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The subject of national service is once again on the agenda.

“Watch Celebrity Traitors – now pay the TV licence”.

Samantha Middleton, 38, was over 19 and a half stone when she started taking GLP-1s.

So who knew what about the scam at Manchester City?

For a man who publicly professes to hate communists (or anything even vaguely left-wing coded) as often as he does, Pete Hegseth has an odd habit of imitating them.

Redcliffe Dolphins back-rower Jaron Purcell has set his sights on a move to Super League for 2027.

A case I encountered this summer represented one of the quickest medical turnarounds I’ve seen in my years of practice.

For a second or two, they look like birds: four tiny black dots in the distance.

October has once again rolled around – and with it, the clarion call for Britons to spend 31 days sober.

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Matthias Jaissle has been a man in a hurry.

Before I moved to Paris in September 2025, I had romantic notions about Montmartre’s winding cobbled streets, artists’ square and quaint cafés.

Whether casting doubt on the future of the UK or sniping at Donald Trump, recent weeks have seen Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, doing what he does best: trolling the West.

“He’s a turncoat”, said Kate Wood, an optometrist and artist from Newark-on-Trent.

Tough job this one… but thankfully, none of the supermarket steaks I tried were even approaching tough.

There are no current plans to overhaul the student loan system in the Budget to cut graduates’ cost of living, The i Paper understands.

Now that the sheer scale of Manchester City’s financial breaches has been exposed, it is time for reparations.

The timer is set, you now have five or 10 minutes to learn all you can about your child’s school life.

It was on, then off, then on again, then off again, then on.

Broadcaster and campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen has died aged 86.

The Manchester City cheating scandal could escalate into a criminal investigation, it has been claimed.

Splits have emerged in the Conservative Party over Kemi Badenoch’s pledge to stick with the state pension triple lock.

In December I will be 77 years old.

Andy Burnham is facing a divided Cabinet and warnings from Labour MPs against reinstating free movement of people after he opened the door to rejoining the EU.

Tottenham Hotspur were one spot off the Champions League places four times when finishing behind Manchester City between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons.

It’s not quite “I told you so”, but Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has been proved at least partially right about the paparazzi’s interest in her children.

Five men caught with vans full of petrol near the US airbase RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire may have been “criminal proxies” who were “duped” into a much more serious attack than they expected, former police officers have told The i Paper as counter-terr…

Andy Burnham stood up in front of Labour Party Conference yesterday and vowed to “repeal Margaret Thatcher’s ideological ban on public ownership of water companies”.

Saracens are at risk of further fines and punishment from the Premiership over the “wine consultant” role adopted by the London club’s director of rugby Brendan Venter, The i Paper understands.

European leaders say they would embrace the UK if it decided to rejoin the EU, with the leaders of France and Spain hailing Andy Burnham’s dramatic break with a decade of British caution over Brexit.

If your Instagram feed is anything like mine, you currently can’t scroll past two posts before you’re advertised weight-loss medication.

Millions of people in England are being warned to prepare a personal flood plan and stock up on bottled water and emergency kits ahead of what is expected to be the strongest El Niño on record this winter.

Andy Burnham’s conference speech was a political blockbuster.

MI5 is warning British universities to sever funding links with a Beijing-based company which it says has very strong ties to China’s Ministry of State Security.

Just six per cent of children go to private school in Britain, but they still go on to have most of the powerful and influential roles in British society.

MADRID – When an octogenarian was evicted last week from the home she had lived in for 70 years, it kicked off a wave of protests across Spain.

Manchester City’s Premier League rivals have called for “huge” punishments to be handed down, telling The i Paper that a points deduction will not be enough for the scale of their wrongdoing.

Andy Burnham has said all options are on the table for the future of UK-EU relations, including rejoining the bloc’s single market or going “all the way”.

A plane flying from Dubai to Israel plunged thousands of feet in less than a minute after the co-pilot reportedly tried to crash the aircraft.

Eight days after my name was placed on Spain’s kidney transplant waiting list, my phone rang.

I didn’t become homeless because my rent went up.

It’s not easy being a fan of Renoir, painter of golden-haired children and rosy-cheeked women – the latter of whom beam, dance and flirt demurely, all while dressed up like cakes in a patisserie window.

PRAGUE — Trent Alexander-Arnold and Thomas Tuchel’s tumultuous relationship is fascinating.

Moscow has started making nuclear threats again, this time in menacing Tuesday morning social media posts from the Russian embassy in London.

I can’t tell you whether “being terrible at emails” is a personal failure, the reality of being a millennial manager, the symptom of a demanding workplace or – and I write this grimacing – because of my ADHD.

Kendal Leflore, 26, was struggling to find an affordable flat to rent in London, until she came across a scheme that saves her 40 per cent on her monthly bill.

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Simon Leach, 45, said he and his partner can’t afford to buy a home, let alone have children, despite the fact they have a joint income of £120,000.

Despite being a full-time house-sitter who travels frequently, I avoid trains whenever possible.