Government accused of ‘snatching school lunches away by stealth’

Chancellor’s Autumn Budget upcoming but help is out there for those on low incomes struggling with rising prices and high bills

Lisa Squire said she wants to find out how her daughter died.

Chancellor’s Autumn Budget upcoming but help is out there for those on low incomes struggling with rising prices and high bills

Union bosses warn of ‘extraordinary disruption’ at airports and key ports like Dover

New strike action follows earlier walkouts over pay and conditions

New strike action follows earlier walkouts over pay and conditions

The decision is due to be made on Friday.

“It would have cost them more to write the letter, I just can’t get my head around it,” says mother-of-four Louise Owen

Unseasonably high temperatures have led to ‘exceptionally mild’ conditions.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has ‘sympathy’ with nurses – but best way to help is bringing down inflation

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says ‘tough rough ahead’ as he prepares to slash public spending

Some NHS trusts have paid as much as £2,500 to nurses to fill shifts.

Italian researchers have warned against using this to justify drinking more beer

Tens of thousands of drivers suffered long delays this week as Just Stop Oil activists repeatedly carried out protests.

Ex-chancellor refuses to apologise for turmoil and blames former boss for mini-Budget chaos

1.74 million drivers were caught by speed cameras on major routes in the last year

Chancellor warns of ‘extremely difficult decisions’ ahead

Climate campaigners did not say if they plan to resume protests, which shut sections of the motorway all week

Chancellor warns of ‘extremely difficult decisions’ ahead

The Taoiseach and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak held a meeting at the British-Irish Council summit on Thursday.

Mark Drakeford will issue the call for more support during the British-Irish Council summit on Thursday

The front pages cover political machinations, hungry pupils and a ‘psycho’ seagull.

Marijke Vandevyvere will make a special trip to visit the grave of Major James Lawson Mitchell of Pitlochry.

The garage in Chatham, Kent, was the workshop of Britain’s premier guitar-maker, the late Tony Zemaitis

Threshold freeze could leave thousands more businesses owing Treasury

Actress Viola Davis and rapper Little Simz were also honoured at the ceremony on Thursday.

The IFS study found that the cost for childcare providers are likely to jump by 9% between this year and 2024/25.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust has decorated the inside and outside of its buildings with over 400 knitted and crochets tributes.

Just 3.2% of the 4.2 million households on Universal Credit who are entitled to the discounted deals have taken them up, Ofcom figures show.

Just 4% of the 3,102 motorists polled for the RAC said the roads in their area have improved in the past year.

Spending settlement announced in 2021 wiped out by rising costs

A number of key public services across UK will be hit, from traffic management to pensions administration

The former health secretary will be joined by singer-songwriter Boy George to take on the first eating challenge.

Controversial former health secretary has drawn tears as well as confrontation in the jungle

Detectives investigating the killing of Gabriel Petrov Stoyanov in Downham are searching for teenager George David.

He also criticised her ‘mad’ decision to sack him as chancellor for implementing her tax-cutting policies.

The 60-year-old went missing in September while working at La Silla observatory

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is in Paris to mark the first Armistice Day since Russia’s illegal invasion.

MP says he ‘messed up and fessed up’

The 44-year-old former rugby player said his wife ‘almost choked him to death’ during labour.

Treatment of asylum seekers and shredding of Human Rights Act come under fire in Geneva

Famous shopping centre Princes Street closed off

The ex-sportsman was made an OBE at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

Rishi Sunak was the first Prime Minister to attend the British-Irish Council in 15 years.

‘Spider’s web of blame’ has been created by refusal of core participants to accept responsibility, final hearing told

Aiden Aslin says he wants to go ‘home’ but will leave fighting behind him

Nicola Sturgeon met Rishi Sunak for talks for the first time – using the meeting to raise the issue of a second independence referendum.

‘Extraordinary disruption’ to hit more than 120 government departments and public bodies

Nicola Sturgeon said ‘there is a hard limit without additional resources from Westminster in what we can do’ amid union pay negotiations.

The Prime Minister was speaking after his first official meeting with Irish premier Micheal Martin at the British-Irish Council summit in Blackpool.

