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Starmer urged to change donation rules amid talk of Musk bankrolling Reform
Keir Starmer must strengthen the rules around political donations to protect the electoral system from foreign interference, the Electoral Commission has said, amid rising concerns about Elon Musk’s
plans to donate millions of pounds
to Reform UK.Vijay Rangarajan, chief executive of the elections watchdog, said that …
Grassroots campaign to force removal of RFU executives gathers momentum
Bill Sweeney and Tom Ilube could be ousted from the Rugby Football Union early next year with both senior figures facing a motion to be dismissed at a likely special general meeting following a grassroots rebellion.
Led by the Rugby Football Referees’ Union and backed by the Championship clubs, there …
Christian Kist hits nine-darter at PDC world championship but loses match
Christian Kist earned himself a bumper payday by firing a stunning nine-dart finish at the PDC world championship – but went on to lose his match against Madars Razma.
The Dutchman threw the perfect leg in the opening set of his first-round match to scoop £60,000. Kist achieved the feat …
Usyk and Fury’s titanic battle flies under radar in surreal surrounds of Riyadh
Fight week in Riyadh, at least to an outsider, is an often ghostly experience. Unless you’re up close and talking to the actual fighters, to Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury, or seeing them step off a parked jumbo jet to make their outrageously grand arrivals in front of a small …
Journal retracts study that promoted hydroxychloroquine as Covid treatment
A controversial study that promoted hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, as a treatment for
has officially been withdrawn.On Tuesday, Elsevier, a Dutch academic publishing company which owns the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, issued the retraction of the March 2020 study, saying “concerns have been raised …
Couple who bought abortion pills online given community orders
A man and woman who were accused of buying pills to induce an illegal abortion have been sentenced to community orders.
Sophie Harvey, 25, had previously stood trial accused of procuring her own miscarriage when she was 19.
Prosecutors had alleged she took the medication after learning she was at …
Up to 100 Labour MPs could vote against Waspi payout refusal
Fed cuts interest rates amid questions over its fight to lower inflation
The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday amid questions over its fight to bring down inflation across the world’s largest economy.
Policymakers at the central bank lowered the benchmark federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of between 4.25% and 4.5% in …
Thames Water to get green light to hike bills by more than a third by 2030
Troubled Thames Water will be allowed to increase customer bills by just over a third by 2030 after a decision by the industry regulator, the Guardian has learned.
Ofwat is poised to announce on Thursday that the heavily indebted company, which serves 16 million consumers in London and the Thames …
‘Pick and mix of horror’ online pushes young people to violence, UK police chief says
More young people are viewing a “pick and mix of horror” on the web that pushes them towards violence, a UK counter-terrorism leader has said.
Deputy assistant commissioner Vicki Evans of the Metropolitan police, the senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism, said the nature of radicalisation had changed and warned of …