49 h. ago Cabinet told to form 'praetorian guard' around struggling Starmer after latest U

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is said to have delivered the stark message to colleagues at an 'emotional' meeting this week.

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6 d. ago Uber driver killed in Bolton horror crash pictured as family pay tribute to 'best dad'

Uber driver Mosrab Ali tragically lost his life along with three others in a crash in Bolton at the weekend as his daughter has been tribute to her dad and called him"the gentlest soul"

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7 d. ago UK wants ‘peaceful transition’ in Iran as violent crackdown continues

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said the UK’s priority was to ‘stem the violence’.

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7 d. ago UK will shed no tears if Iranian regime toppled, minister indicates as Trump considers strike

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander branded Iran a hostile state and said the UK favours a peaceful transfer of power as US sources say Donald Trump is weighing up a military strike

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7 d. ago Update on 'UK boots on the ground in Greenland' amid Donald Trump threats

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander claimed 'business as usual discussions' are ongoing about security in the Arctic amid reports a NATO mission to the island is being planned as an alternative to a US invasion

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1 week ago Elon Musk's X should be ditched by Labour, former Cabinet minister demands

Louise Haigh, who was previously Transport Secretary, called on the Labour Party and the Government to ditch Elon Musk's X after its AI chatbot was used for sexualised deepfakes

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1 week ago Donald Trump's bombs kill single mum as daughter makes chilling phone call

American bombers killed Yohana Rodriguez Sierra, 45, as she tried to get daughter Ana to safety during strikes on Venezuela which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro

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1 week ago Desperate coastguard attempt to save mum, child and stranger in Withernsea tragedy

Hero Mark Ratcliffe and mother Sarah Keeling were named as victims in the Withernsea drowning with her daughter Grace still missing as rescuers called off the search

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2 w. ago Disturbing 911 call reveals possible cause of death for Tommy Lee Jones's daughter Victoria, 34, and says she suffered 'color change'

The 911 call was made shortly before 3am Pacific Time on New Year's Day.

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2 w. ago 'Snow bomb' that left drivers trapped in cars on M8 made worse by 'poor leadership'

SNP transport secretary Stewart Stevenson was forced to resign in the wake of the snowstorm that brought central Scotland to a standstill.

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4 w. ago Mum 'itching' to call out school over daughter's 'disgusting' role in nativity play

A mum has been left feeling angry and 'itching' to speak to the school after her young daughter was given her role in the Christmas play – but people say she should be 'lucky'

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4 w. ago Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter calls TSA 'unconstitutional' after pat

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter says she had an "absurdly invasive" pat-down at an airport security checkpoint on Thursday

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last month Chase Infiniti: ‘My parents freaked out more than me when I said I was acting opposite Leonardo DiCaprio’

The breakout star of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (the Guardian’s No 1 film of 2025) on learning karate, her love of car chases – and how she got her name You could hardly ask for a better movie debut than Chase Infiniti’s in One Battle After Another, even if the 24-year-old actor was very much thrown in at the deep end. As Willa, the teenage daughter of former revolutionaries, she was called on to do shoot-outs, car chases, karate, and to hold her own against heavyweights like Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and Regina King. “My whole life has literally changed in the last six months,” she says.Tell us how you got this role? Was there a giant karate tournament where you had to defeat all your rivals?No, thank God. I did six months of auditioning for the film while I was working on my first project, Presumed Innocent. So I was in California when I sent in my first self-tape. And about a month after that, the casting director called me and was like: ...

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