The Prime Minister met Scotland's and Wales's first ministers at the National Economic Council in Glasgow, offering new powers over jobs support and innovation funding. A second independence referendum stays off the table.
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UK
The day after the Budget, the OBR calls the outlook “pretty grim”, the Resolution Foundation says typical incomes will fall by £1,050 before the election and energy bills will top the 2022 crisis peak, and the hardest choices on defence and welfare have been pushed down the road.
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World
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, speaking at the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow, hailed the warplanes as a “milestone” and said four S-400 air defence systems would follow, as fighting with the TPLF intensifies and tensions with Eritrea grow.
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WorldSpain train crash: at least 10 killed as high-speed trains collide south of Madrid
PoliticsReform aide wears smart glasses at Holyrood as Lib Dems demand ban
HealthPersonalised cancer jab cuts risk of melanoma returning by 42% in landmark trial
SportFleetwood stun champions Arsenal on penalties in one of the great EFL Cup upsets
UKBudget 2026: £100 energy payment for 20 million homes as Healey scraps gas standing charges — but growth forecast slashed
BusinessGas standing charges to be scrapped for 23m homes, Healey announces on Budget day
Scotland
Three men from Northern Ireland left a 48-year-old Celtic supporter with a bleed on the brain as he tried to board a bus after the Scottish Cup tie at Ibrox in March. A Rangers fan from Coatbridge also admitted kicking a Celtic supporter during the pitch invasion.
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Scotland
Fewer Scots are enrolling, yet student lending has jumped 10.5% to £853.6m in a year. For many, a course is no longer a route to a career but a four-year, tax-free escape from low pay, high taxes and bad bosses.
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Scotland
Police Scotland's Operation Amberlight will bring in public order vans and drivers from 18 forces in England and Wales to cover fireworks disorder, a Celtic Europa League match and possible protests in Glasgow on 5 November.
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Scotland
A fresh yellow wind warning covers most of Scotland until 21:00, every Western Isles school is shut and Orkney and Shetland face significant coastal flooding, as tributes are paid to Logan Botanic Garden curator Richard Baines.
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Scotland
A rare 24-hour amber wind warning is in force across mainland Scotland until 21:00 on Sunday, with every CalMac ferry route cancelled, railway lines shut and 30 flood warnings issued.
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Scotland
Flash floods swamped shops and restaurants in Lerwick and a landslide shut a west mainland road, as Scotland braces for Storm Austen’s rain on Friday and Storm Boelo’s gales at the weekend.
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UK
Chancellor John Healey delivers his first Budget on Wednesday. Mileage, carer and tariff changes are already confirmed, while help with energy bills, a fuel duty freeze and higher taxes on banks are expected.
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UK
The Be Ready campaign asks households to store nine litres of water a person and three days of food, as Defence Secretary Wes Streeting warns of “state-sponsored terrorism” against everyday infrastructure.
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UK
Ministers plan to restrict high-risk procedures such as liquid Brazilian butt lifts, vampire facials and deep chemical peels to trained professionals in England, ban them for under-18s and introduce fines of up to £4,000.
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UK
A “power event” at Google’s London cloud operations left millions of Revolut, Lloyds, Halifax and HSBC customers unable to pay or move money and disrupted remote court hearings across England and Wales.
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UK
A new private parking code covering England, Scotland and Wales will guarantee grace periods, cap charges for honest mistakes at £20 and keep the maximum penalty at £100.
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UK
Doctor shortages and rising caesarean rates have prompted a warning about England’s maternity network, but no closure programme has been announced.
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World
With more than half the votes counted, neither Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc nor the opposition led by former army chief Gadi Eisenkot appears to have the 61 seats needed to govern. Turnout reached 77.7%, the highest since 1999.
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World
At least 34 people were wounded when armed men opened fire inside a Greek Orthodox church in Hmoud, in Karak governorate, during a funeral attended by up to 200 mourners.
