6 h. ago UK deputy prime minister Angela Rayner admits underpaying tax

Labour politician has referred herself to government’s ethics adviser over £800,000 Hove flat

Politics

34 h. ago Police seize ‘toy cup’ vape and 3,000 other illegal devices in £35,000 Soho sting

The raid on a Soho store uncovered 3,000 illegal devices - one of the largest hauls since the Government banned single use vapes

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44 h. ago More than 700,000 GCSE students without specialist physics teachers as government urged to address shortage

The Institute of Physics (IOP) has called for urgent action to tackle the shortage in physics teachers

Politics

54 h. ago 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since Assad's fall, UN says

An official with the U.N. reguee agency UNHCR says that since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries

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3 d. ago Angela Rayner in fresh hypocrisy storm as it emerges Deputy PM's boyfriend 'works for lobby group whose client was handed huge Labour cash boost'

Her partner Sam Tarry has been revealed as part of a lobby group who were given almost £300,000 in exceptional funding by the current government.

Economics

7 d. ago First time buyer, 24, is left with £50,000 debt after buying dream 'empty home' under government scheme that promised to fund it

Abigail, who purchased a property in Pembrokeshire in June 2024, claimed the Welsh Government's Empty Home Grant is a 'scam' - saying she was ignored for months and left financially stranded

Economics

8 d. ago Nigel Farage's plans to deport 600k asylum seekers a 'fantasy', says Scots Labour MP

Reform UK announced on Tuesday that it would seek to deport up to 600,000 asylum seekers in its first parliament if elected to government.

Events

8 d. ago Why Nigel Farage’s ‘fag packet’ migrant deportation plans don’t add up

Nigel Farage claims he would deport 600,000 asylum seekers in the first term of a Reform government and ramp up detentions of those who come here illegally. But the numbers don’t quite add up, as Alicja Hagopian and Millie Cooke report

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8 d. ago Why Nigel Farage’s migrant deportation plans don’t quite add up

Nigel Farage claims he would deport 600,000 asylum seekers in the first term of a Reform government and ramp up detentions of those who come here illegally. But the numbers don’t quite add up, as Alicja Hagopian and Millie Cooke report

Events

8 d. ago Vital Kirkwall AutoLink project takes off with £130,000 of government backing

One of the UK’s leading autonomous technology specialists has secured over £130,000 of funding from The Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) Pathfinder – Enhancements programme to develop a business case for the Kirkwall AutoLink.

Politics

1 week ago Israel furiously condemns 'Hamas lies' after UN report officially declared famine in Gaza

The famine was declared by experts at the Rome-based IPC, who said it affected 500,000 people in the Gaza governorate, which covers about a fifth of the Palestinian territory including Gaza City.

Politics

1 week ago Indonesia working on details of plan to treat 2,000 people from Gaza amid concerns about right to return

Security ministry and the ministries of health and foreign affairs have met to discuss how the controversial proposal to treat Palestinians would workThe Indonesian government is working on plans to treat 2,000 people from war-ravaged Gaza, holding a series of inter-ministerial discussions to discuss logistics, legality and foreign policy implications relating to the highly sensitive proposal, according to a senior government official.Indonesia announced earlier this month that it would provide temporary medical assistance to 2,000 Palestinians from Gaza, with the uninhabited island of Galang identified as one possible site. Located just south of Singapore, the island was once home to a former camp for Vietnamese refugees and most recently the site of a pandemic hospital. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Voices: Whatever Gaza’s future, 7 October was the beginning of Netanyahu’s end

As Israel’s prime minister calls up 60,000 reservists for his siege of Gaza City, amid growing anti-government protests, Mary Dejevsky asks: will he come to regret it?

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1 week ago Voices: Whatever Gaza’s future, October 7 was the beginning of Netanyahu’s end

As Israel’s prime minister calls up 60,000 reservists for his siege of Gaza City, amid growing anti-government protests, Mary Dejevsky asks: will he come to regret it?

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1 week ago Number of asylum seekers housed in hotels up 8% in a year, Home Office data shows

Rise comes despite applications being processed much faster than two years ago as backlog falls below 100,000 for first time since 2021UK politics live – latest updatesThe number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels has risen by 8% to 32,059 in a year, according to Home Office data.The data also shows that the government is processing asylum applications much more quickly, with 71,000 cases awaiting approval, relating to 91,000 people, compared with 134,000 two years ago. Continue reading...

Society

1 week ago How Starmer opened the floodgates on asylum claims: Record 111,000 in Labour's first year in power despite PM's pledge to 'smash the gangs'

Official government data shows 111,084 people claimed asylum in the year to June, up 14 per cent on the previous 12 months.

Events

1 week ago Government launches urgent bid to find 5,000 homes for 20,000 asylum seekers

Epping Forest District Council was granted a temporary injunction to shut down the hotel by the High Court over alleged planning breaches.

Politics

2 w. ago New plans to help unemployed and disabled Scots find and stay in work

Three pilot projects will share £228,000 of Scottish Government funding to enable people with diverse needs.

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2 w. ago This is how much taxpayer money the Government wastes ferrying empty red despatch boxes in chauffeured cars

A new Freedom of Information request has found that the Government will spend almost £18,000 this year sending its famous red despatch boxes in empty cars.

Economics

2 w. ago Alaska man gifted $22,000 motorcycle by Russian government after viral interview

An Alaska man might have walked away as the biggest winner of last week’s high stakes summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage

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