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A college in one of the country’s poorest areas has secured Oxbridge places for more than 60 of its pupils.A total of 62 teenagers at the London Academy of Excellence (LAE) in Newham, east London, have received offers from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It marked a record-breaking year for the sixth form, with the number of offers standing two-thirds above its previous record.Pupils received 23 offers from Oxford and 39 from Cambridge.About half of those who were handed offers have faced what the school described as “significant barriers”, including time spent in care, financial hardship and caring for…

Britain forfeited an estimated £1.3billion in spending from Chinese tourists during 2025, according to new analysis from the Association of International Retail (AIR), highlighting the continuing economic fallout from the Government’s 2021 decision to abolish tax‑free shopping for international visitors.Before the policy change, travellers from outside the EU could reclaim VAT on purchases, effectively cutting prices by 20 per cent. The latest findings emerged as Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited Beijing, prompting renewed pressure from retail and hospitality leaders urging Labour to reinstate the scheme.Industry figures say the removal of tax‑free shopping has severely hindered Britain’s post‑pandemic tourism recovery, leaving…

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Donald Trump has chosen former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh to become the next chairman of the US central bank, confirming the long‑anticipated decision on his Truth Social platform.Mr Warsh will replace Jerome Powell when his term ends in May, ending months of speculation over the future leadership of the world’s most influential monetary authority.The President praised his nominee in typically emphatic terms, saying Mr Warsh “will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best”, and adding that he had “known Kevin for a long period of time” and believed he would “never let you down”.Mr…

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Benetton: Smith; Mendy, Odogwu, Drago, Ratave; Farias, Uren (capt); Gallo, Maile, Gallorini, Marini, Snyman, Izekor, Kingi, Fa’aso’o.Replacements: Bernasconi, Aminu, Pasquali, Scrafton, Casartelli, Garbisi , Gallagher, Medina.Scarlets: J Davies; Page, Roberts, Williams (capt), Lewis; Leggatt-Jones, G Davies; Hepburn, Van der Merwe, Holz, Price, Lousi, Douglas, Taylor, Anderson.Replacements: Harry Thomas, Morse, Henry Thomas, Ball, D Davis, Blacker, McBryde, Badham.Referee: Andrew Brace (Ireland)Assistants: Clara Munarini & Bisetto Luca (Italy)TMO: Olly Hodges (Ireland)

Watch the moment furious locals erupted mid-meeting after a local council refused to bin off a “disgusting” net zero project in the heart of Kent.Since 2024, residents in the village of New Ash Green and Ridley have been locked in combat with Sevenoaks District Council over plans to rip up 235 acres of agricultural land to make way for a horde of solar panels – booting out a tenant farmer in the process.On Thursday evening, a local meeting to decide the fate of the New Ash Green solar project was consequently disturbed by locals enraged by the authority’s refusal to…

A Reform UK candidate has slammed a Labour-run council after the authority was discovered to have splashed £30,000 of taxpayers’ cash on helping migrants’ mental health. Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council has insisted it “cannot afford” to hold polls slated for May 7 and was granted permission to postpone the elections until 2027. However, the authority has managed the scrape enough cash together for an asylum seeker mental health and trauma project. Awarded back in January 2024, a contract offered up the eye-watering sum to a local university to “develop a project focusing on trauma within the asylum community in…

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Approximately 800,000 pension savers across Britain are failing to collect tax refunds averaging more than £1,700 each year, with many completely unaware they are entitled to the money.New analysis reveals that higher earners who contribute to personal pensions are leaving substantial sums unclaimed because they either omit pension details from their tax returns or do not submit returns at all.The problem mainly affects people whose tax is dealt with through PAYE, meaning they are not required to complete a tax return. However, by submitting one voluntarily, they could unlock a sizeable tax refund on their pension contributions.Freedom of Information data…