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November 19, 2025
Average first-time home buyer in London pays £500,000
Record high puts homeownership increasingly out of reach of people who do not get financial help from their families
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November 19, 2025
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks review — inside the mind of a great man
This brilliant programme could start a whole new genre of programming: the psychological portrait of dead artists through their work
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November 19, 2025
Bats aren’t blind — and they can drink your blood without you noticing
They share food with friends, make tents from leaves and can live into their forties — Yossi Yovel’s study, The Genius Bat, is a peek inside...
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November 19, 2025
Portishead’s Geoff Barrow: ‘I wasn’t very good at doing drugs’
The musician has branched into filmmaking with the horror movie, Game, about when raves go wrong. He talks trip-hop, the nineties and whethe...
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November 19, 2025
Margaret Beaufort: meddling mother or great survivor?
In this biography of the matriarch of the Tudor dynasty, Lauren Johnson shows how a girl overcame adversity to become a dominant force in th...
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November 19, 2025
Owners race to sell £1.5m-plus homes before budget over CGT fears
With Rachel Reeves’s November statement looming large, the autumn housing market is defined by panic, urgency and uncertainty over a possibl...
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November 19, 2025
Briton who hacked Obama’s Twitter is son of far-right activist
Joseph O’Connor, who also ran a bitcoin scam, is son of Joe Owens who was jailed for sending razor blades to Jewish households in 1980s
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November 19, 2025
Junior doctor who crossed picket line: We know we have a good pay deal
As BMA’s five-day walkout ends with claims of lower turnout, one medic says his colleagues agree the union is pushing the wrong point
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November 19, 2025
US and Russia secretly drew up peace plan for Ukraine
A senior adviser to President Putin said Russia felt ‘heard’ in the negotiations, and was likely to accept the proposed 28-point plan to end...
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November 19, 2025
By George — actors ageing naturally are now ‘brave’
Unlike Clooney, many others now feel the same obligation as leading ladies to mess with their faces
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November 19, 2025
Outrage over ‘Italian’ carbonara made in Belgium
Jars of Belgian-made pasta sauce featuring an Italian flag being sold the supermarket of the European parliament cause a diplomatic incident
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November 19, 2025
‘I’m no longer a halloumi virgin’: New York is falling for squeaky cheese
Selling for $25 per pound and struck by Trump’s tariffs on EU imports, the Cypriot cheese is rare in the Big Apple. One West Village bakery...
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November 19, 2025
Fraud hits harder when victims are shunned
Regulator supposedly combating financial crime is leaving customers desperate and destitute
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November 19, 2025
Miliband’s energy plan ‘means higher bills into the 2030s’
A report says that households will continue to pay more in levies for green infrastructure than they will save from the cheaper energy it cr...
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November 19, 2025
If Trump is really vexed with the BBC, why not simply send an armada?
The US president has said he’ll sue for up to $5 billion. Instead, he could meet the head of BBC News in a field and chase him around with a...
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November 19, 2025
Orange wine isn’t for everyone — but here are six bottles I love
‘Skin contact’ wines are on trend yet divisive. Get it right, and the result can be a wine of huge complexity
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November 19, 2025
Lam Leung-tim obituary: inventor of Hong Kong’s yellow rubber duck
Businessman who created a ‘kingdom from nothing’ after Japanese occupation during the Second World War, dies aged 101
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November 19, 2025
Adrift review — the swashbuckling story of a family stranded in the Pacific
The Robertsons were stuck in their dinghy in the ocean for 38 days, surrounded by predators and gnawing the meat and bones of passing sea tu...
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November 19, 2025
Beaujolais nouveau: the once-mocked wine now ageing gracefully
Long maligned as party plonk, French critics say the wine is gaining depth as warmer summers boost quality and yeast-induced banana notes ha...
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November 19, 2025
Snow and ice warnings as parts of UK poised for chaos
UK weather: Met Office issues yellow and amber alerts as Arctic blast is predicted to create treacherous conditions for road and rail
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November 19, 2025
Beckhams accused of abusing planning system at Cotswolds estate
Locals are angry with the council and the couple, who have submitted more than 30 changes to their Great Tew estate to increase the chance o...
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November 19, 2025
TikTok still used by people smugglers to lure migrants to UK
Eighty accounts found to be operating in plain sight despite social media giants pledging to crack down on illegal content
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November 19, 2025
Scotland’s total failure as much on the players as it is on Gregor Townsend
I know exactly how much players would have cringed watching Argentina post mortem — but I don’t get the sense head coach has lost dressing r...
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November 19, 2025
Albanian anger at ‘far-right’ Mahmood threatens migrant deal
The country’s prime minister said that by singling out Albanians in her speech on asylum reforms, the home secretary was guilty of ‘an exerc...
