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The beleaguered Deputy Prime Minister finally had to quit after a sleaze inquiry found she had failed to pay up to £40,000 tax owed on a luxury seaside apartment.

The play is one of many public events that will be interrupted on Sunday as ministers carry out a nationwide test of the service. At 3pm millions of mobile phones will vibrate and make a siren sound.

Danish firm Orsted, which has 12 wind farms in Britain which generate 7 per cent of the country's electricity, became the latest to bemoan slowing speeds amid worries over the UK's energy strategy.

Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from CBC News: Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a plan to force automakers to hit minimum sales levels for electric vehicles. The move is part of a series of measures the government announced Friday to help the sectors most affected by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. The EV mandate will be paused as the government conducts a 60-day review of the policy, and will be waived for 2026 models. Sources told CBC News that the review will look at the entire mandate and next steps. "We have an auto sector which, because of the massive change in U.S. policy, is under extreme pressure. We recognize that," Carney said at a news conference in Mississauga, Ont. "They've got enough on their plate right now. So we're taking that off." The government is using the review as part of broader look at all the government's climate measures, he added. [...] Brian Kingston, president of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association, called it "an important first step." "The EV mandate imposes unsustainable costs on auto manufacturers, putting at risk Canadian jobs and investment in this critical sector of the economy," he said in a statement. "A full repeal of the regulation is the most effective way to provide immediate relief to the industry and keep it competitive."

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In opposition, Sir Keir Starmer pompously vowed Labour would be a standard-bearer for a more honourable brand of politics.

When she agreed to look after her brother's labrador Tilly for the holidays, Rhian Boxall was assured there was no chance the pregnant pet would go into labour.

Specialising in science, engineering, technology and business, the university's graduates are in demand, earning an average of £30,000 within 15 months of graduating.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration would impose tariffs on semiconductor imports from companies not shifting production to the U.S., speaking ahead of a dinner with major technology company CEOs. "Yeah, I have discussed it with the people here. Chips and semiconductors -- we will be putting tariffs on companies that aren't coming in. We will be putting a tariff very shortly," Trump said without giving an exact time or rate. "We will be putting a very substantial tariff, not that high, but fairly substantial tariff with the understanding that if they come into the country, if they are coming in, building, planning to come in, there will not be a tariff," Trump told reporters. "If they are not coming in, there is a tariff," Trump said in his comments on semiconductors. "Like, I would say (Apple CEO) Tim Cook would be in pretty good shape," he added, as Cook sat across the table. Further reading: Trump Basks in Tech Leaders' Spending Vows at White House Dinner

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California, Delaware AGs blast ChatGPT shop over chatbot safeguards

The Attorneys General of California and Delaware on Friday wrote to OpenAI's board of directors, demanding that the AI company take steps to ensure its services are safe for children.…

In Yvette Cooper 's torrid year at the helm, the Home Office has lurched from one disaster to the next. And today she is paying the price for a litany of dismal failures.

Migrants living at The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, have spoken of their 'terror' after a crowd of protesters gathered outside and flares were allegedly thrown close to their accommodation.

LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest as Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner awaits the outcome of an ethics report into her tax affairs after she admitted underpaying stamp duty.

In the latest episode of her and Sophia Kianni's The Burnouts podcast, Phoebe, 22, raved about her new guy, saying he does not have Instagram.

The actress, 58, stunned in a black strapless fishtail gown that perfectly highlighted her incredible figure.

President Donald Trump announced Friday that next year's G20 summit will be held in Miami, Florida - where he can utilize his Doral golf resort.

Described as 'impossibly imperious, improbably grand', Princess Marina believed that Katharine was 'not up to the task' of taking on the same royal title she bore until her son's marriage in 1961.

The world of TV and music united at Sylvia Young's funeral at St. Marylebone Church on Friday morning.

The billionaire, already the world's richest man, will receive the equivalent of £740billion if the electric car giant hits certain targets over the next decade.

Mozilla announced today that they will end 32-bit Linux support for Firefox in 2026, with version 144 being the last release and ESR 140 as the fallback option. Phoronix reports: Firefox has continued providing 32-bit Linux binaries even with most other web browsers and operating systems going all-in on x86_64 support. But given that 32-bit Linux support is waning by distributions and the vast majority of distributions aren't even shipping i686 install images anymore, they will be removing 32-bit Linux builds in 2026.

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Kayleigh Gillian Smith, 36, and her partner William Nelson, 44, were among the 16 people who tragically lost their lives in Wednesday evening's accident.