As a result, retail margins will be held at the current cash rates for a period of six months.”In response, the Fed’s national president Mo Razzaq said: “In real terms, retailers’ profit margins are actually being cut for the next six months. So, yet again, retailers are going to lose out while the publisher makes more money off the back of their hard work. “Just a week ago, at our annual conference, News UK’s chief operating officer David Dinsmore spoke about the importance of independent retailers and protecting the written word. This latest move flies in the face of working collaboratively and is a significant disappointment. The Times does not enjoy the same subscriber levels of other newspapers, and it is unfair to treat counter sales and subscriber sales in the same way.

His flagship "levelling-up" policy funnelled funds to these areas, ravaged by the decline of heavy industry. "Even though I don't particularly want Conservatives in government, I do want Robbie Moore to stay," she said outside the town centre shopping centre. All of which has created a sense of decline and despair in the town -- exactly the problem that levelling-up was supposed to remedy. - Funds boost -Moore was still keen to trumpet the fact that the town has received tens of millions of pounds in levelling-up funds. "I've heard of levelling-up, but I haven't seen it in Keighley."

Never Mind The Ballots: Election Showdown footage viewed 15 million times across Sun platforms and third party social media. Victoria Newton: “Amazing work from The Sun team on our Election Showdown debate, brilliantly hosted by Harry Cole and Kate Ferguson.” Photograph: Supplied by The Sun. Footage from the debate has been viewed 15 million times across Sun platforms and third party social media, and has driven extensive coverage across print and broadcast, added the publisher. The Sun's Editor-in-Chief, Victoria Newton says: “Amazing work from The Sun team on our Election Showdown debate, brilliantly hosted by Harry Cole and Kate Ferguson. “Our ambition for this debate was to drive maximum coverage so it’s great to see so many people engaging and such impressive numbers.

We moved back home to Keswick in 2018 and in 2019 I was elected to Allerdale Borough Council and later to Cumberland Council. It is the curse of a councillor to feel frustrated at your limited powers, so standing for parliament was inevitable. I was the Conservative Member of Parliament for the old Workington constituency from December 2019, the bulk of which became the new Penrith and Solway constituency. Julia Aglionby (Liberal Democrat)Julia Aglionby (Image: Supplied)After working in Indonesia as an economist I returned to Cumbria in 1997 as a land agent. I stood in the 2019 General Election for Carlisle and then avoided politics to help improve new schemes for farmers.

A State Department spokesperson was repeatedly asked by reporters to give examples of harm caused by the WikiLeaks releases but did not provide any. Chief U.S. District Judge Ramona V. Manglona in the U.S. territory of Saipan accepted Assange's guilty plea on Wednesday. The State Department spokesperson reiterated the U.S. position when asked about the judge's comments. The State Department said the Justice Department acted independently in the case. The spokesperson added that there was some limited coordination between the State Department and the Australian government recently.

Sticking with the fiery TV debate from Nottingham, the Daily Mail examines, external Rishi Sunak's attack on Labour's immigration and tax plans. For the Times, external, Mr Sunak was in "barnstorming mood" as he tried to "ram home" his claim Labour would raise taxes. It says the prime minister and the Labour leader launched "highly negative attacks" on each other in a bad-tempered debate. The Guardian calls, external the debate tetchy, and says the two leaders clashed "bitterly" particularly over their response to the political betting scandal. Finally, the i newspaper says, external hackers working under the Kremlin's protection were behind a major cyber attack on the NHS this month.

After such a slow start to the transfer window, surely the deals will go from a trickle to a flood once Euro 2024 is over. And when the activity does pick up, Manchester City will need to be on the right side of each transfer they are involved in. It's also worth remembering that chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak hinted at a transfer window with less spending due to Premier League rules. The Blues will be two games into their Premier League title defence by the time the transfer window closes. Last year, as Cole Palmer sealed a late departure, City made August moves for winger Jeremy Doku and midfielder Matheus Nunes.

