38 h. ago BBC Children in Need kicks off as Lord Sugar faces unlikely new candidates

Children in Need is back for another year, with famous faces coming together to help the nation raise vital funds for charities who work with children and young people across the UK

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38 h. ago BBC Children in Need kicks off with new presenter as fans call for major format change

Children in Need is back for another year, with famous faces coming together to help the nation raise vital funds for charities who work with children and young people across the UK

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38 h. ago BBC Children in Need fans stunned as Bradley Walsh 'replaced' in surprise move

Children in Need is back for another year, with famous faces coming together to help the nation raise vital funds for charities who work with children and young people across the UK

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40 h. ago Share your questions for Meera Sodha, Tim Dowling and Stuart Heritage

Ahead of a special Guardian Live event on 26 November, you can share your questions for Tim Dowling, Stuart Heritage and Meera SodhaIt has been a year of small pleasures and big opinions. Is Kim Kardashian’s legal drama All’s Fair really the worst TV show of all time? What are the best (and worst) vegan cheeses? And 20 years after they first hit the shelves, five-toed shoes are apparently having a big fashion moment. But what is it like to wear them in public?As the year draws to a close, Guardian Live invites you to a special event with columnist Tim Dowling, film and TV writer Stuart Heritage, and cook and author Meera Sodha. They will join comedian, broadcaster, and occasional Guardian contributor Nish Kumar for an evening of sharp observations, seasonal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from the Guardian. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Hundreds of new homes to be built on site of old Greater Manchester B&Q store

The proposals have been given the green light by a council

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59 h. ago Melania Trump launches new initiative to help children raised in foster system

Donald Trump signed order creating ‘Foster the Future’ to develop opportunities and online hub for resourcesMelania Trump, the first lady, is spearheading a new initiative aimed at improving career and education opportunities for children raised in foster care.Her husband, Donald Trump, signed an executive order on Thursday that creates a “Fostering the Future” program that brings together federal entities, non-profits, educational institutions and the private sector to develop those opportunities for foster youth. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Covid vaccines may increase the lifespan of cancer patients – this could be a game changer | Devi Sridhar

A study suggesting mRNA vaccines help the body fight malignant cells raises the tantalising prospect of a low-cost, low-risk treatment that could help with all cancersI’m often asked whether we’re better prepared for the next pandemic. It’s a mixed answer, but the bright spot is scientific progress on vaccines. The Covid vaccines were produced faster than any previous effort, and are credited with saving millions of lives from 2021 onwards. The mRNA vaccines – Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna – were designed within days of the Sars-CoV-2 genome being published in January 2020, and went into safety trials over the following months before finally being approved in the UK at the end of 2020.But could they have additional benefits? According to a recent study published in Nature, mRNA vaccines seem to trigger a powerful immune response that increases the median survival time by about 75% for certain cancer patients. These findings – which are being further developed – could indicate the powe...

Science

3 d. ago Named and shamed: the five London boroughs where no affordable homes are being built

Named and shamed: the five London boroughs where no affordable homes are being built  London Evening Standard

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3 d. ago Named and shamed: the London boroughs where not a single affordable home is being built

Mayor’s spokesman describes the figures as ‘encouraging’ as they show a 113% city-wide increase in the number of new starts

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4 d. ago An Indonesian teen suspected in mosque attack built bombs alone at home, police say

Authorities say an Indonesian student suspected in last week's bomb attack on a high school mosque had assembled small-scale explosive devices at home

Events

5 d. ago British family who sold the house they built themselves now live like 'king and queen' abroad, and living costs have halved

Danielle and Mike Booth, both 36, dreamt about travelling with their two children, Emmy, 14, and Eli, 10, after a road trip around France back in 2019.

Society

5 d. ago How almost 600 new homes could be built in a gasworks in south London

Plans have been put forward which would see five apartment blocks built up to 16 storeys tall

Society

5 d. ago Santa won't miss here! Couple's display featuring 2million lights starts Christmas early in Soham

Helen and John Attlesey are expecting thousands of visitors after they covered their home in two million lights to raise money for charities that helped their grandson recover from epilepsy.

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6 d. ago The Independent is helping missing children get to safety – here’s how you can help

Editorial: Backed by Sir Stephen Fry, who himself disappeared 30 years ago, The Independent’s Christmas appeal aims to raise £165,000 to help the 70,000 children and teenagers who go missing in the UK each year to find a way back to safety

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8 d. ago UK Budget: Scots firms urge John Swinney to 'resist temptation' to copy UK government tax rises

Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) and the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) both warned the First Minister that raising income tax would ‘hit workers’ and not help the economy

Economics

9 d. ago Bloke bags £4m Omaze home and claims 'it's like something Tony Stark would have built'

Alistair Walker, 33, spent nearly a decade on the frontline as a paramedic and currently works in NHS management. He has won the latest Omaze Million Pound House Draw in Surrey

Economics

9 d. ago Furious villagers lash out over 'monstrous' 65ft tall 'mega shed' being built behind their homes

Villagers in Pilning, Gloucestershire, say a new 'stadium-sized' warehouse which has sprung up behind their properties has devalued their homes and is blighting their lives.

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1 week ago Experts call for new taxes on worst polluters to help poorer nations with climate crisis

Report to be discussed at Cop30 says global agreements should target carbon intensive activities and ‘ultra high net worth individuals’New taxes on the super-rich, fossil fuels, financial transactions and highly polluting and carbon-intensive activities should be explored as key ways of raising the finance needed to help poor countries, governments have been told in an influential report.The proposal is one of the top recommendations of a new blueprint for global climate finance, the Baku to Belém roadmap, drawn up by the governments of Brazil and Azerbaijan, the current and the previous president of the UN climate Cop process. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Plans for 65 affordable homes in Greater Manchester town tabled

Homes to be built on brownfield land

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2 w. ago Garden city could become UK’s first new city in half a century

It is hoped ‘Forest City 1’ will see 400,000 homes built across 45,000 acres of land, alongside 12,000 acres of woodland in Suffolk

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