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Newcastle United will invest millions of pounds in a new “developing talent” strategy that began this summer with eight academy signings, including the most targeted global recruitment drive in the club’s history.

Rock stars can be an arrogant bunch, famously full of bluster, swagger and off-the-scale egos.

Inheritance tax (IHT) raised close to £9bn of revenue in 2025-26 and is set to bring in £14bn by the end of the decade.

Divorce, once rare and stigmatised, has become mainstream – 42 per cent of marriages now end this way, meaning nearly half of us who get married can expect to experience it in our lifetime.

Daniel Thomas, the hate influencer who slashed a dinghy with a rescuer on board, has earned at least £85,000 in donations in the last 30 days, The i Paper can reveal.

It’s gloomy, dank and I’m starting to shiver as we trudge through a maze of bitingly cold tunnels coiling serpentlike for more than 20 miles into the depths of the Bavarian mountains.

I’m a newbie football mum.

While Donald Trump was telling world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that the US was now economically “the hottest country anywhere in the world”, his fellow Republicans were poring over some of the grimmest polling data ahead of November’s…

Lauren Whelan, 23, bought her first home this year and says opting for an apprenticeship allowed her to get onto the property ladder much sooner than if she had gone to university.

On a grey, windy afternoon at a military air base in Maryland yesterday, Donald Trump donned black gloves and waited patiently at the foot of the stairs to Xi Jinping’s huge “zhuan ji”, his “special plane”.

Andy Burnham says football fans should not be banned from drinking on the terraces while watching a match.

A former military sea fort could be converted into a processing site for small boat arrivals in Hampshire as migrants make more dangerous journeys across the Channel to reach the UK.

People will be advised to store bottled water, tinned food and battery or wind-up radios at home to prepare for war or other emergencies as part of the UK government’s biggest public awareness campaign for decades.

The crippling burden of taxation faced by UK taxpayers is the highest as a proportion of GDP since World War Two.

Charles Spencer represents all that I detest in our class-riven country.

Essex cricketer Robin Das has been charged with two counts of rape.

Andy Burnham is being urged to drop Labour’s “obsolete” Brexit red lines by a key EU figure who argues it would allow a much deeper agreement with the bloc, such as the associate membership deal offered to Canada.

The world’s two most powerful men will come face to face on Thursday when China’s President Xi Jinping meets Donald Trump at the White House.

Kemijärvi in Finnish Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle, and Lagos, at the very southwestern point of Portugal, are the two places furthest apart in the European Union that are connected by trains.

This week Amanda Staveley was announced as director of Ctrl Alt, a financial infrastructure start-up.

Around 9:45am, Donald Trump spoke to the UN and threatened genocide: “Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly… Do I drive them into hell?”

Andy Burnham has opened the door to another major U-turn – this time over the future of the Chagos Islands.

I never thought I would move back to where I grew up.

A plan to lower the threshold at which high value homes are hit with an extra council tax charge would end up meaning tens of thousands of flat owners owe the levy, analysis shows.

Lithuania is racing to protect targets and prepare its population for a potential Russian attack, with its prime minister saying the country is “constantly threatened”.

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting‘s majority in Ilford North already rests on a knife edge and reforms to Britain’s benefits system could make things more difficult for him.

Buying food from Amazon, land of cut-price plastic tat and discounted electronics, feels akin to buying a wedding dress on Shein or a pet from Temu.

When Ben Stokes anointed Harry Brook as England’s next Test captain in waiting during his final press conference as an international player at Trent Bridge in June, he did it because he knew the Yorkshireman was ready to step up.

Strange as it might sound, close watchers of the British economy were beginning to feel almost optimistic at the start of this year.

In his speech at the UN General Assembly, Andy Burnham said the UK was setting up a new centre to “stem the poisonous tide” of disinformation coming from hostile states.

This year’s El Niño has reached record-breaking levels weeks before its expected peak, the Met Office has warned, impacting agriculture, water, energy demand, and wildfire risk.

Cancer has always been present in my life.

The Bank of Mum and Dad in the UK props up home purchases, education, and increasingly, day-to-day living.

Want to understand what’s really going on in Britain, and how we can fix it?

Call me old-fashioned but few things strike me as more compelling evidence of a genuine love for a country than, well, living in it.

I bought my first home over a year ago with my long-term partner, aged 23, and it is true what they say about it being one of the most stressful things you will do in your life.

Welcome to Trump’s America, The i Paper’s World Insight series presenting the sharpest, deepest thinking on an era-defining shift in history and politics, investigating how Donald Trump and his administration have changed the US and the world – and where…

We keep being told that we will have to work longer.

In the winter of 1988, Inspiral Carpets were one of the most talked-about new bands in the country.

When I speak to small business owners, I hear the same frustrations over and over.

Wings beating the cold air and slicing through the silence is the first thing I notice.

Palmer Luckey wears a uniform.

Lucy Beaumont, 42, is a comedian from Hull.

This season we’re doing football journalism differently.

A broadcasting loophole will allow Nigel Farage to dodge watchdog scrutiny and transmit unfiltered “propaganda” to voters at the next election, experts have warned.

Hampshire police say they are “conducting enquiries” after anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas, known as Danny Tommo, live-streamed a video that appeared to show him slashing an inflatable dinghy in the Channel while a rescue worker was on board.

In our Pension Diaries series, we speak to people of all ages in the UK to find out how much or how little they have saved for retirement and the realities of putting money aside for your future.

Andy Burnham has called for the world to unite behind global standards to control the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI).

The best and worst thing about The Great British Bake Off is that it never changes.

There was no shortage of tripwires that could have derailed Andy Burnham’s first meeting with Donald Trump.