53 m. ago 'Britain's kindest plumber' misled public with photos of vulnerable customers he helped during cost

James Anderson , a plumber from Burnley, Lancashire, founded community interest company (CIC) Depher and earned the nickname 'Britain's kindest plumber'.

Economics

56 m. ago DC mayor Bowser signs order aligning city with Trump’s military occupation

Order sets rules for federal forces as locals stage noise protests, block indictments and demand home ruleUS politics live – latest updatesWashington DC’s mayor, Muriel Bowser bowed to Donald Trump’s military occupation of the nation’s capital Tuesday, signing an executive order that formalizes cooperation with federal forces even as residents push back against the deployment.The Tuesday order establishes the “Safe and Beautiful Emergency Operations Center” – borrowing from Trump’s own branding – to institutionalize collaboration between city officials and various federal agencies including the FBI. Continue reading...

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69 m. ago London's $900B Gold Market Could Be Set for Digital Overhaul: FT

London's $900B Gold Market Could Be Set for Digital Overhaul: FT  CoinDesk

Economics

2 h. ago ‘I watched the bombs fall. I watched the mothers’: how do we grieve the children of Gaza?

Palestine is not a metaphor. And yet – I’ve superimposed every experience of my own mothering these last months on to PalestineThe last time I carried a life, I got to hear her heartbeat exactly three times before it stopped. It was my fifth pregnancy. After the final appointment, the one where the surgeon furrowed her brow as she looked at the ultrasound, I walked down First Avenue. It was winter. It was the year after the pandemic had begun. I was feral with grief. I snapped at strangers, cried in the bodega, etc. I’d spent a year getting pregnant, then unpregnant. I’d wake in the middle of the night and remember: heartbeat, heartbeat. At times, I felt absurd for my grief. I couldn’t ascertain what the metric of a mother was, what goalpost had to be met. Had I met it? Surely grief like this – love like this – had to be more deeply earned?Three years later, I went under anesthesia again for another egg retrieval. At this point, I had a baby, nearly 18 months old. The surgery was on...

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2 h. ago Welcome to wplace: A chaotic, collaborative digital canvas where users 'paint the world'

A new online platform called wplace invites users to “paint the world” on a massive digital canvas

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4 h. ago The South American country banking on crypto during ‘economic war’ with US

The use of digital currencies helps keep the economy operating amid the US sanctions

Economics

4 h. ago Have Your Say: Will digital ID cards help tackle small boat crossings?

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is looking into digital identification cards in a big to crackdown on small boat crossings - and we’ve asked Mirror readers to have their say on the proposals

Politics

4 h. ago Wetherspoons bans Scottish bank notes in England but can pub chain actually do that?

You'll often hear people argue their cash is "legal tender" and must be accepted, but that's not actually the case.

Politics

5 h. ago Why women dressed in pink and armed with brooms are joining Jakarta protests

Protests, which began in Jakarta last week, have rocked the world's third-largest democracy

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5 h. ago Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirm digital trial

Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirm digital trial  uk.finance.yahoo.com

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5 h. ago Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirms digital trial

Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirms digital trial  uk.finance.yahoo.com

Economics

5 h. ago At least 21,000 children disabled in Gaza during war, says UN committee – Middle East crisis live

More than 40,000 have suffered ‘new war-related injuries’ with more than half left disabled, says UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesYemen’s Houthis have claimed responsibility for a missile launched at Israel (see 8.17am BST), saying they fired two ballistic missiles at Tel Aviv in what they said was an initial response to Israeli attacks on Yemen.The Israeli military moved deeper into Gaza City on Wednesday, with soldiers and tanks pushing into Sheikh Radwan, one of the urban centre’s largest and most crowded neighbourhoods, reports Reuters. Continue reading...

Events

5 h. ago The opioid fuelling Scotland's drugs death epidemic: How powerful narcotic 2,000 times stronger than heroin is behind surge

Scotland has been named the drug death capital of Europe for the seventh successive year - with a dangerous and increasingly popular substance being blamed.

Events

6 h. ago Soaring prices put Britons off fish as cost of a fillet soars by a third

Rising UK food prices have hurt consumer demand for seafood as large cuts to fishing quotas drive double-digit inflation , according to Hilton Foods.

Economics

6 h. ago I haven't broken the economy, insists Reeves in desperate video plea amid bond market meltdown and fears of tax hike 'doom loop'... as she reveals Budget won't happen until November 26

Rachel Reeves attempted to calm markets by stressing her fiscal rules after interest rates on UK gilts crept up again this morning - having spiked to 27-year highs yesterday.

Economics

7 h. ago 'Coffee crisis' warning as drink could soon cost over a fiver – how to keep saving

Cost of living and climate change is sending coffee prices soaring with a new announcement by bean producers spelling another surge in the cost of the hot drink

Events

7 h. ago Europe’s population crisis: see how your country compares – visualised

How anti-immigration politics across the EU clashes with demographic realityAnti-immigration politics is on the rise across Europe. France’s National Rally and Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) each have significant representation in their country’s legislatures, meanwhile the UK’s Reform party is topping the polls.But the rise of the far-right could speed up the population decline of Europe, projections show, creating economic shocks including slower growth and soaring costs from pensions and elderly care. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Government Emergency Alert System Test 2025: Here's when your phone will sound a siren

Around 87,000,000 mobile phones across Scotland and the UK will receive the warning this weekend.

Politics

7 h. ago Britain on the brink? Reeves faces threat of financial crisis as markets send UK borrowing costs rocketing AGAIN

Ministers are struggling to cool alarm after interest rates on UK gilts rose again this morning, having spiked to 27-year highs yesterday.

Economics

8 h. ago Farage condemns UK’s ‘authoritarian censorship regime’ ahead of giving evidence at US congress

Reform UK leader to speak about Online Safety Act at House judiciary committee; government set to announce date of budget at PMQs later Good morning. It is the first PMQs, and with the government set to announce the date of the budget today (Wednesday 26 November, if HuffPost UK is right), you would expect Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch to get stuck into a debate about the economy, and taxation.But it might end up as a free speech day at Westminster, as a result of the conflation of two related issues.On the question of civil liberties, Britain has, unfortunately, now lost her way.I will do my part, as a participant in UK democracy, to help our country find its way back to the traditional freedoms which have long bound together our two countries in friendship. In the meantime, Congress should draw bright lines: British free speech rules, applicable to Britons, are made in Britain, and American speech rules, applicable to Americans, are made in America. Continue reading...

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