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Hold your nose: a £1.25bn subsidy for rich Rolls-Royce’s new engine had to happen

The company was handed £1.25bn from public coffers to part-fund the development of a next-generation engine for single-aisle commercial planes. The chancellor buried this giveaway in two short sentences in the stodgy…

Female Lib Dem MP accuses Nigel Farage of shoving her in parliament

Voaden told the Guardian: "He was trying to get out of the chamber and instead of just asking if he could go past, he said: 'Let me past'. I turned round and said: 'No, you can wait your turn like everyone else'. He…

Lib Dems and Reform UK in war of words over alleged shove

The row was triggered when Farage, explaining why he had not attended Wednesday's Budget, said he had been involved in a "physical altercation" with another MP at the State Opening of Parliament in May and had wanted to…

UK politics: Burnham denies preventing ministers from speaking about plans for closer relationship with EU – as it happened

As mentioned earlier (see 12.14pm ), Burnham wrote to ministers yesterday saying he does not want them to "advocate for specific options or opine on the likely outcome of the process" as he opens a debate on forming a…

Meet the front-runners to replace Lagarde

Softly spoken de Cos An economist with a Ph.D. from the University of Madrid, de Cos joined the Bank of Spain in 1997, moved to Frankfurt in 2004 to be an adviser to the ECB’s executive board, before returning to the…

Video shows street vendors in Spain, not people selling items looted in France

The video was actually filmed on Gran Vía, a street in Madrid, Spain. The video has been shared hundreds of times on X , Facebook and Instagram , wrongly connecting the scene to the looting which took place earlier this…

AI mushroom cloud video shared with false claims it shows Ukraine

But this video isn’t real. It was made with artificial intelligence (AI) and has been circulating online for more than a year. Using reverse image search we traced the video to a 2025 AFP fact check about the clip being…

Britain’s spy agency doesn’t know where thousands of its memory sticks are

That could include intercepted communications such as emails, texts and telephone calls, as well as information extracted from people’s computers or phones. The report added that GCHQ currently estimates the number of…

The supposed post has the date , and claims the Republicans have won “all 50 states” and that the President is “officially declaring victory for EVERY Republican candidate right now. Every Senate seat, every House seat…

Eight of England’s nine water companies still failing on environment, report finds

"People are sick of excuses," Dame Angela said, after the Environment Agency joined the Drinking Water Inspectorate, Natural Resources Wales and Ofwat for a joint report that rated eight of the nine water companies in…