A man who stole 325 Cadbury Creme Eggs from a petrol station has been banned from Cambridgeshire for three months. Deon De Groot, 26, was spotted when he stuffed £220.50 worth of the eggs into a duffel bag at a Tesco Express in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, and left without paying on Saturday. A member of staff…
New money for drones and laser weapons to “revolutionise” Britain’s armed forces has been announced by Rachel Reeves as part of a £2.2bn rise in defence spending. Vowing to turn the UK into “a defence industrial superpower”, the chancellor used her spring statement to unveil plans aimed at boosting arms exports and reaching a target…
Nigel Farage has settled his high-profile dispute with NatWest Group, nearly two years after the bank closed his accounts and triggered a row that ended with the resignation of the lender’s chief executive. Dame Alison Rose stood down from the bank in July 2023 after she admitted being the source of an inaccurate BBC story…
Democrats call on defense secretary to resign over group chat scandal “Classified information is classified for a reason. Sec. Hegseth was openly sharing classified materials on an insecure channel that potentially endangered service members. And then he lied about it. He should resign,” Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois said on X, just moments after questioning…
Whistleblowers who inform HMRC about tax-dodging will get a cut of any money collected as a result, the government confirmed, as Rachel Reeves announced plans to raise an extra £1bn a year by closing the “tax gap”. At her first budget in October, Reeves vowed to collect £6.5bn a year by cracking down on tax…
NHS chiefs have decided to shut the maternity unit at a major London hospital in response to a dramatic fall in the birth rate in its area in recent years. The Royal Free hospital will lose its unit because the number of women having a baby in Camden, the borough in which it is located,…
Two hikers were rescued from California’s rugged and remote north coast over the weekend after one of them slid more than 100ft (30 metres) down a steep cliff and was clinging to a “near vertical” bluff with hiking poles, authorities said. The Shelter Cove fire department and a US Coast Guard team responded to a…
The Elon Musk-run “department of government efficiency” (Doge) in effect shuttered a 79-year-old federal agency that mediates labor disputes on Wednesday – saving an estimated 0.0014% of the federal budget. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), an independent federal agency that works to prevent and resolve work stoppages and disputes in the public and…
Dollar Tree said Wednesday that it’s gaining market share with higher-income consumers and could raise prices on some products to offset President Donald Trump‘s tariffs. The discount retailer’s CEO, Michael Creedon, said the company is seeing “value-seeking behavior across all income groups.” While Dollar Tree has always relied on lower-income shoppers and gets about 50%…
Four United States army soldiers have been killed in Lithuania during training, the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, said while visiting Warsaw on Wednesday. “Whilst I was speaking the news came out about four American soldiers who were killed in an incident in Lithuania,” Rutte told reporters, adding that he did not know any details.…
