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Half a million older people will not get new State Pension payment rates starting in April

State Pension payments are rising by up to £75 per month in the new financial year.

Daily Record · Jan 12, 2023

Cancer vaccine trials could start in the autumn – UK signs deal with BioNTech

The UK government recently announced that it is partnering with German firm BioNTech to test vaccines for cancer and other diseases. The project aims to build on the mRNA vaccine technology that BioNTech became famous for developing, and which has been so successful at preventing serious illness and death from…

The Conversation · Jan 12, 2023

UK review of 'golden' visas for millionaires finds links to corruption

The British government said on Thursday that a small number of people who were granted so-called "golden visas" for millionaire investors might have obtained their wealth through corruption or organised crime.

Reuters · Jan 12, 2023

Prince Harry's ghostwriter hints at 'inadvertent mistakes' as he appears to defend book

Prince Harry's ghostwriter J.R Moehringer has posted a series of quotes on Twitter, including one that says "the line between memory and fact is blurry" after some readers claimed to discover inaccuracies in the Duke's memoir Spare

Daily Mirror · Jan 12, 2023

Alan Carr joining Britain's Got Talent leaves RuPaul's Drag Race UK fans worried

Alan Carr is set to replace David Walliams as a judge on the upcoming series of the ITV talent show

Liverpool Echo · Jan 12, 2023

What's in store for the UK in 2023? Here's one economist's view

Last year was an eventful one for the UK which lost its longest-serving monarch, went through two prime ministers, and faced economic stagnation, financial turmoil, rampant inflation and a cost of living crisis.

The Conversation · Jan 12, 2023

'I tested M&S's 'Magic Coffee' that is set to be bigger than the flat white'

M&S have launched The Magic Coffee which is set to shake up morning routines and rival the flat white as the first new coffee to hit the UK since 2005 - Mirror reporter Danni Scott grabbed a cup of magic to try

Daily Mirror · Jan 12, 2023

BBC's Ambulance viewers get emotional over powerful episode aired on day of strike action

As emergency workers took up strike action across the UK, viewers called upon the government to act and support

Daily Mirror · Jan 12, 2023

UK’s ‘golden visas’ scheme was used by Putin allies, MPs told

Home Secretary reveals review of Tier I visa scheme had ‘identified a small minority of individuals .. at high risk of having obtained wealth through corruption or other illicit financial activity’

Evening Standard · Jan 12, 2023

Wagner forces claim to have found body of one of missing Britons in Ukraine

Yevgeny Prigozhin claims passports of aid workers Andrew Bagshaw and Christopher Parry found on the body

The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2023