Making the UK less attractive to international students has consequences on 11:22 - Feb 4 by J2BLUEThat sounds like a yes? I just think it's too easy to keep calling it the racist vote and suggesting the government should ignore it but if they do it drives people to Reform. No one with any sense wants Reform in government. "No one with any sense wants Reform in government". Core to this is probably tackling disinformation in the press an online, better regulation of political lobbying, tackling dark money, all the things that are undermining democracy.

Why all EFL kick-off times have been shifted in this weekend’s fixture listThe EFL have changed the kick-off times for all 36 matches up and down the country this weekend. Fixtures in the Championship, League One and League Two will now kick-off a minute later than previously scheduled. The changes are part of a campaign ran by Sky Bet and the British Heart Foundation, with the support of the EFL. As well as QPR's trip to Charlton, a further 35 matches across the EFL will kick-off one minute later. Every Minute Matters is a campaign set up by Sky Bet and the British Heart Foundation in May 2024.

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The Sunday Times appoints Camilla Long to restaurant critic roleCamilla Long, currently television critic for The Sunday Times, will move into restaurant reviews for The Sunday Times Magazine. Long is also a Sunday Times columnist, interviewer, and award-winning writer. Ben Taylor, editor of The Sunday Times, said:“Camilla Long is unique as a writer: piercingly honest, funny and original. The Times and The Sunday Times reach 14.7M people a month and have 640K digital subscribers. In 2025, they became the only news organisation to simultaneously win the leading accolades at the Media Freedom Awards, the Press Awards and the London Press Club.

More than 300 children from schools across Windsor took part in this year’s Young Voices concert at the O2 Arena, performing as part of the world’s largest children’s choir. The pupils joined over 8,000 schoolchildren from across the UK in the record-breaking event, organised by Young Voices, which brings together schools nationwide to create a mass choral performance. Their events give children the chance to perform in world-class arenas alongside professional musicians, vocal coaches, dancers and live bands. James Manwaring, director of music at the Trust, said: “It was an absolute privilege to lead our students at Young Voices this year. Choir leaders across the schools worked together to ensure every child felt prepared and confident to take part in the landmark event.

Starting Feb 17, 2026, IndiGo will suspend its operations to and from Copenhagen till further notice. From Feb 7, IndiGo will reduce its Delhi – Manchester services from five to four flights per week, and further reduce to three from Feb 19. It is reducing its total connectivity to & from Manchester from nine weekly to seven weekly services. However, it is being executed earlier to ensure reliability to the rest of IndiGo’s long-haul operations,” the airline says. From Feb 9, IndiGo’s Delhi – London Heathrow services will be adjusted from five times weekly to four weekly flights, for the current winter scheduleNEW DELHI: After its narrow body operations, IndiGo will now cut its Europe & UK flights mounted on wide body aircraft too.

Kate Nash tells MPs: I sell pictures of my bum on the internet to fund my tourKate Nash tells MPs: I sell pictures of my bum to fund my tour

A frustrating 1-1 draw with Preston was followed up by a confusing and disappointing transfer deadline day, which saw a former Championship Golden Boot winner replaced with, well, nobody! It arguably leaves Ipswich Town weaker in the attacking areas than when the window first opened. Suffolk News' Ipswich Town columnist Joey SadlerWe’re in a bit of a rut at the moment. It’s Derby away next, which is a tough place to go, but a victory could really kick us into life. But it’s a chance for the group to answer a lot of the questions being thrown at them – come on Ipswich.

New York is creating a team of legal observers that will don purple vests to monitor and record the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement officers as they seek to detain and deport migrants, the state’s attorney general said on Tuesday. The New York attorney general, Letitia James, said the state’s new legal observers would be volunteer employees from her office, trained to observe, without interfering, whether Trump’s immigration enforcement “remains within the bounds of the law”. Trump, a Republican, has reserved his most aggressive surges in immigration enforcement for states governed by his political opponents, particularly California, Illinois and Minnesota. Show moreIn New York, small groups of legal observers are common at street protests, sometimes wearing the bright green hats of the National Lawyers Guild, focused on whether local police are violating rights or laws that protect freedom of speech. But a formal state-organized effort to deploy legal observers to monitor federal law enforcement appears to be new.

All of the stars will feature in a new spin-off travel series with filming beginning in a few months. Anne Hegerty speaks about the new spin-off of ITV's The ChaseThe Chase star said: "We’re filming a new spin-off show in May, The Chase Around The World. "We’ve filmed four pilot episodes of a possible Chase New Zealand, and I’m hearing they’d probably like to take that to series. Filming on hold for new series of The Chase on ITVFor fans of the original UK series, Ms Hegerty said that filming for the next season is on hold for now. Ms Hegerty, who has become a household name since joining The Chase, also shared her dream celebrity contestant for a future episode.

“The town centre was absolutely beautiful … You would be ashamed to bring someone here now. In postwar Britain, high streets became the thriving hubs of a more affluent society and a source of local identity and pride. But it correctly identified a geography of discontent where faded provincial high streets had become a symbol of Westminster’s neglect, and a lightning rod for wider grievances. But support for commercial retail should be complemented by a drive to establish high streets as hubs for social interaction and civic activity. As the Guardian’s reporting from Newton Aycliffe illustrates, a declining town centre is often experienced as a crisis of communal self-esteem.

The UK economy would be 3.6% smaller by 2040 if net migration fell to zero, forcing the government to raise taxes to combat a much bigger budget deficit, a thinktank has predicted. In this scenario the UK population would stop growing at about 70 million in 2030. The latest official figures showed the UK population was 69.3 million in 2024. Caswell said that unless the fertility rate picked up, then zero net migration “would not be fiscally sustainable for the UK unless there were significant tax rises, and significant tax rises could potentially choke off economic growth”. The forecast came after a sharp fall in net migration in 2025, from 649,000 to 204,000 in the year to June, after a tightening of work visa requirements by the Conservative government.

SynopsisThe UK's 100-year-old iconic restaurant Veeraswamy faces the risk of closure and has called the intervention of King Charles III to save it. Founded in 1926 and located in London near Piccadilly Circus, the restaurant is known for its delicious menu such as malai chicken tikka, raj kachori, lobster malabar curry, fresh alfonso mango dessert and more. Veeraswamy is a Michelin-star restaurant and celebrity chefs Raymond Blanc and Michel Roux are backing calls to save it.

Elon Musk’s X and xAI companies are under formal investigation by the UK’s data protection watchdog after the Grok AI tool produced indecent deepfakes without people’s consent. X became the subject of heavy public criticism in December and January when the platform’s account for the Grok AI tool was used to mass-produce partially nudified images of girls and women. The standalone Grok app was also used to generate sexualised deepfakes. X and xAI announced measures to counter the abuses, but several regulatory and legal investigations have followed. Ofcom also said its investigation into X was still gathering evidence and that the inquiry could take months.

Meta failed to act on nearly a dozen reports against an Australian influencer with more than 800,000 followers on Instagram promoting illegal offshore crypto-gambling, despite the regulator warning influencers they could face fines of up to $2.4m. The account of online streamer Dinah has 820,000 followers on Instagram, and has promoted Rainbet, a self-described online crypto casino, in posts on Instagram. “Stop promoting illegal gambling services to Australians. “The promotion of illegal gambling services in Australia is illegal, and substantial penalties apply.”Individuals can face fines of up to $59,400, but influencers who facilitate access to illegal online gambling services – such as by posting links – could face fines of up to $2.4m, Acma said. Since Acma began blocking illegal gambling sites in November 2019, it has blocked 1,455 illegal gambling and affiliate websites, and 220 illegal services have pulled out of Australia.