6 d. ago BBC boss calls on Helen Skelton and Gethin Jones to 'stop playing around with viewers'

Helen Skelton and Gethin Jones looked cosy together as they posed for photographs on the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain red carpet this week - despite a suggestion they had split

Politics

7 d. ago Rising star Tory MP under fire over ‘deport legal migrants’ comment

Katie Lam drew cross-party criticism after suggesting large numbers of people with legal status in Britain should ‘go home’

Events

7 d. ago ‘A Cartier store is better protected’: Louvre heist puts spotlight on security

Securing historic public-facing buildings has never been easy, and is even less so in times of economic constraintTo break into the world’s most-visited museum in broad daylight, grab eight pieces of priceless Napoleonic jewellery and vanish into the Paris traffic on humble scooters may seem like the most audacious of crimes, carried out for international notoriety and ensuing Hollywood film treatments.Experts who observe trends in international art crime, however, see Sunday morning’s heist at the Louvre as something more prosaic: the latest in a series of smash-and-grab thefts focused more on the material value of precious stones or metals than the artifacts’ significance, continuing a pattern that has emerged over the last decade in Germany, Britain and the US. The location, they suggest, would have been of secondary concern to the criminals. Continue reading...

Events

7 d. ago ‘Smash, grab, melt it down’: how material value likely motivated the Louvre heist

Experts say thieves would struggle to find a buyer if the stolen goods remained intactTo break into the world’s most-visited museum in broad daylight, grab eight pieces of priceless Napoleonic jewellery and vanish into the Paris traffic on humble scooters may seem like the most audacious of crimes, carried out for international notoriety and ensuing Hollywood film treatments.Experts who observe trends in international art crime, however, see Sunday morning’s heist at the Louvre as something more prosaic: the latest in a series of smash-and-grab thefts focused more on the material value of precious stones or metals than the artifacts’ significance, continuing a pattern that has emerged over the last decade in Germany, Britain and the US. The location, they suggest, would have been of secondary concern to the criminals. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Reeves plots tax raid on Middle England: Fears grow that Chancellor will target savings, pensions and property as she suggests Brits with the 'broadest shoulders' will pay billions more

As official figures showed the economy flatlined over the summer, the Chancellor laid the ground for a Budget that will target the better-off.

Economics

1 week ago Top UN judge criticises Lenny Henry for using his report to claim Britain should pay £18trillion in slavery reparations

Comedian Sir Lenny Henry has argued in his new book that all black Britons should be paid reparations and suggested a 'Robin Hood tax' on financial transactions to fund it.

Economics

1 week ago Martin Lewis suggests Brits follow '6pm rule' as it gets colder

The Money Saving Expert founder's hack helps people stay warm and cut costs

Politics

2 w. ago Ketchup sandwiches saved my life after surgery saw me lose 11 stone

Rosie Lee's gastric band was starving her to death

Politics

2 w. ago Wales’ Craig Bellamy suggests change to application of handball rule in Britain

Kevin De Bruyne scored twice from the spot to leave the Dragons in a battle with North Macedonia for second place in Group J.

Politics

2 w. ago Nigel Farage suggests Brits could face restrictions on buying new holiday homes in tourist hotspots

Nigel Farage voiced interest in schemes reserving new builds for those who are 'genuinely local' - although he stressed it was not Reform policy.

Society

2 w. ago Transfer curse facing Alexander Isak with worrying trend among record deals

Alexander Isak became the British-record transfer in the summer but history suggests those signings find it hard to land the Premier League title - which is the expectation at Liverpool

Economics

2 w. ago Britain should embrace voluntary ID cards, Keir Starmer suggests

Prime minister to hold meetings on the use of digital ID cards on two-day trade trip to India, where they have already been adopted

Politics

2 w. ago Scientists discover surprising trigger behind bladder cancer

Research has long suggested that the condition, which strikes over 10,000 Britons every year, is up to four times more common among men.

Science

2 w. ago Lenny Henry faces backlash after demanding slavery reparations for every black Briton

Sir Lenny Henry has claimed all black Britons should be paid slavery reparations and suggested a 'Robin Hood tax' on financial transactions could fund payments.

Politics

2 w. ago Lenny Henry faces backlash after demanding slavery reparations for  every black Briton

Sir Lenny Henry has claimed all black Britons should be paid slavery reparations and suggested a 'Robin Hood tax' on financial transactions could fund payments.

Politics

2 w. ago Lenny Henry's 'robin hood tax' to raise £18trillion for slavery reparation bill

Sir Lenny Henry has claimed all black Britons should be paid slavery reparations and suggested a 'Robin Hood tax' on financial transactions could fund payments.

Economics

3 w. ago Tory frontbencher suggests older Brits with savings could lose the state pension through means

Richard Fuller, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, pointed to Australia's state pension system where how much you get depends on your income and assets.

Economics

3 w. ago Don’t despair, Tories: look upon Reform and see your rightful and fitting legacy | Nesrine Malik

If Kemi Badenoch wonders why her party conference looks and feels like a sideshow, perhaps she should reflect on the Conservatives’ 14 years in powerI believe it is good practice as a columnist to keep track of when you have been wrong, and the thing I have got most emphatically wrong over the past few years is the Conservative party’s prospects. I was convinced that the party that still won elections despite the chaos and instability of Brexit, not to mention the calamities of austerity, could get away with anything. I even believed that if it lost power, as it did last year, the risk of a Tory restoration was still very high.What I did not foresee was the most successful political party in the democratic world, by some measures, coming so close to extinction this quickly. As the Tory party conference gets under way in Manchester, with rumours abounding over the weekend about diminished attendance, the polling increasingly suggests that Britain’s next general election will be a con...

Politics

3 w. ago Susanna Reid tells Ed Balls 'we're on TV' after very suggestive comment to Lorraine Kelly

Susanna Reid was left in shock during this morning's Good Morning Britain as she scolded Ed Balls following his very suggestive comment to Lorraine Kelly

Politics