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JCB chair Lord Bamford hands equal amount to Tories and Reform to support parties he says ‘believe in small business’UK politics live – latest updatesThe company owned by the billionaire Conservative donor Lord Bamford has donated £200,000 to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.The JCB chair, who has given millions of pounds to the Tories and who bankrolled Boris Johnson’s wedding celebrations, disclosed the donation at the weekend, alongside one of equal […]

Directive could prevent future administrations from prosecuting more than 70 people namedThe president has also on the weekend granted full pardons to dozens of allies accused of attempting to subvert the 2020 election won by Joe Biden.The four-page list released from his administration runs to more than 70 people – including his former lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell and former chief of staff Mark Meadows. They’ve all been granted […]

Mehmet Oz made claim about audits, but experts say he misidentified routine administrative errorsThe administrator for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Mehmet Oz, recently claimed that an audit revealed “more than $1bn of federal taxpayer dollars were being spent on funding Medicaid for illegal immigrants”, but experts say the audits were unrelated to immigration, and that rhetoric like this could make immigrant families – regardless of legal […]

Old Laundry theatre in Bowness-on-Windermere will change its name next year and premiere show to mark 10th anniversary of comedian’s deathA theatre in the Lake District is to be renamed for the comedian and playwright Victoria Wood and will stage a new musical using her songs to mark the 10th anniversary of her death.The Old Laundry theatre is run by Wood’s friends, the married couple Charlotte Scott and Roger Glossop. […]

Former BBC DJ, 68, will return to court next month to face 15 charges relating to seven womenThe former BBC DJ Tim Westwood has appeared in a central London court after being charged with rape and sexual assault.During a brief hearing at Westminster magistrates court on Monday, the 68-year-old was told he must return to Southwark crown court in December to face 15 charges relating to seven women. The charges […]

Bank has a £2bn rental property portfolio via its Lloyds Living arm, amassing 7,000 properties so far with plans to add 43,000 more by 2030Business live – latest updatesThe black horse of Lloyds’ banks are a familiar sight on UK high streets, but the lender has quietly become one of the country’s biggest landlords too, amassing £2bn in residential property, according to new analysis.The company has reached the landmark valuation […]

Ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in the Amazonian city of Belem, with Brazil insisting this will be “the Cop of implementation”.There has already been significant wrangling over the Cop30 agenda, with Simon Evans, a journalist from Carbon Brief, posting on on Bluesky yesterday afternoon that the agenda was already on its fourth iteration.“Agenda fights have been common in recent years,” Evans reports, citing similar disagreements […]

Australia cut ties with Iran and proscribed the IRGC in August but Mexico has signalled no disruption to bilateral ties.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Thirty-four-year-old was taken to hospital after city centre stabbing on Friday eveningA woman who was stabbed in the neck in Birmingham has died of her injuries, police have said.The 34-year-old was taken to hospital with a serious injury to her neck after she was stabbed on Smallbrook Queensway shortly before 9pm on Friday but has since died in hospital, West Midlands police have said. Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead full article