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Put your hands up...Rayner raves with DJ in Ibiza club

Angela Rayner has been spotted raving behind the DJ decks at a nightclub in Ibiza. Following a meeting with mayors and housing regulators on Wednesday, the deputy prime minister and housing secretary was filmed just hours later dancing with the Australian DJ Fisher in front of a vast crowd at an Ibiza superclub.

Can Priti Patel shake up the Tory leadership contest?

After the heaviest general election defeat since the dawn of modern politics in 1832, it is remarkable that there are six people vying to be the next leader of the Conservative Party.

Pollsters predicted Labour's victory but were still wrong

Polling companies are keeping their heads down after getting last month's election wrong. Political polls are their shop window and, unsurprisingly, they don't want to advertise their mistakes to their more lucrative commercial clients.

Starmer has 'unsettling' portrait of Thatcher moved

Sir Keir Starmer has had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher removed from No 10 Downing Street, according to his biographer.

Labour backs four-day week based on 'compressed time'

Employees could get the right to a four-day working week under new laws being considered by Labour as part of their package for workers. This would come in the form of \"compressed hours\" where an employee is allowed to work their regular hours over four days instead of five, according to reports.

Soaring numbers of health workers are facing sanctions in sexual misconduct cases

Regulators failing to deal with issue, standards authority says

England face Pope dilemma - should they stick or twist?

Ollie Pope has enjoyed a winning start as a stand-in captain, but the new role has shone a spotlight on his form with the bat that could make his position vulnerable.

Favourite Cox crashes out of time trial gold contention

Kadeena Cox has spent the past decade playing the hand that her body has dealt her and this time, it gave her no choice but to fold.

Champions League gets bigger and more complex

As European football's 'Mr President' also gets a rebrand

What it feels like to mourn the death of your abuser

As Mariah Carey announces the passing of her estranged mother and sister - whom she said abused her - Ellie Muir digs into a particular kind of grief that is anything but simple

The prolific coffee company with ties to Nazi Germany

In this latest book on the barons who control America's food and drink industry, Austin Frerick explores the dark past of a company you won't recognise but will have interacted with

Millions told to evacuate as typhoon crashes into Japan

At least three people have died after a powerful storm hit southern Japan yesterday, while at least five million have been ordered to evacuate and hundreds of flights have been cancelled across the country.

Let us strike deep inside Russia, Ukraine pleads

Ukraine's top diplomat has called on the European Union to pressure the US into allowing them to use Western long-range missiles to strike deeper into Russian territory. The request comes ahead of crunch talks between senior Kyiv and Washington officials later this week.

Israel kills militant leaders as West Bank raids continue

UN warns that military operation violates international law

LNER train drivers call off weekend strikes after talks

Three months worth of weekend strikes by train drivers have been called off following successful talks. Aslef members working for LNER - the government-owned train operator of the East Coast Main Line - had planned to walk out at weekends from Saturday to 10 November, after the union claimed there had been a breakdown in industrial relations.

Woman who left vulnerable man to freeze and die jailed

Defendant stole victim's scooter, dragging him along with it

Boy, 17, found guilty of murdering girl he stalked

A 17-year-old boy who stabbed a 15-year-old girl to death in the street after stalking her was convicted yesterday of murder. Holly Newton suffered 36 injuries in the attack down an alley in Hexham, Northumberland, in January 2023, when she was attacked by the boy, whom she knew.

Risk-averse parents and phones bad for children's mental health, says Allsopp

Kirstie Allsopp has defended allowing her teenage son to go interrailing around Europe and claimed that “risk-averse” parenting is contributing to a crisis in young people’s mental health.

Suspect arrested in Sweden over deaths of two Britons

Swedish police have made an arrest after two British travel agents were found shot dead in a burnt-out rental car in Sweden in July.

Starmer courts EU peers in hopes of easing Brexit pain

Anybody watching Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron walking and talking together yesterday could not fail to be struck by the warmth of the body language between the two. It was an enormous contrast to the way the French president viewed Britain's past four prime ministers.

Cooper to back anti-protest laws in High Court battle

The home secretary Yvette Cooper will defend \"undemocratic\" anti-protest laws brought in by Suella Braverman in a legal battle in the High Court.

Will the chancellor risk the wrath of 'white van man'?

The prime minister and the chancellor have been asked repeatedly about how various taxes and duties might be changed in the Budget - and they have repeated their refusal to \"write the Budget in advance\". Formally, we will have to wait until Wednesday 30 October to learn the terrible truth, but that hasn't stopped the speculation - some inspired, some less so.

Starmer backs smoking ban as hospitality sector hits out

The government is considering a ban on outdoor smoking in an effort to curb preventable deaths and alleviate pressure on the NHS. The proposal would affect small parks, pub gardens, and areas outside hospitals, nightclubs and sports venues.

'It opens your eyes'

Chris Eubank Jr tells Alex Pattle about becoming a father figure to his late brother's son, and his ambitions to follow his next bout in Riyadh with Middle East 'mega-fights'

Glittering ceremony sets.stage for sporting drama

Just days before Paralympians last gathered for their Winter Games in Beijing, Russian tanks rolled across the border into Ukraine.

Newcastle's forgotten man returns with sublime touch

Newcastle United win 4-3 on penalties

'A podcast mogul? I'll take that as a compliment'

Gary Lineker opens up to Richard Jolly on 'Match of the Day', expanding his Goalhanger media empire and changing his habits on Twitter/X where it's 'a very unpleasant world'

Who can blame the public.for resisting water bill rises?

Customers are being asked to pay for the industry's mess

Thames Water claims bills must rise by nearly 60%

Thames Water has proposed hiking average customer bills by as much as 59 per cent by 2030 in a new business plan for the coming years.

'It's about seeing the gods.as a dysfunctional family'

Jeff Goldblum and Janet McTeer star in a new dynastic saga that reimagines Greek mythology. Nick Hilton talks to them and to screenwriter Charlie Covell about Netflix show 'Kaos'