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World
A Miami judge told the president to sit for a seven-hour videotaped deposition by 11 December and hand over documents, warning the Panorama case could be thrown out.
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World
A war of words between the White House, Elon Musk and Kyiv over who throttled Ukraine’s military satellite link deepened as a European official denied Donald Trump’s claim that full service had returned.
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World
At least two people were killed and 22 injured, including four children, as Kyiv and 11 other regions came under attack the morning after Vladimir Putin met US envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg.
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World
The US envoy arrived in St Petersburg a day after Oslo talks with Ukraine and European leaders, as Kyiv said American early-warning intelligence was flowing again and Moscow ruled out political concessions.
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Politics
The government has refused to back Jeremy Corbyn’s bill for a Chilcot-style public inquiry into British military, economic and political cooperation with Israel, saying existing parliamentary oversight is sufficient.
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Politics
Katie Zacharia is out as White House press secretary after a 14-minute debut briefing and questions over her legal credentials, weeks before the midterm elections.
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Politics
Wang Yi calls for action on the West Bank and humanitarian access, while Isaac Herzog raises Israel’s security concerns.
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Politics
On a visit to North Lanarkshire, the prime minister offered the first minister a partnership on regional power while accusing Holyrood of hoarding decisions.
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Politics
Opening the SNP conference in Aberdeen, Economy Secretary Stephen Flynn told the prime minister to 'let the people of Scotland decide', as Labour accused the party of a distraction from its record.
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Politics
The former US president used a sell-out night at the OVO Hydro to blame social media for polarisation, warn that AI will blur fact and fiction, and insist that hope is a choice worth fighting for.
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Business
GfK’s index fell 11 points to -24 in October as fuel, energy and 3.5% inflation hit household finances, piling pressure on Chancellor John Healey ahead of Wednesday’s budget.
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Business
A New Mexico judge ordered the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to pay £18.6bn after finding it misled the public for more than a decade, as the company vowed to appeal and reported soaring AI spending.
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Business
The bank will cut about 5% of its 93,000 staff to save more than £1.1bn, as it hands another £500m to shareholders days before a Budget expected to raise taxes on banks.
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Business
UK consumer price inflation rose from 3.1% to 3.5% in September, its highest rate in almost a year, driven by surging petrol and diesel prices a week before John Healey’s first Budget.
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Business
Chancellor John Healey will not raise capital gains tax in next week’s budget, despite calls from cabinet colleagues, with a new levy on bank profits expected to be his main revenue raiser.
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Business
Hamptons says 56% of recent first-time buyers paid more on their mortgage than their previous rent, with fixed rates close to 6%.
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Sport
The teenager set up two goals as Liverpool came from two down to beat Villarreal 4-3, Phil Foden hit a hat-trick for Manchester City and the competition’s scoring rate reached its highest level in history.
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Sport
James Maddison scored on his first start in 18 months as Tottenham beat Coventry 3-1 to move off the bottom of the Premier League, with Dejan Kulusevski also returning after 526 days out.
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Sport
Canada beat England 24–21 in Toronto, ending an unbeaten run stretching back nearly four years. The decisive try came three minutes from time, after England had led 14–5 at half-time.
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Sport
Celtic scored five before half-time in a 7-1 win over Hearts at Celtic Park, with doubles from Benjamin Nygren and Callum Osmand sending the leaders four points clear.
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Sport
Brighton’s five-goal derby demolition led a Sunday of striking contrasts: Bournemouth broke their league duck against 10-man Sunderland, Leeds held Manchester United and Arsenal scraped a late win at Forest.
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Sport
The 20-year-old Mercedes driver can become Formula 1’s youngest world champion in Austin on 25 October, but must win and rely on Russell and Hamilton finishing down the order.
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Environment
A study of 854 cities found this summer’s heatwaves were the deadliest on record, with climate change blamed for two in every three deaths and Naples the hardest-hit city.
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Scotland
NHS Lothian upheld a complaint over the final days of Flora Gentleman at Edinburgh’s children’s hospital, as other bereaved families raise concerns about end-of-life care on the same ward.
