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Starmer to set out support plan for heating oil costs

Households have faced a sharp rise in the cost of heating oil since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war with Iran.

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BBC

Starmer to set out support plan for heating oil costs

The Guardian

Starmer to announce support for households hit by energy price spike

Prime minister expected to set out tens of millions of pounds in help for heating oil users as conflict with Iran drives up costs Keir Starmer will on Monday announce tens of millions of pounds’ worth of support for Britons hit by a spike in energy prices as a result of the Iran war. The prime minister ...

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The Guardian

Starmer to announce support for households hit by energy price spike

The Independent

‘I left the care system with little support – but £2,000 changed everything’

Young people who received the no-strings-attached cash payment were more likely to be in stable housing and less likely to be sofa-surfing

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The Independent

‘I left the care system with little support – but £2,000 changed everything’

The Independent

Starmer to pledge support for UK’s poorest homes to help with soaring energy bills

Vowing to support working people ‘whatever challenges lie ahead’, the PM will use a press conference on Monday to set out support for those facing soaring energy bills

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The Independent

Starmer to pledge support for UK’s poorest homes to help with soaring energy bills

The Independent

‘Completely essential’: Labour MP calls for more funding for sexual abuse support services that ‘saved her life’

Exclusive: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols said specialist support services for victims of sexual violence are facing ‘significant funding pressures’

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The Independent

‘Completely essential’: Labour MP calls for more funding for sexual abuse support services that ‘saved her life’

Sky News

Starmer to unveil emergency support for households worst hit by energy price rises

Emergency help for poorer households hit by energy bills driven up by the Iran war is to be unveiled by Sir Keir Starmer.

3 hours ago

Sky News

Starmer to unveil emergency support for households worst hit by energy price rises

The Independent

Britain will not rejoin EU or set up customs union, Starmer’s top negotiator warns

Exclusive: European affairs minister Nick Thomas-Symonds will tell ideologues on both sides of the Brexit debate that ‘alignment is not a dirty word’ as he seeks to embed a relationship reset with ‘ruthless pragmatism’

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Britain will not rejoin EU or set up customs union, Starmer’s top negotiator warns

The Independent

Starmer says his mum was an ‘incredible example to me’ in Mother’s Day message

Keir Starmer’s mother passed away in 2015 after battling with the rare auto-immune condition Still’s disease

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Starmer says his mum was an ‘incredible example to me’ in Mother’s Day message

Sky News

Ed Miliband says Labour will help with energy costs - but doesn't say how

The energy secretary has told Sky News that the government will "fight people's corner" as the war in Iran threatens a fresh energy price crisis.

11 hours ago

Ed Miliband says Labour will help with energy costs - but doesn't say how

The Guardian

Create hedgehog havens – and seven other ways to help our prickly friends

Hedgehogs’ habitat is shrinking, they’re vulnerable to cars, and pesticides are affecting their food supply. Here’s how we can help them pull through With stumpy, speedy legs, questing snouts and a fierce quiver of needles, hedgehogs are enchantingly strange, like fantasy creatures from a medieval ...

13 hours ago

Create hedgehog havens – and seven other ways to help our prickly friends

The Guardian

UK plans to send minesweeping drones to help reopen strait of Hormuz

Government reluctant to dispatch ships amid concerns complying with Trump’s demands could escalate Iran crisis Ministers are drawing up plans to send minesweeping drones to the strait of Hormuz amid concerns in Whitehall that complying with Donald Trump’s demand to send ships could escalate the ...

3 hours ago

UK plans to send minesweeping drones to help reopen strait of Hormuz

BBC

Mother charged with murder of 18-day-old baby

Zahira Byjaouane, 43, has been charged after her baby died falling from a height in central London.

5 hours ago

Mother charged with murder of 18-day-old baby

The Guardian

Mother charged with murder of 18-day-old baby girl in central London

Zahira Byjaouane, 43, arrested on Saturday after reports baby fell from property on Horseferry Road in Westminster A mother has been charged with murdering her 18-day-old baby girl, who fell from a height at a property in central London. Zahira Byjaouane, 43, was arrested on Saturday morning after ...

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Mother charged with murder of 18-day-old baby girl in central London

The Independent

‘Every day I think of her’: Mother’s heartbreak of spending Mother’s Day without her missing daughter

Andrea Gharsallah hasn’t seen Georgina since she called, ‘Bye mummy, love you,’ and said she’d see her later – eight years ago. Now she cares for her daughter’s sons and tries to keep her story alive, she tells Tara Cobham

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‘Every day I think of her’: Mother’s heartbreak of spending Mother’s Day without her missing daughter

The Independent

‘My mother was tricked by a fraudster pretending to be David Attenborough and gave them half of her life savings’

A woman lost tens of thousands of pounds – and nearly her relationship with her son – after being tricked into an online relationship with a fraudster posing as the veteran broadcaster. Liam James sheds light on an international criminal enterprise and led The Independent to uncover Facebook’s ...

11 hours ago

‘My mother was tricked by a fraudster pretending to be David Attenborough and gave them half of her life savings’

Sky News

Mother charged with murder after her newborn baby died in fall from residential building

A mother has been charged with murder after the death of her baby daughter in central London on Saturday morning.

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Mother charged with murder after her newborn baby died in fall from residential building

BBC

From Mr Nobody to Oscar winner: How one man took on Putin

Pavel Talankin's film Mr Nobody Against Putin already won a Bafta, and is now is an Oscar winner.

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From Mr Nobody to Oscar winner: How one man took on Putin

The Guardian

Sean Penn wins best supporting actor Oscar for One Battle After Another

With his third Oscar, Penn joins an elite band of triple winners, including Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson Oscars 2026 – follow the action live! The winners: the full list – updating live Sean Penn has won the Oscar for best supporting actor for One Battle After Another, at the 98th Academy ...

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Sean Penn wins best supporting actor Oscar for One Battle After Another

The Guardian

Paul Thomas Anderson wins first ever Oscar as One Battle After Another takes best adapted screenplay

The director has won the Oscar for his critically-acclaimed film based loosely on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland Oscars 2026 – follow the action live! The winners: the full list – updating live Paul Thomas Anderson has won his first Oscar, for best adapted screenplay for One Battle After Another. ...

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Paul Thomas Anderson wins first ever Oscar as One Battle After Another takes best adapted screenplay

The Guardian

Sinners’ Autumn Durald Arkapaw becomes first woman – and first black person – to win best cinematography Oscar

Cinematographer asks all the women in the room to rise as she thanks cast, crew and her family Sinners’ director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw has become the first woman to win the Oscar for best cinematography at the 98th Academy Awards now under way in Los Angeles. Durald, who previously ...

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Sinners’ Autumn Durald Arkapaw becomes first woman – and first black person – to win best cinematography Oscar