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Trinidad-born Liberal Democrat Baroness Floella Benjamin highlighted the contribution made by the Windrush generation.

This is the second in a two-part series. Read part one here.

From Frankenstein bikes to post-injury comebacks, meet the women of the British Hill Climb Championships

MIGRANT CRISIS : This week, the prime minister’s official spokesperson suggested migrant hotels are ‘luxury’ places to live. But with rodent and slug infestations, substandard food and large families packed into single rooms, those living there have a very different story to tell. They talk to Shaheena Uddin about the…

Deputy PM hit out at Reform MP’s remarks over adverts, warning they marked return to ‘flagrant racism’

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that the ceasefire is back in effect after dozens of people were killed overnight.

Zoë Wicomb’s first book, You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987), is a tour through episodes in the life of a writer-character, Frieda Shenton. She’s not unlike but crucially not exactly like Wicomb (child of South Africa’s Namaqualand, graduate of what is now the University of the Western Cape,…

Having always hated Halloween, Rosamund Hall plucks up the courage to travel to Pluckley in Kent where ghostly goings-on are prolific

Rachel Reeves argued that austerity, Brexit and the pandemic had left ‘deep scars’ on the UK’s economy.

The 2026 Winter Olympics start in 100 days in Italy.

The OBR is expected to deal the Chancellor a further blow in November by downgrading its productivity forecasts for the economy.