After 101 days as Chancellor, Mr Healey will set out his fiscal plans to the House of Commons amid growing warning signs about the UK economy.
After storms across the UK, the weather is set to turn calmer with mist and fog at times over the coming week.
Mark Tyrrell, who was in same unit as Sarah Everard’s killer, also guilty on three counts of sexual assaultA former Metropolitan police officer who served in the same unit as Sarah Everard’s killer, Wayne Couzens, has been found guilty of sexual offences against a woman he met through his work as an officer.A court heard that Mark Tyrrell raped the woman – who cannot be identified for legal reasons – by having sex with her after she repeatedly said no.Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organisations.
In the UK, Rape Crisis offers support on 0808 500 2222 in England and Wales, 0808 801 0302 in Scotland, or 0800 0246 991 in Northern Ireland. In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800 737 732).
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The public accounts committee has said the risk to billpayers is ‘extraordinary’The government’s plan to fund a multibillion-pound nuclear plant at the Sizewell site in Suffolk represents a “terrible deal” for the UK taxpayer over the rest of the century, according to the government’s spending watchdog.MPs on the public accounts committee (PAC) have warned the government that the cost of the Sizewell C nuclear reactor could spiral to almost £48bn, leaving bill payers on the hook to provide an extra £9.8bn to construct the plant before 2040 and a further £12bn over its 60-year operating life.
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Brits have been warned of travel disruption as tensions in the Middle East escalate, with the UK deploying three nuclear submarines simultaneously
Business secretary wants to know whether Gordon Brothers is unnecessarily seeking to push discount group into administration
Chancellor to pledge extra support for businesses, entrepreneurs and households during ‘difficult moment’
John Healey has talked of giving the British economy 'breathing space' after the hyper-activity of his predecessor's occupation of Number 11.
The Silicon Valley giant has been warned its sweeping changes could help kill off 'trusted journalism' and replace it with a 'cesspit' of online misinformation.
Three-quarters of all responses were machine-generated in failed attempt to stop bill from passing into law, research findsAI bots flooded a government consultation with tens of thousands of fake responses in a failed attempt to stop the UK’s ban on disposable vapes.Three-quarters of all the responses to the 2023 consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated, in what is thought to be the first coordinated attempt to use AI to derail health policymaking in the UK.
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"Many friends, both in the UK and abroad, have been reaching out to offer their support," a royal insider told Page Six.
Two British men were charged Tuesday over a suspected plot targeting a base used by the United States. Prosecutors believe they were directed by a man working for Iran.
Michal Stasiak and Kinga Wydrzynska pleaded not guilty to 11 counts relating to death of 13-month-old Isabella StasiakA 13-month-old girl was subjected to physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her parents before she was fatally injured by her mother, a court has heard.Michal Stasiak, 28, and Kinga Wydrzynska, 26, appeared at Warwick crown court on Tuesday, where they pleaded not guilty to 11 counts related to the death of Isabella Stasiak.
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Emissions from exported oil would not count against carbon budget, insiders say – reasoning likely to draw dismay from climate campaignersThe giant Rosebank oilfield can be approved without breaching the UK’s emission targets, according to government insiders, in a boost to those in the cabinet who are pushing for it to be given the go-ahead.The Guardian revealed last week that Miatta Fahnbulleh, the energy secretary, was leaning towards rejecting the project, but her position has put her at loggerheads with cabinet colleagues, including the chancellor, John Healey, who are lobbying for an approval.
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The latest YouGov survey showed Nigel Farage's party with a 20 per cent vote share, following a two percentage-point drop since last week.
Comedian accused of sexual offences against six women said consensual encounters were ‘unfavourably reframed decades later’Russell Brand told police he had led a “very promiscuous” life and consensual sexual encounters had been “unfavourably reframed decades later”, his trial has heard.The 51-year-old comedian blamed the allegations on “defamatory and fictitious” media reports.
He said in a statement that he had had sexual encounters in countless locations and scenarios and kissed hundreds of people in public while trying to be “friendly, consensual and warm”. Continue reading...
Storm Austen and Storm Boelo have passed - and the weekend was very wet as a result, especially in western areas - but now temperatures are poised to tumble
Economists warn ahead of chancellor John Healey’s first Budget that the UK must also exercise spending restraint
The 38-year-old man had a successful career as a self-employed joiner working on makeovers for some of the UK’s best-known high street food chains.
Letters | Readers respond to an article by Sam Wollaston about Norfolk’s fridge mountainSam Wollaston (What an eyesore! My day at Norfolk’s frightful fridge mountain, 21 October) highlights an urgent issue, but misses a key underlying driver: the reality of climate change and increasingly hot UK summers.Many standard UK fridge-freezers are only built to normal (N) ambient climate classes, rated to operate in temperatures up to +32C.
During recent heatwaves, indoor temperatures in many homes regularly exceed this limit. Even subtropical (ST) rated units fail when ambient temperatures push past 38C. When ambient limits are exceeded, cooling systems fail, leading to compressor breakdown, spoiled food and premature appliance disposal. Continue reading...
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Letters | Diane La Rosa and Teresa Pacey-Devlin on the deaths of their fathers during the pandemic. Plus more letters responding to the Covid inquiry from John Robinson, David Flood and James TownsendMy dad was in a care home when Covid hit in March 2020 and visits were stopped (UK government failures led to Covid spreading ‘like wildfire’ in care homes, inquiry finds, 20 October).
