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  New PM and wife worth a reported £730m New PM and wife worth a reported £730m 

  New PM and wife worth a reported £730m New PM and wife worth a reported £730m 

  Mortgage rates soared after the mini-Budget, with many lenders pulling products from the market Mortgage rates soared after the mini-Budget, with many lenders pulling products from the market 

  Travel on roads and rail is likely to be affected by the extra spray and floodwater. ​Travel on roads and rail is likely to be affected by the extra spray and floodwater. 

Birds showing most self-control score higher in cognitive tests, suggesting they are more intelligent The old saying states a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush but it appears Eurasian jays may beg to differ: researchers have found the corvids shun an immediate reward for a tastier, but delayed, treat. What’s more, the team found the birds that showed the most self-control scored higher on a variety of cognitive tests, suggesting they were more intelligent. Continue reading… ​Birds showing most self-control score higher in cognitive tests, suggesting they are more intelligentThe old saying states a bird in…

Outsourced staff with Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain want £15 an hour – the rate paid 22 years ago Security staff at one of the UK’s most prestigious universities are to walk out over pay and union recognition, their representatives have said, as the cost of living crisis continues to bite. Workers at University College London (UCL), employed via the contractor Bidvest Noonan, are demanding an increase in their hourly rate that their union says would see them paid the same nominal amount UCL guards got more than 20 years ago – before the jobs were outsourced. Continue reading……

Retailer will provide paid time off to attend medical appointments, including staff who use a surrogate Staff at the Co-op will be able to take paid time off for fertility treatments, under a new policy launched by the retailer. Co-op’s chief executive, Shirine Khoury-Haq, said she has gone through the process of fertility treatment herself and wants to create a supportive environment for her employees. Continue reading… ​Retailer will provide paid time off to attend medical appointments, including staff who use a surrogateStaff at the Co-op will be able to take paid time off for fertility treatments, under a new…

Exclusive: discharge funding to relieve hospital delays promised by Thérèse Coffey in September has not materialised Hospitals and care homes have not received a single penny of a £500m emergency fund promised by the government to prevent the NHS becoming overwhelmed this winter, the Guardian has learned. Ministers announced they were injecting the cash into the health and social care system last month, to help get thousands of medically fit patients out of hospital into either their own home or a care home as soon as possible in an effort to better prepare the NHS for the coming months. Continue…

Exclusive: Sir Mark Rowley has already removed more than 1,000 young men from the force’s gang violence matrix A controversial Metropolitan police list of alleged gang members mainly targeted black men “amplified disproportionality” and must be radically reformed, Britain’s top police officer has said. The gang violence matrix was branded as part of a “racialised war” on gangs by Amnesty International and was found potentially to be breaching data laws by the information commissioner. Continue reading… ​Exclusive: Sir Mark Rowley has already removed more than 1,000 young men from the force’s gang violence matrix A controversial Metropolitan police list of…

  Believed to be richer than the late Queen, the 42-year-old daughter of Indian IT billionaire NR Narayana Murty captured the heart of Britain’s chancellor during their time at Stanford University Believed to be richer than the late Queen, the 42-year-old daughter of Indian IT billionaire NR Narayana Murty captured the heart of Britain’s chancellor during their time at Stanford University