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Darren Milby,North WestandLaura O’Neill,North WestManchester PrideThe weekend spectacular once again promises a party to be reckoned withThere are hopes Manchester Pride will return in 2026 – with the city council stepping in to offer support – after the charity behind the event recently went into voluntary liquidation.Dozens of businesses and performers said in October that requests for payment worth thousands of pounds had been met with silence by event organisers.Bosses at the time blamed Pride’s collapse on a “combination of rising costs, declining ticket sales and an ambitious refresh of the format aimed to challenge these issues”.Manchester city councillor Pat…

Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband bars can no longer be called chocolate after maker Nestle changed their recipes.To be described as milk chocolate in the UK a product needs to have at least 20% cocoa solids and 20% milk solids, a level each product fell below once a higher amount of cheaper vegetable fat was used.Nestle said its reformulations were needed due to higher input costs but were “carefully developed and sensory tested” and there were no plans to alter the recipes of other chocolate products.As many ingredient costs, such as cocoa and butter, increased food companies have altered recipes…

Aston Villa manager Unai Emery says he wants to “get a solution” for on-loan Harvey Elliott, who will “not definitely” be joining the club on a permanent basis.The Liverpool midfielder, 22, has only featured seven times since moving to Villa Park on transfer deadline day.A £35m permanent deal will be triggered if he plays in 10 Premier League games.Elliott, who starred for England Under-21s as they won the European Championship last summer, is not in the squad for Thursday’s Europa League tie at Basel.His last appearance came as a late substitute against Feyenoord in the Europa League on 2 October.”We…

Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf have hit out at the Labour Government after Reform UK were barred from nominating supporters to the House of Lords.Their protests came as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer proposed 25 new peers to bolster his party’s control of the Upper Chamber. Among those nominated were several Labour allies, including Sir Keir’s former communications head, Matthew Doyle, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s chief of staff, Katie Martin, leading to accusations of “cronyism”. Other party leaders were also granted nominations to the Lords, with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch putting forward two new peers and Liberal Democrat leader Sir…

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The Treasury has rejected a parliamentary petition signed by 25,000 people calling for pensioners to receive a doubled personal tax allowance.This proposal sought to create a dedicated tax code for state pensioners but was dismissed by the Government as “untargeted and costly”.Chancellor Rachel Reeves has not offered any new measures that would shield low-income retirees from entering the tax system in the coming years.In a written response published on September 1, the Treasury said: “The Government is committed to a fair tax system but doubling the personal allowance for pensioners would be untargeted and costly”.The department said the proposal would…

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Dominic CascianiHome and legal correspondentGetty ImagesAccording to the lawyers, two of the group had refused food for 37 days as of Tuesday and five have spent periods in hospitalLawyers for eight remand prisoners who are on hunger strike while waiting to go on trial for alleged offences relating to Palestine Action are calling for an urgent meeting with ministers.In a letter seen by the , the lawyers tell Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy that there is a “real and increasingly likely potential” their clients will die in prison as part of their protest.Two of the defendants had…

Same-sex couples will be allowed to compete in British ice dance competitions next year after a change for the 2026-27 season, external.British Ice Skating announced the move which follows the lead of national federations in Canada and Finland.Canada was the first country to allow same-sex pairs to compete in 2022.British pairs will not be able to compete internationally, however, as International Skating Union (ISU) rules stipulate pair and dance teams must comprise one man and one woman.”This change reflects our ongoing commitment to making ice skating inclusive and accessible for all,” British Ice Skating said.Retired female Olympic ice dance champions…

The push-me-pull-you Prime Minister has changed direction again.Sir Keir Starmer, the human rights lawyer who wrote the handbook on how the European Convention on Human Rights would work in UK law, has called for reforms to the system he has advocated for for so long. Reverend Starmer is telling ECHR bureaucrats to stop inhibiting nation states ability to deport foreign criminals, not to protect the public or hand liberty back to citizens, but to stop the fictitious far right. Who are these dangerous, far right extremists advocating leaving the ECHR? Well, they’re Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage.The legal framework the…