Day: May 13, 2026
£139 million paid out in Troubles disablement pension scheme
May 13, 2026Some £139 million has been paid out so far in a scheme for those permanently disabled in an incident from Northern Ireland’s troubled past. The total comes just months before the Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme will close to new applicants at the end of August. It opened on August 31, 2021 with the aim […]
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Starmer has ‘full confidence’ in Streeting despite leadership challenge talk
May 13, 2026Sir Keir Starmer retains “full confidence” in Wes Streeting as Health Secretary, even as he looks set to resign in a bid to launch a leadership challenge. Mr Streeting confronted his boss over the crisis engulfing Labour as the pair met for crunch talks – which lasted less than 20 minutes – in Downing Street […]
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Nigel Farage faces parliamentary watchdog investigation over £5m gift
May 13, 2026Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is facing an investigation by the Commons sleaze watchdog over a £5 million gift from a party donor. Mr Farage was referred to Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg over the undeclared gift from Thailand-based cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne received in 2024. The Reform leader has previously insisted there is […]
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Your health records are medicine’s superpower — and its biggest risk
May 13, 2026When half a million participants signed up to UK Biobank, a major health database containing genetic and medical information from volunteers, they thought they were giving up access to their data to help improve academic research and to unlock new insights into how we get ill — and, crucially, how we can prevent it. So […]
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Image of Vesuvius erupting by painter said to have witnessed it fetches £25,000
May 13, 2026The painting has been sold at auction in Edinburgh (Stewart Attwood/PA) PA Media A “dramatic” painting of Mount Vesuvius erupting in 1774 by an artist said to have witnessed the event has sold for more than £25,000 at auction. Landscape artist Jakob Philipp Hackert’s painting went under the hammer at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh […]
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