Exall, 58, was on a jungle tour near West Papua, Indonesia, when his left eye began to irritate him. He blamed it on sweat or a tiny bug but the real cause was much more alarming.

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4 h. ago TOWIE star was so 'scared' she ignored symptoms of health condition for a decade

The reality star has told how she ignored symptoms of a chronic inflammatory bowel condition for around 10 years

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4 h. ago Rio Ferdinand’s new role after TNT Sports exit confirmed – and it’s very far from home

Rio Ferdinand announced he was leaving TNT Sports at the end of the 2024/25 season after a decade with the broadcaster, but the ex-Manchester United ace has wasted no time in finding his next role

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5 h. ago Katie Price sparks concern among fans as she struts on stage with tiny frame and inflated bum

Katie Price has left fans concerned after she appeared on stage wearing next-to-nothing while performing at a Pride event in Portsmouth

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5 h. ago RHS senior plant health scientist explains whether you should deter invasion of plant

You may have noticed thousands of tiny flies covering your plants in recent weeks

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5 h. ago June's rare Strawberry Moon will meet a cosmic companion in sky tonight

The Strawberry Moon – the lowest full Moon in decades – will soon glow in UK skies

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6 h. ago Sizewell C nuclear plant to be built with £14.2bn government funding

The Suffolk plant is expected to take around a decade to complete

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6 h. ago In limbo: families hoping for change to UK income rules for spousal visas

The migration advisory committee is due to release a review of the UK’s minimum income requirement for family visas – currently set at £29,000. Many British families are in a state of enforced separation. Family visas represent just 5% of total UK visa applications, yet are a key focus of a migration crackdown. Working with Reunite Families, photographer Frankie Mills documents the lives of nine families whose stories illustrate the human cost of this policy thresholdThree weeks ago, Keir Starmer said the UK was at risk of becoming an “island of strangers”. But for countless British citizens across the country, that isolation is already a lived reality by design of immigration rules that force them to choose between their homeland and family.The minimum income requirement dictates how much a person needs to earn in order to bring their non-British partner here. Set at £18,600 for a decade, the Conservatives announced plans to raise it dramatically to £38,700 before backtracking afte...

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10 h. ago Florida set to execute man convicted of raping and killing a woman 3 decades ago

Florida plans to execute a man convicted of raping and killing a woman three decades ago after kidnapping her from a supermarket parking lot

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12 h. ago Sly Stone was a trailblazer who changed the course of music – and an icon of both hope and pain

With the Family Stone, Sly was so audacious it was hard to believe his brilliance could ever be exhausted – making his unravelling all the more painful to watchSly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82Sly Stone’s greatest songs – ranked!Sly Stone – a life in picturesEven though he recorded three of funk’s most foundational albums – four if you include 1970’s Greatest Hits, as flawless a good time as pop ever delivered – Sly Stone’s subsequent fall from grace was perceived as a grave betrayal of his talent. That Stone’s unravelling was so conspicuous – his drug abuse apparent in every wasted chat show appearance, his infallible hit-machine waning after his Family Stone became estranged – only exacerbated the sting of this loss. But Stone’s imperial era lasted almost a decade and delivered a discography that remains the acme of funk. He changed the course of pop and reconfigured the structure and essence of dance music, multiple times. He was an icon of hope, of pain,...

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12 h. ago Sly Stone was a trailblazer who changed the course of music – and an icon of both hope and pain | Stevie Chick

With the Family Stone, Sly was so audacious it was hard to believe his brilliance could ever be exhausted – making his unravelling all the more painful to watchSly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82Sly Stone’s greatest songs – ranked!Sly Stone – a life in picturesEven though he recorded three of funk’s most foundational albums – four if you include 1970’s Greatest Hits, as flawless a good time as pop ever delivered – Sly Stone’s subsequent fall from grace was perceived as a grave betrayal of his talent. That Stone’s unravelling was so conspicuous – his drug abuse apparent in every wasted chat show appearance, his infallible hit-machine waning after his Family Stone became estranged – only exacerbated the sting of this loss. But Stone’s imperial era lasted almost a decade and delivered a discography that remains the acme of funk. He changed the course of pop and reconfigured the structure and essence of dance music, multiple times. He was an icon of hope, of pain,...

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12 h. ago I'm proof you can REVERSE your age: For decades BRYONY GORDON lived on a diet of cocaine, booze and cigarettes

For the first 37 years of my life, I treated my body like a pharmaceutical dustbin. If I saw something that promised to deliver me a quick, cheap high, I couldn't stay away from it.

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13 h. ago Underrated Canary Island where tourists never go with 3,000 hours of sunshine

As the insatiably popular Canary Islands continues to grapple with over-tourism and insufferable crowding, but one tiny hidden gem remains completely unspoilt

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14 h. ago Noel Edmonds signs up to new telly show to prove he's not dead yet

After decades on the box on shows including Noel’s House Party and Deal or No Deal, Noel Edmonds is hoping viewers will finally get to see the real him in the brand new ITV show

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14 h. ago Towie star Chloe Meadows reveals the cost of ignoring her bowel disease symptoms for a decade

The reality TV star shared how her ‘longest flare-up’ occurred during filming

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