The Kenyan president, William Ruto, has withdrawn a bill to raise taxes a day after violent protests erupted around the country after its approval by parliament. Ruto’s surprise decision not to sign the finance bill came after violent clashes between police and protesters at the Kenyan assembly and across the country left at least 23 people dead and scores wounded, according to medics. The climbdown will be seen as a big setback for Ruto, who came to power vowing to help Kenyans cope with rising costs but has seen much of the country, led by youth, unite in opposition to his latest attempt at reforms

One of the reasons behind my decision was the idea, held by most Palestinians, that our story wasn’t heard enough. By trying to dig as deep as possible into the Palestinian past and present, reporting and writing on Palestine means being in close contact with the constant, self-renewing, overwhelming collective and individual trauma of Palestinians. Palestinians have developed collective forms of co-existing with trauma; special traditions that have given traumatic experiences, including death, a ritualistic form. Since October 7, the collective Palestinian trauma has become immeasurable, especially in Gaza, where people aren’t even given the opportunity to mourn properly and in accordance with their traditions. Dehumanization is possible when a people’s collective story, made up of millions of individual human stories, has been erased from the world’s memory and awareness.

Michael Phelps called for a lifetime ban on athletes caught doping because he does not want children growing up 'thinking that it's only doping and cheating' that will result in success. The 23-time Olympic gold-winning swimmer made the comments during testimony before a House of Representatives subcommittee, following revelations that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for a banned heart medication ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 but were allowed by the World Anti-Doping Agency to compete. Five of those swimmers went on to win medals, including three golds.

New Bills Target Harmful Social Media Algorithms For TeensNew York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, recently signed two bills into law whose aim is to mitigate the impacts of social media on children and teens. It focuses on one harmful aspect of social media: the potential for addiction, specifically through nighttime notifications and algorithmic feeds. Currently, behavioral addictions like social media addiction are not a part of the DSM-5. Studies such as these are becoming more commonplace in today’s social media age. However, to truly overcome an addiction to social media, therapy is often a recommended starting place.

Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree is so hot right now that it seems to be all anyone is playing. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki revealed "there's interest" in a potential film or TV adaptation. That's according to comments made in an interview with The Guardian (thanks VGC), where Miyazaki said: "I don’t see any reason to deny another interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a movie, for example. We’d have to build trust and agreement on whatever we’re trying to achieve, but there’s interest, for sure." Following the breaking of the Elden Ring and the disappearance of Queen Marika the Eternal, the Tarnished are guided home by this lost Grace.

That is the biggest thing that needs to change if we are going to see them play like they do for their clubs. Southgate has tried Trent Alexander-Arnold in midfield alongside Declan Rice and it hasn’t worked. Then he tried Conor Gallagher in there against Slovenia and took him off at half-time because that did not work either. One of the most concerning things about watching England is that I don’t see a pattern of play when we bring the ball forward. He is clearly trying to juggle things, but it feels like more changes are going to be needed to get us firing properly.

“The Forgotten Majority”: Leading Charities Call for Action to Tackle Long-Term ConditionsLong-term conditions (LTCs) impact millions across the nation and are a major challenge for the NHS and the economy. Now, as part of “The Forgotten Majority” campaign, key UK health and care charities have come together with pharmaceutical company AbbVie, to urge the incoming government to find new ways to tackle long-term conditions. This article, the Forgotten Majority Campaign, and associated open letter have been organised and funded by AbbVie. “Many people living with long-term conditions face enormous challenges in their day-to-day lives,” she told us. A new policy framework for improving outcomes for people with long-term conditions [Commissioned and funded by AbbVie].

But instead of two Time Lords, the occupants have all the charm and grace of a duo of Daleks trapped in a portaloo. Addressing the migrant crisis, he claims Starmer’s British Labour Party is soft on illegal immigration and then – wait for it – warns that “If Labour win, the people smugglers are going to need a bigger boat”. Can you imagine someone in an Irish debate referring to the country in those terms? Sunak waves his hand when making a point, and Starmer looks incredulous whenever his opponent opens his mouth. Amid the many upheavals that have wracked British politics since the Brexit vote 2016, the debate somehow goes the full Gareth Southgate.