Rishi Sunak’s 4-month-old nephew becomes multi-millionaire after receiving £22m gift from grandfather
Infosys co-founder and Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law NR Narayana Murthy transfers 0.04% stake of IT firm to infant grandson
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Prince Harry and Meghan LIVE: Furious Duke 'hates' Royal Family making plans without him
Following King Charles's cancer diagnosis, the Royal Family is said to have begun planning his succession - Prince Harry reportedly "hates" that he is uninvolved.
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Pep Guardiola and Man City could still face Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool in incredible Premier League title decider
Liverpool and Man City are neck and neck in the race for the Premier League title - and there could be an amazing twist in the tale
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End of an era as Japan ends negative interest rates – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsJapan raises interest rates for first time since 2007Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda is briefing reporters in Tokyo now about today’s interest rate decision.Ueda points out that the move will only raise short-term interest rates by 0.1%, and pledges that the BoJ will “increase bond buying nimbly” if it sees a sharp rise in long-term rates.I don’t think deposits or lending rates will rise sharply from today’s decision.“We reverted to a normal monetary policy targeting short-term interest rates, as with other central banks. We will choose the appropriate level of short-term rates in line with our economic and price outlook. But in doing so, we need to be mindful that there is some distance for inflation expectations to reach 2%. When we focus on this gap, it’s necessary to maintain accommodative monetary conditions even under a normal monetary policy framework.”The Bank of Japan lifted rates for the first time in seventeen years while also dialling back its asset purchases and scrapping its yield curve control program. Despite swaps implying that – at best - five points of the 10-point hike was baked into the market, the reaction was limited, if not slightly paradoxical.The Yen slid, and the Nikkei popped, the latter taking its lead from the former, which arguably has been sold after a build-up in long positioning going into the event. Nevertheless, the meeting was one of the market’s great non-events, although there could still yet be a response when European and US markets come online. Continue reading...
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Freeview joins Sky with great new free channel arriving on your TV tomorrow
More things to watch are coming to homes tomorrow with the launch of a free new channel on Sky and Freeview.
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The secret garden that’s normally closed to the public - but you can visit it this Easter
Kids will love the garden which features designs inspired by legends including King Arthur, and they can visit for free
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London travel news LIVE: Circle Line part suspended and District Line passengers face severe delays
Tube passengers are facing disruption on Tuesday morning with severe delays on the District Line and the Circle line part suspended.
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Tesco announces £100,000 worth of Clubcard points to be claimed this month
The offer expires at the end of the month.
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Konstantin Koltsov dead at 42: Boyfriend of Australian Open champ Aryna Sabalenka and former NHL star dies
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ITV Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid admits she fears Ofcom after on-air James Bond blunder
Susanna Reid censored herself on Good Morning Britain earlier today, as she offered her thoughts on the news Aaron Taylor Johnson has reportedly been offered the role of James Bond
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Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed after Bank of Japan ups key rate for 1st time in 17 years
Shares are mixed in Asia after the Bank of Japan hiked its benchmark interest rate for the first time in 17 years, ending a longstanding negative rate policy
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Mauricio Pochettino next job announced as Stamford Bridge switch confirmed
The Chelsea manager will be joined by long-time assistant Jesus Perez
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Keir Starmer answers Mirror reader questions - from pensions triple lock and NHS to chores at home
Keir Starmer took a swipe at Rishi Sunak over his admission that he goes upstairs to the Downing Street flat in the middle of the day to check his wife has made the beds
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry handed olive branch by Royal Family through unexpected link
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's bios on the official Buckingham Palace website may have been made smaller, but one detail could potentially offer the Sussexes an olive branch with the royal family
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Cricket Australia postpones another tour over human rights concerns for women in Afghanistan
Cricket Australia says it has postponed a three-match men’s Twenty20 international series against Afghanistan due to concerns over human rights for women and girls in the Taliban-controlled country
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Man Utd target Joshua Kimmich makes transfer preference clear with Bayern Munich future in doubt
Joshua Kimmich's Bayern Munich future remains unclear but he has three Premier League clubs on his radar with the German outfit prepared to sell for the right price
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How to successfully buy a home at a UK property auction
A winning bid is legally binding, so it is crucial to do your homework and keep a cool headProperties are sold at auction all over the UK by a variety of people and bodies, including receivers, local councils and investors. Continue reading...
