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Hunt's Budget: New Tax On Vaping But Cuts To Ni And Fuel Duty Expected

Jeremy Hunt is preparing to use next week's budget to launch a duty on vaping alongside tax cuts for workers before a general election.

Hobbs Gives Credit To Players In Dealing With Postponements

PLYMOUTH Parkway manager Lee Hobbs has paid tribute to his players for the way they have conducted themselves in what has been a season of frustration at Bolitho Park.

Boom To Bust? How Trump Recast Himself From Business Tycoon To Victim

From Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue to the Trump Building on Wall Street, the Trump World Tower by the United Nations to the Trump International overlooking Central Park, Donald Trump has stamped his name on skyscrapers across New York City.

Nato-Sceptic Trump Fires A Wake-Up Call To Europe

The annual meeting of western leaders and security officials in Munich was held this year under a dark cloud of foreboding surrounding Donald Trump's potential return to the US presidency.

Shadow Of Ukraine War Looms Over Security Conference

On the top floor of Literaturhaus in Munich, the Ukrainian veteran Yuliia Paievska was asked to speak to the elite of the transatlantic security and political establishment, including Hillary Clinton and the Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas, as they lunched on a three-course meal, served with military precision.

Biden's Pet Shepherd Kept Security Staff On Their Toes

Joe Biden’s dog bit Secret Service agents on so many occasions that the president’s staff were forced to “adjust operational tactics” to keep themselves safe.

Houthis Will Use 'Submarine Weapons' In Red Sea Action

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis will escalate their attacks on ships in the Red Sea and other waters and have introduced "submarine weapons", in continued solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza war, the group's leader said yesterday.

Key Ally Of Navalny Says His Widow Is 'Leader We Need'

The widow of Alexei Navalny is the leader that Russia's opposition needs after his "cold-blooder murder", a key ally of the Putin critic said. Vladimir Ashurkov, director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, said Yulia Navalnaya was her husband's "rock" throughout his career and it was quite natural she would carry on his work.

Rolls-Royce Is Back On Track After Cutting Costs

ROLLS-ROYCE has swung from an annual loss of £1.5billion to a pre-tax profit of £2.4billion.

List Of Prison Deaths To Be Published On Weekly Basis

Details of deaths in Britain's prisons will now be published weekly in a "truly momentous" improvement in openness and transparency.

Women 'Bearing Brunt' Of Spike In Anti-Muslim Hatred

The number of Islamophobic incidents reported to an organisation monitoring anti-Muslim sentiment and abuse in the UK more than tripled in the four months since the Hamas attacks in Israel last year.

Navalny's Death 'From Natural Causes'

THE death certificate of Russian politician Alexei Navalny claims he died of natural causes, it emerged yesterday.

Horizon Scandal Victims To Have Names Cleared At Last

Hundreds of sub-postmasters wronged in the Post Office scandal will have their names cleared under new legislation unveiled by the government. The new law will come into effect by the end of July and follows prime minister Rishi Sunak's announcement earlier this year that convictions would be quashed.

Chippies At Risk As Putin Abandons Fishing Agreement

Cod and haddock targeted as boats barred from Barents Sea

Hoyle Fights To Save Job As Starmer Denies Threat Claim

Sixty-seven MPs sign no-confidence motion in speaker

Just Why Didn't Police Stop Antisemitic Slur Beamed On Big Ben?

PRO-Palestine activists beamed a "genocidal" phrase on to Big Ben as police stood by.

Israel Looks For 'Right People' To Run Gaza As Chaos Grows

Israeli officials said yesterday they wanted to use local administrators without links to Hamas or the Palestinian Authority to run Gaza, and would set up small-scale trials of the scheme as soon as "the right people step up to the plate".

Truss Attacks Biden And 'Wokenomics' In Speech To US Rightwingers

Liz Truss made a fresh bid for political relevance yesterday by addressing a far-right conference in America, railing against Joe Biden, transgender rights and leftwing-run deep states.

Russia Still Looking To Take All Of Ukraine, Officials Say

But Moscow 'not producing enough' arms to meet objectives

US Citizen Held In Russia Over Donation To Ukraine

Ksenia Karelina had been looking forward to spending New Year's Eve with her family. Though she'd long ago chosen to settle in the USA, she'd kept in touch with her relatives back in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Instead, it appears that the 32-year-old dual citizen is confined in a Russian jail cell on charges of high treason – all for allegedly sending $51.80 to a Ukrainian charity.

King Meets Sunak For First Time Since Cancer Diagnosis

The monarch has resumed his weekly audiences with the PM

Does Britain Still Possess A Credible Nuclear Deterrent?

The news that one of the UK's proud arsenal of nuclear-capable missiles fell harmlessly into the Atlantic during testing comes as a further embarrassment to the Ministry of Defence.

UK Sanctions Officials Who Ran Navalny's Prison Camp

Britain has sanctioned the leaders of the "Polar Wolf" penal colony in Russia where opposition leader Alexei Navalny died.

Tories Would Have Retained Starmer As Top Prosecutor

The Tories have dubbed him "Sir Softy" on crime but the Conservatives would have reappointed Keir Starmer as the country's top prosecutor, a new biography reveals.

Speaker Under Pressure After Walkout Over Gaza

Chaos broke out in the House of Commons last night as furious MPs walked out in protest at the speaker's handling of the Gaza ceasefire debate. Dozens also signed a vote of no confidence against him.

Brexit Has Cost Food Companies Exporting To EU An Extra £170m

Food businesses sending products to the EU have had to fork out an extra £170m in export costs because of Brexit red tape, with the changes described as being "catastrophic" for some exporters.

High Emissions Put Beijing 'Way Off On Its Climate Goals Track'

China is off track on all of its core 2025 climate targets, despite the fact that clean energy is now the biggest driver of the country's economic growth, analysis has found.

Putin Still Intent On Total Victory After Army's Recent Gains, Say Western Officials

Vladimir Putin remains intent on defeating and dominating Ukraine two years after launching an invasion that has caused more than half a million casualties, western officials have said.

Palestinian Death Toll Has Reached 29,000

GAZA’S health ministry says more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

Search Engines And Social Media Still Rife With Scams

Social media platforms and search engines are still littered with scam adverts as an epidemic” of fraud grips the UK, a watchdog has warned. Which? found blatant” fraudulent advertising, from copycats of major retail brands to investment scams and ads using the identities of celebrities, despite them having no connection with the product or service.