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November 18, 2024
Specialist agents under scrutiny in crackdown on tax credit fraud
HMRC review puts the cost of fraud and error at £4 billion since 2020
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November 18, 2024
Evri doubles profits after record year for deliveries
The parcel company has enjoyed a turnaround after coming under fire in the past for poor service
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November 18, 2024
UK job openings rose in lead-up to the budget
New postings jumped by 4.8% in October, bucking the trend of slower hiring
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November 18, 2024
Gender pay gap still looms large at top of UK’s biggest companies
Women are paid 69 per cent less than men, a slight improvement from 70 per cent but much worse than for the wider labour market
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November 18, 2024
Goodstack corporate giving platform secures £22m funding
Tech firm that makes donating to charities easier is on track to handle $3 billion this year
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November 18, 2024
Silveray spinout wins funding for flexible x-ray equipment
Northern Gritstone among tech investors backing the Manchester company
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November 18, 2024
Auditors raise questions about firm in Redwood Bank’s listing bid
Setback for Jonathan Rowland’s effort to bring lender on to the stock market as his R8 Capital Investments fails to win clean bill of health
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November 18, 2024
Oliver Sweeney hails ‘revival’ after strategic shift
The luxury menswear brand has closed all of its shops and expanded into clothing to boost sales
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November 18, 2024
Chips are up again for Nvidia
Imperial Brands, British Land and CMC Markets also provide updates
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November 18, 2024
Cake Box opening its first store in Paris
Rapidly expanding egg-free baker with over 230 shops in Britain looks to continental Europe
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November 18, 2024
To the end of the earth: what it’s really like to cruise Antarctica
Penguins, isolated islands and hot chocolate — nothing beats the drama and self-discovery of a voyage to the White Continent
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November 17, 2024
German pensioner’s home raided over meme mocking Green leader
A retired soldier is under investigation for reposting a picture of Robert Habeck on social media
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November 17, 2024
Key safe vigilantes in Florence rise up against Airbnb
Campaigners also object to the army of tourists whose wheeled suitcases echo off the city’s cobbles
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November 17, 2024
At the Kenyan car wash … where cleaning comes with a cocktail
Nairobi’s car wash bars are a flourishing new trend, offering a place to socialise and show off your prized status symbol
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November 17, 2024
Israeli army kills Hezbollah media chief Mohammad Afif in Beirut
The strike on Mohammad Afif, one of the militant group’s few remaining officials to appear publicly, was one of 61 to hit the capital in a w...
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November 17, 2024
Israeli army kills Hezbollah media chief in Beirut
The strike on Mohammad Afif, one of the militant group’s few remaining officials to appear publicly, was one of 61 to hit the capital in a w...
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November 17, 2024
Russian dissidents lead anti-Putin march in Berlin
Exiled opposition figures rallied against the war in Ukraine, but their influence at home is waning
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November 17, 2024
British territories will not be forced to reveal list of tax havens users
Keir Starmer will not order the islands to publish lists of true ownership of companies amid fears it would be seen as colonial
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November 17, 2024
Unfit, confused and witless – mediocre England can’t nail key moments
Loss to South Africa was not misfortune, it was another collective failure in a tight game – yet RFU has still imposed a target of four Six...
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November 17, 2024
Enough is enough – England must not just rout Japan but do so with new side
The team who have lost the past five Tests have had enough chances. It’s time to make wholesale changes, and if the management don’t make th...
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November 17, 2024
We didn’t properly investigate obscene calls to BBC journalist, police admit
Lucy Manning fought for two years to get officers to convict the serial offender Amjad Khan
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November 17, 2024
Homeowners wait six months for heat-pump planning permission
Councils are struggling to process applications for the technology that is central to Labour’s green pledges
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November 17, 2024
UK doubles aid to war-torn Sudan amid ‘historic’ hunger crisis
The foreign office has pledged £113 million to address starvation and disease in towns and cities flattened by 19 months of civil war
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November 17, 2024
Elon Musk’s vicious AI rivalry with Nobel winner revealed in court
Emails released as part of a lawsuit show the feud between Musk and Sir Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind
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November 17, 2024
Politicians should ‘butt out’ of assisted dying debate, says MP
Kim Leadbeater has said Commons colleagues should listen to those affected by the law, rather than dominating the conversation with their vi...
