13 h. ago Illegal worker crackdown: Care providers fined almost £600,000 in just three months after Home Office raids

Care companies were fined between £10,000 to £210,000 for hiring illegal workers

Economics

19 h. ago DWP confirms full list of those who will get £300 Winter Fuel Payment

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that over nine million people born before September 22, 1959 will be entitled to receive between £100 and £300 to help with increased heating costs during the winter months.

Economics

21 h. ago Couple 'forced' to raffle their £600,000 home for £2 a ticket after housing market crash under Rachel Reeves and Labour

Aily Chalmers, 32, and her husband, Nathan, 35, resorted to the desperate measure as they wanted to move closer to family in Forest Way, Hampshire.

Economics

23 h. ago DWP confirms Winter Fuel Payment amounts due for every pensioner household

Payments of between £100 and £300 will be issued later this year.

Economics

33 h. ago Rudy Giuliani is seriously injured in car crash in New Hampshire

Giuliani fractured his vertebrae and had multiple cuts and bruises after his rental car was hit from behind.

Events

34 h. ago Rudy Giuliani rushed to hospital with serious injuries after car accident

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalised with a fractured vertebrae and multiple cuts and bruises after his car was hit from behind, a spokesman said

Events

37 h. ago The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

Venice film festival The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figureGiuliano da Empoli’s smash-hit satirical novel The Wizard of the Kremlin, about a Putin spin doctor called Vadim Baranov and based on shadowy Russian politician Vladislav Surkov, has now been converted into an exasperatingly laborious and literal-minded movie, burdened with endless dull voiceover. It has been written for the screen by its estimable director Olivier Assayas, working with the formidable author and reportage journalist Emmanuel Carrère; Carrère in fact has a cameo here, playing a supercilious French figure at a raucous Moscow student party in the early 90s, patronisingly informing the young people present that it was the communism they’ve just rejected that really believed in the arts.The action takes us through the 1990s decline of ailing president Boris Yeltsin and the promotion of FSB chief Vlad...

Politics

43 h. ago Winter Fuel Payment claimants in four groups 'not eligible' even if over age limit

The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed that the winter fuel payment for 2025 to 2026 will be made to everyone in England and Wales born before September 22, 1959

Politics

3 d. ago DWP winter fuel payment full list as £300 to land in accounts

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that between £100-£300 will be paid to retirees who qualify

Economics

3 d. ago Court blocks Trump bid to end protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

Appellate panel upholds lower court’s ruling as homeland security spokesperson attacks ‘activist’ judgesA federal appeals court on Friday blocked Donald Trump’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have permission to live and work in the US, saying that plaintiffs are likely to win their claim that the president’s administration’s actions were unlawful.A three-judge panel of the ninth US circuit court of appeals unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that maintained temporary protected status for Venezuelans while TPS holders challenge actions by the Republican president’s administration in court. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago Trump loses another court fight as his push to remove legal status for 600,000 migrants is put on hold

Homeland Security has ‘plunged into uncertainty’ the lives of tens of thousands of Venezuelans, California appeals court says

Events

3 d. ago Appeals court blocks Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States

Politics

3 d. ago Backlash as White House chooses Robert F Kennedy Jr deputy to run CDC – US politics live

Senators’ fury at developments at US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Jim O’Neill picked to replace Susan MonarezWhite House picks Kennedy deputy to replace fired CDC chiefPatty Murray, the Washington senator, has called for the Trump administration to provide “immediate answers” about reports that two firefighters were detained by border agents as they were responding to a wildfire in the state.Federal immigration authorities on Wednesday staged an operation on the scene of the Bear Gulch fire, a nearly 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) blaze in the Olympic national forest, where they arrested two people who were part of a contract firefighting crew, the Seattle Times first reported. The fire is the largest currently burning in the state. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago DWP confirms full list of groups who aren't eligible for winter fuel payment

There are five groups of people who will not get the winter fuel payment

Economics

3 d. ago DWP issues £300 winter fuel payment update as thousands to qualify within days

The one-off payment will be made to millions of people from November and will range from 100 to 300

Economics

3 d. ago New Winter Fuel Payment income threshold update for pensioners due up to £300

Pensioners across the UK will receive one-off payments this winter to help with higher heating costs.

Economics

5 d. ago Britain has the most illegal migrants in Europe: How the country is lagging behind Continental neighbours in bid to tackle migrant crisis

The Reform UK leader vowed to deport as many as 600,000 people if he wins power after detaining them in 'large-scale raids' - an echo of the crackdown by US president Donald Trump.

Events

5 d. ago Farage insists women will be deported under Reform plan to remove 600,000 people

The Reform leader announced the plan saying that anyone arriving in the UK illegally would be detained and deported.

Politics

5 d. ago Botswana declares public health emergency over medical shortages as Trump aid cuts hit

The diamond-rich country has faced mounting debt while losing two-thirds of its support for its from the US

Politics

5 d. ago New winter fuel payment laws show who is eligible – and who will miss out

Around two millions pensioners will still lose out this year

Politics