2 h. ago The new migrant hotels: The family homes in leafy suburbia being converted to house small boat migrants as government flounders

A secretive government operation is underway to scatter thousands of asylum seekers across working-class communities and on smart private housing estates bought with taxpayers' money.

Society

2 h. ago Family home goes on the market for £425k in quaint Lincolnshire village... but behind its manicured privet hedge hides a very sinister secret

The house on the corner of Branston's well-to-do leafy Lincoln Road looks to all the world like the perfect forever home for a young family but it hides a dark secret.

Society

2 h. ago I'm a fashion editor and I've looked at every outfit in John Lewis this autumn. Here's my pick of the 16 sell

When it comes to choice, we've been sold the idea that more is better, but personally I've always loved a shop with the confidence to make a few decisions for me.

Politics

3 h. ago Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021Five years ago, the land now home to KK Park – a vast, heavily guarded complex stretching for 210 hectares (520 acres) along the churning Moei River that forms Myanmar’s border with Thailand – was little more than empty fields.Set against rugged mountains south of the town of Myawaddy, KK Park, with its on-site hospital, restaurants, bank and neat lines of villas with manicured lawns, looks more like the campus of a Silicon Valley tech company than what is really is: the frontline of a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry fuelled by human trafficking and brutal violence. Continue reading...

Politics

5 h. ago 'Whizz kid' who taught himself to code aged 7 now rakes in $1.4M a MONTH

Zach Yadegari, 18, founded Cal AI from his parents' home in Roslyn, a village in Nassau County, Long Island in May 2024, and he now has 30 employees.

Politics

6 h. ago Beyonce and husband Jay Z are 'set to splash out on a spectacular rural estate in the Cotswolds' as they become the latest US stars to set up home in the rural British hotspot

If the couple seal the deal, they will be a stones throw away from the Great Tew, where a string of big names already reside.

Politics

7 h. ago Windfarm boss says UK 'not windy enough' as profits slump due to calm British summer

Danish firm Orsted has 12 farms in the UK, including Britain's largest offshore wind farm, as the developer has blamed the British weather on a profits slump this summer

Economics

8 h. ago Trump gives 'last warning' for 'war to end' as he tells both parties to accept his terms

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Events

11 h. ago Shamed surgeon who chopped off both his legs in sex fetish blew his £500k compo on a hot tub, Playstation watches and a new car

Dr Neil Hopper, 49, used dry ice to freeze his legs to the extent that they required amputation - then claimed he had developed sepsis following a family camping trip.

Economics

11 h. ago Villagers beg Viscount Falmouth not to sell his Cornish estate to developers

Residents in Playing Place, near Truro, say handing the land over would mean the area's 'unique cultural identity' could be 'lost forever'.

Politics

12 h. ago Ruben Amorim faces huge Manchester United decision after Andre Onana transfer development

The latest Manchester United transfer news and opinion as there looks set to be a change in the goalkeeping department at Old Trafford.

Sport

13 h. ago Core blimey! Apple strudel chain stretching 3km and made with five tonnes of flour and fruit clinches world record back from rival Croatian town

Two tonnes of flour and three tonnes of apples were used to make the nearly 9,000 strudels in the small village of Jaskovo, Strudelfest organisers said.

Politics

13 h. ago ‘It’s my second home!’ Gen Z and the sudden, surprising boom of luxury gyms

Expensive fitness facilities might seem a tough sell in a cost of living crisis. But for young people in crowded or dilapidated house shares, the high price for a haven can be worth payingThe best part of Owen Willis’s day is his morning shower. Notes of lavender and eucalyptus waft through his private, stone-tiled shower room as he uses a £32 bottle of Cowshed bodywash. He dries off with a fluffy white towel before slathering on Cowshed body lotion (£24).This isn’t Willis’s home, however. It’s his gym. He belongs to Third Space in London, which calls itself a “luxury health club”. Memberships start at £230 a month for an individual site and go as high as £305 for access to all of its branches, including the Mayfair club, where gym-goers can expect “UV-treated fresh air” and “a Himalayan sea-salt walled sauna and steam room”. Continue reading...

Politics

14 h. ago The idyllic villages cheaper than the Cotswolds that are loved by Americans and locals say 'living here is a no brainer'

Although you may hear a twang of the odd American accent, this is not the Cotswolds  - its the Notswolds, the latest go-to place for Londoners seeking refuge from the maddening crowds.

Politics

14 h. ago Villagers force travel firm who rebranded Welsh manor with an English name to revert back to its original title

Plas Bodegroes (pictured), an 18th-century house in the village of Efailnewydd, Gwynedd, was marketed by Big House Experience (BHE) as Bromfield Hall.

Economics

15 h. ago ‘They grabbed us like dogs’: deportation quotas tear Haitian migrants’ lives apart

In the Dominican Republic, batey slums housing sugarcane workers from Haiti fear immigration raids and extortionOn the yellow bus rumbling through the Dominican Republic’s sugarcane fields back to the settlement, Sainristil sat among the jolting bodies of other Haitian workers in ripped orange shirts. These journeys are routine – always the same grumbling stomachs in anticipation of dinner, the same chatter among men who share a job, a home and a homeland.But that evening, as the workers’ bus pulled into the cul-de-sac of communal housing, it came to a halt before two white buses marked with the words “Migration control”. Continue reading...

Events

16 h. ago Wealthy businessman is ordered to tear down Indian gastropub built 188m from Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway's Cottage

Rakesh Singh, 57, has lost his battle over The Cask N Tandoor (pictured), which sits just 188m (618ft) from Anne Hathaway's Cottage in the village of Shottery, Warwickshire.

Economics

17 h. ago 'If there are nice bars, restaurants and food outlets, how can young people afford to use them?'

The demolition of Crompton Place will leave one of Britain's largest inner town centre development sites

Society

17 h. ago The pretty village near Greater Manchester dubbed ‘somewhere out of Gilmore Girls’ you need to visit in autumn

If you're looking for coffee shops, cosy pubs and autumn walks then this is the place to be

Politics

19 h. ago BREAKING Mum of Mia O’Brien launches fresh bid to free daughter from 'hellhole' Dubai prison

This is a breaking news story and is being constantly updated by our reporters as the breaking news story develops

Events