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Green Day’s performance on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” has a lot of Donald Trump supporters seeing red.

Rishi Sunak has vowed to crack down on immigration.

Rishi Sunak has been roasted on social media after he boasted about banning most foreign students from bringing family to the UK.

The ban is a key element of Sunak’s plan to bring down the number of immigrants coming to Britain.

Last year, 136,000 visas were issued to the dependants of foreign students - up from 16,000 in 2019.

In a New Year’s Day post on X (formerly Twitter), the prime minister said the policy showed... Читать дальше...

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, from a Border Force vessel in October last year.

Doug Barrowman and Baroness Michelle Mone.

Former Tory peer Michelle Mone’s husband claims the couple have been “hung out to dry” by ministers over the personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement row.

Doug Barrowman said they are being hounded to “distract attention from government incompetence” over how it handled £13.1 billion worth of PPE contracts.

The Scottish entrepreneur led a consortium, PPE Medpro, which agreed contracts worth £202 million with the government following the Covid outbreak nearly four years ago. Читать дальше...

The number of firefighters has fallen by a third since 2015.

The number of firefighters in England has plummeted over the last nine years, HuffPost UK can reveal.

Figures uncovered by the House of Commons library show there were 35,700 firefighters in 2015.

But by 2022, that figure was 31,064 - a fall of 13%.

It means there were 0.7 firefighters for every 1,000 people in 2015, but only 0.5 for every 1,000 people in 2015. That is a fall of nearly a third.

The research was commissioned by the Liberal Democrats... Читать дальше...

You’re reading Love Stuck, where trained therapists answer your dating, sex and relationship dilemmas.

(This story was originally published in 2022.)

The author (left) and her mom, Lisa.

Most people are born into their family. I was adopted by mine when I was 25. It’s an odd story, and at this point, I think I’ve seen every possible reaction: “Wow, I didn’t know you could do that;” “What happened with your old family?” and general reactions of shock, confusion and acceptance.

Now that it’s been five years since my adoption was finalised, I rarely tell the full story anymore. Typically, if it’s relevant to the conversation, I’ll mention I’m adopted... Читать дальше...

Our eyesight gets worse as we get older, but some issues aren't part of the normal aging process.

Breakfast may be your favourite meal of the day, or the meal you kind of forget about until the hunger pangs strike. But eating breakfast can influence how you feel, and either set you up for a good day or a sluggish one.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects around 2 million people in the UK and it often impacts people in winter due to the days being darker and colder. The symptoms that characterise it include:

A selection of the big music, TV and film moments we have to look forward to in 2024