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The King will be toasting Donald Trump with a dram after the US president announced he will remove tariffs from Scottish whisky. Mr Trump said it was Charles and Camilla’s intervention that prompted the decision soon after they said their goodbyes at the end of their state visit to America. Mark Kent, chief executive of the Scottish Distillers Association (SWA), said “distillers can breathe a little easier” following […]

Eleven million private tenants in England have stronger rights and protections from today, helping to transform their experiences in the sector. The Renters’ Rights Act signals the end of Section 21 “no fault” evictions, meaning private landlords will not be able to evict tenants without a valid justification. Landlords must also reasonably consider renters’ requests to live with a pet. Rather than fixed contracts, tenancies in the private […]

The triple lock should be scrapped ahead of replacing the current pensions system to enable people to access funds earlier in life, Sir Tony Blair’s think tank has said. A report by the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) said the state pension is “outdated, increasingly unaffordable, and too rigid for the way people live and work” because it concentrates state-supported income support at retirement. It argues that a new […]

Dame Mary Berry has said it is “the icing on the cake” to learn she is to be honoured with the Bafta Fellowship for her exceptional contribution to television. Dame Mary, 91, will be presented with the fellowship at the Bafta Television Awards next month. She said she was “completely overwhelmed” at the news. “What an honour for a cook to receive the Bafta Fellowship,” she said. “I […]

Police have charged a 45-year-old man with attempted murder after two Jewish men were stabbed in north London on Wednesday. Essa Suleiman has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a bladed article in a public place over the incident in Golders Green, the Metropolitan Police said. Suleiman, of Camberwell, south London, was also charged with attempted murder in relation to […]

A man whose eye was left “more like a raisin than an eyeball” following a devastating car accident has had his sight partially restored through eight meticulous operations to rebuild the organ. A shower of glass punctured Chris Hurd’s eye after the windscreen in the taxi he was in shattered in the crash, which occurred while he was on a city break in Budapest. […]

The driver of a 4×4 that crashed into a south-east London primary school has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after two eight-year-old girls were killed. Claire Freemantle, 49, is accused of two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and seven counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving following the incident at The Study Prep school in Wimbledon in July 2023. Schoolgirls Nuria Sajjad […]

The alleged Golders Green attacker tried to murder his own friend before stabbing two Jewish men in the street, a court has heard. Essa Suleiman, 45, is accused of trying to kill Shloime Rand, 34, and Norman Shine, 76, during a knife rampage through the streets of the north London suburb on Wednesday. Mr Rand was attacked as he left his synagogue, Westminster Magistrates Court heard, while Mr […]

Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has accused the police of siding with trans-rights activists after his conviction for damaging a transgender campaigner’s mobile phone was overturned. Linehan was involved in a confrontation with Sophia Brooks outside the Battle Of Ideas conference in Westminster on October 19 2024. The 57-year-old smiled and turned to supporters sitting in the public gallery when Mrs Justice Amanda Tipples ruled on Friday his […]