Peter Bogelund looks exhausted. He huffs and puffs as his legs struggle to turn the wheels of his exercise bike. Peter is 69 and is obese, the legacy of a life spent drinking, smoking and never doing any exercise. A labourer since leaving school at 14, Peter is now in training for his life. Four […]
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Keir Starmer describes himself as a “British pragmatist” who takes a “common sense” approach. When it comes to global affairs, and domestic ones too, he isn’t one to grandstand, he’d rather try to get things done. That has been the entire tenor of his three-day visit to China as the former human rights lawyer-turned prime
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A convicted sex offender who was accidentally freed from jail has been sentenced to 26 weeks in prison for punching and biting two police officers. Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was at the centre of a nationwide manhunt after he was mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth, south west London, on 29 October last year. The Algerian asylum
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“Purposeful storytelling” is how Melania Trump herself describes what audiences will find in her cinematic debut. In many ways, that sums this film up. While Amazon paid an eye-watering fee for the documentary, don’t expect a warts-and-all unflinching record of what the first lady did in the 20 days leading up to the 2025 presidential
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Marines on a training exercise saved the life of a stranded climber who had begun to succumb to exposure on Ben Nevis in freezing conditions. The team found the man curled up in the snow near the summit of the Scottish mountain on 24 January, as temperatures plunged during a blizzard. The rescue squad consisted
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Donald Trump has revealed his pick to become the world’s most powerful central banker, declaring Kevin Warsh “may be the best” ever. Mr Warsh, a former member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, will “never let you down” as chair of the country’s central bank, the president said in a Truth Social post. It
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The Queen was among a list of well-known faces who paid their respects to Dame Jilly Cooper at a memorial in London on Friday. The legendary author died unexpectedly in October at the age of 88 from injuries sustained from a fall. On Friday, stars from the film, sport and literary worlds turned out to
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The dismantling of Sanjeev Gupta’s British business empire is accelerating after advisers were hired to find a buyer for a steel production business which supplies oil giants including BP and Shell. Sky News has learnt that Liberty Steel’s Hartlepool-based steel pipes unit, which employs about 170 people, is hunting a buyer within weeks. Industry sources
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A senior City banker is joining Sir Keir Starmer’s business liaison team as Downing Street grapples with a string of industrial challenges, including the fate of Britain’s biggest water company and its second-biggest steelmaker. Sky News has learnt that Victoria Buhler, who works for the merger advisory firm Robey Warshaw, now part of Evercore, has
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Two men have been arrested in connection to the illegal dumping of thousands of tonnes of rubbish in Oxfordshire. Police officers working with the Environmental Agency (EA) arrested a 69-year-old in Andover and a 54-year-old in Slough on Thursday as part of an investigation into large-scale fly-tipping near Kidlington. The men have been arrested on
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