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August 10, 2022

Trump on warpath as FBI raids Mar-a-Lago

Trump on warpath after FBI raids his Mar-a-Lago home

3 mins

Covid Crazes For Gardening And DIY Evaporate In ‘New Normal'

Britain’s love for green fingers and blackened thumbs during the first Covid lockdown has evaporated as people once again find a “new normal” after the ending of restrictions, a survey suggests.

2 mins

‘We can’t pay our bills’ In red wall Darlington, a clarion call for help

Robin Blair has been behind his fruit and vegetable stall since he was three months old – in a carrycot under the till where his mother worked. Now 77, his is one of the last businesses in the historic market in Darlington, the “red wall” town won by the Tories in 2019, where Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak held their north-east hustings last night.

3 mins

Immigration policy U-turn on plans to house asylum seekers in Yorkshire village

An advanced plan to house up to 1,500 male asylum seekers at a former RAF base in North Yorkshire has been abandoned in another major immigration policy climbdown by Conservative ministers.

2 mins

Fuel Poverty ‘tsunami' To Hit UK As Energy Bills Forecast At £4,266 A Year

Annual energy bills are forecast to top £4,200 from January, triggering a warning that people in Britain face “serious hardship on a massive scale” without government intervention.

3 mins

Partygate MP issues rebuke over ‘terrorist campaign’

A senior Conservative MP sitting on the inquiry into whether Boris Johnson misled parliament over the Partygate scandal has denounced the “terrorist campaign” to discredit the committee examining the prime minister’s conduct.

1 min

‘This will ruin me’: Giggs pleaded with girlfriend after head-butt, jury told

Ryan Giggs grabbed his then-girlfriend by the shoulders and head-butted her when she tried to leave him after years of “coercive and controlling behaviour”, a court has heard.

2 mins

‘I don’t want it to be over’: Williams sets her sights on tennis retirement

Serena Williams, one of the greatest athletes of all time and a 23-time grand slam singles champion, has announced she is retiring from professional tennis, indicating she could step away after the US Open.

3 mins

Shake It Off lyrics ‘written entirely by me’, says Swift

Taylor Swift has defended herself as the sole writer of her 2014 hit Shake It Off in response to a lawsuit claiming that she plagiarised lyrics from the 2000 song Playas Gon’ Play by the girl group 3LW.

2 mins

Crimean airbase 100 miles from frontline damaged in explosions

A Russian airbase deep behind the frontline in Crimea was damaged by several large explosions yesterday afternoon, killing at least one person, although it was not immediately clear whether it had been targeted by a long-range Ukrainian missile strike.

3 mins

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