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November 19, 2025
Northern Ireland’s religious curriculum is unlawful, top court rules
The Supreme Court has declared that the country’s Christian-based RE teaching ‘amounts to evangelism’ and breaches human rights law
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November 19, 2025
Fintech’s ambitions deflated with sale to Lloyds for £120m
Curve, whose digital wallet app attracted the high street bank, once dreamt of being worth $60 billion and told shareholders it shared their...
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November 19, 2025
Rapist ex-police officer David Carrick convicted of abusing girl, 12
A confession letter he sent to his mother could have prevented him from joining the police if it had been identified earlier
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November 19, 2025
‘Self-absorbed’ son loses £2.6m claim to mother’s house
Financier who lived at an ‘old-fashioned’ Chelsea property for most of his adult life at a discounted rent loses fight for two thirds of its...
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November 19, 2025
Australia scrambles to remove asbestos-laced sand from schools
Toxic play sand has been discovered at hundreds of sites across Australia and New Zealand, leading to dozens of closures
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November 19, 2025
Bristol council says Greens’ trans placards acceptable in meetings
Such displays by the councillors are permissible because they are ‘not racist, homophobic or offensive’, the authority’s legal head says aft...
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November 19, 2025
China bans Japanese seafood as diplomatic row deepens
A spat over Taiwan has led to Beijing pulling Japanese films from cinemas and issuing travel warnings — and now it has escalated with a bloc...
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November 19, 2025
Never a better time to face Australia? Let’s see how first morning goes
The notion that this is England’s moment to reverse a torrid recent Ashes record down under could melt away if Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett f...
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November 19, 2025
Parents are missing out on thousands in pension top-ups from HMRC
A little-known trick for those caring for children could help to boost your retirement income
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November 19, 2025
Ukraine fires long-range missiles into Russia after Trump lifts veto
Kyiv’s use of Atacms, launched shortly before a Russian attack on western Ukraine killed at least 20 people, appears to signal a new phase i...
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November 19, 2025
Judge blames lack of funding as he frees attempted murder suspect
Despite ‘significant risk’ of reoffending, shortage of courtrooms mean bail will be granted because the pre-trial custody time limit cannot...
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November 19, 2025
FTSE 100 loses another female chief executive
Severn Trent boss Liv Garfield is departing after announcing strong half-year results, leaving just eight women at the helm in the blue chip...
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November 19, 2025
Mortgage price war breaks out amid hope of December rate cut
Homeowners whose loan deals are due to end can take heart from the fact that big lenders are already offering cheaper deals
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November 19, 2025
I was lost in Scotland’s World Cup drama — only sport does this to us
Watching Scotland’s heroics to qualify for the World Cup filled me with delight; we live and breath sports in the hopes of experiencing a ga...
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November 19, 2025
Trump ‘wants to give Nato role to Germans for first time in 70 years’
A US envoy suggests Berlin should appoint the alliance’s commander in Europe as the continent assumes more responsibility for its own defenc...
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November 19, 2025
Easing inflation means Bank can deliver early Christmas present
October’s reading showed the UK heading for a period of disinflation and while there is a crucial budget to come, the path is clear for a De...
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November 19, 2025
How I became an accidental first-time landlord
A first-time buyer’s last-minute change of plan meant his property purchase went straight onto the rental market. Plus, tips on buying to le...
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November 19, 2025
When will Epstein files be released and what could be in them?
Documents must be made public 30 days after President Trump signs bill, but some fear new investigations may be used as a pretext to block p...
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November 19, 2025
Tearful Steve McClaren resigns as Jamaica coach after World Cup failure
Eighteen years after failing to qualify for Euro 2008 with England, McClaren’s side were beaten to top spot in qualifying by Curacao after a...
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November 19, 2025
WH Smith boss resigns after review of accounting error
Deloitte identified ‘shortcomings’ in the accounting process at the retailer, which has delayed its results and slashed profit guidance in N...
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November 19, 2025
Wes Anderson at the Design Museum review — even better than Kubrick
The Texan is the third film-maker to have a retrospective at the London museum, after Stanley Kubrick and Tim Burton — and his is the exquis...
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November 19, 2025
Russian spy ship aims lasers at RAF pilots tracking it near UK waters
We see you, John Healey tells Putin, as he calls for a new era of ‘hard power’ after surveillance vessel is spotted loitering off Scotland
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November 19, 2025
Elliot Daly to start on wing for England against Argentina
Saracens back will replace the injured Tom Roebuck, while Henry Slade is set to get nod at centre with Ollie Lawrence also ruled out
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November 19, 2025
Poland orders closure of Russian consulate after sabotage attack
Donald Tusk reveals that two Ukrainian suspects have fled to Belarus after a rail line that carries aid and military supplies to Poland’s ne...
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November 19, 2025
Glenn McGrath dropped by ABC over links to betting company
Legendary fast bowler was due to provide radio commentary during the Ashes but national broadcaster says it has now ‘mutually parted ways’ w...
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November 19, 2025