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Singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor has said she found a trip to Poland to hear the stories of Ukrainian refugee children “truly inspiring”. The 45-year-old visited Warsaw ahead of the three-year anniversary of the Russia invasion of Ukraine in her role as an ambassador for Save The Children. She hosted a music therapy workshop with Ukrainian Roma children aged between three and 12 before meeting a group of 15 to 18-year-olds at […]

Regulators have proposed sweeping changes for the baby formula industry, after finding many brands cost more than the weekly value of people’s benefits, leading some parents to forgo food to buy the product. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said issues like high prices and branding in the industry are leading to “poor outcomes” for parents, who could be saving about £300 a year by switching to lower priced products. […]

A doll’s house which inspired the stories of children’s author Beatrix Potter is going back on display after 300 hours of conservation work. Seventy-three miniature items – including furniture, plates of food and even a small chandelier – were repaired and cleaned by teams of conservators at the National Trust ahead of the house becoming the centrepiece of a new exhibition at Hill Top, the author’s farm near Hawkshead, Cumbria. […]

David Lammy is set to meet G7 allies on Friday as the West reels from Donald Trump’s telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin. The Foreign Secretary will travel to the Munich Security Conference, where he is expected to attend a G7 meeting and a dinner with his counterparts from the US, France, Italy and Germany – the so-called “Quint”. But while he may have expected to discuss the Middle East and […]

More than half of the public intend to spend money on a spouse or partner this Valentine’s Day, with men marginally more likely than women to mark the occasion, a survey suggests. Just over a quarter of people (27%) intend to take their partner out for a Valentine’s Day meal, 19% will send a card, 10% will buy flowers or drinks out and 4% are planning a trip away, the […]

Kemi Badenoch has launched a formal bid to keep local elections scheduled for this May, as her shadow business secretary warned cancelling them was entirely wrong..

A major opportunity to boost inclusive economic growth will be lost unless a looming £8 billion funding gap in council finances is not addressed in the forthcoming spending review, the Government has been warned..

The Government will “wait and see” whether tariffs announced by Donald Trump on Friday “actually come to pass”, a senior minister has said. The US president announced what he called “reciprocal tariffs” on all other countries on Friday evening, claiming it was “fair to all”. But immediately following his announcement, it was unclear how this would apply to the UK, especially as Mr Trump suggested his policy regarded VAT as […]

London Museum has announced it has acquired Banksy’s piranhas artwork for display in its new location. The artwork, which saw fish painted on a police sentry box, made headlines last summer when it appeared as part of the street artist’s animal-themed collection in the capital, which concluded with a gorilla appearing to lift up a shutter on the entrance to London Zoo. London Museum will display the work at its […]