Put a stop to damaging pension tax rumours, Rachel Reeves told
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October 21, 2025 06:17 UTC
Beefy Boys search for Run Cheltenham half marathon's Mike
But the team, who now head up restaurants in Hereford, Bath, Cheltenham, Oxford and Shrewsbury, are not just looking for any marathon runner. They have issued a call to fans to help them find 'Mike', a runner in the recent Run Cheltenham half marathon, after a woman was pictured holding up a sign in the crowd. "The faster you run Mike, the faster we get to Beefy Boys," it read. The Beefy Boys said they are looking for Mike and his supporter. It is now building a small empire of restaurants, with the latest Beefy Boys restaurant opening in Oxford's Westgate earlier this month.
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October 20, 2025 23:37 UTC
New blueprint for AI regulation could speed up planning approvals, slash NHS waiting times, and drive growth and public trust
The continued safe and responsible development of AI would be central to the government’s plans for its proposed AI Growth Lab. The government will now move ahead with a public call for views on its AI Growth Lab proposals. The AI Growth Lab will provide a route to test and pilot responsible AI innovations hindered by regulation – driving AI adoption and economic growth. The AI Growth Lab would allow Genie to trial an autonomous legal agent in live commercial environments. The AI Growth Lab can provide a safe, accelerated pathway for using AI to deliver better outcomes across the country.
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October 20, 2025 23:20 UTC
Whoops! Looks like Reform ‘forgot’ that racists have to pay VAT like everyone else
Shocking absolutely nobody, the Times today revealed that Reform UK has likely ‘forgotten’ to pay VAT on its various branded tat and tickets. ‘Easy stuff’ – unless your VAT has anything to do with ReformPolitical parties don’t have to pay tax on money from donations or membership fees. However, the law requires them to pay VAT on things like merchandise and event tickets when they make more than £90k a year. Worse still, when the Times approached Reform to ask it about the missing VAT, the party didn’t bother to respond. Fortunately for Reform UK, it has plenty of practice weathering tax-avoidance scandals.
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October 20, 2025 20:54 UTC
Why I love England — and I don’t need to wave a flag to show it
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October 20, 2025 20:43 UTC
Fears businesses over-reliant on Amazon after mass web outage
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October 20, 2025 19:46 UTC
Avensure Announces CEO Chris Garner Named Among UK’s Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders
Manchester, Manchester , Oct. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avensure, a leading provider of HR, employment law, and health & safety outsourcing services, today announced that its Founder and CEO, Chris Garner, has been named one of the LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders for 2025. Chris Garner Named as one of The Top 50 Most Ambitious Business LeadersNow in its eighth year, The LDC Top 50 celebrates Britain's best and brightest entrepreneurs who are driving the UK economy forward. This year's programme received almost 700 nominations, with Chris Garner selected among the 50 leaders demonstrating remarkable ambition, resilience and impact across their industries. Our clients deserve nothing less than the best, and that's exactly what we're building.”About The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business LeadersThe LDC Top 50, supported by The Times, showcases the UK's best business leaders from medium-sized companies. The full list of The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders for 2025 can be viewed at: https://www.ldc.co.uk/top-50/2025/.
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October 20, 2025 15:12 UTC
Amazon Says Website Outages Ease After Disruption
Down Detector, which tracks internet outages, said that as of 9:45 a.m. Eastern time there had been more than eight million reports related to Amazon Web Services, many from the United States and Britain. Amazon Web Services’ thousands of clients rely on it for complex, demanding, data-intensive operations, including streaming video, running web applications and storing huge amounts of digital information. The problem extends to other governments, many of which rely on such cloud services, he said. In the first half of the year, Amazon Web Services accounted for nearly 20 percent of Amazon’s sales, but about 60 percent of its operating profit. The latest outage could add urgency to demands for companies and governments to rely on cloud services in their regions.
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October 20, 2025 13:42 UTC
Key events leading up to Prince Andrew’s downfall
– 2016As part of her civil suit against Maxwell, Ms Giuffre testifies that Epstein paid her 15,000 dollars (£11,180) to have sex with Andrew. Mr Rodgers said in a testimony released in August that Epstein, Andrew and the-then 17-year-old travelled to the US Virgin Islands on April 11 2001. In her posthumous memoirs, Ms Giuffre claims American broadcaster ABC did not air an interview in 2019 after the royal family “applied pressure to nix the interview”. Speaking in a documentary, Ms Giuffre claims Andrew played a “guessing game” about her age and compared her with his daughters during the alleged March 2001 encounter at Maxwell’s home. In February, court documents show Andrew and Ms Giuffre have reached a “settlement in principle” in the civil sex claim.
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October 20, 2025 11:27 UTC
Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox and Venmo Are Down: A Partial List of the Sites Affected by Outages
Hundreds of websites and apps were reporting outages on Monday morning, causing a massive disruption across the internet. Here’s a list of websites, apps and services that reported issues, according to the online outage tracker DownDetector.
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October 20, 2025 11:13 UTC
Reporter at Right-Leaning Epoch Times Resigns Over New Pentagon Rules, Says Outlet Was ‘Merely Repeating State Narratives’
Pete Hegseth(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Andrew Thornebrooke, a national security reporter at the right-leaning The Epoch Times, has resigned after the outlet agreed to the Pentagon’s new press restrictions, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The Pentagon revised its update after reporters and press groups were upset with a draft of new rules circulated last month. That draft called for reporters to get approval from Defense Department officials before publishing stories, even if they contained unclassified information. The Pentagon’s new rules do not require credentialed journalists to get approval before publishing non-public information. The post Reporter at Right-Leaning Epoch Times Resigns Over New Pentagon Rules, Says Outlet Was ‘Merely Repeating State Narratives’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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October 20, 2025 11:04 UTC
Russia ‘helping people smugglers flood Europe and UK with migrants’
Mr Mitov said some NGOs were “maybe unwittingly” helping Russia and people smugglers through their activities. “They are neo-Marxist groups which are trying to justify their actions through philosophical or ideological constructs”, he told The Times. Mr Miltov also said Bulgaria needs to secure its border because “every house needs walls”. Not a fortress but a home which needs walls. Every house needs walls,” he said.
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October 20, 2025 09:42 UTC
Meet the young Americans who want a monarchy — but not ‘King Trump’
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October 20, 2025 08:37 UTC
The Times launches new podcast investigating Enniskillen Poppy Day bomb
The Times and The Sunday Times have launched The Poppy Day Bomb, a new six-part investigative podcast exploring one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland’s history. Nearly four decades later, no one has been brought to justice, and many questions remain unanswered about what happened and why. Hosted by The Times reporter Mario Ledwith, who was born in Enniskillen, the series follows his deeply personal search for truth and understanding. Through interviews with survivors, families, republicans and former security officials, Ledwith investigates why the atrocity remains shrouded in silence. The Poppy Day Bomb is available now on all major podcast platforms.
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October 20, 2025 07:30 UTC
Newspaper headlines: 'Andy sweats over police probe' and 'Ceasefire in peril'
The Daily Telegraph says, external Prince Andrew faces becoming the first member of the Royal Family to be investigated by police in more than 20 years. Prince Andrew has consistently denied any wrongdoing. The i Paper reports, external the government will be "guided" by the Royal Family when it comes to forming a decision. Some of the papers offer suggestions on what the Royal Family should do next. The Daily Star has, external a similar proposal: that he should be "banished" from public life or sent to the Tower of London.
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October 20, 2025 06:56 UTC