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Aya Nakamura is a proud Black woman. Is that why she’s not 'French enough’ for the Paris Olympics? | Rokhaya Diallo
She is the world’s most listened-to French-speaking artist – but in France, hostility towards her goes beyond the far rightSince the start of her career, Aya Nakamura has faced setbacks, discrimination and harassment every step of the way. Nakamura is a music superstar. She is the most-listened-to French-speaking artist in the world, and the only woman to feature in the country’s top 20 best-selling albums of 2023. Her 2018 hit Djadja has reached almost 1bn listens on YouTube, and in 2021 her second album surpassed 1bn streams on Spotify. When she announced two concerts at the legendary Bercy arena in Paris last year, tickets sold out in 15 minutes – unprecedented for a French-speaking artist.Yet from shows where presenters struggle to pronounce her name to public debate about the unorthodox way she uses the French language, the French-Malian singer can, it seems, never be judged solely on her music.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
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In the company of wolves and kings: Suffolk’s new medieval cycle trail
The Wolf Way – a magnificent, not too hilly, cycling route – takes in the county’s myths, market towns and Gainsborough landscapesIt was an inauspicious start. Having cycled no more than a few metres, from the steps of the Angel hotel into the grounds of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, I fell off my bike.I blamed the wolf: in dismounting to take its photo, I had kicked my own pannier and sent myself sprawling. The good passersby of Bury St Edmunds came to my (embarrassed) aid. Saint Edmund himself, sculpted in bronze, standing beside the wolf statue, looked the other way. Continue reading...
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Booze, jigsaws and rainbows: revisiting Ray’s a Laugh – in pictures
First published in 1996 to enormous acclaim, a new version of Richard Billingham’s seminal photobook features fresh images and the same stark depiction of poverty that feels more relevant than ever Continue reading...
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir by RuPaul review – poignant, egotistical and often wise
In a witty, highly entertaining memoir, the drag queen turned TV star recounts his journey from homelessness to the dizzying heights of fame via the punk scene – and a snub from MadonnaThere is a moment at the end of every series of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the Emmy-winning drag queen reality competition, in which the glamorous host asks the finalists to address their younger selves with words of advice and encouragement. No matter how many times you have seen this happen (since its inception in 2009, there have been 16 US seasons, 20 international editions, eight all-star versions and two celebrity spin-offs), watching the contestants open up about their darkest days remains an astonishingly effective emotional suckerpunch, precision-tooled to wrest tears from the eyes of even the most jaded viewer. In The House of Hidden Meanings, it’s RuPaul Charles’s turn to look back and take stock of his own life, from finding himself homeless in California to posing backstage at Versace surrounded by supermodels.It is a memoir that is by turns shocking, poignant, fantastically egotistical and often wise, punctuated with equal amounts of LSD-inspired epiphanies as hard-won lessons about sobriety and personal growth (complete with mantras). Each sentence is recognisably in RuPaul’s voice – arch, funny, given to epigrammatic pronouncements – distilling the cadences and assorted pop culture references that have come to characterise his TV persona. We learn the origins of some of his favourite phrases (“Why don’t you pick one up and smoke it sometime?” comes from a Mae West-inspired 60s cigar advert), as well as the influence of role models such as Diana Ross and the “unapologetically rebellious” Cher. Continue reading...
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Christspiracy: The Spirituality Secret review – Jesus was a vegetarian and other entertaining tosh
Unsupported assertions and gormless naivety drive this mishmash of pseudoscience and manipulated religious doctrineClearly scheduled to give vegetarians and vegans ammunition to shame carnivorous family members around the Easter and Passover dinner table, this passionate but unpersuasive documentary argues that Jesus was probably a vegetarian. Ultimately, the theory gets largely traced back to the apocryphal Gospel of the Ebionites, a text that’s been around since the second century; director Kip Andersen, however, makes a whole song and dance out of “discovering” this notion in a roundabout way, making for an entertainingly barmy quest. By the end, we’re informed that scientists have found the supposedly “happiest human on Earth”: a vegan Buddhist monk named Mateo Richard who spends most of his time meditating on compassion and has “high-amplitude gamma activity” in his brain which means it “fires on the highest levels”.This particular mishmash of pseudoscientific buzz words is delivered via a montage of rostrum shots showing visually highlighted bits of text while an awestruck voiceover from Andersen himself synthesises the ideas. Before we can even absorb this information, the film skittishly moves on to the next notion that all the greatest thinkers in history were vegetarian. Leonardo da Vinci supposedly bought up all the chickens in his local market and then released them into the woods, which would have made the local foxes happy if no one else. Continue reading...
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From ocean to plate: the female-led seaweed company – from the agencies
Lofoten Seaweed in Norway creates products for everyone from home cooks to professional chefs. Seaweed including nori, grass kelp, knotted wrack, truffle seaweed, among many other local species, are used in different sectors of the food industry to replace condiments, or provide alternative flavours Continue reading...
