The chancellor is set to announce a revenue-raising budget designed to reset Britain’s public finances Rachel Reeves is set to use one of the most pivotal budgets of recent times to call on businesses to pay more tax to help restore the NHS, amid warnings that the health service has […]
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Six-time Olympic cycling gold medallist, 48, says he has stage 4 cancer which has metastasised from his prostate Chris Hoy, the six-time Olympic gold medallist, has disclosed he has “two to four years” left to live after a terminal cancer diagnosis. The 48-year-old told the Sunday Times that a scan […]
Shia group has not claimed responsibility for attack on PM’s home but says it fired several barrages of rockets Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in the seaside town of Caesarea was hit by a drone on Saturday, causing superficial damage and no casualties, as Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon rage unabated […]
Thousands of supporters, including Usher, rally in battleground Georgia, as campaign focuses on early votes Kamala Harris highlighted the threat to women’s reproductive rights and Donald Trump’s apparent exhaustion at a rally Saturday in south Atlanta, continuing a full-court press for votes in Georgia as early voting breaks records here. […]
Rachel de Souza makes strongest intervention yet as three relatives go on trial for murder of Sara Sharif, the 10-year-old who allegedly suffered two years of abuse by her father Ministers must ban smacking now, the children’s commissioner for England has said, in her strongest intervention yet on child safety. […]
Deputy leader says group’s conditions for a ceasefire will be maintained, as Israel shows no sign of accepting them Hamas has acknowledged the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar but vowed to keep fighting, in the face of international calls for an immediate ceasefire. “We are continuing Hamas’s path,” Khalil […]
Exclusive: More than 100 nurses write to Wes Streeting after being accused of cheating in tests to practise in UK ‘I feel like I have failed everyone’, says Nigerian nurse accused of cheating after arriving in UK A group of more than 100 Nigerian nurses have called on the health […]
Democratic nominee suggests at Michigan rally that rival does not have stamina to handle another presidential term Kamala Harris used a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Friday to seize on reports that Donald Trump had been canceling media interviews to question whether he has the stamina for a second […]
Carriages for controversial high-speed line focus on passenger comfort, innovations and headroom, mock-ups reveal For now, it remains unclear quite how far any passenger will travel on future HS2 services – whether reaching Euston or on high-speed tracks all the way to Crewe. But however short the journey, an exclusive […]
Amber weather warning issued for Scotland on Sunday, with yellow warnings for Northern Ireland and parts of England and Wales Parts of the UK are expected to be hit by ferocious winds of up to 80mph this weekend as the first named storm of the season closes in. The Met […]