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Aviva to buy Direct Line in £3.7bn deal, putting 2,300 jobs at risk
Aviva has agreed to buy rival insurer Direct Line for £3.7bn, with up to 2,300 job cuts planned as the companies aim for £125m in cost savings.
FTSE 100 member Aviva, the UK’s largest insurer, said on Monday it will offer the equivalent of £2.75 for each Direct Line share …
Locals win fight to save mysterious, medieval Spanish chapel from oblivion
A mysterious, dilapidated and exquisitely painted Spanish chapel into which knights on horseback may have ridden centuries ago to receive a wet and most unusual blessing could be on the verge of salvation after a decades-long campaign by local heritage groups.
No one knows much about the crumbling and semi-subterranean …
Michael Penix Jr’s sterling debut gives Atlanta sorely needed hope. What took so long?
Drinking tea and coffee linked to lower risk of head and neck cancer in study
If the only thing getting you through a mountain of present-wrapping is a mug of tea or coffee, be of good cheer. Researchers have found people who consume those drinks have a slightly lower risk of head and neck cancers.
There are about 12,800 new head and neck cancer cases …
‘My whole body has been broken’: Davy Russell on bust-ups, Grand National glories and a life in the saddle
Davy Russell’s wife, Edelle, sometimes brings out a skeleton that resembles his battered body during her anatomy classes at school. The skeleton looks as if it has contracted measles because it is covered in red dots, with each dot marking a bone that Russell broke during his 21 years as …
Greece facing refugee ‘children’s emergency’ as arrivals double in 2024
Greece is facing a refugee “children’s emergency” as the number of unaccompanied minors reaching the country rises and concern grows over a lack of “safe zones” to host them.
Large numbers of children arrived in 2024 along a new trafficking route from Libya to Crete, prompting NGOs to urge Greek …
UK economy stagnates as GDP figures revised down
The UK economy had zero growth between July and September and is expected to have stagnated over the entire second half of 2024, undermining Keir Starmer’s promise to reboot growth.
In an unexpected downgrade as Labour comes under pressure over its economic management since taking power in July, figures from …
Can you solve it? All you need to know about 2025
As is traditional for the final column of year, we look ahead to all that the following twelve months will bring us.
Numerically speaking, of course.
2025 will be the only time this century that the year is a square number.
44
2
= 193645
2
= 2025 …
Journalists who were unlawfully spied on have ‘no doubt’ UK reporters are still targeted
Two investigative journalists who a tribunal ruled
were unlawfully spied on by police
have said that they are in “no doubt” reporters continue to be targeted in the UK.In a landmark judgment, the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) found last week that the Police Service of Northern …
Monday briefing: The mammoth task of rebuilding Syria – and how to achieve it
Good morning. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad two weeks ago, Syria’s de facto government inherited a failed state. The task for rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its leader Ahmed al-Sharaa is formidable: rewrite the constitution, bring the country’s disparate armed factions to heel, persuade international partners that …