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Health
Seven of the 10 UK council areas where people are most likely to die before turning 60 are in Scotland, according to Health Equals analysis of ONS life tables, with Glasgow second only to Blackpool.
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Environment
Fires fuelled by a ‘Super El Niño’ drought have torched an area the size of New Jersey across Indonesia this year, sending a smoke cloud as far as Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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UK
Governments across Europe now urge every home to be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours. Here is a detailed, practical guide to the water, food, radios, medicines and essentials your household should keep in one handy place.
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Scotland
Scottish Water apologises as households endure more than 24 hours without supplies, with tankers deployed and bottled water available at Kilwinning Academy.
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Culture
Glasgow Life has removed ancient Egyptian human remains from show at Kelvingrove, and the Hunterian has covered up a 2,500-year-old mummy, saying the dead deserve dignity and privacy.
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Education
Sir Peter Mathieson defended programme closures in a sharply worded reply to a student who called for his resignation, an email that was also received by Edinburgh MSPs and university staff.
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Education
Fire crews were called to Ballachulish Primary School in Lochaber shortly after midnight. Highland Council is arranging alternative classes for pupils before term resumes on 26 October.
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Education
Romi Loffler, 21, who has Rett syndrome, was refused the adjustments she needed to sit a National 5 history exam – even though pupils using eye-gaze technology have sat GCSEs in England.
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Education
English councils say debts from special educational needs support will rebuild to £5bn by April and double by 2028, despite the government wiping out historic deficits only months ago.
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Education
More than 150 GPs, paediatricians and specialists have urged the education and health secretaries to roll back screen use in schools, citing a sharp rise in short-sightedness. School leaders say technology remains a valuable learning tool.
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Technology
The regulator has set out four “highly effective” age-check methods ahead of the UK's ban on under-16s using ten major platforms, due next March — and admits millions of adults may also have to prove their age.
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Technology
A critical weakness in PHP, the language behind about 70% of websites, forced governments from Edinburgh to Paris and Canberra to take sites down, as security agencies warned of attacks at scale.
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Technology
Elon Musk says special committees are assessing a combination of the carmaker and the rocket company, valued together at about $3.5tn, though he stresses nothing has been agreed and shareholders must approve.
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Intelligence
Citizen Lab says Serbian prosecutor Rade Bajić’s iPhone was likely targeted with mercenary spyware such as Pegasus after he helped bring charges over the stripping of protection from the General Staff building.
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World
The Mars Moons Exploration spacecraft has lifted off from Japan, aiming to land on Phobos in 2027, scoop up 10g of dust and return it to Earth in 2031 to solve the mystery of how Mars’s moons formed.
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Technology
Nscale loses its only publicly announced customer at Loughton amid power-supply problems, but says it remains committed to the project.
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Culture
A digital reconstruction of a man buried at the Roman fort at Inveresk, near Edinburgh, will go on show with his skull in a major National Museum of Scotland exhibition opening on 14 November.
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Culture
NLMWA’s Traces of Empire exhibition at Summerlee Museum in Coatbridge is extended until 1 November after a resounding public response.
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Culture
The Normal People author says fulfilling UK publishing contracts could now be a serious criminal offence because of her declared support for the proscribed group; Faber has agreed to stop supplying her work.
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Culture
Rules, the Covent Garden institution founded in 1798 and loved by Dickens and Chaplin, has been donated to the heritage charity by its owner. There will be no scones.
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Culture
The 15th-century Hamza Bey Mosque, known locally as Alcazar, has reopened as an exhibition space and cultural centre in the heart of Thessaloniki, nearly two decades after conservation work began.
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Culture
Manchester-based composer David Önaç's Atlantic Requiem, commissioned by the charity Culture& and funded by Lloyd's of London, is due to premiere at LSO St Luke's, fusing Catholic liturgy, historic insurance documents and testimony to honour enslaved Africans.
