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Pet owners to pay no more than £21 for prescriptions after major investigation

A price cap will be placed on pet prescriptions, the Competition and Markets Authority has announced following a three-year investigation. Pet owners will pay a maximum of £21 for their first prescription and £12.50 for any other medicines within the same consultation under the changes, after the CMA found some were being overcharged for commonly […]

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Zutons star says head-splitting racist attack could have killed him

A former member of indie band The Zutons has spoken after being seriously injured in a racist assault, telling Sky News he could have been killed and that he wants his attackers to face justice. Boyan Chowdhury was treated in hospital following the incident, described by police as an “abhorrent” hate-related assault, which happened in

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BAFTA TV Awards 2026: Full list of nominated stars and shows in main categories

The nominations for the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards have been announced. A total of 124 programmes received nominations for this year’s awards, which will be hosted by comedian and Taskmaster presenter Greg Davies at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday 10 May. The five programmes with the most BAFTA TV nominations are:

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‘It felt like he’d been killed twice,’ partner of Nottingham attack victim tells inquiry

The partner of a man killed in the Nottingham attacks has told an inquiry it felt like he had been killed twice because she was first told he died in a road accident. Caretaker Ian Coates, 65, was fatally stabbed by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane more than an hour after undergraduates Barnaby Webber and Grace

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Transgender girls given until September to leave Guides

Transgender girls have been given until 6 September to leave the Guides. The deadline set by Girlguiding follows the organisation’s announcement in December that membership would be “restricted to girls and young women”, which it described at the time as a “difficult decision”. It was acting after last year’s Supreme Court ruling that sex meant

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Married At First Sight star Mel Schilling dies ‘surrounded by love’

Married At First Sight (MAFS) UK star Mel Schilling has lost her battle with cancer. The reality TV personality and mother-of-one, who was the dating show’s relationship coach, was 54 and died on Tuesday. When she passed away, she was “surrounded by love”, her husband Gareth Brisbane said in a post on her Instagram account.

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UK firms hit as Iran war delivers biggest costs rise in 44 years

UK manufacturers are grappling with the biggest monthly leap in their costs since 1992, according to the first snapshot of the Middle East conflict’s effect on the economy. The flash reading for S&P Global’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), which covers both factory and non-retail service sector output, showed activity at its slowest pace for six

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Rapist who abducted girl at knifepoint from Edinburgh bus stop facing life sentence

A rapist who abducted a 15-year-old girl at knifepoint from a bus stop and attacked her in his basement has been told he is facing a life sentence for a spate of violent crimes. Aaron Strachan, 21, was branded a “deeply dangerous individual” by Judge Michael O’Grady KC at the High Court in Edinburgh on

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Death of football manager Steve Bruce’s infant grandson leads to calls for urgent action

A coroner has called for action after the death of baby Madison Bruce Smith, who died after he was placed in an “unsafe sleeping position” in his cot by an unregulated maternity nurse. The four-month-old grandson of football manager Steve Bruce was found unresponsive by his father, ex-Leeds United and Fulham striker Matt Smith, on

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