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The average household energy bill is to increase by 10% from October after Ofgem said it was increasing its price cap as households approach the winter months. The regulator announced it is hiking its price cap from the current £1,568 for a typical household in England, Scotland and Wales to £1,717, adding around £12 a month to an average bill. However, it is around £117 cheaper than the cap in […]

Vice President Kamala Harris told Americans they have a chance to chart a “new way forward” in November as she accepted her party’s nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention. Her address in Chicago capped a whirlwind few weeks in American politics and manifests the stunning reversal of Democratic fortunes just 75 days until Election Day. “With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past […]

Former footballer Jermaine Jenas has been been sacked from presenting BBC programmes The One Show and Match Of The Day. The ex-Premier League player, 41, has been removed from the hosting line-ups following an internal investigation by the corporation because of alleged complaints about his behaviour, The Sun has reported. A BBC spokesperson said: “We can confirm that he is no longer part of our presenting line-up.” The father-of-four joined […]

GCSE results show the Covid-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis are still having a “disproportionate impact” on some English regions such as the North East, it has been suggested. “Stubborn” disparities remain between different parts of the country, according to education leaders, and action is needed to tackle these inequalities. The latest figures, show London and North East England continue to have the highest and lowest proportion of GCSE entries awarded […]

Police are urgently trying to find two American bulldog-type dogs, one of which may have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of his home. West Midlands Police were called to Rubery on the outskirts on Birmingham in the early hours of Wednesday after reports that a number of dogs were loose and found a 33-year-old man dead. Officers say they believe the man may have been attacked […]

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Israeli air strikes overnight and into Thursday have killed at least 16 people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health officials say. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital received 10 bodies, including the remains of a woman and three children, after the strikes. An Associated Press reporter at the hospital counted the bodies. A man held the body of a child wrapped in a white shroud as a woman next to him wept, […]

The NHS spending watchdog has recommended that a drug shown to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease should not be rolled out on the health service, despite the UK medicines regulator saying it is safe and effective for use. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said the benefits of lecanemab are “just too small to justify the significant cost to the NHS”. A charity said it is […]

The body of technology tycoon Mike Lynch has been recovered after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily, as his 18-year-old daughter reportedly remains missing. The Italian Coastguard confirmed to the PA news agency that the sixth and final person yet to be found was a woman. Mr Lynch, his daughter, Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer; his wife, Judy Bloomer; Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo; and […]