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November 17, 2024
Starmer wants to build new rapport with China
Britain needs a ‘serious and pragmatic’ relationship with Beijing says PM ahead of talks with President Xi at the G20 summit in Brazil
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November 17, 2024
Focus on crime not tweets, Sir Keir Starmer tells police
The prime minister said forces should ‘concentrate on what matters most to their communities’ after officers visited the columnist Allison P...
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November 17, 2024
NHS emergency funding won’t be dependent on treating more people
Despite government pledges to speed up reform, a plan to extend ‘payment by results’ to urgent and mental health care appears to have been d...
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November 17, 2024
‘I want to break up’: how a note almost ended Morecambe and Wise
The comedy duo nearly split before their TV debut in 1954, according to a letter found by Eric Morecambe’s son in a collection to be auction...
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November 17, 2024
Biden authorises Ukraine to use long-range missiles inside Russia
US-made ATACMS missiles, with a range of nearly 200 miles, are likely to be used against Russian and North Korean troops in the Kursk region
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November 17, 2024
Tensions boil over after pasta makers accused of fleecing tourists
The women who make and sell orecchiette outside their homes in the southern Italian city of Bari have downed tools in response to the claims
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November 17, 2024
Trump’s fast food-hating health nominee spotted with a Big Mac
Robert F Kennedy Jnr accused of selling out after promising to fight obesity then munching a burger on the president-elect’s plane
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November 17, 2024
The ‘wrestling church’ where athletes battle it out for God
The Church of England is struggling with dwindling congregations, but a wrestling charity is putting on matches with prayer and worship to b...
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November 17, 2024
What the final meeting between Biden and Xi told us
President Xi of China spoke about disagreements over Taiwan, democracy, human rights and economic development at the APEC summit
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November 17, 2024
Met Office issues yellow weather warning for snow and ice
Up to 10cm of snow is expected to fall in northern parts of the UK, with caution over ice during Monday morning rush hour
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November 17, 2024
Corporate fraud whistleblowers ‘could receive millions of pounds’
The director of the Serious Fraud Office says whistleblowers often go to American authorities because doing so in the UK is all risk and no...
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November 17, 2024
Steve Borthwick to miss out on six-figure bonus – but job safe for now
RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney and executive director of performance Conor O’Shea will also not receive windfall as governing body plans t...
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November 17, 2024
Ministers draw up plans to keep food on shelves if farmers strike
The farming minister criticised ‘extraordinary’ claims about the effect of imposing inheritance tax on farms valued at over £1 million
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November 17, 2024
Pressure grows on Rachel Reeves to explain ‘fake claims’ on CV
The chancellor has been accused of exaggerating her experience as an economist outside of politics at the Bank of England and the Halifax ba...
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November 17, 2024
Labour open to relaxing electric car sales rules
Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, is meeting industry leaders amid warnings that demand has been too low to meet current targets
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November 17, 2024
Trump picks fossil fuel boss Chris Wright to be energy secretary
The head of Liberty Energy, who claims ‘there is no climate crisis’, is expected to lead the president-elect’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ campaign
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November 17, 2024
Iran-backed militias threaten to pull Iraq into war
Shia forces have increased drone attacks on Israel, and may have a bigger role with Hezbollah and Hamas weakened
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November 17, 2024
French minister and former car tycoon face trial over corruption
Prosecutors allege that Rachida Dati and Carlos Ghosn sealed an illegal deal involving €900,000 in consultancy fees
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November 17, 2024
I gave my life to the CIA. They betrayed me
For a decade, Blerim Skoro worked to infiltrate al-Qaeda and Isis — all under a promise that he would one day be reunited with his wife and...
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November 17, 2024
Young people face losing benefits if they don’t take up training
Hundreds of thousands of people off sick or out of work will be contacted by councils and mayors as part of a government programme to be ann...
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November 17, 2024
Extinction of slender-billed curlew ‘most devastating in a century’
The species, last seen in Morocco about three decades ago, is the first from the mainlands of Europe, north Africa and west Asia to be decla...
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November 17, 2024
Science or religion? Pope’s chief astronomer calls for a truce
They ask completely different questions, says the Vatican Observatory director, but the church’s persecution of Galileo was ‘wrong’
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November 17, 2024
Police watchdog is weak, toxic and broken, says former director
Sal Naseem, who worked at the Independent Office for Police Conduct for eight years, says it is too risk averse and susceptible to governmen...
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November 17, 2024
Taking a bus in London? It might be quicker to walk
The mayor has been urged to review cycle lane and low-traffic policies after a watchdog revealed that average bus speeds had fallen as low a...
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November 17, 2024