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Environment
Open Seas challenges fishing restrictions and industry influence; the fishing federation rejects the allegations and calls for decisions based on robust science.
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Environment
Warming seas have triggered an explosion of octopus numbers off the British coast, transforming catches for fishermen while alarming scientists about what the shift means for the marine ecosystem.
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Environment
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest level in years, a result the government credits to enforcement — and one that will shape next year's pivotal election.
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Environment
The Galloway-raised actor says the giant AI data centre planned for the former nuclear site near Annan would create 'very few' lasting jobs, while developers promise more than 500 posts.
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Environment
Surveyors say western Europe's highest peak now stands at 4,807.47 metres, 1.29m lower than in 2025, as glaciers below the summit melt 'before our very eyes'.
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Environment
Three water companies want to stop businesses using mains water for non-essential purposes, with 11 areas in drought, reservoirs at 54% and rivers running dangerously low.
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Housing
Rightmove says September saw the most daily price cuts for the month in 15 years as a glut of homes and mortgage rates near 6% leave buyers in control; Zoopla says Scottish homes still sell fastest.
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Scotland
Campaigners say almost half of the capital’s licensed whole-home short-term lets have been refused planning consent but can keep advertising until their licences expire.
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UK
Councillors will examine the housing fund’s approval process; Greater Manchester says the loans were repaid and the scheme has helped build 11,000 homes.
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World
Portuguese protesters occupy Rossio Square over rents and living costs, while Italian officials condemn violence after a peaceful start to Milan’s march.
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Housing
Rightmove says average asking rents outside the capital hit a record £1,418, while London reached £2,825; Scotland's asking rents rose 3% in a year and 2.1% in a single quarter.
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Housing
Councils on England's east coast have demolished at least 183 homes in 16 years because erosion made them unsafe, and there is no insurance for the people who lose everything.
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Transport
The government has approved a new station on the Bradford Interchange site at the heart of Northern Powerhouse Rail, allowing through trains between Leeds and Manchester by the mid-2030s.
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Scotland
The operator challenges proposed public control of routes and fares, while Jenny Gilruth says reform is needed to protect passengers from service cuts.
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Transport
Vehicle thefts in England and Wales are up almost 50% on a decade ago, as organised gangs steal to order and ship cars abroad; officers say they are overstretched and outgunned.
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Transport
Thirteen CalMac services have been cancelled and Barra and Benbecula airports closed as a yellow warning for 70mph gusts covers the Highlands and Western Isles.
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Transport
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has confirmed that Chiltern Railways is now run by a state-owned operator, meaning 10 of England's 14 contracted train companies are publicly owned ahead of Great British Railways.
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Transport
A strike called by the socialist rail union against the Belgian government's budget proposals will disrupt train services from Sunday evening into Monday 12 October, with national operator SNCB/NMBS saying seven in ten intercity trains will run under an alternative timetable.
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Intelligence
The first minister says the UK lacks a sufficient presence north of Shetland after MI5's chief named Russia 'aggressor number one'; the MoD points to £298bn of defence investment.
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Intelligence
Russia says Hokkaido Shimbun reporter Yuki Imai was collecting information on its defences for Japanese intelligence. Tokyo has demanded fair treatment; the charge carries up to 20 years.
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Intelligence
The FBI has arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national working as an OpenAI engineer, accusing him of hiding an encrypted recording device in an executive conference room to capture sensitive talks on the company's technology.
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Intelligence
August Hanning, who led the BND foreign intelligence service for seven years, is accused of paying for secret documents and using them in an analysis for a foreign spy agency, prompting calls in Berlin for sweeping reform.
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Intelligence
A Ukrainian suspect faces trial over the 2022 Baltic pipeline explosions; he and Ukraine deny involvement, in a case with major implications for Berlin and Kyiv.
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Intelligence
British intelligence agencies are examining whether classified information or sources were exposed after August Hanning, who led Germany's BND from 1998 to 2005, was arrested on suspicion of espionage and treason.
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