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Rachel Reeves has delivered the first Labour Budget in nearly 15 years.The Chancellor promised "more pounds in people's pockets", to fix the crisis-hit NHS and grow the sluggish economy. She said the Tories had failed Britain through…

She's now one of the most powerful women in the country, but Rachel Reeves was once just a 'girlie swot' from an ordinary background by her own admission. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is today delivering her Autumn Budget, has…

Rachel Reeves is set to announce £1.4 billion to rebuild crumbling schools - vowing children shouldn’t “suffer” because of the dire state of Britain’s finances. The Budget is also expected to include more cash for childcare and free…

Kids and toddlers who lived near Sure Start centres were less likely to end up on a path of crime as a youngster, research shows.Access to the early years centres, introduced by New Labour, also reduced the amount of time children spent in…

Twenty years ago, MySpace and Facebook ushered in an inspired age of social media. Today, the sticky parables of online life are inescapable: Connection is a convenience as much as it is a curse. A lot’s changed since those early years. In…

While Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original programming, Hulu actually beat them all to the punch. In 2011, a year before Netflix’s Lilyhammer and two years before the arrival of House of…

Having spent many years as second fiddle to Barcelona, Madrid surpassed its Catalan cousin in 2023 with startups securing €605 million ($672 million) investment above Barcelona’s €457 million ($507 million). “Lots of Latin American talent…

Free breakfast clubs in all primary schools in England will begin being rolled out next year, Rachel Reeves has announced.The Chancellor announced the plan to tackle child hunger will kick off in 750 primary schools in April 2025 in a major…

Hundreds of primary school children will receive free breakfasts from April ahead of a national rollout. This was confirmed today by Chancellor Rachel Reeves at the Labour conference in Liverpool. The plan was previously estimated to cost…

One extraordinary trip that did see the light of day thanks to crowdfunding was Thor Pedersen’s 10-year journey to visit every country in the world in one continuous trip—all without flying, becoming the first person ever to do so. The…