It was heartbreaking not being able to see him, and talking to him via phone was almost impossible. I couldn’t see how Covid wouldn’t spread to the home as there wasn’t any testing at that point. He was a sitting duck and there was nothing I could do.In late April 2020, when I had been calling all day, eventually someone answered and told me they were too busy to talk.
The next day when I called, I was told Dad wasn’t feeling very well. I asked if there was Covid in the home: they were honest and said there was. I was distraught. Continue reading...
The BBC has been told Lt Col Michael Morris, who was flown out of the UK before being questioned by police, is under investigation.
Three of the UK's four nuclear deterrent submarines are out at sea, it is understood.
Two men face charges under the U.K.'s National Security Act after a September incident at RAF Fairford, a key base for U.S. military bombers.
Rahman Ravelli Solicitors Ltd, a leading UK firm specialising in high-stakes financial defence, has entered administration after more than two decades, with clients now being contacted about transferring their active cases.
Student supporters of Reform UK at Oxford college have organised evening with Nathan Cofnas discussing DEIThe University of Oxford’s Oriel College has been urged to cancel an event featuring Jason Arday’s accuser Nathan Cofnas that has been organised by student supporters of Reform UK.Arday, 41, was found dead in August after resigning from his University of Cambridge professorship.
He had faced intense media scrutiny after Cofnas made unproven accusations of plagiarism against him and said there were “serious questions” about his biographical claims. Continue reading...
Four men on trial charged with sexually assaulting Joanne Young while she was sedated, restrained and blindfoldedA woman’s world was “tilted on its axis” when she discovered that for years her former husband had been drugging her and inviting men into their family home to sexually assault her while she was restrained and blindfolded, a court has been told.Businessman Philip Young advertised his then wife, Joanne Young, on dating and swinging websites, presenting it as a “kink” for both of them, Winchester crown court heard.
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The Theranos fraudster is the subject of Nathan Fielder’s mind-bending You Can See Everything documentary. It is now driving audiences to watch Disney/Hulu’s 2022 series, The Dropout – and they’re seeing it in a whole new lightThere are surprise smash hits, and then there’s You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder’s documentary-cum-psychodrama about the disgraced US entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes.
It arrived in US cinemas with much buzz: this was, after all, an A24 production, helmed by one of TV’s leading performance-art pranksters. But You Can See Everything has surpassed all expectations to become an undeniable hit, and is now the highest-grossing US documentary in 15 years just two weeks after its release.Co-directed by Lance Oppenheim, it is a surreal and masterly epic; at a press screening in London, the audience appeared to be alternately spellbound by its comedic elements and repulsed by the sheer grossness of some of its characters.
That grossness, it should be mentioned, doesn’t pertain only to Holmes, who was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison (this has since been reduced several times) for defrauding investors, after the collapse of her sham blood-testing startup Theranos). It has also – perhaps unsurprisingly – led audiences towards other media inspired by Holmes’s downfall.
Journalist John Carreyrou’s book, Bad Blood, has returned to the bestseller lists; the ABC News podcast The Dropout, hosted by Rebecca Jarvis reported a 900% surge in listeners; while the Disney/Hulu TV series of the same name enjoyed a 700% bump in viewers, and is now ranked #47 on IMDb’s “Most popular TV shows” list, despite having been released in 2022. Continue reading...
Misogyny prevention fund to help tackle sexism at work, school and in public places across UK• UK politics live – latest updatesThe chancellor will give £15m to a dedicated fund to tackle misogyny in workplaces, schools and public places amid concerns in government about the rise of “manosphere” influencers.The women and equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson, will helm the UK-wide fund, announced last month, marking the first time there has been specific national cash to address misogyny.
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Boiler upgrade scheme, which provides grants of up to £9,000 for sustainable alternatives, expected to be slashed in budgetWhen Bill Tuck first started installing air source heat pumps six years ago, other heating engineers were skeptical about whether the green technology would take off. “Now, the conversation is completely different,” he said.“I’m getting approached by them saying: ‘Mrs Jones, my customer for 15 years, she’s enquiring about a heat pump.
What can you tell me?’ The whole narrative has changed.” Continue reading...
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Madeleine Jaye, 25, spent years studying law at Sheffield and was on track to land a job at a big city firm, but after meeting Ram, also 25, in Nepal, she ditched her ambitions.
Saronic Technologies’ Corsair drone boats, the same type the U.S. military used to strike an Iranian naval base in July, have operated alongside forces from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia at Maritime Big Play Pacific, the AUKUS partners’ largest demonstration of uncrewed and autonomous technology, held in San Diego this October.
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Households are being urged to make sure they have up on three days' worth of key supplies to see them through in the event of a crisis, such as essential services being disrupted
British prosecutors have charged two men over an incident near RAF Fairford in September. Police suspect Iranian involvement in the case at a base used for US strikes on Iran.
Administrator BTG says 738,144 firms struggling as calls grow for more support for private sector in budgetBusiness live – latest updatesThe number of UK businesses in financial distress has hit its highest level in more than two decades, as pressure grows on the chancellor to provide more support to the private sector in Wednesday’s budget.There were 738,144 businesses in “significant” financial distress in the third quarter of this year, up 1.6% compared with the same period last year, according to BTG.
That is the highest level since the administrator’s closely watched “red flag” report began in 2004. Continue reading...
The Duchess of Sussex and her husband, Prince Harry, have reportedly jetted out of the country and headed overseas with their two children.
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Last week’s Jackdaw gasfield approval ended months of speculation, but the picture on Clean Power 2030 is still unfolding