Grocery inflation rises as tinned goods and hand sanitiser sales surge for 'Be Ready’ campaign

Join today Already a member? Log in A government drive urging households to stock up for emergencies coincided with a jump in sales of essentials last month, as grocery price inflation edged up again. Figures from…

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Trump says more US attacks on Iran 'highly unlikely'

"We're just keeping it the status quo," the US president said on Monday. "And we're doing that really at the behest of countries that are their neighbours." Trump's comments came after he met the Qatari prime minister.…

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Watch: Man smashes Chinese government building with excavator

Videos circulating on social media show an excavator tearing down the facade of the building. Local media reported that staff inside the building were urgently evacuated. No one was injured in the incident, said the…

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'Baffling but brilliant' post-apocalyptic novel The End of Everything wins Booker Prize

The End of Everything is set in the years after a mysterious catastrophe that caused British society as we know it to collapse. It has divided opinion among readers, and was described as "bleak but brilliant" and…

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Romesh Ranganathan addresses ‘angry’ reaction to Celebrity Traitors refugee charity choice

Read our privacy notice . Romesh Ranganathan has spoken out on the backlash he has received over his choice of charity, which left some Celebrity Traitors viewers “angry”. The comedian won the second series of the…

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Russell Brand’s ex Jemima Goldsmith accuses rapist of ‘violence, coercive control and abuse’ against her

Join today Already a member? Log in One of Russell Brand’s ex-partners has accused him of “violence, coercive control and abuse” against her, claiming she once had to call the police to get him removed from her house.…

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Dannii Minogue's eerie warning about 'vile predator' Russell Brand unearthed 20 years later as disgraced comedian is jailed for rape

The 55-year-old Australian pop star made the explosive remarks during a 2006 interview with The Mirror at the Michele Watches Summer Party, in which she detailed an uncomfortable experience while appearing on Brand's…

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Woman found dead in house ‘suffered multiple stab wounds’

At the inquest opening, it was said emergency services were called to Eleanor’s home in Llandudno, North Wales , and found she suffered ‘multiple stab wounds.’ She was pronounced dead at 8.30pm on October 3 by a…

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The fraudster paid £350,000 to do FIVE jobs across the Civil Service... and no one noticed because he was working from home (at his £2.1million east London house!)

For more than three and a half years, Kashim Chowdhury worked for a number of government departments at the same time and received multiple salaries. In all, he held eight overlapping jobs across the civil service. He…

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After my kind and funny mum was diagnosed with dementia she was handed a leaflet ... and that was it

She was there because the service she worked for – just outside London – had no doctor of its own. Nurses and nursing assistants carried out the assessments, and difficult cases were saved up for the few hours each week…

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