Former health secretary will declare his fee to parliament at a later date

Former health secretary will declare his fee to parliament at a later date

‘Press the reset button’: New legal routes thought more likely to be effective than Rwanda flights

‘We’re not going to arrest our way out of environmental protest’ warns policing leader

Angharad Paget-Jones, 29, claimed she was forced to leave a Premier Inn hotel because staff did not believe her dog was an assistance dog.

Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council made the recommendation on Thursday.

Shona Robison said the Scottish Government will oppose the proposals to reform human rights legislation.

In an overhaul of the company’s strict uniform rules, all of its staff will be able to express themselves through their accessories, make-up, or hair.

Members of the PCS union in government departments and other areas have backed walk-outs.

The national opera company is campaigning to reverse decisions made by Arts Council England last week.

Abi Fisher was found dead in South Yorkshire earlier this year

Strong profits are expected to spark further debate around extending the windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas operators

In closing submissions on Thursday, lead counsel Richard Millett KC accused firms of a ‘merry go round of buck-passing’ to protect themselves.

The body representing solicitors said an escalation of industrial action was ‘near inevitable’.

The shadow health secretary has apologised for a comment about Jeremy Corbyn in Parliament, saying it was made ‘in jest’.

Junior Kettle, 31, has been charged with the murder of Koray Alpergin, 43, who was found dead near an industrial estate.

Driver sentenced to eight months in prison

Rishi Sunak urged to act as landlord repossession claims also shoot up

‘You’re hurting the dog,’ someone shouts

UK-Swiss deal comes with no new funding

Pay demands dismissed as ‘remarkably high’ by cabinet minister, as winter strike action looms

Kate Green has formally resigned as an MP after Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham chose her to become his deputy.

Six hundred thousand more Britons ‘economically inactive’ than in 2019, study finds

Unison general secretary decries ‘dreadful situation’ for public sector workers

Figures have been on an upwards trend since the summer.

Global Warming Policy Foundation provides ‘objective view’, ex-Brexit minister argues

’Everyone knows someone like the prime minister – the boss who is so weak, so worried the bullies will turn on him, that he hides behind them’

Mark Brown claimed Leah Ware killed her beloved Pomeranian dog, Lady, a few days before the prosecution says he killed her.

Feed the Future: ‘It is very clear that investing in school meals now will lead to long-term benefits to a child’s life, health and prosperity’

Nato chief confident UK will ‘lead by example’ on defence spending after Rishi Sunak meeting

Marcus Margulies faced allegations that he had concealed funds from a “secret” trust held in a Swiss bank account.

MP Julian Knight said the plans ‘have provoked genuine disquiet in communities up and down the country’.

Trade secretary had dismissed predictions by Office for Budget Responsibility

Matthew Smith was sacked as deputy head of pastoral at Thomas’s Battersea

Qureshi claimed ‘it was just a coincidence’ his three victims were all wearing traditional orthodox Jewish clothing.

Mr Wallace and other defence ministers stressed it is Ukraine’s choice to enter peace talks or not.

Vet spotted dog’s ears were sore and red and contacted RSPCA immediately

Patrick Thelwell told The Mirror he was protesting about the state of the country and its ‘descent into fascism’.

Patient levels have fallen for 23 days in a row.

There were 13,170 vacant approved fostering placements over 2021-22 – a drop of 23% since 2018, figures show.

Union gives government ultimatum: ‘Offer substantial proposals or sustained industrial action will go ahead’

Police said Steven Craig’s attack on Jacqueline Kirk had had a ‘horrendous and profound’ impact on her family

Camilla viewed the temporary plot created for the nation to leave floral and other tributes to the late monarch.

A Troubles victim told an Irish committee that the UK government’s legacy bill was ‘despicable’.

Ian Kirwan was stabbed in the chest after challenging youths who were messing around in customer toilets, a trial has heard.

The aircraft carrier left Portsmouth Naval Base, Hampshire, to head a carrier strike group which will include warships, helicopters and fighter jets.

The Defence Secretary was speaking after a meeting of ministers from the Joint Expeditionary Force nations in Edinburgh.

Writing in his local paper, the Chancellor offered little clue of what measures he was planning on November 17.

Steven Craig will have served a minimum of 34 years in prison for the attack.