The Guardian - January 10, 2025

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January 10, 2025

Reeves considers deeper cuts in spending

Rachel Reeves is considering imposing steeper cuts to public services to repair the government's finances after a bruising week in which investors drove up the cost of UK borrowing and pushed the pound to a 14-month low.

3 mins

World Temperatures Overshoot 1.5C Paris Deal Limit for First Time

Data shows 2024 was hottest year on record as climate crisis worsens

3 mins

Trump is not going to invade Greenland, says Lammy

The foreign secretary, David Lammy, said yesterday that a US military seizure of Greenland was not going to happen, as he played down Donald Trump's threats to take the territory from Denmark.

2 mins

Laverne to swap breakfast show at 6 Music for mid-morning slot

The BBC presenter Lauren Laverne has announced she will be stepping down as host of Radio 6 Music's breakfast show.

1 min

'Big, bold, ambitious': Sheen seeks to bring Welsh stories to life at new national theatre

Michael Sheen, a global star of screen and stage, is spearheading a new national theatre for Wales, promising to create big, bold plays that bring vital stories about his homeland to life.

3 mins

Jimmy Carter: Washington bids farewell to a decent man and ponders a new political age

Character. Character. Character.\" Speaking from the pulpit of a hushed Washington National Cathedral yesterday, Joe Biden seemed to be eulogising something bigger than the late US president who lay in a Stars and Stripes-draped casket before him. \"Jimmy Carter's friendship taught me, and through his life, taught me, that strength of character is more than title or the power we hold,\" Biden said. \"It's the strength to understand that everyone should be treated with dignity, respect, that everyone, and I mean everyone, deserves an even shot.\"

3 mins

PM dismays asylum rights activists with boast on record deportations

Keir Starmer has boasted of deporting a record number of rejected asylum seekers and overseas criminals since scrapping the Rwanda scheme, using language that has dismayed human rights campaigners.

1 min

Streeting defends 'pragmatic' use of private firms to aid NHS

Wes Streeting has defended the growing use of the private sector to help tackle long waiting lists for treatment but insisted they must \"pull their weight\" rather than taking resources away from the NHS.

2 mins

Troubling, but not Truss-like Chancellor must be careful to avoid risk of a doom loop

Borrowing costs at the highest level since 1998, the pound at a 14-month low and some major UK company shares dropping like a stone.

2 mins

Liz Truss 'Stop saying I crashed the economy'

Liz Truss has sent a legal letter to Keir Starmer demanding he stops making \"false and defamatory\" claims that she crashed the economy.

1 min

Intervention or inaction The options on the table for economy

There are a range of measures, of varying severity, the Treasury and the Bank of England could still take, depending on how market conditions unfold.

2 mins

Mick Lynch to retire as RMT boss after 30 years with union

Mick Lynch has said he will retire as general secretary of the RMT union, after four years during which he became perhaps the most recognisable presence on picket lines amid the biggest rail and tube worker strikes for decades.

2 mins

Meta has 'heard Trump's message', says whistleblower

Mark Zuckerberg has \"heard the message\" from Donald Trump on restricting online content, and his Meta platforms will intervene \"less and less\" on users during the president-elect's administration, according to the whistleblower Frances Haugen.

2 mins

Legal defeat for man who lost bitcoin fortune in council tip

A computer expert's decade-long battle to recover a £600m bitcoin fortune he says has been lost in a council dump has been halted by a judge.

1 min

Hunt: We Took Too Long To Start Reviews Of NHS Patient Deaths

Jeremy Hunt has said ministers took \"too long\" to introduce medical examiners to investigate deaths in the NHS, as he apologised to the families of Lucy Letby's victims.

2 mins

For real life? Children's TV hit Bluey to feature in Lego sets

The global hit children's TV show Bluey is to make its Lego debut with the first sets due to hit shelves later this year.

1 min

Official Taken Off Asylum Seekers' Site Over 'Support For EDL'

The head of security at accommodation for vulnerable disabled asylum seekers has been removed from his duties over concerns about his alleged support for the far-right English Defence League and Tommy Robinson, the Guardian has learned.

1 min

Cancer staffing freezes are 'short-sighted', doctors warn

Dozens of NHS hospitals have banned their cancer or diagnostic units from hiring new staff, despite GPs referring growing numbers of people who they fear may have the disease.

1 min

'Blowing my mind': Bradford to take a bow as new city of culture

Temperatures below zero are forecast at City Park this evening but the warmth radiating from Bradford's mighty UK city of culture opening will undoubtedly put everyone in the mood to celebrate.

2 mins

Half of England's county councils could ask for delay to May's polls

Half of the county councils due to have elections in England this spring could ask to have them postponed.

2 mins

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