Sir Keir Starmer has set out the long-delayed defence investment plan (Dip), pledging billions of pounds to prepare Britain for war by 2030. Below are the key points from the Prime Minister’s speech and the Dip. – Defence spending will increase by £15 billion, funded by scrapping investments elsewhere Rachel Reeves said the Treasury had […]
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Bristol has overtaken London as the least affordable city for renters in the UK, with tenants now paying £1,883 per month on average. That might sound like a steal to some forking out upwards of £2,000 in the capital, but let’s not forget workers are entitled to London Weighting and the London Living Wage. Without […]
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More than half of voters think Andy Burnham is not ready to be prime minister but are willing to give him “a hearing”, a poll has found. A survey by More in Common found 59% of Britons did not think the Makerfield MP was ready for power. But the public still sees him as more […]
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Sir Keir Starmer said the UK had to be prepared for war to be able to deter potential enemies as he set out the £15 billion defence investment plan (Dip). The Prime Minister acknowledged some other areas of Government spending would be slashed in order to fund defence, with road and energy projects scrapped to […]
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Two years ago, Elisa Sunga woke up one morning craving cake. ‘I wanted to lounge in the park and eat a lot of cake, but I didn’t want to bake it all myself,’ she tells Metro. ‘I had a full-time job at Google, so I couldn’t just get up and make a load of cakes, […]
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Brooke Davies | Senior News reporter Published June 30, 2026 12:08pm Updated June 30, 2026 1:17pm Levels of E.coli in the River Thames have reached 64 times the threshold for safe swimming following a sewage spill. Fulham Reach Boat Club recorded 58,000 colony-forming units per 100ml of water. Inland bathing water is classified as ‘poor’ […]
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Novak Djokovic witnessed a marriage proposal in the crowd at Centre Court during his Wimbledon first-round match Monday and was quick to ask for an invitation to the wedding. After Djokovic won the first set against Wu Yibing of China, one man in the crowd took the opportunity to pop the question to his girlfriend. […]
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Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer. The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called a titanosaur. Scientists haven’t yet identified the species it belongs to. It was discovered in 1985 during an expedition to Antarctica’s James Ross Island and collected […]
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