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A council has won its bid to temporarily block asylum seekers from being housed at a hotel in Essex.

For the second summer in a row, "asylum hotels" have become a flashpoint of protest, with some turning violent.

TikTok and Instagram have been accused of targeting teenagers with suicide and self-harm content - at a higher rate than two years ago.

The family of a British couple, detained in Iran on espionage charges, says they are "seriously worried" after the pair were moved to the country's "harshest prisons".

A Virgin Atlantic cabin crew member was removed from a plane after crashing her car and turning up for work four times over the alcohol limit, a court has heard.

Energy bills are now expected to rise in autumn, a reversal from the previously anticipated price drop, a prominent forecaster has said.

There is one thing scarier than markets lurching around. And that's markets lurching around without a very compelling explanation.

The putative owners of The Daily Telegraph will take another step towards gaining control of the right-wing newspaper in the coming days when they formally notify Whitehall of their plans.

People are spending less time cooking and turning to quicker ways of preparing an evening meal, according to industry data.

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A woman who was charged with selling Friends star Matthew Parry the dose of the drug that killed him has agreed to plead guilty.

A new Ozzy Osbourne documentary, which had been due to air earlier this week, was pulled from the schedule out of respect to his family, the BBC say.

Normal People author Sally Rooney risks committing a terror offence under UK law if she funds the banned group Palestine Action, Downing Street has said.

British actor Terence Stamp - who famously played General Zod in Superman and Superman II - has died at the age of 87.

Sir Billy Connolly has warned fans that scammers are using artificial intelligence to impersonate him online.

TikTok and Instagram have been accused of targeting teenagers with suicide and self-harm content - at a higher rate than two years ago.

The UK government has dropped its demands to create a backdoor into Apple's encryption, according to the US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard.

If there's one thing the past 24 hours has confirmed, it's that it's still Donald Trump's world, and we're all just living in it.

Party leaders in the UK's devolved nations have called on Sir Keir Starmer to impose immediate sanctions on Israel and said waiting until September to recognise a Palestinian state is "far too late".

Sir Keir Starmer is straining his diplomatic sinews to simultaneously praise Donald Trump's efforts to end the war in Ukraine, while repeating calls for a completely different approach - one which ends the cosy bonhomie with Vladimir Putin, threatens the Russians with sanctions, and puts the Ukrainians back centre stage.