Lily Allen, Olivia Dean and Wolf Alice are among some of the musicians nominated for this year’s Ivor Novello Awards. Other acts in the running include Lola Young, Florence + The Machine, CMAT, Little Simz, Coldplay, Damon Albarn, Jacob Alon, Self Esteem, Jim Legxacy and Kae Tempest – who is nominated twice for best contemporary […]
The Democrats have won a Florida special election, flipping a state legislative district that is home to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Emily Gregory, a first-time candidate, beat Republican Jon Maples, who had been endorsed by Mr Trump. A mother of three young boys and an army spouse, she runs a fitness community for pregnant and
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The 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year has named its People’s Choice winner, selected from more than 60,000 entries and voted for by the public. A young lynx tossing a rodent into the air before killing and eating it in Ciudad Real, Spain, was chosen as the winner from 24 shortlisted pictures. A panel of
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Nathan Newby stepped outside a hospital for a vape and some fresh air on a winter night – but ended up talking down a suicide bomber after a simple act of kindness. This “extraordinary, ordinary man”, as a judge called him, is today being honoured with a George Medal, the UK’s second-highest civilian award for
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The Football Association (FA) says it is “proud” of plans to ensure at least a quarter of the England men’s coaching staff is from Black, Asian, mixed or other ethnic backgrounds – responding to Reform UK complaints the strategy is “utter woke nonsense”. Former home secretary Suella Braverman, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform,
Five NHS trusts with “deep-rooted challenges” will be the first to be placed in a new recovery programme, the health secretary has announced. Wes Streeting said “failure has been tolerated for too long”, and although there has been improvement across the NHS overall, some “challenged” trusts continue to struggle. The new NHS Intensive Recovery programme
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Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah is to leave the club at the end of the 2025/26 season. The player has reached an agreement with the Reds that will see him close a remarkable nine-year chapter at Anfield. In a statement, Liverpool said: “Salah expressed his wish to make this announcement to the supporters at the earliest
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Ed Miliband has told Labour MPs he is committed to looking at unhitching electricity prices from gas in a bid to bring down household bills. The energy secretary told a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) on Monday night that the move would be “complicated but possible”, according to sources present. Politics Hub: Follow
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Two people have been taken to hospital after a building partially collapsed in Oldham, Greater Manchester. e injuries are “not believed to be life-threatening,” the North West Ambulance Service said. Emergency services were called at 12.30pm to King Street over reports of a partially collapsed building. Five people managed to escape from the building, which
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The first female Archbishop of Canterbury will be enthroned in a formal ceremony today. Dame Sarah Mullally is the 106th person to take on the Church of England‘s top ministry, but the first-ever woman to become Archbishop of Canterbury in the entire 1,400-year history of the role. “Who could fail to see that there is
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