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Rachel Reeves has exhausted her remaining Budget headroom despite raising taxes by £26billion in November, Britain’s oldest independent economic research institute claims.The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said rising unemployment and weak economic growth had left the Chancellor on track to meet her borrowing rules with no margin for error.The think-tank warned any further deterioration in the economic outlook could push the public finances off course.David Aikman, director of the NIESR, said: “Fiscal space in our view remains extremely tight, with public debt high and limited room to respond to future shocks”.The NIESR’s assessment raises the prospect…

Whoopi Goldberg fiercely hit back at Elon Musk during Tuesday’s broadcast of US talk show The View, responding to the billionaire’s criticism of rumoured casting choices in Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming adaptation of The Odyssey.The Egot-winning actress defended Lupita Nyong’o after speculation emerged that the Oscar winner might portray Helen of Troy in the epic production.”Elon Musk is weighing in on rumours that Christopher Nolan has cast Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in the big-screen version of Greek poet Homer’s The Odyssey,” Ms Goldberg’s retort began.”Now, Musk claims Nolan has lost his integrity because Homer described this fictional…

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Police have rushed to a university campus in Leicester following a “very serious incident”.Officers remain at the scene in Oxford Street, near De Montfort University, following the incident yesterday evening.The university said it is offering support to students and staff who “witnessed” what happened.It said in a statement: “We are aware of a very serious incident on our campus this evening.”We are working with Leicestershire Police as they launch an immediate investigation.”Our thoughts are with everyone affected by what has happened.”We are offering direct support to students and staff who witnessed the incident.”In a statement in the early hours of…

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Yet what Farage has achieved in the past year with Reform, the self-styled “people’s army” he leads, is off the charts. For decades he’s had influence, but it’s been exercised from the sidelines. Now, with successive opinion polls putting his party ahead of Labour and the Conservatives, he poses a grave threat to the two political tribes who have passed power back and forth between them as voters saw fit, for 100 years.

Hislop is not the first former professional athlete to urge the NHS to change its testing regime. In 2024, six-time Olympic gold medalist Sir Chris Hoy told the BBC it would be a “no-brainier” to lower the age that males are eligible to request PSA tests.The previous year, Hoy, 49, was diagnosed with prostate cancer which had spread to his bones. He was told he had between two and four years to live. In November 2025, the UK National Screening Committee decided against recommending mass screening on the NHS for prostate cancer, saying the main screening test for prostate cancer…

A man who tormented neighbours for years by repeatedly blasting loud, bass-heavy music has been ordered to pay nearly £3,000 by a court. Imre Lakatos, of Napier Road, was convicted in his absence at Bradford Magistrates’ Court after failing to attend a hearing on Friday.The court heard Lakatos had persistently played excessively loud music despite repeated warnings from Bradford Council, causing ongoing distress to nearby residents.Waseem Raja, prosecuting on behalf of the council, described the situation as “a long-standing issue” between Lakatos and his neighbours, with music blaring throughout the day and night.Between August and September 2025 alone, neighbours lodged…

The health board said it would not comment on the specific detail of the WalesOnline report in which the review was leaked, but in a statement to Wales said it was “satisfied that we have dealt with the very challenging [and in this instance] historical allegations robustly, fairly, equitably and with compassion”.