Higher training costs for older workers risks plan to tackle youth jobs crisis, employers say

by | Oct 26, 2026 | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Exclusive: Ministers planning overhaul of apprenticeship funding to increase cost of over-25s training, Guardian understandsBritain’s largest employers have told the government that forcing businesses to pay more to train older...

Read More

I saw a drone suddenly descend towards me. My heart started pounding and I thought, ‘Is this the end of my life?’

by | Oct 26, 2026 | , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Photographer Zeinab Faraj, 21, found herself buried under rubble beside a dying colleague while reporting in Lebanon. She had never expected to the target of an Israeli missile attack.It was mid-April and after a month of deadly...

Read More

Labour urged to plug predicted £400m shortfall in overseas aid funding in 2027

by | Oct 26, 2026 | , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Official forecast indicates shortfall below 0.3% of national income in promised official development assistanceThe UK is on course to miss its target of spending 0.3% of national income on international aid by an estimated £400m...

Read More

Burnham to double spending on homelessness amid drive to end rough sleeping by Christmas

by | Oct 25, 2026 | , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Downing Street will allocate a further £432m in this week’s budget, bringing total funding for finding a ‘lasting solution’ to nearly £900mAndy Burnham is to double spending on ending rough sleeping to almost £900m by the end of...

Read More

Cabinet split emerges over controversial Rosebank oilfield decision

by | Oct 25, 2026 | , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Chancellor is in favour the North Sea project, but energy secretary has said she is leaning towards rejecting itA cabinet split has emerged over whether to approve drilling at the Rosebank oilfield, with the chancellor, John...

Read More

The joy of veg-maxxing: how to eat many, many more plants – without really trying

by | Oct 25, 2026 | , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

A new report has found many crops are far less nutritious than they once were, so we need to eat more of them. Here is how to get your five portions of fruit and veg a day, easily and affordably – and potentially increase that...

Read More

As a young man, magazines were my window to the world. That wonder will be lost when all the shops have gone | John Harris

by | Oct 25, 2026 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

The closure of former WH Smith stores around the UK is sobering on many levels. The publications they sold were there to be perused, to broaden horizonsTowards the end of the 1970s, the brief but spectacular career of those punk...

Read More
Loading