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After 40 years driving, DVLA now says my mother never passed a test
When she renewed her licence at 70, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency sent her one for a moped instead of a carJust before her 70th birthday, my mother sent the paperwork to renew her driving licence. But instead of a full car licence, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) issued her with one for a moped. She has never ridden a moped in her life.She assumed this was an administrative error and complained. However, the DVLA said it had no record of her passing a category B (car) driving test and holding a full licence. Continue reading...
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Voices: Should there be more incentives to purchase electric vehicles? Join The Independent Debate
As Jeremy Hunt’s latest budget refused to bring in incentives for EV owners, we want to know what would encourage you to make the switch
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Is Fortnite down? Server downtime schedule confirmed for update 29.01
The new Fortnite update is set to focus on Midas, and is set to include the return of the Floor is Lava LTM
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5 transfer options for rising Liverpool star tipped to leave club at end of the season
Jurgen Klopp might not be the only person leaving Liverpool at the end of the season, and there has already been interest in at least one of the Reds' young talents
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King Charles could 'make key changes to major royal event' so he can attend amid cancer battle
King Charles is said to be determined to attend Trooping the Colour - the sovereign's official birthday parade - in June despite receiving treatment for cancer, and it is reported changes could be made to the ceremony to allow him to attend
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ITV Emmerdale spoilers reveal dark Tom King twist as he stalks wife Belle Dingle amid abuse
Emmerdale villain Tom King escalates his controlling behaviour towards wife Belle Dingle next week on the ITV soap, as spoilers reveal he tries to trap her
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Valspar Championship prize money confirmed as LIV golfers earning far more cash
The prize pool given out to golfers at the Valspar Championship has increased since last year's tournament, but still pales in comparison to the purse that LIV golfers earn
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ITV Emmerdale killer Amit's next victim 'revealed' as villager vows to expose his crimes
Emmerdale villain Amit Sharma could claim another victim on the ITV soap next week, as one character gets closer to the truth about a death in the village
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Alexander Mattison finds new NFL team after private meeting with suitor
Alexander Mattison is set to meet with the Las Vegas Raiders on Monday as the franchise looks to add to its running back room following the departure of Josh Jacobs
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ITV Coronation Street's Daisy Midgeley's secret 'exposed' as 'unwelcome' character returns
Coronation Street will air a return to the ITV soap next week spoilers have revealed, which could result in Daisy Midgeley's big secret being exposed to residents
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Ben Mitchell arrested as his EastEnders exit storyline is confirmed
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Shock Coronation Street exit as beloved character quits the cobbles after seven years
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Emmerdale legend in danger as he confronts Amit Sharma over Rishi’s murder
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Coronation Street spoilers: New love interest confirmed for Steve McDonald as he dates fiery local
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Erik ten Hag is making Roy Keane eat his words thanks to Man United mentality shift he's demanded
Man United have overcome several setbacks in recent weeks, often refusing to throw the towel in, resulting in them fighting until the very end of matches.
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Ex-UFC octagon girl Brittney Palmer puts on cheeky display sunbathing in red bikini as fans label her ‘amazing’
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Woman who broke back and shattered leg in horror 60ft fall takes first steps again
Mhairi Anderson, 26, from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, fell 60ft from a window and was told she may never walk again - but she has now taken her first steps
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Royal Family LIVE: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry handed major olive branch by royals
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been handed a major olive branch by the Royal Family, with a huge change noticed on the official website.
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Coronation Street's Jodie Prenger admits 'scariest thing she's filmed' as Glenda to suffer after shock scenes
It's been revealed that her character will be left rocked when the Rovers Return is burgled right in front of her eyes
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Coronation Street exit as character leaves Weatherfield four years after recast
There will be emotional goodbyes in the ITV soap next week
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Coronation Street drama at the Rovers Return as Glenda Shuttleworth terrified in robbery
Fans of the ITV soap will know that the beloved boozer only reopened at the end of last year
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Coronation Street spoilers as Roy's struggles return, Paul's health takes fresh turn and an emotional exit
It's also judgement day for Chesney and Gemma next week and Daisy gets an unwelcome visitor
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'Our family of eight is stuck in a mouldy two-bed house that feels like a shed'
The family have been moved in and out of the home due to ongoing problems with damp and mould
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Ads for cars and plane flights could be banned from city billboards for being 'high carbon'
Other councils, like Coventry and Hackney, have made the same move
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Good Morning Britain star has major criticism about actor ‘chosen as next James Bond’
'That is not a Bond.'
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