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Great British Bake-Off star Jurgen Krauss is understood to be one of the celebrities being lined up to spearhead a campaign to persuade more UK children to study the language.

CITY AM – Retail revival signals a new era in trading After a difficult 2023, outlook for online trading platforms brightens as retail investors return CITY AM says A bleak 2023 for retail trading platforms looks set to give way to a renaissance in 2024 with elections, falling interest rates and geopolitical volatility potentially prompting renewed interest in online trading. Both CMC Markets and Plus500 released trading updates covering the three months to December on Monday morning, with the pair both revealing results for 2023 will be above market expectations. Plus500 now expects to perform “significantly ahead” of current market…

Kate, the Princess of Wales, is turning 42 today and King Charles has publicly marked the occasion.

The Economist – Made in ’42. Roadworthy in ’24? The man supposed to stop Donald Trump is an unpopular 81-year-old The Economist says American politics is paralysed by a contradiction as big as the Grand Canyon. Democrats rage about how re-electing Donald Trump would doom their country’s democracy. And yet, in deciding who to put up against him in November’s election, the party looks as if it will meekly submit to the candidacy of an 81-year-old with the worst approval rating of any modern president at this stage in his term. How did it come to this? Joe Biden’s net…

The bodies of four newborns were discovered.

With sad goodbyes and confirmation of more deaths to come, next week in soapland is a particularly upsetting one

Elementor #577561January 9, 20241 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today Metro – 1m say strip Post Office Paula of CBE Metro leads with a mass petition calling for former Post Office chief, Paula Vennells, to be stripped of her CBE. Hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly accused and convicted of fraud while she was in charge. The paper says Vennels left the role with a £5m payout just months before a court told the Post Office to pay £58m to 555 victims.. Today’s top stories Like this article? why don’t you share it? its easy … just click the icon…

He has just 18 months left on his contract.

Elementor #577555January 9, 20241 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today Financial Times – Deluge of debt feeds fear of backlash in bond marketsA seemingly failed lunar moon landing, warnings of “unmoored” worldwide public debt, and Bet365 boss’s substantial annual earnings all feature on the front page of the Financial Times. The paper reports that investors are warning governments around the world over “unmoored” levels of public debt, saying that borrowing pledges ahead of the dozens of elections set to take place globally this year risk sparking a “bond market backlash”. It quotes one analyst from British-American asset management group…

Elementor #577548January 9, 20241 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today The Guardian – Scramble to clear victims of Post Office fraud scandal The government is rushing to clear the names of hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly convicted of theft and fraud in the Post Office scandal, leads The Guardian. The paper says ministers are drawing up urgent plans to overturn the convictions as soon as possible so victims can get quicker access to millions of pounds in compensation. It quotes Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that “people should know we are on it and want to make it right”. Today’s…