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Sir Ed Davey is launching a bid for Christmas number one with a charity single called Love Is Enough. The Liberal Democrat leader is teaming up with Bath Philharmonia’s Young Carers’ Choir for the song written by six current and former young carers. The song was recorded in Bath last month with a full orchestra, 20 singers and Sir Ed. The proceeds from downloads and streams of the single will […]

Talking therapies and physical and mental rehabilitation “probably improve symptoms of long Covid”, a new study suggests. But “no compelling evidence supported the effectiveness” of other treatments including certain drugs, dietary supplements or oxygen therapy, academics said. An international team of researchers said that current guidance on treating long Covid is “limited” and often based on consensus among medics rather than on systematic reviews of data. So they set out […]

Robbie Williams has said he feels “remarkable” after coming out the other end of a more than decade-long struggle with his mental health. The Let Me Entertain You singer, 50, has a well-documented history of depression and has also fought drug and alcohol abuse. Speaking on the red carpet of the European premiere for his film Better Man on Wednesday, Williams said there is “beauty” at the end of a […]

Sixth form college teachers in England will begin strike action on Thursday in a dispute over pay. National Education Union (NEU) teacher members across 32 non-academised sixth form colleges will stage their first walkout in a fight for an above-inflation pay increase. Teachers will mount picket lines at their colleges and a rally will be held outside Department for Education (DfE) headquarters in London on Thursday. Sixth form college students […]

A police investigation has been launched into more than five people who may have “facilitated” former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed in his alleged sexual abuse of dozens of women and girls. Detectives are looking at individuals surrounding the businessman who could have enabled him to commit crimes which are claimed to have spanned decades between 1977 and 2014. An internal review is also being carried out into how the […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has said Israel plans to appeal against the International Criminal Court’s recent decision to issue arrest warrants against him and his former defence minister over alleged crimes against humanity in Gaza. The International Criminal Court (ICC) last week issued the arrest warrants, accusing Mr Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant of war crimes for actions during Israel’s war in Gaza. The court said there […]

Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released, the White House said. The three were named as Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung. “Soon they will return and be reunited with their families for the first time in many years,” the White House said in a statement. All three had been designated by the US government as wrongfully detained. Swidan had been facing a death sentence […]

Sir Keir Starmer has sidestepped calls to repeat Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ pledge of no more borrowing or tax rises following the Budget. The Prime Minister said he was “not going to write the next five years of budgets” at the despatch box in the House of Commons when challenged by Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch. In a series of tetchy exchanges between the pair, Mrs Badenoch also pressed Sir Keir […]

A second man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an eight-year-old girl was seriously hurt in a shooting. The child was injured along with her 34-year-old father after a gunman opened fire into their car in Southern Row, Ladbroke Grove, west London, at around 5.30pm on Sunday. The Metropolitan Police said a 32-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of attempted murder and possession of a firearm and […]