Local elections deadlock: What happens at the 7 London councils where no party won a majority?
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YouTuber KSI hits golden buzzer and sends Britain’s Got Talent act into final
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Men who filmed antisemitic abuse of Jewish man for TikTok plead guilty
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MPs from Labour’s left to urge Ed Miliband to consider leadership bid
Keir Starmer set to face challenge as former minister says she will trigger race if no cabinet minister comes forwardUK politics live – latest updatesMPs from Labour’s left are expected to urge Ed Miliband to consider a leadership bid in the coming days, as Keir Starmer faced the prospect of a definite challenge from his MPs next week.Following grim results for Labour in elections on Thursday, former minister Catherine West said that if no cabinet ministers went public by Monday, she would launc...
Regulators allowed 'money pit' Obama-backed $2.2B solar power plant 'to burn and KILL thousands of birds with no punishments'
Regulators allowed 'money pit' Obama-backed $2.2B solar power plant 'to burn and KILL thousands of birds with no punishments'Sign up here to our free, weekly DC Insider newsletter for a front-row seat to US politics By ALYSSA GUZMAN, US NEWS REPORTER Published: 18:23, 9 May 2026 | Updated: 18:25, 9 May 2026 e-mail View comments
Starmer defies calls to quit as prospect of leadership challenge mounts
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Rita Wilson: ‘Interesting to look at my body’ after breast cancer treatment
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Reform UK Scotland MSPs elect leader and deputy leader
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Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party
Disregard from UK Labour and struggling public services are just some of reasons behind ‘astonishing’ collapseUK politics live – latest updatesBy Friday night, Keir Starmer and much of the Westminster Labour group were quietly relieved that the local election results in England hadn’t been quite as bad as feared. In Wales, however, Labour’s collapse in the Senedd was even more total than the most pessimistic predictions.For more than 100 years, Welsh Labour was the democratic world’s most succes...
Chris Packham calls for Government to ban ‘sociopathic’ trail hunting
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London Labour MPs call for Keir Starmer to quit to 'save Britain from Nigel Farage' after elections nightmare
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Britons on hantavirus-hit ship to isolate in UK’s Covid-quarantine hospital
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Tess Daly and Vernon Kay split - all the warning signs marriage was on rocks before their shock statement
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Alan Carr says he does not love Strictly Come Dancing enough to host the show
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Prospect of three nationalist FMs shows UK has ‘fundamentally’ changed – Swinney
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Portugal and Italy to continue new EU border checks 'causing travel havoc for Britons'
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Swinney: My family deeply unsettled by anti-immigration protest in constituency
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Danish rightwing leader asked to form government after Frederiksen fails to form coalition
Denmark king asks Troeld Lund Poulsen to form government after PM struggles to gather supportThe king of Denmark has asked a centre-right politician to try to form a new government after a month-long effort by the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has failed to put together a ruling coalition.The announcement on Friday night shook the political establishment as Frederiksen has been a staple of Danish politics for decades. Her left-leaning party, the Social Democrats, won the plurality of votes...
Charli XCX releases B-side to her latest single
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Bid to reassure ‘worried’ Tenerife residents over arrival of hantavirus-hit ship
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