13 h. ago Nick Grimshaw: ‘Getting people to talk about music is the same as talking about food. Both are full of memories’

The DJ and podcaster on taking over the 6 Music breakfast slot, coping with grief, and what he learned working as an intern at MTVBorn in Oldham in 1984, Nick Grimshaw has just taken over as 6 Music’s new breakfast DJ . After stints in PR and TV, his radio career began in 2007 on Radio 1 youth strand Switch; in 2012, he became the station’s breakfast presenter, doing it for six years. He’s also been an X Factor judge, a Gogglebox regular (with his niece, Liv), has written a memoir, Soft Lad, and co-hosts Waitrose’s Dish podcast, with Angela Hartnett, and BBC Sounds podcast Sidetracked, with Annie Mac. Engaged to his dancer partner Meshach Henry, he lives in London and will broadcast live from the 6 Music festival in Greater Manchester, later this month.Congratulations on the new job. How is breakfast DJing different on 6 Music?Radio 1 is about being at the zeitgeist of what’s going on in popular culture, so when there’s a change of presenter there, it feels seismic – there’s new ima...

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55 h. ago US added 151,000 jobs last month but sees unemployment tick up in first report on Trump’s economy

Economists forecast that the figure would be 160,000 ahead of the eagerly awaited report

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56 h. ago US adds 151,000 jobs last month but sees unemployment tick up in first report on Trump’s economy

Economists forecast that the figure would be 160,000 ahead of the eagerly awaited report, which follows a month of widespread federal layoffs, tough immigration crackdowns and Trump’s trade tariffs

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56 h. ago US economy undershoots expectations with 151,000 jobs created

February figure was below the 160,000 forecast by economists

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57 h. ago US economy undershoots expectations with 151,000 jobs created in February

February figure comes in below 160,000 forecast

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59 h. ago US economy likely generated 160,000 jobs last month despite uncertain outlook

The US labor market likely kept on churning out jobs last month, economists say, but the outlook is cloudy and getting cloudier as the Trump administration wages trade wars, purges federal employees and seeks to deport millions of immigrants

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65 h. ago U.S. economy likely generated a solid 160,000 jobs last month, but Trump's trade wars cloud outlook

The U.S. labor market likely kept on churning out jobs last month, economists say, but the outlook is cloudy and getting cloudier as the Trump administration wages trade wars, purges federal employees and seeks to deport millions of immigrants

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5 d. ago Angela Rayner claims 'the biggest upgrade in workers rights in a generation' will BOOST the economy  amid fears firms will drown in red tape

The Deputy Prime Minister insisted that the Employment Rights Bill would trigger a boom in spending because millions of people would have the security to 'get on in life'.

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8 d. ago Scots electrician who 'rage quit' job to live in van saves £1k per month

Dom Wright made the bold move to ditch his expensive rented room in the capital to buy a Ford Transit van and revamp it into a min home he can take with him anywhere.

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9 d. ago Scottish social housing produces shocking number of complaints for mould and damp

A staggering number of complaints about damp and mould in Scottish social housing has been revealed. The Scottish Conservatives, who obtained the data under a Freedom of Information request, disclosed a total of 160,000 complaints have been made since the Scottish National Party (SNP) came to power in 2007.

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1 week ago Number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rises to 242,000, highest level in 3 months

Applications for U.S. jobless benefits rose to a three-month high last week but remained within the same healthy range of the past three years

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1 week ago Scientists reveal the exact reason why a norovirus doesn't have a vaccine yet

The winter vomiting bug has been forcing extremely unpleasant bouts of illness on Brits for generations and costs the global economy billions – so why hasn't a vaccine been developed yet?

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1 week ago The ‘major existential threat’ facing Scotland's universities hit by 'huge' 22% cut

The plea on behalf of Scottish universities comes with Cardiff confirmed plans to cut 400 jobs last month

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2 w. ago 11 of the best pictures as hundreds of musicians protest Cardiff University cuts

Cardiff University announced last month that it could axe 400 academic jobs as well as shutting the school of nursing, music and modern foreign languages as the university contends with a deficit of £31m

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2 w. ago Shakhtar Donetsk accuse Fifa of failing to support Ukrainian football during war

Chief executive reflects on the three years since invasion‘Fifa forgot about us their door is always closed’Shakhtar Donetsk’s chief executive, Serhii Palkin, has accused Fifa of failing to support Ukrainian football in the three years since Russia undertook its full-scale invasion of the country.Ukraine’s domestic league has managed to play on after an initial six-month pause but resources are scarce and the long-term outlook remains uncertain. Palkin claimed the world governing body had kept its doors “closed to us” and he repeated previous entreaties for the creation of a fund to help maintain a sport that has endured severe physical and financial damage. He also urged Fifa and Uefa to hold firm on their commitment to bar Russian teams from international competitions amid an increasingly precarious geopolitical climate. Continue reading...

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