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Meal kit giant slammed after misleading customers

HelloFresh, the world's largest meal kit delivery company, has been ordered to pay $7.5 million in penalties. The penalty follows a lawsuit in Santa Clara County, California, which alleged HelloFresh ...

Security minister refuses multiple times to outline alternative to asylum hotels

Labour is in turmoil after more councils consider launching legal challenges over the government’s use of asylum hotels. Security minister Dan Jarvis repeatedly failed to outline an alternative to ...

House price inflation accelerated in June as stamp duty disruption eases

House price inflation accelerated last month as growth in rental prices eased back, according to official figures. The ...

Ray Winstone says Marvel movies stop ‘cultural films’ getting made

Ray Winstone has taken a swipe at Marvel, suggesting that the dominance of superhero movies “takes away from getting cultural films made”. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on ...

Government working on contingency plans after ruling on Epping migrant hotel

The Government is working on contingency plans for housing asylum seekers after a court ruled that they should be removed from a hotel in Epping, Essex. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...

Your brain could get bigger – not smaller – as you age. Here’s what we know

Current theories assume our brain gets smaller as we grow older. But my team’s findings contradict these theories in part. It is the first evidence that some parts of the brain get bigger with age in ...
Opinion

So, where will we put asylum seekers now courts have backed the ‘not in my backyarders’?

The Epping verdict shows glaring issues with both planning consent and Nimbyism, writes Sean O’Grady. Whether economic migrants or refugees, anyone seeking asylum in the UK deserves respect and safety ...

Catherine Zeta-Jones on how she and Michael Douglas cope with relationship being in the spotlight

Catherine Zeta-Jones has opened up about how she and her husband, fellow film star Michael Douglas, cope with their ...

Stranded by the Air Canada strike? Here are three ways to get help

While a tentative agreement to end the contract dispute has since been reached, many travellers are still stuck abroad ...

Christian campaigners launch legal action to ban civil servants from Pride events and rainbow lanyards

A campaign group has launched legal action seeking to ban civil servants from wearing rainbow lanyards, endorsing Pride ...

Asylum hotels latest: Labour in turmoil with more councils eyeing legal action after Epping site shut

Chaos facing Starmer comes after council granted temporary injunction blocking migrants from being housed at The Bell Hotel ...

South Korea-US drills have ‘sinister intention’, Kim Jong Un’s sister claims

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, declared that North Korea will never recognise South Korea as a partner for diplomacy. She condemned ongoing South Korea- US military drills as ...