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Asylum seekers will be made to pay up to £10,000 towards the cost of their accommodation and support once they start earning, Shabana Mahmood has announced. They must pay off the full amount before they can be eligible for settled status under the plans. Eligible adults will likely pay off an amount each month above a set threshold – similar to a student loan. Migrants need settled status, or Indefinite […]

Actress Dame Penelope Keith, best known for sitcoms The Good Life and To The Manor Born, has died aged 86, her family said. She played snobbish suburbanite Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life, which launched in 1975, and the widowed aristocrat Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To The Manor Born from 1979. A statement on behalf of her family said: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Dame Penelope Keith died peacefully […]

Andy Burnham promised to give the UK a “new direction” with the biggest transfer of power out of Whitehall in modern times. The prospective prime minister promised to end “politics as usual” to rescue a country which is “stuck in a rut”. In his first major speech since Sir Keir Starmer announced he would be leaving Downing Street, Mr Burnham pledged to pull people together in the “broadest possible coalition” […]

A portion of haddock and chips now costs an average of £10.29 across the UK, while cod and chips has reached £11.41, according to a report. Around 7,210 fish and chip shops operate across the UK, according to industry body Seafish. But rising costs for fish, potatoes, oil and energy are putting pressure on shop owners, many of whom are either diversifying their menus with items like kebabs, pizzas or […]

More than a million children – around one in 10 – in England were referred for, awaiting or getting treatment from mental health services, according to data analysis said to show the “sheer scale of distress young people are facing today”. Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza said she is “in no doubt that we are facing a crisis in young people’s mental health”. While she said there appeared to […]

The number of job vacancies has increased for four months in a row to almost 800,000 but there has been a steep decline in graduate roles, according to research. Jobs site Adzuna said graduate vacancies fell by more than 40% in May compared to a year ago, down to around 8,400. It was the steepest decline on record, said the jobs site. There were big increases in job vacancies for […]

A skydiving plane has crashed in north-eastern France, killing all 11 people on board. The plane suffered a malfunction and “fell almost vertically” after taking off from the Nancy-Essey airfield on the outskirts of the city of Nancy, the region’s prefect, Yves Seguy, said. It crashed on the edge of a built-up area near the airfield, he told broadcaster BFM-TV. “Had it occurred just a few dozen meters away, the […]

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