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Does Burnham stick to anything he says? Now PM waters down pledge to spend £39bn on council housing – as he keeps Starmer’s plan instead
Andy Burnham has scaled back an earlier pledge that the government’s entire £39billion social and affordable homes programme would go on council housing, after the first funding allocations followed Sir Keir Starmer’s original approach rather than the fully council-led model Burnham had described. The Government confirmed initial allocations to build more than 70,000 homes across…
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Moment family in taxi is hit on their way home from airport by reckless driver who careers round corner on wrong side of the road
A video captured a reckless driver speeding down the wrong side of the road before colliding with a taxi carrying a family home from the airport in Benfleet, Essex. The crash, which happened in the early hours of Friday morning, left the taxi thrown onto the pavement and the offending car severely damaged, with police…
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Canada set to retaliate after US tariffs take effect and trade negotiations collapse
Canada’s trade dispute with the United States has settled into an entrenched standoff, with Ottawa deploying a mix of formal retaliatory tariffs and grassroots economic pressure after negotiations collapsed. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government finalised “dollar-for-dollar” countermeasures targeting steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, electronics and pulp and paper, while Ontario Premier Doug Ford emerged as…
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Chelsea’s chaos, Burnham’s caution and Newsnight’s axe threat
Labour’s Andy Burnham has ruled out a snap election but not tax rises, while the BBC weighs axing Newsnight; in the US, Trump faces a fresh impeachment bid; a Stanford study warns AI is squeezing young workers hardest; and Chelsea won a wild Fulham derby.
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US Treasury’s Scott Bessent ‘making mistake’ interfering with bond markets, former mentor warns
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller has publicly criticised his former protégé, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, for trying to suppress rising US government bond yields rather than tackling the underlying budget deficit. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Druckenmiller argued that governments which attempt to defend asset prices against economic fundamentals inevitably fail, and that Bessent’s…
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Gold hits highest level in three months as traders worry about US inflation and bond market jitters – business live
Gold has climbed to its highest level since mid-May, with spot prices touching almost $4,700 an ounce before settling around $4,649, as investors grow anxious about the outlook for US inflation and turbulence in the bond market. The rally follows last week’s move by the US Treasury to double its purchases of longer-dated debt in…
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Ralph Carr jailed for six years after raping woman at his home multiple times
Ralph Carr, a former celebrity talent agent prosecuted under his full name Ralph Carnovale-Carr, has been jailed for a maximum of six years after a jury found he raped a woman twice at his Melbourne home in March 2023. The 66-year-old appeared via videolink from Melbourne Assessment Prison for sentencing at Melbourne County Court, where…
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Sonya Massey’s family expresses shock after cop who gunned her down dies six months into lengthy prison sentence: ‘Not what justice looks like’
Sean Grayson, the former Illinois sheriff’s deputy convicted of murdering Sonya Massey, has died just six months into his 20-year prison sentence, prompting shock and anger from her family. Grayson, 32, had been diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in 2023 and was denied medical release by the Illinois Prisoner Review Board last month, despite…
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Trainee florist, 51, punched fellow student in row over Christmas wreath
A 51-year-old trainee florist has been fined after punching a fellow student in the face and throwing a protein drink at her during an argument at a floristry class in Merseyside. Lorraine Jae assaulted Tracey Musker at St Helens College following a heated exchange sparked by a tutor’s criticism of her coursework, with the confrontation…
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Saved with seconds to spare: Widow, 89, is rescued from her thatched home just moments before it goes up in flames in devastating Stourbridge inferno
An 89-year-old woman was pulled to safety from her thatched cottage in Stourbridge with only seconds to spare before it was engulfed by flames, as a wildfire swept through the area on 13 August, destroying 19 homes. Redmays, a well-known local landmark on the fringes of the West Midlands town, was one of the few…