Month: November 2024

NatWest is making a “scamvent” calendar available in selected branches to highlight the common purchases at risk of being fraudulent. The calendar will be available in limited numbers from the end of November and is part of a campaign to warn people of the dangers of purchase scams. It contains chocolates while also highlighting common scams over Christmas. Bogus adverts for phones, tickets and gift cards are among the scams […]

Smoking could cause almost 300,000 cancer cases in the UK over the next five years, according to new analysis. The “magnitude of damage” caused by cigarettes and tobacco “cannot be ignored”, Cancer Research UK said. The charity estimates there were nearly 160 cancer cases attributed to smoking diagnosed in the UK every day in 2023. Its latest analysis comes ahead of the second reading of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill […]

Countries have agreed on a deal to inject at least 300 billion dollars a year into the fight against climate change, aimed at helping poor nations cope with the ravages of global warming at United Nations climate talks. Countries have agreed on a deal to inject at least 300 billion dollars a year into the fight against climate change, aimed at helping poor nations cope with the ravages of global […]

The state should “never offer death as a service”, the Justice Secretary has said, in a strongly worded intervention over the assisted dying Bill ahead of a historic Commons vote next week. The state should “never offer death as a service”, the Justice Secretary has said, in a strongly worded intervention over the assisted dying Bill ahead of a historic Commons vote next week. In a letter to constituents, Shabana […]

Harry Kane scored a hat-trick in Bayern Munich’s 3-0 win over Augsburg to break Erling Haaland’s Bundesliga record for the fastest player to 50 Bundesliga goals. The England captain’s seventh treble since moving to Germany – taking him to 14 league goals for the season – not only extended Bayern’s lead at the top to eight points but saw him smash Haaland’s previous mark. Kane brought up his half-century in […]

The first grey seal pup of the season has been born at a remote shingle spit that was once a Cold War weapons testing site. The birth at Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast marks the fourth consecutive year of seals breeding there. This began in 2021 following a reduction in visitor access because of the pandemic. It is thought the blubbery mammals spilled over from well-populated colonies in Norfolk, […]

Presenters Amanda Holden and Alan Carr led the stars arriving at the 2024 Royal Variety Performance, hours after the Queen pulled out due to lingering symptoms from a chest infection. The King is scheduled to attend the show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Friday which will see Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish present a musical number from their new show The Devil Wears Prada – based […]

A woman who accused Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor of raping her in a Dublin hotel has won her claim against him for damages in a High Court civil case. The jury in the civil case against Mr McGregor delivered its verdict on Friday afternoon. The total amount of damages awarded to Ms Hand by the jury was 248,603.60 euro. Mr McGregor had faced an accusation that he […]

Gatwick’s south terminal is reopening after a security alert was cleared by police, the airport said. The building was closed to new passengers for more than four hours on Friday as Sussex Police deployed its bomb disposal unit because of “the discovery of a suspected prohibited item in luggage”. The force said it was called to what is the UK’s second busiest airport at 8.20am. Passengers who had not cleared […]