15 minutes ago Mark Savage,Music Correspondent Getty Images Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991, was Queen’s dynamic and charismatic frontman Sony Music is reportedly in talks to buy the music catalogue of the rock band Queen, including hits like Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga and Another One Bites The Dust. According to Bloomberg, Sony is...
A girl aged nine is “fighting for her life” after a shooting in which three adults were also seriously injured in Hackney, east London. The “innocent victim” was having dinner with her family in a Dalston restaurant when shots came from outside, Ch Supt James Conway of the Metropolitan Police said. Three men, aged 26,...
The next two biggest earners are VAT, which is paid on many purchases, and National Insurance (NI), which is another tax levied on people’s earnings. The OBR has forecast that VAT will raise £203 billion in 2024/25. However, the government said it expected to raise, external £2.2bn less from NI this year – about £168bn...
King Charles III will take part in next month’s Trooping the Colour despite his cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. But the monarch is expected to inspect soldiers from a carriage rather than on horseback. The Princess of Wales’s role at the event will be taken by an military official, as she continues chemotherapy after...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that a freeze on income tax thresholds, meaning an effective tax rise when people’s pay goes up, will continue for the next three years. Mr Hunt told the BBC that the freeze on thresholds – agreed in response to Covid – will continue, but said it will end after 2028....
The News at One will become the BBC’s first daily network TV news bulletin to be “produced and broadcast from outside London” when it launches in Salford on Monday. The move of the broadcaster’s flagship lunchtime programme to a new studio at its base at MediaCityUK will also see it extended to an hour. The...
Getty Images Energy Secretary Mairi McAllan says young Scots have been let down by Westminster The SNP is the only party offering Scotland a route back into the European Union, Energy Secretary Mairi McAllan has claimed. She accused the Conservatives and Labour of having “utterly abandoned Scotland’s European future” at a general election campaign event...
Trump trial live: Jury ask judge questions in day two of deliberations – BBC News BreakingBreaking news Close breaking news Summary Jurors in Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial are continuing their deliberations today – the 12 New Yorkers must reach a unanimous verdict Proceedings have started with the judge re-reading some of his instructions on...
48 minutes ago Chris Mason,Political editor, @ChrisMasonBBC Reuters Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of carrying out a purge of left-wing candidates ahead of the selection deadline for the general election. The Labour leader denies this but some in his party don’t believe him. “This factional, vindictive behaviour is designed to humiliate socialist candidates as...
The Labour leader says he wants the “highest quality” candidates to put to the voters. Source link