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The UK's jobless rate ticked up to 4.6% in April while payrolled employment has fallen sharply since, according to official figures covering the period when budget tax hikes on businesses came into effect.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the new unemployment rate covering the three months to April was the highest since July 2021. It had previously stood at 4.5% - a total of more than 1.6 million people.At […]

Fifteen years after the Sizewell C nuclear power station was proposed, the government will announce a £14.2bn commitment to the Suffolk site.Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to confirm the funding at the GMB union conference ahead of the spending review on Wednesday, which will set departmental budgets until 2029. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will call it a "golden age" of nuclear to boost the UK's energy security.The funding will go […]

Frederick Forsyth, the author of The Day Of The Jackal, has died at the age of 86 after a brief illness, his literary agents Curtis Brown said.His book The Day Of The Jackal was turned into a 1973 film and last year a TV series on Sky Atlantic featuring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch. The best-selling author was surrounded by his family when he died on Monday morning, Curtis Brown […]

A major gathering of the travelling community has left fields covered in rubbish and debris.Pictures and videos published of the aftermath of the Appleby Horse Fair showed litter, including plastic bags, unwanted furniture, empty crates, and cardboard boxes strewn across the site in the east Cumbrian market town of Appleby-in-Westmoreland. On Monday, organisers published images of workers beginning to clean up.Politics latest: Winter fuel payments cut u-turn details later Image: […]

Two teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 14-year-old boy was found fatally stabbed in north Manchester, police have said.Officers from Greater Manchester Police responded to reports of a serious assault on Nevin Road, New Moston, at around 5pm on Sunday.They found a 14-year-old boy with stab wounds and despite the efforts of the emergency services, including air ambulance staff, he later died in hospital.Potential suspects […]

*Sarah thought she was going to a job interview to become a waitress.Warning: This story includes graphic descriptions of sexual exploitation and abuse, including rapeInstead, she was lured to a strange man's flat and held against her will for six months."One of the very first things he did was ask for me to hand over my passport to check that I had the right to work," she says. "I remember […]

Two men have been charged with murder after the death of a teenager in Sheffield.Abdullah Yaser Abdullah al Yazidi, 16, died after being hit by a car.He had only recently come to the UK from Yemen, looking "for a better future", his loved ones previously said.Zulkernain Ahmed, 20, and Amaan Ahmed, 26, both of Locke Drive, Sheffield, have been charged with murder and three counts of attempted murder.They are due […]

Prince William has warned the world's oceans are "diminishing before our eyes" and called on the world to "think big" on how to revive them.Speaking at the Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco on Sunday, he said everyone is responsible for change - both negative and positive. "What once seemed an abundant resource is diminishing before our eyes," he said."We all stand to be impacted."It comes as he teamed […]

The moment we step into Willow Rise, the smell of damp is overpowering.There are water stains across the carpet and rotten wood on the doors. Around the corner, there's a hole in the wall, barely patched up with a piece of polystyrene sheet.We're meeting a resident on the 13th floor of the building in Kirkby, Merseyside - but the lifts are broken and wires hang out of the service panel.Like […]